This week on End Credits, we play to win. Completing the trifecta of recent brand origin stories at the cinema, we come around to the video game that made Game Boy and put Russia on the map as a video game maker. Yup, we’re reviewing Tetris, and in honour of that big action movie that came out this weekend, we’ve got to say something about the art of the car chase. Continue reading “End Credits Show Notes for Wednesday May 24, 2023 (Episode #298)”
End Credits Show Notes for Wednesday May 12, 2021 (Episode #198)
This week on End Credits, we’re going to loosen up our thumbs and get out our controllers because we’re digging up the ghosts of video games past with the newly rebooted Mortal Kombat movie. That sounds like a summer flick, but since we have no summer movie releases of our own, we will once again be forced to dip into the past with another 80s recap! Continue reading “End Credits Show Notes for Wednesday May 12, 2021 (Episode #198)”
End Credits Show Notes for Wednesday March 21, 2018
Welcome to the future! End Credits this week talks about an exciting new area of intellectual property, or I.P., that will form the basis of Hollywood franchises of tomorrow: video games! Hilariously, despite the widespread popularity of video games – as evidenced by the fact that the industry makes twice as much money as all the movies at the box office – Hollywood has yet to find a way to adapt the material. This week on the show, we take a closer look… Continue reading “End Credits Show Notes for Wednesday March 21, 2018”
End Credits Show Notes for Wednesday September 13, 2017
You’ll float too! But, you know, in a good way, as End Credits moves to its new old time slot in the morning of the middle of the week to make sure that you kick off your hump day right! How will we do that? With a review of a new movie and a discussion of movie news. This week, we’re going to look at the newest advice for making good video game movies, the newest instance of white-washed casting in the films, and the newest Star Wars director to be fired. All that, and a happy clown and the seven kids that love him on this first episode of our fall slate. Continue reading “End Credits Show Notes for Wednesday September 13, 2017”