Friday 4th Fiesta

Good morning. In less than an hour, bloggers from here will join others from around the world. And you will be launching the largest online discussion in the history of mankind. "Mankind." That word should have new meaning for all of us today. We can't be consumed by our petty differences any more. We will be united in our common interests. Perhaps it's fate that today is the Fourth of July, and you will once again be fighting for our freedom--not from tyranny, oppression, or persecution, but from boring conversations. We are fighting for our right to think. To exist. And should we win the day, the Fourth of July will no longer be known as an American holiday, but as the day the blog declared in one voice: We will not go quietly into the night! We will not vanish without a fight! We're going to live on! We're going to survive! Today we celebrate the 1996 film Independence Day!


Last week I asked you if TV shows were better than movies now, and you answered Yes.

Box Office News: KABOOM! KABOOM KABOOM KAPLOW!!!!!!!!!!!!

Trailer Time: Check out new trailers for Horrible Bosses 2, Foxcatcher and more!

In Theaters This Week: Deliver Us From Evil, Earth to Echo and Tammy

Next Week's Notable DVD Releases: Bad Words and The Raid 2

Glenn celebrates his freedom to submit links to interesting articles by, well, submitting links to interesting articles!

The TV theme song is dead. That's what you get for spending money on quality writers instead of quality musicians!

Chicago has won a bid to host the George Lucas Cultural Museum, which includes a Star Wars wing, and San Francisco is very cross. In completely unrelated news, I might need to crash on either Andy's or Jawas' couches five or six times a year.

And in a link that was sent in weeks ago and fell through the cracks, if you've been paying for Tarkovsky films over the last few years, you are a fool

RIP Several Hollywood Icons

July 1 saw the removal of many films from Netflix. But if you're really worried about being able to watch a Rocky marathon, just watch AMC every other week!

Despite the whole rape business, Bryan Singer will still direct the next X-Men flick

Viggo Mortensen hates the three Hobbit movies

Are sci-fi roles better for women? Zoe Saldana thinks so

Star Trek 3 will be more like the original series (Kinda Sorta Spoiler Alert)

A guy working on Guardians of the Galaxy no longer hates George Lucas for changing his movies

What exactly is Michael Bay-hem?

Fast 7 will be arriving faster than anticipated, and presumably more furious

More plans are revealed for Marvel Phase 3 (spoilers)

And that brings us to this week's poll... nah, no poll this week. Go out and enjoy the long weekend, or regular weekend if you aren't in America.

To celebrate America, here are three Canadians, and Australian, and a Brit celebrating America!