The Lion King Honest Trailer

If you wondered if there were similarities between the plots of Frozen and The Lion King: Yes. Yes there are:

The current state of the big comic book movie universes | Den of Geek

This is a pretty thorough analysis on where the comic book movie universes currently stand. The post starts with a brief mention of the planned Star Wars universe, which probably has enough fans to blow all of these out of the water entirely. However, I am curious to see where it ends up, especially since it's under the same Disney ownership as Marvel and you would hope there is some cross-pollination of ideas. (Although I doubt they'd go whole hog and adopt Patton Oswalt's idea below.)

Superheroes here, superheroes there, superheroes everywhere!

It seems like everyone is warning of superhero fatigue these days, with the new X-Men movie being released today and all:

• Grantland has a column focused on how the issues with "Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D." define the genre.
• Screencrush has a column that goes into how Fox and Sony are handling their respective Marvel franchises.
• Lastly, Den of Geek's post asks the basic question of whether or not it's all too much.

All three of these posts are great reads.

Patrick Stewart's Appearance on The Colbert Report I The Wrap

Great interview, as always by Stephen Colbert.

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An X-Men Crash Course to Prep for "X-Men: Days of Future Past"

Rather than binge watch 12 hours of X-Men movies (of which four of those hours are total crap) before you go see "X-Men: Days of Future Past", just watch the two videos below to get fully caught up on what you need to know. There's a serious video here and a funny one below it. ENJOY!

X-Men Days of Future Past' Is One of the Most Influential Comics Stories Ever. | Vulture

Great backstory on when and how the "Days of Future Past" storyline came about. I had no idea it predates both "Back to the Future" and the original "Terminator".

Pixar Movie Easter Eggs

There are a lot of spelling mistakes and typos in the captions but this is a nice, comprehensive list of a lot of the Pixar Easter Eggs across their films.



Pixar released their own shorter video a few weeks ago:



Both videos are a lot of fun to watch!