If you’ve followed our blog at all, you might know that we took sort of a 1 month hiatus in the midst of a hectic and strenuous first semester at school. During that time, a ton of dope songs, trailers, pics, and news were released and circulated around the web. As a result, we’ve decided to touch … Continue reading
As always, the Academy Award Nominations for the 2013 awards are full of some surprises and of course some snubs. Spielberg’s biopic of America’s 16th President “Lincoln” led all films with a total of 12 nominations including Best Picture, Best Actor in a Leading Role (Daniel Day-Lewis), and Best Director. Ang Lee’s “Life of Pi” … Continue reading
“The Last Stand” hits theaters January 18th and marks the return of action-movie superstar Arnold Schwarzenegger after a semi-successful stint in politics. The new film stars Arnold, Johnny Knoxville, Forest Whitaker, and Luis Guzman in a story revolving around a local sheriff taking down a powerful drug cartel. The poster below for “The Last Stand” was released … Continue reading
If you’ve seen or heard anything about Quentin Tarantino’s newest film “Django Unchained”, you probably know it involves a significant amount of racism. As of late, Tarantino has come under fire from a few different figures in Hollywood including Spike Lee for his liberal use of the N-word. While speaking on the topic last week, … Continue reading
Pixar released some pretty cool concept art for three of the studio’s upcoming animated films yesterday. The art features concept images from “The Good Dinosaur”, which is set to hit theaters May 2014, an “Untitled Mind Movie”, which is set to hit theaters June 2015, and an “Untitled Dia De Los Muertos Movie”, which is … Continue reading
You won’t find bigger Jay-Z fans than the writers of The Audio Dope. That being said, why the hell is he working on the score for Baz Luhrmann’s upcoming “The Great Gatsby” film adaptation? If Jay isn’t a talented enough to do his own beats and loops on the tracks he raps over, how the … Continue reading
Here’s the brand new poster and newly released trailer for Will Smith’s upcoming futuristic film “After Earth”. Directed by M. Knight Shyamalan (Sixth Sense, Signs), the film stars Smith and his son Jaden and revolves around their survival in a futuristic, post-apocalyptic Earth. If you weren’t aware, Smith chose to do “After Earth” with his … Continue reading
Tarantino has been doing a decent amount of press this month with the release of his highly anticipated spaghetti western “Django Unchained”. While speaking with highly-respected Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates Jr., Tarantino spoke of how he might potentially release a spin-off of his modern day classic “Inglourious Basterds”. QT stated the film would complete … Continue reading
With 2012 coming to a close, The Audio Dope will be handing out some awards for our favorite things of 2012. Our first award goes to our favorite television character of the year. Between all the fantastic shows we watched in 2012 (Game of Thrones, Dexter, Breaking Bad, Mad Men, The Walking Dead, Homeland, Boardwalk … Continue reading
Here’s a new/old photo featuring The Audio Dope’s favorite, Amber Heard. The new pic is from the upcoming Robert Rodriguez directed project, “Machete Kills”. The photo features Heard being seductive as usual as she grinds up on Machete, played by Danny Trejo. If you haven’t seen the original “Machete” yet, we highly recommend it. Definitely … Continue reading
We came across this random news from TMZ and thought it was too funny not to post. Oscar-winning actor Gene Hackman (The French Connection, Hoosiers) got into an altercation with a homeless man while leaving a restaurant with his wife. Apparently the homeless man cursed out his wife which led to the 82-year old Hackman … Continue reading
Earlier this month, Shailene Woodley was chosen to play Peter Parker’s love interest Mary-Jane Watson in the new “The Amazing Spider-Man” series. Woodley first garnered attention for her role in the ABC Family series “The Secret Life of the American Teenager”. Since then, Woodley has done well for herself and earned a Golden Globe nomination … Continue reading
Earlier this week George Lucas closed a deal with Disney to sell his movie company Lucasfilm for $4 Billion. This stunning deal was followed up with news that Disney plans to release “Star Wars Episode 7” in 2015. Immediate Implications: 1) George Lucas no longer has creative control over Lucasfilm projects (Star Wars and Indiana … Continue reading
If you search “Django Unchained posters” on Google, you’ll find tons of different artwork for the upcoming Quentin Tarantino spaghetti-western. Of all the posters for “Django Unchained”, the two below are my favorite. 1) The first poster is awesome because it reminds me of an old-school kung fu poster. For whatever reason, I just know … Continue reading
As I’ve mentioned previously on The Audio Dope, I don’t have a bad thing to say about either of Ben Affleck’s first two directorial efforts: “Gone Baby Gone” and “The Town”. As a result I had some high expectations for Affleck’s third film, “Argo”, which were unfortunately not met. To begin, by no means is … Continue reading
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