The First Trailer For "Pitch Perfect 2" Has Arrived

Well, despite my cynical nature and the bits with unnecessary projectile vomiting, I found myself charmed by the first Pitch Perfect. Even though this trailer for Pitch Perfect 2 looks pretty much like every Hollywood comedy sequel ever -- same formula, bigger budget, larger stage -- I'm still interested in seeing what Director Elizabeth Banks has cooked up for us.

Review: "Birdman"

Like his character in Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance), Michael Keaton has been off Hollywood's A-List for some time. He's had some interesting supporting parts over the last few years, most notably as the police captain in the Will Ferrell/Mark Wahlberg comedy The Other Guys and as the voice of "Ken" in Toy Story 3, but you need to go all the way back to 2005's White Noise to find Keaton at the center of a studio movie.

I'm most fond of his work in comedies like Mr. Mom, Gung-Ho, Night Shift, and Beetlejuice. There's also a crazy satisfaction I get out of knowing that he played Ray Nicolette in two separate adaptations of Elmore Leonard novels (Jackie Brown and Out of Sight) for two different directors (Quentin Tarantino and Steven Soderbergh) at competing studios (Miramax and Universal). But, of course, it was Keaton's stoic performance in two successful Batman films that made him a perfect fit for the part of Riggan Thomson.