A Ferris Bueller’s Day Off sequel—it’s something fans both deeply long for and are terrified might actually happen.  While it would be great to see Ferris again, it’s also likely that a full-length sequel would in no way live up to the excellence of the original.  So how to get around such a quandary?  Simply hire Todd Phillips, director and writer of The Hangover, nab Ferris actor Matthew Broderick, and make a video teasing Ferris’ return.

And then make it a freaking Honda commercial.

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Well, it’s almost time for the second half of AMC’s The Walking Dead to rise from its mid-season hiatus, stumbling forth from the earth in desperate hungry need of brains, brains, brains.  And, just to make sure you remember it’s returning to the airwaves on February 12, AMC has crafted a quick little trailer for the second half of season two in order to whet your appetite.

And, in an apparent response to much of season two’s interminable mediocrity in which characters ceased to be real people of depth and simply devolved in plot devices, AMC’s trailer displays a newfound depth and intellige… oh, I’m just kidding.  It’s basically everybody in the cast shooting a bunch of guns and crashing cars and yelling.

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Following last week’s first-class episode, the hits just keep on coming for “Parks and Recreation“, delivering yet another solid half-hour of comedy with “Bowling for Votes.” There might have been a moment early on when it seemed as if the show would take a step back after last week’s big success, but things revved up quickly, providing one laugh after another.

Check below for the complete review…

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The Oscars have been announced so The Descendants – which was still a limited release – is going wide this weekend. One wonders when The Artist will follow. Since the front runner’s still in limited release, mainstream audiences can choose between Liam Neeson and wolves in The Grey, Katherine Heigl in One for the Money, and Sam Worthington in Man on a Ledge. Decisions, decisions. It’s likely last weekend’s winners will stay viable.

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Many game show hosts of the olden days came off as one step above used car salesmen. Though the game show has yet to be reinvented for a new generation, the energy and glad-handing (and sometimes inappropriate kissing) that came with hosting was as fascinating as it was embarrassing. One wonders if many such hosts were a couple of sheets the wind when hosting. Pat Sajak can only speak for himself and Vanna White, but in an interview with ESPN2 he admits that in the early days they would sometimes be soused while hosting Wheel of Fortune. Check out the video…

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Is 2012 the year of Guy Pearce? The star of L.A. Confidential and Memento has been kicking around Hollywood for a while, and has yet to achieve the fame he so rightly deserves. Perhaps he’s about to become the face of science fiction, as he’s got a role in Ridley Scott‘s Prometheus, and is leading up Lockout, a futuristic Sci-fi thriller from the Luc Besson factory. Check out the trailer…

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Oh, Netflix.  After the online film rental and streaming company announcing last year that they would create a separate company called Qwikster that would handle all of their DVD and Blu-Rays, as well as promising “to keep DVD as healthy as possible for as many years as possible,” as well as renting out video games, they faltered a bit, deciding not to split the company into a streaming arm (Netflix) and a rental arm (Qwikster).  Now, Netflix has backpedaled even further, stating that they will no longer support the DVD industry, and that the video game rentals won’t be happening at all.

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As NBC does its very best to wring the absolute most out of The Office that it can in a post-Steve Carell, post-time-when-The-Office-was-actually-good world, this news really shouldn’t come as a surprise—it looks like Dwight Schrute, the sublimely odd office weirdo portrayed by Rainn Wilson on the long-running sitcom, will be getting his own spin-off show.  Which should go well, because spin-offs of sitcoms always do gangbuster business, right?

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Spike Lee is back!  He premiered his latest joint, Red Hook Summer this week at the 2012 Sundance Film Festival to a sold out crowd of 1300, and it has become one of the most talked about films of the festival.  In a return to form (and Brooklyn), Lee brings back the colorful visual and storytelling style (and even a few characters!), that made him famous with Do The Right Thing.  As usual, he doesn’t pull any punches, and left audiences with a lot to discuss.  Check out the rest of the review after the jump…

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