How The Avengers Succeeds
“They’re a mash-up; they’re insane,” Whedon says. “But the beauty of that is as exciting as the problem of that is daunting.” Marvel’s The Avengers is an impressive monster. A juggernaut at the box...
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DC Comics Gets Political with “The Movement”
“Yer goin’ all soft on me, Luis, I swear,” growls one cop to his partner. He then proposes the following to a couple just busted for drug possession, “You go. We keep the evidence. And one more thing:...
View ArticleIron Man 3: One Big Joke
Tony Stark suffers from PTSD, Pepper Pots is mad because he bought her a giant stuffed rabbit for Christmas, and an enigmatic terrorist called the Mandarin is taking responsibility for supposed suicide...
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5 People Who Should Have Played Batman Instead of Ben Affleck
Yes, I know. No one’s seen Zack Snyder’s Batman/Superman follow-up to the Man of Steel, Snyder & Co. haven’t even started making it yet, so who am I to start judging casting decisions? Well for...
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Crooked Cops, Judge Dredd, and Arkham Origins
Jaybird: Last year, there was a little trifle of a movie that came out called “Dredd”. Based on the Judge Dredd comics, this movie was most notable, to my mind, for being competent. The plot was...
View ArticleFilms That Could Have Been
Perhaps more than any other genre, the science fiction realm has had to stomach some of the worst adaptations of its superlative works. I was a big fan of Robert Heinlein’s Starship Troopers in middle...
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