Trailer Watch: Captain America: The Winter Soldier
I loved seeing Captain America interact with the Black Widow in these scenes from the trailer, and it shouldn’t matter to me that in the comics they worked together; their relationship now seems to be just as interesting and still as exciting as those old stories were when they were first published. I may be […]
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Trailer Watch: Hitchcock
When it comes to Oscar-bait, there are two types of films. There are those that can be dismissed as overdone, earnest melodrama, reaching for that statue with their entire being. These films, while they might be good films, have a tendency to grate one’s nerves, making you struggle to see the film’s true virtues. And […]
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Marvel adds Black Widow to growing roster of films
There’s such a thing as striking when the iron is hot, and there’s such a thing as beating a dead Fin Fang Foom. This might be the latter. According to ScreenCrave, Marvel Studios President Kevin Feige announced today, during an Iron Man 2 DVD press conference, that they were in talks with Scarlett Johansson for […]
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First Night Flicks: Iron Man 2
Iron Man 2 (2010) Directed by: Jon Favreau Starring: Robert Downey Jr, Don Cheadle, Scarlett Johansson, Sam Rockwell Rated PG-13 for sequences of intense sci-fi action and violence, and some language. Damn Avengers. Iron Man 2 should have been fantastic. In fact, given that the production’s only significant loss was Terrence Howard, there was no […]
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Trailer Watch: The Spirit teaser
Over at YouTube, we have the release of the long-anticipated teaser trailer for Frank Miller’s upcoming adaptation of Will Eisner’s legendary comic, The Spirit. The film will see release on January 16, 2009 by Lionsgate. Comingsoon.net describes the plot as “the story of a former rookie cop who returns mysteriously from the dead as the […]
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