Commentary Junkies: The Avengers (2012)
Director, actor, producer and writer commentaries are sometimes the best part of owning a movie in your home video collection. The insight into the production,...
View ArticleTrailer Happy: Iron Man 3 (2013)
Say what you want about the apparently unstaunchable flow of movies coming out of the Marvel and DC comic book universes, they are delivering us...
View ArticleSecond Take: Hulk (2003)
Second Take is a Man in the Movie Hat feature wherein a movie believed (by one of the writers of this site) to be misunderstood...
View ArticleThe Wolverine: Marvel at the Mediocrity
There was an astonishing amount of goodwill going into the release of The Wolverine, the sixth installment in the 20th Century Fox-run X-Men series and the...
View ArticleThor: The Dark World: Lather, Rinse, Loki
Thor: The Dark World succeeds at what it sets out to do, which is provide the audience with explosions, fan nods, one-liners, mythology expansion, and...
View ArticleYou’re Wrong About The Hobbit (And Movie Franchises in General)
(Author’s note: Though not usually my style, the garish, hyperbolic title à la Slate Magazine‘s usual fare seemed to fit this article nicely. It’s partly an experiment: I...
View ArticleThe Amazing Spider-Man 2: B.Y.O.M. (Bring Your Own Meaning)
The following review contains spoilers, which will be marked with (SPOILER ALERT) at the beginning and (END SPOILER ALERT) at the end. The Amazing Spider-Man 2 is the kind of movie that threatens to...
View ArticleEverything is Better in the Season Two Premiere of Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.
The polite consensus on the first season of Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. was that the show finally hit its stride after the titular organization was dismantled in Captain America: The Winter...
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