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C’mon Hollywood: Is Wonder Woman cursed?

Posted 14 years ago

Created by William Moulton Marston (inventor of the polygraph…seriously) in 1941, Wonder Woman has since become a cultural icon and the leading symbol for female superheroes all over the world.  The Amazonian goddess, also known as Princess Diana, decked out...

Is the adaptation of Y: The Last Man finally really moving forward?

Posted 14 years ago

Speaking of adaptations of famed material that have been kicking around for a long bloody time, Brian K. Vaughn’s Y: THE LAST MAN has fought any and all attempt at cinematic existence ever since people first started trying to adapt...

Joss Whedon believes in James Gunn’s “twisted” vision of Marvel’s Guardians of the Galaxy

Posted 14 years ago

While promoting his new film, MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING, Joss Whedon discussed his thoughts on James Gunn’s vision for the upcoming Marvel Phase Two film GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY.  I wasn’t entirely positive that Gunn was directing until now, although...

Cool Videos: Retro Michael Caine acting class

Posted 14 years ago

More than fifteen years ago I went to film school and during that time was subjected to a horrendous amount of truly awful videos that seemed to take the craft of filmmaking backwards.  Aside from being exposed to some of...

Could The Dark Knight Rises be the first film from Christopher Nolan to receive a Director’s Cut on DVD and Blu-Ray?

Posted 14 years ago

SPOILERS if you somehow haven’t yet seen THE DARK KNIGHT RISES. If you haven’t, go out and rectify that right now – this article will still be here when you return. Christopher Nolan is known for, amongst many things, not...

Disassemble. Marvel’s Phase One Blu-Ray box set release comes to a halt

Posted 14 years ago

Remember that pretty little, drool worthy Phase One Blu-Ray box set that Marvel was releasing on the 25th of this month? Unfortunately due to a lawsuit, it may never see the light of day. The suit centers around the briefcase,...

Charlie Sheen could have played Spider-Man?

Posted 14 years ago

Warning: This post is full of tiger’s blood and winning. Or not winning…that’s up to you to decide. Thanks to one of my Facebook buddies, Logan, I came across this interesting article. I’m not sure if this is common knowledge,...

See The Avengers reinterpreted through Japanese archetype, medieval badassery, and sexy cosplay

Posted 14 years ago

We certainly had an impassioned response to last week’s UnPopular Opinion about just how good (or not) THE AVENGERS really was/is/will be, but I for one still love the gooey comic book-style goodness that Joss Whedon brought to cinema’s summer...

What can we expect from Guy Pearce in Iron Man 3?

Posted 14 years ago

Whether I get two seconds or two hours of Guy Pearce makes no matter to me. The guy is a great actor no matter what character you give him, or length of time he’s allotted to do it. He had...

Apparently, director David Cronenberg does not think highly of superhero films

Posted 14 years ago

Well, it looks like director David Cronenberg does not have a high opinion of superhero films, which shouldn’t come as much of a surprise to those familiar with his work.  Cronenberg has always been an “outside-the-box” kind of filmmaker, so...

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