Let’s talk numbers. Three: The number of Iron Man films that Disney outfit Marvel has produced. Seven: The number of films Marvel has released in theatres. Five: The number of films Marvel currently has in production. Two: the number of films that Shane Black has now directed. 1,000+: Movies about robots. This is where context [...]
Massive spoilers of Iron Man 3 to follow. Seriously, don’t read this if you haven’t seen the movie yet. In the Marvel Comics universe, the Mandarin is Iron Man’s greatest villain — an Asian scientist and fighter who gains superpowers courtesy of ten alien rings constructed using technology far more advanced that even Tony Stark [...]
Did you know the first two Die Hard movies were based on pre-existing novels? Or that eight videogames based on the Die Hard franchise have been released? Or that Al Powell once showed up on an episode of Chuck?! If not, settle in, as we’re going to take you through the inspirations for and spinoffs [...]
The Internet fanboy echo chamber worked itself into a tizzy on Tuesday after Drew McWeeny of Hitflix reported that Joseph Gordon-Levitt will be playing Batman in the upcoming Justice League movie from Warner Bros. Which is to say, he’ll be playing the new Batman — the one that was created at the end of The [...]
The X-Men movie universe is currently in a bit of disarray, and not just because an already convoluted and contradictory continuity is about to get even more labyrinthine when First Class 2 tackles the time-travel-heavy “Days of Future Past” storyline. There’s also the matter of First Class director Matthew Vaughn abandoning the second installment of [...]
Here’s what I like about the first trailer for Iron Man 3: It looks nothing like the other two Iron Man movies. Instead of glib, cocksure Tony, we get laying-defeated-in-the-snow, worried-about-his-loved-ones, fucked-over-the-shit-that-went-down-in-The-Avengers Tony. Instead of overly serious tech-hoarding bad guys, we get Ben Kingsley sporting over-sized rings (potentially magic rings!) and speaking with a bizarre, [...]
This video apparently has been floating around for about a year now, but Amalgamated Dynamics Inc. — the Hollywood practical-effects studio responsible for it — finally posted it themselves on YouTube last month. It’s a two-minute look at an incredible animatronic Green Goblin mask that the studio designed for Sam Raimi’s original Spider-Man movie, one [...]
I was not bored while watching The Dark Knight Rises. How could I be? It’s nearly three hours of actors I love playing iconic roles that they’ve defined for seven years now in one big, loud, frenzied Batman movie. And it’s all guided by director Christopher Nolan, who can probably pull off this kind of [...]
There were an untold number things that could have gone wrong with The Avengers, Marvel’s epic team-up of its big-screen superheroes — Iron Man, Captain America, Thor, the Hulk, Black Widow and Nick Fury. Mashing them all up into a single cohesive film that balanced each character’s personal story without tilting too far in any [...]
I’m a pretty huge Clive Barker fan. I read a lot of horror in my teens and twenties, including all the hallmark Stephen King books, but it was always Barker’s stuff that stuck with me the most. It was weirder, sexier and more inventive than anything else out there at the time. Hell, when people [...]
