Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog, Joss Whedon’s four-year-old Web musical, has its TV debut tonight at 9 p.m. on The CW. If somehow you’ve never seen it, check it out as it’s seriously one of the best things the man has ever done. Whedon’s tale of a wannabe criminal mastermind (Neil Patrick Harris) trying to climb [...]
*Bonus points for nailing all three references. I don’t get the Felicia Day backlash. Too many times I see her name come up in my Twitter feed only to be followed by a string of “overrated”s and “I just don’t get the obsession with her”s. My first thought is: Are there really Felicia Day obsessives [...]
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 [...]
The Avengers writer/director Joss Whedon has been making the media rounds lately, giving lots of interviews to both online sites and print publications for his upcoming Marvel superhero opus as well as the recently released The Cabin in the Woods. The resulting text has largely focused on those films but occasionally name-drops another upcoming project [...]
I’ve often heard The Cabin in the Woods described as a deconstruction of the horror genre. And it is somewhat that, to an extent. But I’m glad that’s not all it is. After all, using a horror movie to deconstruct horror movies isn’t exactly a new concept. Scream is 16 years old now. Even horror [...]
When it comes to highly anticipated movies, this year is off the charts. The Dark Knight Rises. The Avengers. The first half of The Hobbit. Spielberg’s Lincoln. Tarantino’s Django Unchained. And hopefully Paul Thomas Anderson’s The Master. It’s enough to make a movie geek’s head explode. Yet, strangely enough, right now I find myself looking [...]
