The Amazing Spider-Man 2 review: black and white and web all over
Suffers badly by comparison with the cogent, witty Avengers flicks. This feels like a campy Saturday-morning cartoon left over from the 1970s.
Avengers
girls just wanna be superheroes
No one daydreams about standing on the sidelines watching someone else have all the fun. We want to do things ourselves!
Captain America: The Winter Soldier review: politics in our peanut butter
Stuns me with its scathing commentary on the real world today, wrapped up in what is some of the most delicious, most comic-booky fantasy ever.
Captain America: The Winter Soldier trailer: another city slated for massive Avengers damage
It cannot be good for property values to be anywhere in the same metropolitan area as these heroes.
Thor: The Dark World review: Viking with a chance of wormholes
Think heavy-metal Lord of the Rings. With wormholes. It’s completely mad and kind of awesome.
Doctor Who thing: the notion of sleeping with the Doctor is suddenly unappealing
Look, you all know what a big fan of the Doctor I am, but this freaks me out, and not in a good way…
Tom Hiddleston is *such* a geek, turns up as Loki at Comic-Con
Tom Hiddleston wins Comic-Con.
the screenwriting bible that is to blame for the tedious blandness of blockbusters
When I look at my watch during a movie, it’s because I’m checking to see if my guess about where in the runtime we are coincides with what just happened onscreen. This book is what makes that possible.
009 Re: Cyborg review: hasta la what now?
A whole lotta WTF folded into a derivative, misogynist, and just plain incoherent mess.
because too much Tony Stark is never enough
It’s astonishing and wonderful how much of why the Iron Man movies work is because Robert Downey Jr. is simply so damn much fun to watch onscreen.
