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Avengers

watch it: Robert Downey Jr. and Nathan Fillion have some Avengers fun

Mon, Apr 30, 2012
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Nathan Fillion is such a geek.

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question of the day: How big can a movie get? (Or: How huge will Avengers open in North America?)

Mon, Apr 30, 2012
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What would it take for a movie to have a $200 million opening? Will it ever happen?

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Avengers Assemble (aka Marvel’s The Avengers) (review)

Thu, Apr 26, 2012
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How many superheroes spoil the broth? More than six, apparently, at least when Joss Whedon is wrangling them.

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Fury (aka The Samaritan) review

Mon, Apr 23, 2012
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Samuel L. Jackson, starring in… Fury! Don’t be fooled: this has less than nothing to do with The Avengers…

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why sad movies makes people happy (and other adventures in social networking)

Mon, Apr 16, 2012
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What my followers on Facebook, Twitter, and Google+ saw today…

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question of the weekend: If you had a superpower, what would it be?

Sat, Apr 14, 2012
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If I could have a superpower, it would be telekinetic regulation of the ambient temperature. (This I discovered when I was stuck in a hot movie theater for hours last night.)

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Marvel Avengers Assemble (trailer)

Thu, Mar 01, 2012
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“Marvel Avengers Assemble” makes me think of “Thunderbirds. Are. Go!” Or “Wonder Twins powers activate!”

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Chronicle (review)

Mon, Jan 30, 2012
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The superhero origin story we have become so very familiar with in its purest form, stripped of all the pulp and all the camp that has accreted around the genre.

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question of the day: What is your most anticipated movie of 2012?

Mon, Jan 02, 2012
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I gotta go with The Hobbit. I think I might well be happy to have no other movie but The Hobbit to watch this year.

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The Avengers (trailer)

Wed, Oct 12, 2011
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This movie is supposed to be for boys? It’s for movies like this that women are multi-orgasmic.

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