X-Men: Days of Future Past movie review: time for hope
With its time-twisting plot, sci-fi soapiness, powerful humanism, and to-die-for cast, this is the summer blockbuster done with elegance and heart.
X-Men
Doctor Who thing: Lego now accepting Doctor Who fan-created projects
Apparently, whatever licensing issue was preventing this before has been resolved…
evening clickbait: I am a heroine of cinema; who’s the robot that won’t cop out?; Magneto killed JFK; The Representation Project; John Sayles cannot get his films funded; Melissa Leo, agent of awesome
Stuff I found on the Net today (and one from yesterday).
The Wolverine review: prickly on the outside, cuddly on the inside
There’s plenty of good summer popcorn fun, with fresh and exciting action setpieces, but this is mostly an intimate story about Logan, as a mutant and as a man.
The Internship review: triumph of the shill
Is it supposed to be flattering to Google that two idiots bullshit their way into a highly competitive internship, even though they know nothing about computers, or the Internet, or programming?
009 Re: Cyborg review: hasta la what now?
A whole lotta WTF folded into a derivative, misogynist, and just plain incoherent mess.
Agent “Phil” Coulson is still alive! hooray! (Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. trailer)
I don’t usually post television trailers, but the movie tie-in makes it impossible for me to resist this. Plus it’s from Joss Whedon.
fun stuff from FlickFilosopher stats week of Mar 16-22 2013
Actual unretouched phrases that people plugged into search engines this week that led them to this site (with some commentary from me)…
The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 2 (review)
The world’s most insipid vampires are back in inaction! Twilight has never been more about people standing around waiting for stuff to happen to them…
question of the day: Which villains deserve stories of their own?
Pop culture is full of villains bursting with personality and charisma or merely so terrifyingly capable of evoking horror that we cannot look away from them. Yet these awesome bad guys inevitably take a backseat to the square-jawed white-bread hero. Time to rectify that.
