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Lots of Avengers News; None Of It Entirely Exciting or Likely To Happen

New York Comic Con went down last weekend, and one of the major films in attendance was Marvel’s Avengers.  When not giggling like school girls over the presence of Tim Hiddleston, the Avengers Q&A attendees were bombarding Marvel President Kevin Fiege with questions regarding the most-Avengers future of Marvel films.  Among his answers to those questions included: […]

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Universal Comes To Their Senses and Drops Tower Heist VOD Plans

Last week Universal studios announced their plans to make available to the upcoming Bret Rattner film Tower Heist through VOD for $59.99 USD three weeks after the film premiered in theaters.  Unsurprisingly, theater chains were pissed.  Cinemark, the U.S.’s third-largest theater chain, quickly announced that it would not be showing Tower Heist in any of its 3,800 theaters, […]

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The Final Moments of Breaking Bad’s Finale Explained

Needless to say, if you have yet to watch the finale episode of the latest season of Breaking Bad, don’t read this post or watch the video contained within it.  If you weren’t even aware of the existence of something called Breaking Bad, remedy that immediately.  It’s available on Netflix Watch Instantly, you have no […]

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‘The Avengers’ Finally Gets a Trailer

So I’m not sure if you’re aware, you probably aren’t, the film is pretty obscure after all, but this little guy named Joss Whedon is making an Avengers movie.  The shoot is close to wrapping (if it hasn’t already) and Marvel / Disney has finally deemed it time to let the world get a good […]

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Stupidest Woman Alive Sues The Distributors of “Drive” Because the Film Wasn’t The Fast and Furious

A couple of weeks ago I wrote an article trying to understand the disconect between the film Drive’s audience and the large amount of critics who’ve praised it.  Essentially it boils down to marketting.  The actual film is quite subdued and artistic, moving from relative calm in the first two act into all out headstomping […]

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Required Watching: The Evolution of a Dramedy Icon – “Observe and Report”

Required Watching is a weekly segment where I take a look at three films that in one way or another are related to the coming week’s major release.  They represent film’s I’ve always wanted to see, have seen and want to revisit, or films that I just think are worth talking about.  This week I’m […]

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Required Watching: The Evolution of a Dramedy Icon – “Funny People”

Required Watching is a weekly segment where I take a look at three films that in one way or another are related to the coming week’s major release.  They represent film’s I’ve always wanted to see, have seen and want to revisit, or films that I just think are worth talking about.  This week I’m […]

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“The Odds” Review (2011)

I still don’t really understand Poker’s popularity.  I remember playing in High-school a bit simply because it was the “thing to do” at the time, but it’s always confused me a little how such a relatively silly game could come to be as popular as it is today.  Even more perplexing is the amount of people who […]

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“Like Crazy” Review (2011)

Call me a hopeless romantic, but I really dig well-done romance movies.  Thus, Like Crazy is the perfect movie for someone like me in that it is both heart-warmingly romantic, but entirely hopeless. Like a modern day retelling of Romeo and Juliet, Jacob (Anton Yelchin) and Anna (Felicity Jones) are a couple made for each […]

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“Snowtown” Review (2011)

I almost didn’t see Snowtown.  The description posted on the TIFF website was only moderately interesting and the film hadn’t been screened outside of Australia before so there wasn’t really any buzz regarding how good it actually was.  But I ended up with a ticket to see The Moth Diaries at 10pm at a tiny […]

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