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Truth time: Without the highly skilled tech and strategic teams he has behind him, James Bond would be just an overdressed field agent with an unnecessarily picky drink order. But, does that fictional string of geniuses reveal an important truth about how talent works? In response to this post on villains who wanted to get…
Marvel has released a prequel comic to the Avengers: Age of Ultron movie, and it reveals a bit about the origins of the Maximoff twins. Specifically, it explains where they got their superpowers, since mutants aren’t allowed to exist in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Spoilers ahead! Although Quicksilver and Scarlet Witch are Magneto’s children, the…
According to its publisher, at the spike of its popularity, two copies of E.L. James’ 50 Shades of Grey trilogy were being sold every second. In accessible terms, that works out to more than one hundred million copies sold, to date. Let’s undertake a thought experiment. Imagine that—rather than paper and ink—each of those books…
Black or White is offensive. Not because of its patronizing view of race relations, not because of the horrible acting—although that is all there in spades. It’s offensively boring. Every minute of this movie felt like an hour. In the back of my head was one of those cartoon clocks going “tick… tick… tick… tick.”…
Still from Jupiter Rising an upcoming scifi thriller Maybe you haven’t noticed, but in the past 20-or-so years there’s been a real catchy trend in major Hollywood movies to constrain the palette to orange and blue. The color scheme, also known as “orange and teal” or “amber and teal” is the scourge of film critics…
The first teaser trailer for Chronicle director Josh Trank’s take on The Fantastic Four is finally out, and it looks amazing. Here we see the cast show off their new powers, and it already looks significantly better than Fox’s first outing with the property a decade ago. via Watch the first teaser trailer for The Fantastic…
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Everyone loves a good sword fight. This movie montage by film lover and video editor Clara Darko combines sixty of her favorite duels in cinema into one ridiculously fun, eminently watchable supercut. I’ve watched this four times today, and it’s given me chills – and a big, goofy grin – every time. The song, Santa…
How do you get Robert Downey Jr. to sign for another Marvel movie? He’s already the highest paid actor and top earner in Hollywood. He has the type of contract Marvel will never handout again. It comes down to giving his character, Tony Stark, a role that’s worth his time and is different than traditional…