Robert Downey, Jr. has been having great fun this past week with his ideas for the Iron Man franchise.  First, he was quoted saying he’d only come back with Mel Gibson as director.  The quote was taken out of context […]

Typically movie websites focus on the biggest releases and biggest directors.  And that makes sense both in terms of audience interest and frankly what is going to generate the most clicks.  However, every once in a while it’s nice to […]

Throughout the original X-Men movies there have been two truths: 1) Hugh Jackman’s Wolverine is the real star, and 2) the relationship between Patrick Stewart’s Charles Xavier and Ian McKellen’s Magneto provided most of the emotional core.  So when the […]

Last week, I turned 40. Hitting an age milestone makes you think about a thing or two.  I am amazingly fortunate to live the life I do.  I had a caring and supportive childhood in a family that didn’t have […]

This week, based on the success of X-Men: Days of Future Past, Bryan Singer and 20th Century Fox announced that X-Men: Apocalypse will be released in May of 2016. What’s that you say? Days of Future Past has not even […]

I recently sat down and shared a rite of passage with my 11 year old son.  It’s something every father should do, but not nearly enough of them take the time. He and I sat down and watched Sidney Lumet’s […]

With the success of Thor: The Dark World has come a renewed focus on the film’s (and frankly, the entire Marvel cinematic universe’s) favorite villain: Tom Hiddleston’s Loki.  The Asgardian god of mischief has stolen the show from his heroic […]

It’s been over a week since the announcement that Blockbuster, the once ubiquitous video rental chain marked by its distinctive blue and yellow signs, will be no more.  The stores are closed, the mail order business is going away and […]

Up until a few years ago, I was an avid comic book reader.  Note: I did not say collector. I said reader.  I fell out of it for a few reasons…. Money Time The realization that my library has a […]

I’ve talked a bit about hyperbole in movies in the past.  Today though, I have to enter the hyperbolic myself.  I have to embrace overstatement and exaggeration to deal with a subject that has been bugging me for a while… […]