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Friday One Sheet: MICKEY 17
Who needs credit blocks anymore? The new poster for Bong Joon Ho's science fiction cloning comedy Mickey 17 sees Robert Pattinson framed in ochre and rust. The numbers 1 through 16 are cleverly hiding in plain sight, anchored by the...
Friday One Sheet: POOR THINGS
Welcome to the wonderful world of Vasilis Marmatakis, the Greek graphic designer and illustrator behind one of my favourite posters of the past decade, an earlier Yorgos Lanthimos film, The Killing of A Sacred Deer, with its immense verticality, and...
Review: AVENGERS: INFINITY WAR, A Fun and Dire Marvel Royale
The impossible geek dream of most every Marvel movie character together in one adventure has, at long last, landed. Iron Man! Captain America! Thor! Spider-Man! Doctor Strange! Guardians of the Galaxy! (This could go on for a while). But is...
Destroy All Monsters: Whedon vs. Abrams
Last week, Joss Whedon quietly confirmed that he has finished his deal with Marvel Studios and won't be participating in any more of their movies. This wasn't a surprise. Frankly, even given the degree to which hiring Whedon to make...
Review: SPOTLIGHT, A True Story Proves Both Enthralling And Appalling
Consistently gripping, Tom McCarthy's Spotlight tells the true story of an investigation by the Boston Globe newspaper that had far-ranging implications. The film serves as a tribute to the power of the press, as well as a warning sign for...
AVENGERS: AGE OF ULTON: What To Expect From The Special Features
The DVD and Blu-ray release of Avengers: Age of Ultron isn't bursting with special features, but there's enough here to provoke some interest and discussion. I got to watch the bonus material - which includes two featurettes, a gag reel,...
Review: INFINITELY POLAR BEAR Blows Hot And Cold
Proof that fine actors giving strong performances are not always enough to save a movie, Maya Forbes' Infinitely Polar Bear seems too preoccupied with its 70s period setting and zany family antics to pay more than vague lip service to...
Screen Anarchists On AVENGERS: AGE OF ULTRON
(Who is this?! Team ScreenAnarchy, assemble!) Unless you've been living under a rock, a Wifi-less one no less, you will have been made aware of the latest addition to the Marvel Cinematic Universe. In the last ten days, Avengers:...
Destroy All Monsters: Ruling The World Makes Assholes Of Us All, And Other Things I Learned From AVENGERS: AGE OF ULTRON
The dust continues to settle. At around a quarter after ten last Thursday night, in the first North American screenings of Marvel's Phase 2 capper, Avengers: Age of Ultron, a big chunk of the fictional country of Sokovia broke apart...
Review: AVENGERS: AGE OF ULTRON Suffers From Its Strongest Asset
Despite the avalanche of comic book adaptations, I was kind of looking forward to Joss Whedon's second time around with the Avengers. The first film proved to have great entertainment value and Whedon managed to approach each superhero equitably and...
Final AVENGERS: AGE OF ULTRON Trailer, Now With Slightly Different Footage
The question these days is not IF the new Avengers: Age of Ultron film will get your money, but HOW MUCH of it. Accept it. We are all going to see this movie.Marvel has released the final trailer for this Summer...
AVENGERS: AGE OF ULTRON TV Spot Drops A Ton Of New Footage
Television commercials for movies are generally noisy and speedy mashups of their longer trailers. Let's call it blitzkrieg advertising. Rarely are they charming, fun and precise. This new spot for Joss Whedon's Give Me All Your Money 2, is all...
AVENGERS: AGE OF ULTRON: Our Heroes Will Stand And Fight In New Trailer
It is from Marvel Entertainment. It is the new Avengers: Age of Ultron trailer. Do we really need to say anything else? Yeah. What is with the shaky borders? Does anyone else see this? I'm not having a seizure right? The...
AVENGERS 2: AGE OF ULTRON Big Game Spot Reveals ... Well, Not Much Of Anything That Hasn't Already Been.
The Game Whose Name Must Not Be Mentioned Allowed Except By Official Sponsors is just around the corner, triggering a wave of new promo spots and trailers for upcoming blockbuster fare. And Marvel is in on the act with a...
AVENGERS AGE OF ULTRON: Watch The New Trailer!
I will assume that a lot of people are taking a love it or leave it attitude after seeing last week's Ant-Man trailer. But if there is one film or show in Marvel's lineup this year that everyone is betting...
AnarchyVision: Jason Gorber Talks FOXCATCHER, THEORY OF EVERYTHING and THE FORCE UNLEASHED
Some more TIFF films seeing wider release - Bennett Miller's Foxcatcher serves up some mighty performances by Tatum, Carell and Ruffalo, The Theory of Everything gives audiences a look at the more romantic side of Stephen Hawking, and, of course,...
Review: FOXCATCHER, A Rewarding Look Into A Cold And Strange World
John Eleuthère du Pont, one of the heirs to the vast Du Pont fortune, had it all, it seemed. Wealthy almost beyond measure, he studied and wrote on ornithology and was an avid philatelist, having paid a record (at the...
Review: BEGIN AGAIN Reinvents The Movie Musical With A Little Bit Of Street Magic
I know magic when I see it, when I feel it, when I hear it. John Carney's marvelously understated, dexterously graceful Begin Again contains at least three sequences that are absolutely, unexpectedly magical. Frankly, after a single viewing, I'm not...
Cannes 2014 Review: FOXCATCHER Is Captivating, Rewarding
John Eleuthère du Pont, one of the heirs to the vast Du Pont fortune, had it all it seemed. Wealth almost beyond measure, he studied and wrote on ornithology and was an avid philatelist, having paid at the time a...
AVENGERS 2 to Shoot in Korea, Local Actress Cast as Villain
Joss Whedon's blockbuster sequel Avengers: Age of Ultron is planning to shoot some sequences in and around Seoul later this year. When news surfaced and caught fire in Korea last week it seemed like it might have been a rumor...
