Amazingness Chris Pratt keeps his promise During press for Guardians of the Galaxy last month, Chris Pratt said that he’d stolen his Star-Lord costume so that he could visit sick kids in the hospital dressed as his superhero character. And guess what? HE DID. Pratt visited the Children’s Hospital of Los Angeles on Wednesday, By Sarah • Aug 21, 2014 03:58 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Sad Ant-Man Yesterday, in a display of stubbornness so determined it’s almost impressive, Marvel tweeted a first-look image of Paul Rudd in character as Scott Lang for Ant-Man, which is now officially in production. The movie that was greenlit purely to humor Edgar Wright is now being made because Marvel can’ By Sarah • Aug 20, 2014 11:43 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Why are we making TWO Jungle Books? Actors take jobs. Benedict Cumberbatch is an actor, and he’s just taken a job portraying the tiger Shere Khan in Andy Serkis’s Jungle Book (not to be confused with Jon Favreau’s Jungle Book). If all you care about is that Benedict Cumberbatch’s voice will be coming By Sarah • Aug 19, 2014 01:08 pm
Media Manipulation Beardy Chris Evans returns It’s Friday, it’s been a pretty sh*tty week all around, and we could all use something nice to look at as we zone out for the weekend. So here are new photos of Beardy Chris Evans, making his return after Avengers: Age of Ultron has wrapped. I By Sarah • Aug 15, 2014 11:34 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Is Bad Boys III getting real? Let’s check in with Michael Bay, who’s had a big summer with two awful movies performing mediocrely at the domestic box office, only to skate to success on the back of an expanding Chinese market hungry for any output at all! Hey Michael! How’s it going, buddy? By Sarah • Aug 14, 2014 03:40 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Loki-Hur MGM had previously announced their intention to remake Ben-Hur, the classic Charlton Heston chariot race epic, but nothing about the project inspired confidence. They’ve put Timur Bekmambetov, director of such fine films as Wanted and Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter, in charge and they’ve already dated it for a By Sarah • Aug 13, 2014 11:05 am
Movie Reviews and Previews The Tourist 2: Mortdecai After Johnny Depp’s Mortdecai got kicked to February 2015, it was clear that it was not going to be a good movie. But just how not-good it will be was a mystery, at least until yesterday when the first trailer was released. We now have some idea of how By Sarah • Aug 13, 2014 10:24 am
Movie Reviews and Previews You guys, Aquaman is cool! Last Friday Zack Snyder, ringmaster of Superhero Face Punch, was listening to a local sports talk radio show in Detroit when he heard the DJs bashing Aquaman, echoing pretty much everyone’s sentiments when it comes to Aquaman, which is—really? So Snyder called into the show to defend Aquaman, By Sarah • Aug 12, 2014 11:02 am
Media Manipulation Superhero Apocalypse Averted May 6, 2016 loomed large, the date on which Marvel and DC would pit their cinematic universes against each other in a billion-dollar death spiral, but in the end, there could be only one. As I predicted months ago, Warner Brothers/DC flinched and Superhero Face Punch has been pushed By Sarah • Aug 07, 2014 11:19 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Matthew Crawley is now Psycho Captain America I have a Dan Stevens Situation that is under imminent threat of becoming a full-blown Dan Stevens Problem. He was cute in a kind of teddy bear way when he broke out on Downton Abbey, but now he looks like this... … and well, it’s getting to be a thing. By Sarah • Aug 07, 2014 10:23 am
Career prospectus Career Prospectus: Clive Owen (For previous installments of the Career Prospectus series, please click here.) I wonder if you may be interested in doing a Career Prospectus on Clive Owen? I remember there being so much buzz around him a few years ago, not least because at one point he appeared to be the By Sarah • Aug 06, 2014 02:03 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews The Guardians of the Galaxy now own the galaxy At this point, I’m convinced that the people at Marvel Studios are committing blood sacrifices under a new moon to ensure their success. They’ve already broken the April box office record with Captain America: The Winter Soldier, and now, with Guardians of the Galaxy racking up $94.3 By Sarah • Aug 05, 2014 10:39 am
Movie Reviews and Previews The ugly side of geek culture It’s happened before—a critic doesn’t like the latest popular superhero movie and tanks its 100% rating on Rotten Tomatoes, and fanboys flip out and say a bunch of totally over the top, inappropriate stuff in the comments section, embarrassing themselves and second-hand embarrassing nerds at large. To By Sarah • Aug 01, 2014 10:25 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Inside the Superhero Clubhouse First, Marvel’s panel started nearly twenty minutes late. Then, they didn’t announce anything new, except that the Guardians of the Galaxy’s pre-destined sequel will open on July 28, 2017. There was no news on Dr. Strange, or long-awaited confirmation of a Black Panther and/or Captain Marvel By Sarah • Jul 28, 2014 01:25 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Superhero Face Punch looks dumb Warner Brothers did a good job of keeping the appearance of Zack Snyder and comics’ Holy Trinity (Batman, Superman, Wonder Woman) a secret in the run up to their panel on Saturday morning in Hall H. When Snyder took the stage and introduced his trio of stars, it felt like By Sarah • Jul 28, 2014 11:58 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Wonder Woman’s new look After having the new costume for Wonder Woman teased last month, at Comic-Con on Saturday Zack Snyder unveiled the first look for his cinematic version of the character, and it’s not bad. It’s still pretty T&A for a character who is supposed to be a warrior By Sarah • Jul 28, 2014 09:42 am
