Daredevil Premiere Date

According to The Hollywood Reporter, Daredevil (the first entry of Netflix’s launch of Marvel superheroes, soon to be followed by A.K.A. Jessica Jones, Luke Cage and Iron Fist, culminating in The Defenders) will premiere April 10. And as typically the case with series that appear on Netflix, the entire first season will probably air in its entirety. And […]

Ant-Man – Teaser Trailer

Kevin Feige and the rest of them at Marvel Studios are a crafty bunch.  Since the first trailer from The Avengers: Age Of Ultron was leaked prematurely it appears that that they just decided to let us see it. And it’s fitting that the first trailer for Ant-Man is only slightly larger than an ant.  The […]

Marvel Studios, Save Spider-Man!

Typically, Spider-Man would be the one doing the saving, but even Spidey is powerless against studio executives who don’t have any real understanding of what they’re doing. And what many commenters–I mean you, AMC Movie Talk in particular–seem to be missing about the mess that’s stemmed from the Sony email dump is not that the executives involved are […]

Benedict Cumberbatch Is Doctor Strange!

By the way, is Benedict Cumberbatch’s last name pronounced ‘Cum-ber-batch’ or ‘Cum-ber-boch?’  I have been leery of such things every since what I like to call the “Bruce Cockburn Incident,” which by the way, isn’t pronounced at all how it’s spelled. Kind of like ‘St. John,’ which if James Bond movies have taught me anything, is in […]

3 Hurdles Marvel’s ‘Guardians Of The Galaxy’ Overcame To Be One Of The Biggest Movies Of The Summer

Marvel Studios’ Guardians of the Galaxy opened in the United States last week, and looks to have a very bright future, seeing that based on advanced buzz along, Marvel has already locked in a sequel for 2017 while Thursday it earned $11.2 million, besting established franchises like The Amazing Spider-Man 2, Transformers: Age of Extinction and […]

‘Guardians of the Galaxy’ Review

It’s That’s Good.  You’re Welcome. Let’s be clear about something:  James Gunn’s Guardians of the Galaxy should not have worked, at least as well as Gunn (who co-wrote the screenplay with Nicole Perlman and directed) and Marvel Studios obviously think (and it’s clear that they are optimistic because based on early reviews a sequel as already been […]