This last year has been an interesting one for women in comic book movies. We got Selina Kyle in The Dark Knight Rises and Natasha Romanov in The Avengers. Compare that to 2011, when the most prominent Marvel women on the big screen were Peggy Carter and Jane Foster of Captain America and Thor. Now, […]

It’s almost time for the beginning of Phase Two of Marvel’s epic Cinematic Universe project. Over the past several years, they’ve given us Iron Man, Iron Man 2, The Incredible Hulk, Thor and Captain America: The First Avenger, all of which led up to the unbelievable The Avengers. Phase One was a smashing success, and […]

Rob Thomas didn’t think he would have enough people to fill the patio. When the creator and writer of Veronica Mars sent out a message inviting supporters of the Veronica Mars Movie Kickstarter campaign to join him for a beer and to watch the numbers roll in, he never expected that the Dog and Duck […]

    The new Dredd movie has been around since the September of 2012, but it was only a few days ago when I decided to watch it. The trailer simply didn’t motivate me the first time I saw it – maybe because I have never read the comics, or maybe because I was not particularly […]

The new Star Trek international trailer is out and it’s chock full of everything that I’ve been dying to see: more Benedict Cumberbatch, information about the plot, Benedict Cumberbatch, snarky Spock, badass Kirk, a highly involved and BAMFy Uhura, a loyal and concerned Bones, Benedict Cumberbatch, and just enough special effects to justify the cost […]

A long time ago, we used to be friends. . . I’ll admit, I once took part in flooding the CW offices with bizarre mail in order to try and make my voice heard about a TV show.  Before Feathers for Castiel (you can stop now, guys, we’re getting our angel back) there were Cloud Watchers […]

People assume that the Bechdel test is a direct progression from one point, two points, feminist cookie! But actually from a non-simplistic, non-reductionist viewpoint it’s more like a big ball of gender-wendery, feministy-weministy stuff. For those of you who are not aware, the Bechdel Test is a set of rules first presented in Alison Bechdel’s […]

The following article contains minor spoilers from the Iron Man 3 #2 Official Trailer and associated comics. If you’d prefer to remain unspoiled for the film, do not proceed. Today marked the release of the second official Iron Man 3 trailer, and with it came more glimpses of the action, drama and bizarre over-articulated words […]

The following review contains spoilers for Jack the Giant Killer. Please read on at your own risk. Here’s the thing. Fairy tale subversions have been done. To death. Ad nauseum. It’s a quirky new trope that has become very old, very quickly, and with every new adaptation of this folk tale or that, my patience […]

The Internet is full of people whining about how the movie adaptation of their favorite book wasn’t true to the original. About how Coraline shouldn’t have added in the character of Wybie, how Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban should have shortened the approximately ten-hour CGI fight scene with the Whomping Willow in favor […]