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Best Summer Movie of 2014: GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY
James Gunn has done the impossible: the former Troma director has recaptured the gleeful joy of old-school summer blockbusters and packaged it for modern sensibilities. Gunn’s Guardians of the Galaxy is a giddy, punk rock-infused work of pop art, blissfully aware of how pulpy it is—and damn proud of it. The director caught lightning in a bottle with this film, and it’s the most fun you’ll have at the movies all summer...
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Around the Web w/ CAPTAIN AMERICA: The Winter Soldier
You know me and war movies, even comic book depicted war I try to avoid as much as possible, so I wasn’t interested in seeing Captain America The First Avenger when it came out in 2011. And the first Thor movie, well, I just kinda let it pass for no real good reason (I’m caught up now). Originally, I was mostly only into Iron Man, mainly due to my love for Robert Downey, Jr.,. Then later, The Avengers movie looked like a hoot, so I definitely wanted and did see that in the theater; which clued me in on how intertwined the whole Marvel Universe is throughout each movie,…
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Thor-ing Around- THOR: THE DARK WORLD
Here’s what I want, said Thor: The Dark World cinematographer Kramer Morgenthau: I want a real slow tilt up Hemsworth’s abs. I want the Asgardian light to be especially slanty and dramatic in this little gazebo here and I want Hemmy’s pecs to look absolutely humongous. Got that? I mean I want those suckers to look huge. And I don’t care if this body shot has nothing to do with the story. That’s irrelevant. This is Hemmy we’re talking about. So I want water from the sieve — yes, of course there’ll be a sieve — to drip slowly down his beautiful cosmo-Nordic hair and face, over the mountainous (again,…
