It’s a refreshing departure from the hokie Iron Man 2.

 

 

Good for Disney. Good for Lucas. Good for you?

 

 

(Take 5 is a recurring column in which we gather up five of our favorite Movies About Gladiators contributors and ask them a few questions about cinema. This edition is extra special because we have six people answering. Below are their responses.) 1. Why is it seemingly so difficult to make a successful trilogy? Dustin Freeley: For […]

 

 

The Avengers is an exercise in giving characters enough screen time without making them seem exploited and underutilized. And, for the most part, it works and successfully builds off of the characters limned in previous installments leading up to this supergroup of an action hero film. By far, the Hulk is the best part of The Avengers. […]

 

 

With the rash of alien-invasion films over the past few years, it’s not surprising that two such films battled it out for the top spot at the box office during the last week of July. What is rather surprising is that those two films were John Favreau’s Cowboys and Aliens – a film that marries anachronism to future fears […]