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Females On Film: Ranking the summer's biggest box office winners based on lady roles
20 August 2014 2:49 PM, PDT | Hitfix | See recent Hitfix news »
Films with great women’s roles aren’t always great films. Films with poor female representation aren’t necessarily bad films. But poorly written female roles will always be a problem for cinema so long as they continue to persist. The damsel in distress. Angel-whore. The token girl. Trophy wives. Mother, daughter, sister. The unconditional love interest. These are among the popular clichés most frequently applied to female characters as they’re written on the page. Some films are so desperate for conflict that they just keep going to the well without altering the mold. Have women not earned the right by now to play more villains, complicated lovers, a-holes, The Best Friends, soldiers, comic reliefs or leads? Can a woman be sexy in a film and still have a great role? Yes. Give her agency. Can a woman support other characters but still have a great role? Yes. Keep her vital. »
- Katie Hasty and Donna Dickens
Glenn Close on Donning ‘Full Drag’ for Guardians of the Galaxy
5 August 2014 12:00 PM, PDT | Vulture | See recent Vulture news »
Wouldn't you sleep a little easier if you knew that Glenn Close was in charge of keeping the universe safe? That's the job she's tasked with in the James Gunn–directed Guardians of the Galaxy, and while Chris Pratt's Star-Lord handles a whole lot of the outer-space heroics alongside his titular band of misfits, he ultimately has to answer to Close's Nova Prime, an important, intimidating peacekeeper with one swirly head of hair. Close is currently gearing up for a Broadway stint alongside John Lithgow in A Delicate Balance, but she called Vulture to discuss her Guardians wig, her favorite moment in the film, and why she thinks it's become such a big hit.The movie broke a lot of box-office records this weekend, and it got great reviews, too. What do you think it is that people are responding to?Ultimately, I think it’s the heart, I really do. »
- Kyle Buchanan
James Gunn talks about the post-credit cameo for Guardians of the Galaxy
5 August 2014 12:59 AM, PDT | Flickeringmyth | See recent Flickeringmyth news »
Obviously, post-credit spoilers for Guardians of the Galaxy…
James Gunn surprised many Marvel fans with the post credit sequence for Guardians of the Galaxy by providing a cameo of the oft-mocked Howard the Duck.
With the rights to the character back at Marvel, it’s unclear as to whether we’ll get another movie featuring Howard the Duck, but Gunn was open to talk about him during an interview with ComingSoon. “I’m glad you saw him. I’ve done a few interviews now where they’ve come in and said, ‘I heard Howard the Duck is in the movie but I didn’t see him’”.
Howard the Duck first debuted in 1973 and was noticed by Disney when he got his own book in 1976 and accused him of being too similar to their own Donald Duck. In a bizarre legal agreement, it was decided that Howard could continue being a fixture in the Marvel Universe, »
- Luke Owen
'Guardians of the Galaxy' ending: Who was that? And other spoiler-y questions
1 August 2014 3:47 PM, PDT | EW.com - PopWatch | See recent EW.com - PopWatch news »
The superhero movies released by Marvel Studios tend to downplay the more outré elements of their source material. Even the Thor films have mostly held back on the elaborate space-god architecture of the comic book’s mythology, defaulting to a few familiar fantasy-genre elements (evil elves, shining cities, magic-as-plot-shortcut). Not so with Guardians of the Galaxy, a movie which dives deep into a few different deep-space cultures. Perhaps fearful of scaring people off, the movie’s first act drops a lot of exposition grenades about the key points of Galaxy’s Galaxy. Even if you can’t tell the Kree from the Xandarians, »
- Darren Franich
Analysing the Guardians Of The Galaxy post-credits scenes
31 July 2014 3:49 PM, PDT | Den of Geek | See recent Den of Geek news »
Spoilers: we dissect the extra goodies at the very end of Marvel's Guardians Of The Galaxy...
This article contains spoilers for Guardians Of The Galaxy.
When we interviewed director James Gunn prior to the release of Guardians Of The Galaxy, he assured us that the reason they left the stinger off preview screenings wasn't part of any wider conspiracy. They just wanted to leave something that would be a treat for the fans who paid to see it on opening night.
Now that we've seen the stinger, we can confirm that this was exactly what it was: a treat for Marvel fans. Not a trailer or advert for another film, but an easter egg that will baffle and amaze audiences in equal measure.
If you've already seen the stinger and want to know more, read on. And if you haven't, let us urge you one final time to save the surprise for yourself. »
- simonbrew
'Guardians of the Galaxy' screenwriter talks cosmic passions and the Marvel experience
23 July 2014 10:06 AM, PDT | Hitfix | See recent Hitfix news »
Hollywood — You might not have heard the name Nicole Perlman much as it pertains to Marvel properties, but she's a big reason why "Guardians of the Galaxy" will be making its way to theaters next weekend. She toiled away as a screenwriter for a few years after her days at Nyu, cooking up projects with a science bent because that's where her passions lie — projects like "Challenger," a fascinating account of the investigation of the Challenger Space Shuttle disaster written as a love letter to Nobel Prize-winning physicist Richard Feynman. Then, she made her way to the comic book giant under the company's now-defunct screenwriting program and plucked the intergalactic heroes from obscurity, setting them on a crash course for the silver screen. It may be largely James Gunn's colorful vision on that screen, but it's definitely Perlman's passion that helped bring the property to the table in the first place. »
- Kristopher Tapley
Possible 'Guardians' Credits Leak Reveal Amazing Cameos
17 July 2014 12:42 PM, PDT | LatinoReview | See recent LatinoReview news »
Nathan Fillion isn't Nova.
Good to know.
How did we hear that this time? The website Stitch Kingdom claims to have gotten a complete credits list for Guardians of the Galaxy that reveals the Marvel Universe cameos notable celebrities (and James Gunn himself) will appear as:
Stan Lee will have his customary cameo, this time as the ‘Xandarian Ladies’ Man;’ browncoat favorite Nathan Fillion will be dolled up as ‘Monstrous Inmate;’ musician Rob Zombie lends his voice as the ‘Ravager Navigator Voice;’ and writer/director James Gunn himself will appear in the film as one of the ‘Maskless Sakaaran.’
Also appearing in the film, though not a cameo, is actor Fred the dog who assumes the role of Cosmo.
But saving perhaps the best for last… we’re not exactly sure what it means yet — if anything — but while he couldn’t get himself a 25th anniversary Blu-ray (and not »
- Da7e
The Beautiful and the Damned Dirty Apes: A History of The Planet of The Apes
11 July 2014 4:00 AM, PDT | HeyUGuys.co.uk | See recent HeyUGuys news »
The Planet of The Apes movies occupy a curious netherworld of critical opinion. With each film, the budget was sawn in half, leading to a successive pattern of diminishing returns that led to a cheapening of its esteem. The spin-off TV show was quickly cancelled, further dulling the lustre and few people even remember the animated series that finally put the Apes to bed until a rude awakening in 2001.
However, for all their child-pleasing capers (the family-friendly G rating was a mandatory stipulation from the studios), the Apes movies deftly juggled important themes and arguments about slavery, free-will, nuclear war, vivisection, racism and oppression, and man’s innate capacity for cruelty. In pure storytelling terms, the circuitous plot links the first five movies (and the prequel Rise of The Planet of The Apes) into a pleasing, if relentlessly pessimistic, self-perpetuating full-circle.
Enormous box office successes in their early stages, they »
- Cai Ross
Human See, Human Do: A Complete History of 'Planet of the Apes'
1 July 2014 7:20 AM, PDT | Rollingstone.com | See recent Rolling Stone news »
A pop-culture touchstone, a nearly all-purpose metaphor and one of the most beloved sci-fi franchises of the Seventies and beyond, the Planet of the Apes films do what all good what-if fantasies should do: hold up a mirror to humanity and reflect our own conflicts, issues and failings back to us through a wildly outrageous premise. The original 1968 movie mixes satire, social commentary, action and suspense, capped by a first-rate twist at the end. ("Damn you, damn you all to hell!")
'Dawn of the Planet of the Apes' »
Marvelous DA7E #51: Marvel/Spider/DC Universe Roundup
20 June 2014 11:31 AM, PDT | LatinoReview | See recent LatinoReview news »
Welcome to Issue 51 of The Marvelous DA7E!
What Is This? If this is your first time, know that Da7e is a crazy fan of comic book movie franchises. He's less a fan of coherent sentences. He thinks being a fan of something is the greatest way of loving it.
This week: So much happened, let's speculate about our main 3 universes (sorry Fox, try harder)
Oh man, it feels like it’s been a long time since we’ve talked some superhero movie news and rumors. And there’s all this Star Wars stuff happening. While I often feel Bad Robot is laughing at me, I don't always feel that way about my Marvelous Speculations. I get my fandoms a little mixed up like a sweet-sweet cocktail. Other times I wonder if Disney is just my emotional counterpoint, gripping all the franchises I love in their Mickey Mouse gloves without really caring. »
- Da7e
New images from Godzilla, X-Men: Days of Future Past, Transformers: Age of Extinction, Jupiter Ascending, Guardians of the Galaxy and The Expendables 3
27 April 2014 10:38 AM, PDT | Flickeringmyth | See recent Flickeringmyth news »
As part of a summer movie preview, USA Today has given us a batch of new images from some of this year’s biggest blockbusters in Godzilla, X-Men: Days of Future Past, Transformers: Age of Extinction, Jupiter Ascending, Guardians of the Galaxy,, and The Expendables 3.
Here’s Godzilla from next month’s hotly-anticipated reboot…
Godzilla is set for release on May 15th, with Gareth Edwards (Monsters) directing a cast that includes Aaron Taylor-Johnson (Kick-Ass), Bryan Cranston (Breaking Bad), Elizabeth Olsen (Martha Marcy May Marlene), Ken Watanabe (Inception), David Strathairn (The Bourne Legacy), Juliette Binoche (The English Patient) and Sally Hawkins (Blue Jasmine). Watch the latest trailer here.
Next up are a couple of shots from X-Men: Days of Future Past featuring James McAvoy and Patrick Stewart as Past and Future Professor X…
X-Men: Days of Future Past is directed by Bryan Singer and sees X-Men veterans Hugh Jackman (Wolverine »
- Gary Collinson
Can 'Cosmos' Save Science Television?
31 March 2014 8:25 AM, PDT | Thompson on Hollywood | See recent Thompson on Hollywood news »
With his nondescript blazers and mild manner, astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson is an unlikely radical. But make no mistake: in an age of evolution skeptics and climate change deniers, the defense of science he levies as the host of "Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey" is nothing short of revolutionary. Of course, a similarly grand sense of purpose accompanied Carl Sagan's "Cosmos: A Personal Voyage" when it premiered on PBS in 1980, eventually attracting 400 million viewers in 60 countries. That the iconic original resulted in no definitive triumph for factuality might lead the discerning critic to offer a more cautious assessment of the revamped "Cosmos," but its very existence -- in the midst of Sunday's packed primetime landscape, no less -- is a bold statement. We're here, we're peer-reviewed, get used to it! Beyond public television's old guard ("Nova" and "Nature" on PBS, "The Blue Planet" and "Planet Earth" on the BBC), much »
- Matt Brennan
Can 'Cosmos' Save Science Television?
31 March 2014 8:25 AM, PDT | Indiewire Television | See recent Indiewire Television news »
With his nondescript blazers and mild manner, astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson is an unlikely radical. But make no mistake: in an age of evolution skeptics and climate change deniers, the defense of science he levies as the host of "Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey" is nothing short of revolutionary. Of course, a similarly grand sense of purpose accompanied Carl Sagan's "Cosmos: A Personal Voyage" when it premiered on PBS in 1980, eventually attracting 400 million viewers in 60 countries. That the iconic original resulted in no definitive triumph for factuality might lead the discerning critic to offer a more cautious assessment of the revamped "Cosmos," but its very existence -- in the midst of Sunday's packed primetime landscape, no less -- is a bold statement. We're here, we're peer-reviewed, get used to it! Beyond public television's old guard ("Nova" and "Nature" on PBS, "The Blue Planet" and "Planet Earth" on the BBC), much »
- Matt Brennan
Arnold "Back" as Terminator(s), Paul Walker CGI/Body Doubles in Fast 7 , Marvel Spy Pics, Green Goblin Revealed
27 March 2014 6:34 AM, PDT | Reelzchannel.com | See recent ReelzChannel news »
Terminator When Arnold Schwarzenegger says he'll be "back," you better believe him. Schwarzenegger has said for years that he would love to reprise the role of the Terminator and now he has revealed to MTV News that he will return to the role that made him famous in next year's Terminator: Genesis, possibly even as multiple iterations of the classic cyborg. Before you get all armchair geek on the news, let us remind you that this is the "Austrian Oak" we're talking about, so even in his '60s we're pretty sure he could crush your skull if he wanted to. And, as far as the whole robots-don't-age argument goes, well, let's just let Ahnuld explain:
The way that the character is written, it's a machine underneath. It's this metal skeleton. But above that is human flesh. And the Terminator's flesh ages, just like any other human being's flesh. »
- BJSprecher Sprecher
TV Review: PBS’ ‘The Story of the Jews,’ ‘Your Inner Fish’
24 March 2014 7:00 AM, PDT | Variety - TV News | See recent Variety - TV News news »
PBS has acquired a patina of cool since “Downton Abbey” and “Sherlock” arrived, but public television can’t — and probably shouldn’t — shed its stodgy image. Cases in point are a pair of nonfiction series premiering within the next month, both centered around the stuffy, slightly ponderous form of the on-camera presenter: “The Story of the Jews,” Simon Schama’s five-hour dissertation on Jewish history; and “Your Inner Fish,” paleobiologist Neil Shubin’s three-part evolutionary trip through human DNA. Both have merit, but also feel like sort of doggedly pontificating exercises that practically dare viewers to sit through them, as opposed to inviting them in.
Already shown in the U.K., “Story of the Jews” is deeply personal, and too often profoundly dull. Part of that has to do with the amount of time Schama spends on screen — leisurely walking and talking, in soothingly sleep-inducing tones, through historic locales — approximating »
- Brian Lowry
The Week in Spandex - Captain America: The Winter Soldier, Avengers: Age of Ultron, The Amazing Spider-Man 2, Gotham, Arrow, Powers, Bananaman and more
23 March 2014 11:59 PM, PDT | Flickeringmyth | See recent Flickeringmyth news »
Our weekly round up of the latest stories from the world of screen superheroes, including Captain America: The Winter Soldier, The Avengers: Age of Ultron, Guardians of the Galaxy, Ant-Man, Captain Marvel, Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., The Amazing Spider-Man 2, X-Men: Days of Future Past, X-Men: Apocalypse, Gotham, Arrow, Son of Batman, Powers, Bananaman and more...
Here in the UK we're just five days away from the start of the 2014 superhero season as Marvel Studios continues Phase Two of its Cinematic Universe with the release of Captain America: The Winter Soldier. The review embargo for Chris Evans' second solo outing lifted on Thursday evening, and it looks like Marvel has knocked it out of the park once again; you can listen to the thoughts of Luke Owen and Scott Davis in the latest Flickering Myth Podcast, and here's an excerpt from Luke's review:
"Captain America: The Winter Soldier is a movie where everything gels. »
- Gary Collinson
Marvelous Da7e #34: Hooked On A Feelin’ For ‘Guardians’ Toys!
19 February 2014 7:26 AM, PST | LatinoReview | See recent LatinoReview news »
Wowie-wow-wow, what a week for Guardians of the Galaxy!
We finally got our trailer last night and even if a lot of it was footage that had been shown at conventions, now everyone can share in the excitement that director James Gunn is fostering. Marvel’s doing a really good job here of rolling the Guardians out slowly – we haven’t even heard Vin Diesel’s Groot or Bradley Cooper’s Rocket – adding to this slow build of momentum that has to keep humming through the other summer movies. But come August 1st, it’s Guardians of the Galaxy time and it’s looking more and more like Marvel might have a hit on it’s hands because they chose to go with charisma over traditional ideas about what’s marketable.
On Friday I went up to mid-town Manhattan just outside Times Square and attended the Hasbro Toy Fair Preview, »
- Da7e
Kodi Smit-McPhee Finds 'Birder's Guide to Everything' in First Trailer
10 February 2014 1:11 PM, PST | firstshowing.net | See recent FirstShowing.net news »
Later this year, we'll see a much more grown up Kodi Smit-McPhee (Let Me In, ParaNorman) trying to survive in Dawn of the Planet of the Apes, but before then, audiences can see the teenage actor in some lighter fare. After premiering at the Tribeca Film Festival last year, the coming-of-age story A Birder's Guide to Everything is coming to theaters this spring, and the first trailer is here. The story follows a teen boy (Smit-McPhee) who goes on a secret bird watching road trip, believing a historical birdwatching discovery is in his midst. While on the road, he ends up getting some help from Ben Kingsley. Watch now! Here's the first trailer for Rob Meyer's A Birder's Guide to Everything, originally from Apple: A Birder's Guide to Everything is directed by Rob Meyer (a wildlife filmmaker from Nova and National Geographic), who co-wrote the script with Luke Matheny »
- Ethan Anderton
Trailer For ‘A Birder’s Guide to Everything’ With Ben Kingsley and Kodi Smit-McPhee
9 February 2014 11:00 AM, PST | The Film Stage | See recent The Film Stage news »
After crafting a pair of animal-related shorts, Rob Meyer, who has worked as a wildlife filmmaker for PBS’s Nova and National Geographic, premiered his feature-length debut at Tribeca Film Festival this year. Tracking David Portnoy (Kodi Smit-McPhee) and his bird-watching roadtrip, assisted by Ben Kingsley‘s character, we now have the first trailer for A Birder’s Guide to [...] »
- Jordan Raup
2014 in film preview: blockbusters
2 January 2014 8:22 AM, PST | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
Our pick of the ten films likely to pull in the crowds in 2014
• 2014 preview: thrillers
• 2014 preview: comedy
• 2014 preview: Oscar hopefuls
• 2014 preview: science fiction
• 2014 preview: romance
• 2014 preview: drama
Darren Aronofsky's $130m Biblical epic arrives buffeted by Hurricane Sandy (which gatecrashed the production) and lashed by controversy (the director and studio have reportedly squabbled over the final cut). The omens are explosive and the anticipation is building. Russell Crowe looks on stentorian form as the pre-flood patriarch, reeling from portents of the apocalypse and determined to protect his wife (Jennifer Connelly), his adopted daughter (Emma Watson) and the animals of the world. But trouble is brewing; he's going to need a bigger boat. 28 March
British director Gareth Edwards scored a low-budget breakthrough with 2010's Monsters. Now he's surging up through the gears to tackle arguably the biggest beast of them all. His remastered Godzilla finds the behemoth battling man-made »
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