Good news, at least for people who trust one massive soulless greed-fueled corporation more than another massive soulless greed-fueled corporation: Last night, Disney and Sony announced that the one thing that could bring them together (greed) has, indeed, brought them together, and Spider-Man will now be appearing in Marvel-branded movies—meaning that instead of being kept […]
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Here’s the Trailer for Fantastic Four! No, Not That One. No, Not That Other One. The New One
I do wish that instead of “From the studio that brought you X-Men: Days of Future Past,” it read “From the studio that already brought you not just one but two terrible Fantastic Four movies,” but that’s just a quibble. Here’s the first trailer for Fox’s latest attempt to bring Stan Lee and Jack Kirby’s […]
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I Demand to See James Spader in a Tinfoil Robot Costume
I had a weird moment midway through Inherent Vice when I realized that the last time I’d seen Josh Brolin (he’s one of the greatest things about Inherent Vice, funny and weird and scary and insane and constantly fellating frozen chocolate bananas) was when he was Thanos in that clunky, shoehorned-in scene from Guardians of […]
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Ant-Man: When a Parody Trailer Is Better Than the Real Trailer
Marvel’s Ant-Man got a rough start: After years of development (and even a finished test reel) from the brilliant Edgar Wright, Marvel abruptly switched gears on the film, parting ways with Wright and rushing into production with the cast Wright had assembled, but a new script by Adam McKay (Anchorman, The Other Guys) and star […]
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Michelle MacLaren Should Direct Wonder Woman (and Other Movies)
MICHELLE MACLAREN On set for Game of Thrones. Image via HBO. Yesterday afternoon, Variety broke the news that Michelle MacLaren is in the running to direct the first of Warner Bros.’ planned Wonder Woman movies. MacLaren isn’t exactly a household name—sadly, very few, if any, female directors are household names—but if you’ve been paying attention […]
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Here Are Marvel’s Movies Until the End of Time Itself
THOR: RAGNAROK Cue a million nerds frantically googling “Ragnarök.” Marvel did a big, Apple-style PR event today, where everybody thought they were going to trot out Benedict Cumberbatch as Doctor Strange but nope! Instead they just told everyone on the planet what movies they’ll all be obligated to watch from now until 2019, a point […]
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Today in Good Comic Book News, Today in Bad Comic Book News
Doctor Strange by Stan Lee and Steve Ditko, via GOOD NEWS FIRST: In a move that was more or less demanded by the excitable denizens of Tumblr, Benedict Cumberbatch is probably going to play Doctor Strange, which should be a profoundly good fit given that the best Doctor Strange comics are weird, trippy, psychedelic freak-outs […]
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Here’s the First Trailer for The Avengers: Age of Ultron Thor’s Ballet Class
THOR’S BALLET CLASS It’s a very ominous ballet class. This leaked yesterday afternoon—at which point everybody promptly expected that (A) the poor bastard was who was responsible for the leak was immediately going to lose his job, and (B) that Marvel would yank the trailer immediately and send out an avalanche of cease and desists. […]
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Decide for Me, Blogtown: Should I Watch This Gotham Business?
GOTHAM Is this… this isn’t actually in the show, is it? Gotham sounded like a goofy-ass idea from the beginning—like Smallville, basically, but without any of the fun parts. And now that it’s been going for a few weeks, I’m torn: On one hand, I really like Batman stuff, because Batman! So I should check […]
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It’s Happening Tonight!
COMICS & ART—Unlike Portland’s garish, expensive, and pop culture-focused comics conventions, the free The Projects fest focuses on the weirder, experimental side of comics—and loops in animation, workshops, performances, and more. Walk into one of the various venues (Holocene, Floating World Comics, IPRC, S1) with an open mind; walk out with a few new favorite […]
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Don’t Go See the Towering Pile of Garbage That Is Sin City: A Dame to Kill For
SIN CITY: A DAME TO KILL FOR Josh Brolin is driving a car…in black and white. So noir! The first Sin City film was an example of a very small subset of comic book movies that slavishly adapt directly from the source material, using the comics as storyboards. (The other two films in this subset […]
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First Thursday at Floating World: The Wrenchies Release Party
In the paper this week, I wrote about The Wrenchies a new graphic novel from Portland cartoonist Farel Dalrymple. Long story short: I loved it, you’re probably going to be hearing about it for a while, and you should swing by the release party at Floating World tomorrow to pick up a copy. For fans […]