As my review of All Is Lost in this week's paper strongly indicates, I'm a shameless, gawping fan of Robert Redford. Had the whole Marvel-taking-over-Hollywood thing happened a few decades earlier, it's hard to imagine they wouldn't have tried to cast Redford as Captain America—and now that's in his late '70s, he's the perfect guy to play a government agent who's older, wiser, and maaaaybe a little sinister. Redford pops up quite a bit in the new trailer for Captain America: The Winter Soldier, looking predictably awesome as someone who apparently knows a lot more than Cap.

As someone who wasn't very keen on the first Captain America, this thing looks more to my liking: as a character, Captain America is at his worst when he's a jingoistic cheerleader, and at his best when he's used to highlight how vastly far away America is from its ideals. Nothing demonstrates that better than an Edward Snowden a good political thriller—especially if it allows me to retcon one of my favorite movies, Sydney Pollack's Three Days of the Condor, into being the first Marvel movie. Now we know how Redford got into S.H.I.E.L.D.!