Musings on Man of Steel: What works and what doesn’t in the latest Superman reboot

Oh boy, where do I begin... Some films are tough to review and I find this one to be particularly so because I feel like I've invested myself in this movie even long before I saw it. It's strange I know, and perhaps I shouldn't have been sooo incredibly pumped but if you've read my …

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Superman: A History and a New Hope

Yet another SUPER post on my favorite superhero! Special thanks to Terrence for taking part on the Man Of Steel Countdown festivities. I love this post and especially his closing statement... Is Man of Steel the beginning of a new era for Superman? I think so. It brings in a new era and with it …

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Trailer Spotlight: Man of Steel – the S stands for smashing – now the countdown begins!

I knew I would be inside of a movie theater watching Disconnect when this trailer hits ... so I was super excited when I got home to see it on my big screen TV! Well, all that waiting is not for naught. I have a bunch of superlatives I could use for this trailer... but …

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TAKE TWO: How would these films turn out had these directors made them?

Many of us who follows Hollywood knows that a film goes through several writing stages before it hits the big screen; we also know that many directors were involved in this process, most of the time these directors decided to leave the project on their own terms or get fired by the studio. Then the …

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[Fan-Made] Posters of the Week: Man of Steel and The Dark Knight Rises

I wanted to do a poster post and there's nothing that interest me from Impawards site. But a few days ago I came across these two awesome fan-made posters of two of my most-anticipated superhero flicks! I've posted fan-made posters before, like this broken-glass one for The Dark Knight Rises, as they're often much, much …

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Weekend Viewing Roundup: House of Flying Daggers, Legend of the Guardians

It's kind of an uneventful weekend for me... it's just another super cold January day. And when I say cold, I mean face-numbing, ears-hurtin', still-freezing-my-@$$-off-despite-wearing-two-thick-layer-under-my-pants type of subzero temp. It's kinda depressing when someone said on the way home from work that "hey, it's actually 20 degrees 'warmer' than this morning" and it's barely 3 …

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Random question of the week: Which celeb do you wish to be retweeted by on Twitter?

Happy Friday all! Those who are a bit of a Twitter addict (like me) or have a Twitter account you visit from time to time, y'know all it's #FF time (it's follow friday in case you didn't know, which is an effective way to promote friends & followers by recommending them to your own followers). …

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