On May 1, 2014, I attended Derek Johnson’s lecture, “My Hero?: The Practices and Politics of Sharing Worlds in Marvel’s Media Franchises” presented by the University of California at Irvine Humanities Collective. Johnson is a professor of Media and Cultural Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison who researches identity and hierarchy in the production of…
June Staff Picks: Movies
How To Train Your Dragon 2 Dean DeBlois 20th Century Fox, DreamWorks Animation Release Date: 6/13 I’m really looking forward to this. Cute dragons go pretty far with me, and finally learning the mystery of Hiccup’s mother is exciting. The Vikings have been co-existing with the dragons, but now there’s a new threat – the…
Edgar Wright No Longer Directing Marvel’s Ant-Man
Just over an hour ago, it was reported that Edgar Wright is leaving the director’s chair of Marvel’s phase 3 film: Ant-Man. The reason given is as follows from Deadline: Marvel and Edgar Wright jointly announced today that the studio and director have parted ways on ANT-MAN due to differences in their vision of the film….
News & Things: Full of Godzilla!
New Godzilla Clip Reveals Plot Details A newly released clip from the upcoming Godzilla film gives us another glimpse of the monster, plus a hint of just what might be opposing his city-crushing crusade. Not for the spoiler-averse, but an exciting taste of what’s to come.
News & Things: Justice League Movie Announced (yay?) But No Wonder Woman (boo!)
Warner Brothers Announces Justice League film, is “warm” to a Wonder Woman film The long-awaited announcement for a Justice League movie has finally come out with Man of Steel’s Zach Snyder at the helm. They announced there are 9 films in development, including adaptations of Shazam, Fables, and the Metal Men. But don’t worry folks, they…
News & Things: Paul Bettany Sexy Robot Edition
Paul Bettany Confirms Avengers: Age of Ultron Appearance as the Vision Paul Bettany spoke to Jimmy Kimmel about finally appearing in person in the Marvel cinematic universe as the Vision in the upcoming Avengers: Age of Ultron. Seeing as he’s been the deliciously British voice of Jarvis thus far, it’s not a stretch to imagine…
News & Things: Robert Downey Jr. Being Awesome Edition
Robert Downey Jr. Hosts Kid Screening of The Winter Soldier, Because Of Course He Did And he did it on his birthday, because what better way to celebrate that by bringing superhero joy to children?
One Small Step: Captain America and the Discourse of Fear and Security
A few months back, the first full trailer of Marvel’s Captain America: The Winter Soldier was released and I was extremely excited. Just to offer some context, I’m a fourth year criminology major at York University. Criminology is essentially the study of crime and criminality: I’ve spent the last four years looking at the punishment…
News & Things: Hellfighters and Snow Queens
New Book on Black WWII Soldiers Combines History and Entertainment Coming from World War Z author Max Brooks and Uber artist Canaan White, the new graphic novel Harlem Hellfighters follows the black soldiers of the 369th Infantry Regiment who fought in World War One. Amidst the history of war comics, black and other minority members of the…
News & Things: All The Movie Costumes Ever
Film Pics Offer First Look at Avengers’ Quicksilver and Scarlet Witch Costumes Leaked shots of Avengers: Age of Ultron filming gives us our first glimpse of Quicksilver and Scarlet Witch’s looks in the upcoming movie. Quicksilver’s costume…SIGH. At least he doesn’t look like he’s from a ’90s boy band in this one!
News & Things: Terry Crews as Luke Cage?
News Kevin Feige talks female-led movies again, still doesn’t announce one will come out Marvel Studio Present Kevin Feige is asked AGAIN about when we’re going to see a female-led movie, and he hems and haws about it. Black Widow being in movies named after lead guys is totally like her having her own movie,…
News & Things: 4 More Minutes of Cap (If You Care)
News Captain America: The Winter Soldier Gets Extended 4-Minute Trailer Feelings? FEELINGS, ANYONE? Starting to get a little over-saturated on all the Cap sneaks and peeks?
