Next week, one of the most significant events in comicbook movie history will be taking place: for the first time ever, an on-screen brawl between Batman and Superman. Yet every few hours, I completely forget that the film is even coming out, and apparently I’m not alone. There seems to be very little buzz for Dawn of…
Disney’s Zootopia is among the most thematically interesting and visually engaging animated movies I have ever seen, and it will almost certainly be remembered as one of the great films of the year. Just as with much of Pixar’s finest work like Toy Story and Monsters Inc., the movie presents a fascinating culture and spends a lot of the first act doling out information about this…
I’m a passionate horror apologist, but the genre has always treated women poorly. For decades now, female horror characters have essentially been variants on the ditsy slut who dies in the first act or the innocent virgin who is endlessly tortured, as parodied in Joss Whedon’s The Cabin in the Woods. The fact that these stories are frequently led…
When it was revealed that Tom Hiddleston would be appearing as Loki in Avengers: Age of Ultron, a lot of people let out an exhausted sigh. Have we not seen enough of Loki at this point? Does Marvel really need to be going back to that well again? They probably do, actually, for one simple reason: he’s one…
BY BRENDAN MORROW 