Looks like the summer of 2014 — much like every summer in the 21st century — is going to belong to Marvel. The first Avenger, Captain America, gets a new trailer this weekend for his sophomore film, Captain America: The Winter Soldier. We were positively surprised at how good the first movie was, so suffice to […]

Any day that starts off with a trailer for a new Spike Jonze flick can’t be all bad. The film, Her, is Jonze’s first foray into sci-fi, but seeing as his movies are always pretty cerebral it seems pretty in sync with his body of work. In the movie Joaquin Phoenix stars as Theodore Twombly, […]

Madman Mundt and the Elf were guests at last week’s AFI Fest and attended the Los Angeles premier of Black Swan. This is their collaborative review. Black Swan is out in the US on December 1st. The Elf: I’m a sucker for a dance movie. Ballet specifically. Whether it’s Fame, Flashdance, Center Stage (starring a […]

Gotta say I’m pretty excited about this one. Jon Favreau absolutely killed it directing that first film — as far as comic book movies go, it would be almost impossible to beat his adaption of Iron Man. He nailed it in pitch, humor, characterization, everything. You can tell Favreau really knew the source material, which […]