Iron Man is, please excuse the pun, the steel foundation of Marvel’s Avengers series. If the first film hadn’t done well, they would have had little to build upon to lead into the collective picture. Iron Man 2 went a long way to laying the groundwork for all of the heroes to finally team up, unfortunately to the detriment of Tony Stark’s individual story. Iron Man 3 shows us that, while Stark’s... 

Right before we started recording this week’s podcast, Owen made us aware of just how clueless he is about technological developments. The result is a riotous 60-minutes where Owen is the punchline, but the last laugh is on us. Mixed in this week we talk about Lawless, when good actors star in bad movies, Breaking Bad, and putting the final wraps on this summer’s season, including record... 

The Dictator follows the ruler of the fictional North African Republic of Wadiya named Admiral General Hafez Aladeen (Sacha Baron Cohen), a man-child who spends most of his days basking in his opulence, even if the rest of the world considers him a war criminal. Yet, he is forced to go speak in front of the United Nations in order to prevent an airstrike against his country. While there, his supposedly... 

Recently I wrote a glowing review of Martin Scorsese’s Hugo, one that not everyone may agree with but one that honestly reflects the effect the movie had on me. In that review I purposely did not reveal the secret of the film. It’s a small secret but one that was important for my immense enjoyment of the film. In this article – a cousin to the Rafe’s many END FAIL articles – I want... 

Hugo is a brilliant, lovingly crafted film, an instant masterpiece. It’s a five star film with no equal. I typically do not write reviews in the first person, but Hugo has touched me in such a profound and emotion way I cannot communicate its affect on me otherwise. Directed by Martin Scorsese and adapted by John Logan from the Brian Selznick novel, The Invention of Hugo Cabret, Hugo the film reaffirms... 

Closing Tabs started as a weekly look at news we didn’t cover on the site throughout the week. As the site has grown, however, we’ve moved away from reporting most news (you can catch most of it regurgitated on other sites anyway) in favor of more original opinions and editorials. Still, that news is out there, clogging up the tabs on our browsers, so now we offer the column as a Tuesday/Thursday... 

Our title this week comes from Margaret’s review of Sex and the City, which is how she describes a moment of plot resolution. Still, she is a lot more positive about the movie than most critics, just as Rafe is more positive about Prince of Persia. Well, we’re just a bunch of positive people this week, as we look at our final two Walter Matthau movies, discuss the future of the X-Men franchise,... 

Video game adaptations have been unstable territory for film since their inception. The reasons are numerous, whether it be questionable people at the helm (Uwe Boll) or a more core issue of adapting a game that doesn’t have much more going for it than a character jumping from platform to platform (Super Mario Brothers). Even the better adaptations have suffered, usually because of some sort of forced... 

Shutter Island is a movie that made our “most anticipated movies” list for the second half of 2009, only to be shunted into 2010 by the studio. Relocation be damned, yet again it made our “most anticipated movie” list for 2010. So now that the picture is here, did it meet our expectations? In a word: easily. Ladies and gentlemen, one of the best movies of 2010 has already arrived. The story...