With a record-breaking $200 million opening weekend, I think we can all agree that there will be a sequel to The Avengers. Even better: most people I know want a sequel to the super hero team-up. It feels germane to the film for there to be a second one, instead of another chapter that is simply tacked on. We have a long road to travel before we get to a second Avengers film, but we can pontificate... 

Ever since the success of Iron Man in 2008, the Marvel Universe movies have been building to a point: The Avengers. With each individual character movie finding massive success, the idea of combining the characters into a team became even more of an enigma: how do you take four characters who have triumphed in their own pictures (as well as two supporting players) and combine them into an ensemble... 

Marvel’s The Avengers is extraordinary, a monumental accomplishment of super heroic proportions. Director Joss Whedon has done the impossible, bringing together four independent franchises (Iron Man, Hulk, Thor, and Captain America) into a single cohesive whole. The Avengers is a better film with the heroes together than any single film with the each hero standing alone. It is quite a remarkable... 

We’re back after a few weeks’ absence. With our return we talk about The Raven and The Cabin in the Woods, one of which is the most awesome movie several of us have seen in theaters in quite a while (hint: it doesn’t have John Cusack in it). After our reviews we start laying out the summer with a thumbs up/thumbs down for the upcoming potential blockbusters. What are we most interested... 

Marvel has had pretty good luck this summer, laying in some key pieces for their upcoming The Avengers movie with Thor, which introduced both the Thunder God and (briefly) Clint “Hawkeye” Barton. Now it’s time to lay the final stone of the foundation. This is not just any character, however, but Captain America, “The First Avenger.” Despite having four other movies building up to The Avengers... 

Marvel has done it once again, delivering a fun, earnest, action-packed superhero movie with filled with heart and rich, rewarding characters. Captain America: The First Avenger is a terrific companion to Marvel’s Iron Man and Thor and sits somewhere between the two. While it doesn’t capture the sense of wonder and astonishment that Iron Man excelled at, it triumphs with a strong lead character... 

The first thing you’ll notice as Captain America: Super Soldier loads is the giant blue SEGA logo filling the screen before the introduction and main menu. The SEGA logo is what first scared the hell out of me, since every film adaptation for the Marvel brand created by SEGA has been, we’ll call them “doodoo” since I can’t throw an explicit tag on a written review. However, you may know... 

Unless you’ve been hiding out watching the Twilight saga, then you’re probably already aware of a little film called Captain America: The First Avenger that’s coming out on July 22nd. While most people caught the teaser trailer during the Super Bowl, the first theatrical trailer was just released to the masses and the visuals are pretty exciting. Although it’s still too early to tell if the... 

Forget Norse gods. Forget ring-bearing alien cops who conjure up inanimate green things. Your summer spending needs to involve a ticket to Captain America: The First Avenger. At a time when movie studios are overfishing the cape n’ tights world, trying in vain to come up with another base hit in the likes of the Iron Man movies or underground indie comics hero Scott Pilgrim, Marvel Studios sets out... 

Very few people missed the new trailer for Captain America: The First Avenger. Whether you watched it during the Super Bowl or online afterwards that 30 second spot was enough to whet the appetites of fans and newcomers to the Captain America name alike. While there’s not a lot to go on with such a short trailer, we see all too clearly that classic Spidey-like transformation from scrawny to buff...