Over the past few years it’s become the “in thing” to revisit old fairy tale stories and give them a gritty contemporary edge. I would almost call it the anti-Disney approach, if the House of Mouse wasn’t responsible for one of the better iterations of the genre with their series Once Upon a Time. Consider Grimm, Red Riding Hood, and last year’s dueling Snow White retellings, and you’d... 

We’re back from another little break with a lot of grumbling and a lot of laughter. Hear multiple reviews of The Campaign and The Bourne Legacy, tributes to Jerry Nelson and Tony Scott, updates on the lives of the Widescreen Warrior crew (including Rafe’s “brain cloud”) and an awesome look at Detention – the film so bad it makes Thomas want to toss away his ironic hipster... 

With The Bourne Legacy, director Tony Gilroy transfers the lead from Jason Bourne (Matt Damon) to Aaron Cross (Jeremy Renner). The result: the more things change, the more they stay the same. With a decade’s difference between The Bourne Identity (2002) and The Bourne Legacy (2012), the latest chapter remains steeped in the world where Jason Bourne is in the process of exposing those behind the... 

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... 

The Earth’s Mightiest Defenders are certainly heading into theaters this summer. If there was any doubt, look no further than the second trailer for this summer’s potential blockbuster, The Avengers. Where the first trailer wowed audiences and fans with the execution of a collaborative movie (and let’s be honest – this is so star packed it’s almost hard to believe they’re pulling it... 

Somehow it has worked out that I have yet to see a Bourne movie. I know I want to see them and the trailers have all intrigued me. It’s just happened that I haven’t seen one and I feel like it’s a series I need to start from the beginning, so with each movie that has come out, I’ve wound up farther and farther behind with the franchise. If I don’t fix that soon, it looks like the fourth film... 

Ethan Hunt (Tom Cruise) returns for another installment of the famous Mission Impossible film series (based on the also-famous-for-its generation-television series), this time directed by Brad Bird (Iron Giant, The Incredibles, Ratatouille), this being his first big budgeted, live action feature. In Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol, Hunt and his team are left to their own devices when the President... 

Summer’s 8 months away, but already the Mighty Marvel Movie Machine is churning, releasing a full two-minute trailer for The Ultimates…I mean, The Avengers…sorry, m’comic bookiness reared its head there for sec. What we’re treated to is a snippet of the team’s (practically non-existent) chemistry, and I don’t mean on screen, I mean as far the in-story team dynamic goes. And that makes... 

Rafe caught three out of the four new releases this week, which means a great deal of the show is spent with Rafe talking, including another look behind the curtain of writing and running a website like this. Don’t worry: Rafe’s world is nowhere near as scandalous as Easy A, full of crime as The Town, or desperate as riding in an elevator in an M. Night Shyamalan story. The episode touches...