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... 

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... 

An interesting question came up as we were recording this week’s podcast. Now that all of the pre-Avenger movies are out – that is, the individual films that serve as feeder movies for Marvel’s big shin-dig next summer, how would we rank them? It became a quick point of discussion during the show that I thought I would expand on here. For the record, the pre-Avenger foundation movies are:...