Happy Halloween, everyone! It’s the time for candy, costumes, trick-or-treating, parties, and watching horror and monster movies. On the Trailer Trashin’ docket this week is the first trailer for a film that’s sure to inspire a lot of Halloween costumes next year: Iron Man 3, the first post-Avengers film from Marvel Studios. Premise: When an enemy disrupts that which industrialis...[Read More]
I’ve mentioned several times in the past that I was apprehensive regarding an Avengers movie. Logistically, teaming up all of those major superheroes would be something most people couldn’t do successfully. As the project grew closer though and all the ancillary films were released, I started to think that a team-up movie of this scope could work. Then, Marvel signed Joss Whedon to co-write ...[Read More]
Let me get this out of the way first: ignore all the trailers and advertisements for this movie. They don’t really tell you what it’s really about. Contagion is not an action/horror film, nor is it a George Romero-esque tale of oppressive government fear mongers and shadowy dealings (or even zombies). It is a Steven Soderbergh film, meaning it is more of an ensemble piece with lots of dialogue tha...[Read More]