In the latest installment of Geek's Guide to the Galaxy a panel of sci-fi fans discusses whether or not geeks should go out and see films like Jupiter Ascending . The post Should Sci-Fi Fans Support Bad Movies Like Jupiter Ascending
After a genuinely terrific cinematic year in 2013, we were probably due for a letdown in 2014, and we got it. There were of course many very good movies last year, but almost all were flawed in one way or another: too narrow, too unfocused, too emotionally remote, or what have you. I’m not sure whether a single one would have cracked my top five of the previous year.
While this might be a relatively quiet summer in terms of superhero movies, it's beginning to look a lot as though Avengers: Age of Ultron will be big enough by itself to fill any potential vacuum. Meanwhile, Fox is getting people excited about a couple of X-Men -related projects, Warner Bros.
As strange as it might seem, there really have been things happening in the world of superhero movies recently other than the Sony/Marvel Spider-Man deal. Don't take our word for it, though. Read on to catch up on the biggest stories of the past seven days' worth of superhero movie news.
We revealed batch one of our Sundance superheroes yesterday, and now fresh from the fire comes batch No. 2. You may already be acquainted with some of the talents here, but from this day forward, make sure to lock down those Google Alerts.
Overall, we saw some 27 movies and spent more than 40 hours in theater chairs during the Sundance Film Festival.
While we were still recovering from the holidays and trying to pretend that January isn't the worst month of the year, the machine that is the superhero movie business kept chugging along. This week, Marvel took advantage of the winter lull to get us excited about Ant-Man , while Fox decided that it was time to see how many X-Men movies an audience is prepared to pay money for in a 12-month …
H ow we see movies is changing. Two of the movies on this list were available on-demand the same day they hit theaters, Netflix is planning to make its own movies, and The Interview was just released a few days ago on YouTube.
Out of sheer contrarian perversity, I did everything I could to avoid picking “Boyhood” as the year's best film. It has been lauded so much already; its hype, the increasingly heavy burden of awards-generated expectation, has turned into this gentle masterwork's worst enemy.
Just when you thought superhero movies were taking it easy after Thanksgiving, Warner Bros.