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What? No mention of IRON MAN?!
May 2, 2008: IRON MAN hits the big screen. The first movie entirely produced and financed by Marvel, following their big financial deal last year (basically playing off all the success of X-Men and Spider-Man). Robert Downey, Jr.... Gwyneth Paltrow.... Terrence Howard... Jeff Bridges... Samuel Jackson...! Directed by Jon Favreau. Finally-- a ...
Posted to Summer Movies by vplexico on June 28, 2007
Missing something? (Once upon a time...)
This isn't a consideration of Leone, it's a lame-assed review of a nex box set DVD. It ignores the one Leone movie which transcended genre, ''Once Upon a Time in the West'', and glorifies the pulp. The achievement of the Dollars movies was that they trained Clint Eastwood in the use of his own iconography. Other than that they were bubble gum ...
Posted to Summer Movies by Powers on June 27, 2007
Achilles, Patroclus and Hector
After reading The Iliad, which has to be the spiritual predecessor to the action movie (at least in tone and content, not to mention its depiction of relationships between soldiers) it seems entirely possible for a work of art to be both homoerotic and, like, totally awesome, man. The relationship between Achilles and Patroclus is often ...
Posted to Summer Movies by Systemz on June 27, 2007