Marvel pulled off quite the feat this summer with three great superhero movies–starting with Thor, then X-Men: First Class and now Captain America: The First Avenger. Thankfully Captain America strikes the same notes as some of the other Marvel movies in that it has a lot of heart and soul. The story is valued over battle [...]
12Jun11
X-Men: First Class
After a disappointing X-Men: The Last Stand in 2006 its taken four years for the franchise to put itself back together again (I don’t count X-Men Origins: Wolverine as truly part of the franchise because of its limited scope). X-Men: First Class doesn’t live up to the high standard set by X2, but it is [...]
8May11
Thor
We haven’t been to the movies since we went to the documentary Making the Boys back in early March (and before that our last big studio release was The Eagle in early February). Thankfully our return to the multiplex was a good one. Thor was a thoroughly good time. It’s a superhero movie with heart [...]
Here’s a fun factoid from the JeffAndWill.com archives. I first blogged about Spider-Man Turn Off the Dark on February 24, 2009, which is the day the show was officially announced. At the time, previews were to begin at the Hilton Theatre (which has since undergone a name change to the Foxwoods Theatre) on January 16 2010 with [...]
9May10
Iron Man 2
The summer movies season is officially underway this weekend with the opening of Iron Man 2. The original Iron Man opened two years ago and it was good summer movie material (see what I wrote on that opening weekend) and the sequel is more of the same. This time Tony Stark has been protecting the world [...]
2May10
Kick-Ass
Checking out the IMDB entry on Kick-Ass I found exactly the words that sum up this movie as the title to one of the user reviews:”Spider-Man and Kill Bill had a baby and its head popped off!” This was one cool movie that mixed just enough teenage agnst with the desire everyone has to be [...]
16Oct09
Friday Geek Out: Teamo Supremo
Teamo Supremo was a Disney cartoon developed for ABC’s One Disney Saturday Morning cartoon block. It premiered in January 2002 and lived part of it’s live on ABC and had re-runs, along with a handful of originals on Toon Disney. In all, 39 episodes (with 75 stories) were aired. The show had a cool premise: [...]
