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Established, female, standalone Marvel characters

by Sonny Bunch on July 3, 2012

Can you think of many? I ask in response to this: It’s telling that we live in a world where Marvel will dig into the weirdness of its back catalogue before making a movie or a television series about one of its recognizable, established female heroes… I mean, I’m on record as thinking the Guardians of […]

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Some scattered thoughts on “The Avengers”

by Sonny Bunch on May 7, 2012

Spoiler-free (mostly) until the jump; after that you’re on your own. First—and perhaps most importantly—I enjoyed it a great deal. It’s an extremely fun picture with a surprising amount of humor and the perfect smattering of whiz-bang, yippie-ki-yay action sequences. I highly recommend it. I (begrudgingly) saw it in 3D; it was fine. The only […]

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Jailhouse Art Teacher: Very interesting, Charlie. Charles Bronson: Interesting? JAT: Yeah, it’s interesting. CB: And what does that mean? JAT: Interesting’s good! Bravado! You know? Yeah, you can’t pin it down. You can’t tie that up in a nice little bow. —Bronson, 2008 Bernie: I used to produce movies. In the 80s. Kind of like […]

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Taking a second look at “Sucker Punch”

by Sonny Bunch on December 21, 2011

I didn’t see enough movies this year to put together a proper Top Ten list, unfortunately. But I did want to talk about one flick that came and went without too much notice earlier in the year that would have gotten consideration for such a list, should I have made one: Sucker Punch. (As this […]

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