Even if you’ve already seen “The Avengers” a thousand times by now, here’s a reason to push that tally to 1,001: the Joss Whedon commentary track.

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Whedon has a thing for knocking Norse guys out of the frame. “It’s always fun to do that,” he confessed, regarding Thor and Loki’s propensity for getting spontaneously slammed out of scenes.

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The director is also extremely proud of how Hulk manhandles Loki at the film’s climax. “If I did nothing else for the last two years, if I literally sat on my bum doing nothing, and I made that little scene? I would feel that I had…

This is simply awesome! Though I must admit that there’s something a little bit off about the pacing of the cuts, things don’t seem to have the snap and pizzaz that the Buffy credits did, this is still really fun to watch and think about how a TV show of The Avengers would work with Whedon at the helm.

Actually, now that I think about it… YES PLEASE!

With Fringe being Fringe – that is, a sci-fi drama that has proven over and over again that everything is possible — showrunner J.H. Wyman has at his disposal, entering the final season, any number of super-cool storytelling devices in his toolbox.

Yet what he most wants to play with is the characters’ — and thus viewers’ — emotions, as the Fox series unspools its last13 episodes.

“I realized this is not a season for tricks and multiple universes, new introductions of things,” Wyman tells TVLine. “So I had to do some soul-searching and say, ‘What would I like? What would I want,…

Today we have 18 new high resolution photos from director Rian Johnson‘s latest science-fiction thriller movie Looper, starring Bruce Willis, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Emily Blunt, Piper Perabo, Paul Dano, and Jeff Daniels.

In the film, time travel will be invented – but it will be illegal and only available on the black market. When the mob wants to get rid of someone, they will send their target 30 years into the past, where a “Looper” – a hired gun, like Joe (Gordon-Levitt) – is waiting to mop up. Joe is getting rich and life is good… until the day the mob decides to “close the loop,”…

‘X-Men’ fans revolted when our beloved Professor X was obliterated in front of our eyes by the Phoenix in ‘X-Men: The Last Stand.’ Although 20th Century Fox is entitled to completely change the comic book story line, the way in which Xavier met his end was unbecoming of his legacy.

Agreed. But must we really be reminded of that wretched third film that so completely ruined the franchise?

However, there’s been some talk as of late suggesting that we haven’t seen the last of Sir Patrick Stewart as Professor Charles Xavier in the ‘X-Men‘ franchise just yet. And now, we know for sure…

Looking for more news from ‘The Hobbit’? Well we have you covered. This past Thursday, Peter Jackson released a new poster on his Facebook page featuring dwarves. Lots and lots of dwarves. Specifically, 13 dwarves.

This really brings a little gravitas and sense of weightiness to the upcoming film that I didn’t fell before…

A little humor for your weekend.

Since this seems to be the week of The Avengers on MovieByte, we’ll share with you Screenjunkies’ Honest Trailer for The Avengers. I’m not so far gone in my love for this film that I can’t get some great laughs out of this one.

Please do be aware that as with much humor of this type on the Internet, there is some mildly inappropriate humor towards the end.

Enjoy.

If you don’t mind a little crass humor, the Honest Trailers series from Screenjunkies is pretty awesome. You will find yourself laughing along even if you love the film they’re making fun…

Today is announcement day

We have run the course of the active contest, and the winner has been selected to get a Blu-ray edition of the newly released Avengers film!

The Winner is…

Our very own Random-bot chose a name out of the machine, and that lucky winner is:

Karen Che

Karen, you know what you are? You’re special! You are awesome because you like The Avengers nearly as much as TJ. Like you said in your comment on the contest entry:

I’d love to win The Avengers on Blu-Ray because this is my new favorite ensemble superhero flick! The cohesion between character stories is…

TJ and Joseph before and after Episode 11 of The MovieByte Podcast. They discuss and trouble shoot their Google Docs and Google Drive issues, cleaning clicky keyboards with water and how that kills the ‘J’ key, the show outline, setting up Jospeh’s new computer to post on MovieByte, deciding what to talk about next week, they settle on ‘Looper’ and ‘Trouble with the Curve’, moving recording day to Wednesday, iCloud calendar sharing, iCal/Calendars app on Mac OS X, ‘Fire with Fire’, Bruce Willis in action films, ‘The Master’, TJ’s canoe trip, people discovering the After Dark, More Avengers stuff, the podcast art, and probably more.