That awkward moment when a character who said only three (well okay, five, technically) words throughout the entirety of the film had way more character development than any character in Man of Steel. This is the power of the Marvel creative team at this particular juncture in history.

Guardians of the Galaxy is ostentatious, outrageous, silly, irreverent, and altogether self aware. Where the previous Marvel film this year was a very serious affair with a few funny moments, this film is the polar opposite — a very funny affair with a few serious moments.

The Galaxy?

I’m not sure this film…

On the heels of Kodak’s decision to continue its production of film stock after finalizing a deal with major Hollywood studios just last week, the venerable Martin Scorsese issued a heartfelt statement in support of the move, writing: “This news is a positive step towards preserving film, the art form we love.”

As the Chair of The Film Foundation, Scorsese recognizes the advantages of HD and the realities of modern movie-making while still enthusiastically embracing the importance of film, not only as a “building block” of the art form but also as something that continues to inform the…

Disney’s Alice In Wonderland: Through the Looking Glass begins principal photography this week, featuring an award-winning production team and all-star ensemble cast, including Johnny Depp, Anne Hathaway, Mia Wasikowska, Helena Bonham Carter and Sacha Baron Cohen. James Bobin (The Muppets, Muppets Most Wanted) helms the film, which revisits Lewis Carroll’s beloved stories with an all-new new tale that travels back to Underland - and back in Time.

Well, I suppose I should make the time to see Tim Burton’s 2011 Alice in Wonderland. The trouble for me was that I hated the classic animated…

Disney has launched a new Muppet series straight to the interwebz. It’s not as good as the movies or anything, but it’s kind of fun I guess. Drew Taylor over at The Playlist has a pretty skeptical view if you’re more interested in that sort of take. I tend to look at it more as embracing the internet as a distribution medium. I could be wrong, and it’s not like Muppets Most Wanted did really, really well or anything. In fact, it only made $78 million world wide on a budget of $50 million. That’s quite a bit less than the 2011 film and it’s not great at all. So it’s not too much of a stretch…

As Big Two superheroes go, the Guardians of the Galaxy are a pretty obscure bunch. So much so, even the trailers for the movie poke fun at that fact. Still, you’d think they’d be pretty well known now, what with a $100+ million budget and the power of the Marvel Studios marketing machine to back them up.

And yet, that didn’t stop a few cinemas from getting these Guardians mixed up with a different ragtag group of world-saving Guardians. According to reports, some theatergoers bought tickets to Guardians of the Galaxy last night… only to be treated to a screening of Rise of the…