The Mary Sue: You worked with Eric Bana in Hanna and he played the Hulk for Marvel. There was a rumor going around you’re Joss Whedon’s “prototype” for the character Scarlet Witch in The Avengers sequel. Did you hear anything about that and second, would you be interested in doing a superhero film ever?

Ronan: I have heard about it and yes, I would. Yeah, of course I would. I love Joss and I love those films, and I love his handle on them and how he portrayed these kinds of superheroes. I think it’s very different from what anyone else has done. So yeah, I’d love to be in it.”

The Mary…

“I think it would be really interesting with the age-old Batman/Superman conflict,” Cavill told SFX, “because they are two different sides of the same coin and their methods are entirely different. And I think it would actually make for an interesting story as to why, first of all, they were going head to head and how. I think that would make a great story.”

When asked if this is actually a possibility, Cavill replied:

“Who knows, I’m sure there’s all sorts of ideas being thrown around at Warner Bros right now.”

It “could” be interesting, and I’m given to understand that in…

But, let’s back up a second. Why exactly is she in her underwear? She tells Kirk to turn around, doesn’t mention why (were we expecting here to require a change of wardrobe?) and then acts coy when Kirk sneaks a peak at her half-dressed body. The scene was flat out gratuitous. It had no point. There was no reason for her to change clothes. There was no reason for her to change in front of Kirk. There was no reason for her to change in a shuttlecraft with the back door hanging wide open. The writers threw the scene in for pure, testosterone-driven shock value. (Side note: lucky she was…

On the podcast last night (find the episode here) where Joe and I talked with Anthony Pascale about Star Trek Into Darkness got me to thinking about this so I wanted to write a bit more about it.

Star Trek Into Undies

There is a scene you may remember from the more recent trailers, and the same scene is of course in the movie, which features the beautiful Alice Eve. If you came here to see pictures, I’m sorry. I am not going to exploit Alice Eve in the same way Star Trek did.

Alice Eve is beautiful and attractive under any ordinary circumstances, but in the scene in question, she is…

Hey, GLaDOS is still in the film! Frankly it’s just a bit weird and menacing. Maybe that’s the point, but somehow it’s too weird.

But that aside, I’m having a really hard time getting interested in this film at all. Is it just me? It looks like a great big action fest with not a lot of plot. I’m not seeing a lot of info, material, or promos for who these people are and why we care about them. It’s all about the tech, the mind melding, the big stinkin’ robots, blah blah blah.

I know I have a hard time letting my feelings out and all but I’m trying to telegraph something here for…

Hey, look, it’s a movie about the Byzantium Empire…

Oh, wait, sorry. That’s not what this is. This is a movie about vampires, because we haven’t had enough of that craze lately. Don’t get me wrong, I’ve enjoyed my share of vampire lore — I really enjoyed Buffy and Angel, and to a lesser extent (quite a bit lesser extent), The Twilight Saga. I know this has been a matter of contention with me from some of my loyal readers and all, but in any event, I’m ready for the vampire obsession to be over. We had our fun, now let’s stop beating this thing to death.

But apparently that’s not going…

So far we’ve had plenty of reasons to look forward to seeing the Bluths get back together for Season 4 of Arrested Development. But now it turns out that the long-awaited reunion wasn’t actually much of a reunion at all.

Due to scheduling issues, Mitch Hurwitz admits, some scenes featuring multiple characters were actually shot at totally different times, with the actors’ performances edited together in post-production. The entire cast was only on set together for a total of two days. We won’t know until the new episodes hit this weekend how that method actually worked out for them, but…

So just what is it that makes a good Star Trek film? I’m sure I don’t fully and completely understand the magic that makes any film a really good film, but I will say that most of it is wrapped up in Star Trek Into Darkness. Not only is it a good Star Trek film, but it’s a good film. For me, this is a turn around from J.J. Abrams’ 2009 installment, simply titled Star Trek. I did not feel that film was a good film, nor did I feel that it was a good Star Trek film.

A word about Spoilers

You should be forewarned that I cannot write this review without spoilers. I simply cannot. If you have…

Okay, so maybe the 3^rd trailer wasn’t the final one.

As I have said before, I expect this film to be fun, if somewhat lacking in the story department, and full of Johnny Depp humor. Even though this film is called The Lone Ranger and Depp is not playing The Lone Ranger, but Tonto, he still gets first billing. I wonder why that is? Oh, right, because this film is just another vehicle for the delivery of Depp’s unique style. This looks like Johnny Depp playing Captain Jack Sparrow, playing an indian named Tonto.

Yet, I expect to enjoy it for that very reason, even if I don’t expect the…