Film Review: The Avengers

Joss Whedon’s The Avengers could have gone either way. It either could have been a complete disaster, or, a hell of a lot of fun. I’m pleased to report that The Avengers is a resounding success. The film opens with Thor’s brother, Loki, arriving on earth via the Tesseract (a crazy energy cube being researched …

The Unseen: Brenda Starr

Editor’s note: The Unseen is a somewhat regular column, looking at movies that are out of print, never released on DVD and otherwise hard to find. In the 1990s, filmmakers seemed obsessed with taking old school children’s entertainment, updating it to film, and releasing it on an unsuspecting public, believing that parents would take their …

Tobey Maguire to Produce ‘Afterburn’

Tobey Maguire will be producing ‘Afterburn.” The property, based on the post-Apocalyptic comic from Red 5, it is one year after a solar flare burned half the planet, and treasure hunters are venturing into scorched territory to retrieve artifacts. No word if Tobey will act in the film, it sounds like a fun sci-fi project, …