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Heavy Metal Marvel: THE IRON MAN TRILOGY

For most super hero movie geeks, Jon Favreau’s big screen adaptation of Iron Man (2008) basically blew most other films in that subgenre out of the water. While I loved Christopher Nolan’s Dark Knight films, I’m still a Marvel devotee first. From a young age Spider Man was my favorite super hero. I really enjoyed Sam Raimi’s films and thought they did a great job bringing the character to the [read...]

Judge, Jury and Executioner: DREDD 3D

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Ever since Dredd 3D premiered at the July San Diego Comic Con, surprisingly positive word of mouth has been spreading through the internet faster than SLO-MO inhalers across Mega-City One, something that is very shocking because action films released in September tend to be pretty lousy. Infinitely better than it has any right to be, Dredd 3D is a lean and mean superhero exercise that is both thoughtfully constructed by [read...]

Exit The Dark Knight: Another take on The Batman Trilogy

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First I have to say that I am not a big fan of the title. We had The Dark Knight, and now The Dark Knight Rises. That sounds like there are only two of them, seeing as the first movie didn’t have Dark Knight in the title. People call this the “The Dark Knight Trilogy”, but that is just inaccurate. I will start with a quick word about the first [read...]

Out Of The Black Into The Blue: An Appreciation of The Dark Knight Trilogy

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BEWARE OF BAT-SPOILERS!!! INTRODUCTION: I grew up on Batman beginning with reading the comics and graphic novels (my favorites of those being The Dark Knight Returns, Son of Demon and The Killing Joke). At a young age I also watched reruns of the 1960s TV series which starred Adam West as Bruce Wayne/Batman and Burt Ward as his faithful ward/sidekick Dick Grayson/Robin. That show was the definition of the word [read...]

CineFusion Weekly: 2012 San Diego Comic Con Edition

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We’re back with another mad as hell edition of CineFusion, FC’s own weekly in-blog newsletter that we’re using to compile some of the cool film related things (past, present and future) that give us pleasure. This week’s furious highlights includes images from the geekiest event known to man: the San Diego Comic Con! FROM THE TARANTINO ARCHIVES: The cast of Django Unchained along with QT were at the SDCC to [read...]

Earth’s Mighty Shield: THE AVENGERS

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THIS REVIEW CONTAINS SPOILERS!!! INTRODUCTION Lets face it, super hero movies are some of the most difficult types to pull off with completely satisfying results. Its ALWAYS about the good guys vs. the bad guys. What filmmakers must do is find something fresh and interesting within that rigid structure. There have been a few in the genre that geeks will usually pick out as examples that stand above the rest [read...]

REEL FURY: Trailer 3 – The Dark Knight Rises

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In our latest edition of CineFusion Weekly we posted some info on the Batman viral campaign not knowing that we’d actually get to see the final trailer early for one of the most anticipated films of the summer. I may be a Marvel Films/Avengers supporter before DC, but when it comes to Chris Nolan’s Batman, I’m equally a fanboy. Right now my excitement is even greater because The Dark Knight [read...]

BLU FURY: Darkman

BLU FURY: Darkman

After directing the low budget cult classics Evil Dead 1 and 2, Director Sam Raimi signed on to make his first big studio feature. It was a film based on a short story he wrote that paid tribute to some of his favorite Universal horror films such as The Invisible Man and Frankenstein. Darkman was a blending of the crime, horror, comedy and super hero genres that exploded onto the [read...]

REEL FURY: Marvel unleashes the most furious trailer yet for THE AVENGERS

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It’s pretty obvious to see that The Avengers is going to be one of the geekiest movie events of the year. It will finally bring together some of the most powerful super heroes in the Marvel Universe including Iron Man, Captain America, Thor and The Hulk who will also be joined by SHIELD agents Hawkeye, Black Widow and that eye patch wearing badass: Nick Fury! The group will be facing [read...]

REEL FURY: Bane is mad as hell in The Dark Knight Rises

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The wait is over! After all the cruddy bootlegs that we scrambled to see this past week, Apple Itunes has finally released the brand new full trailer for one of our most anticipated films of 2012. The grand Bat-tastic finale of Christopher Nolan’s superb Dark Knight Trilogy!! Get ready to see The Caped Crusader battle one of his most lethal foes yet. The masked terrorist known as Bane who will [read...]