By Rachel Cannon |Chronicle Blogger| For these past few weeks, all anyone seems to be talking about is "The Avengers," the new Marvel film that is breaking box office records left and right. Although I'm not a comic book aficionado myself, I've definitely been struck by the overwhelming positive response to this movie. It seems that most comic book films incite fan outrage by purists who find all sorts of gripes and details in which the movie failed to come through in a way that was true to their own visions or what they perceived to be the visions of the comic artists themselves. Not so for this film: I've heard scarcely a negative word about it at all. I admit I haven't seen it … [Read more...] about Jane Says: Movie Poster Inherent Sexism
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“The Avengers” is a Marvel of a movie
By Carmen Herrera|Asst. A&E Editor| Marvel's new super-film, "The Avengers," is everything every comic book fanboy could've hoped for and more. Following the five films released since 2008 about each respective hero, "The Avengers" finds the six legendary heroes colliding for the first time in this non-stop action packed comic book epic. The director of SHIELD (a military law enforcement agency), Nick Fury (Samuel L. Jackson), launches the Avengers Initiative after the evil Norse god Loki (Tom Hiddleston) steals the Tesseract, an energy source with limitless potential that opens the portal through Earth, and plans to destroy it. Following a few battles within themselves, Fury … [Read more...] about “The Avengers” is a Marvel of a movie
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