Archive for tag: action movies

Marvel Studios President talks Iron Man 2 Alternate Opening

September 23, 2010 2:02 pm College Life, Entertainment, geeks and gamers, movies and celebrities

You would think since I was chatting with the Kevin Feige, President of Marvel Studios, I would offer my film resume in hopes of landing an ideal job with Marvel Studios. But it is not a blogging matter. It’s a profound, incredibly unfair advantage backed by almost 70 years of Marvel comic book material. “All [...]

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Aliens in Film

September 10, 2010 10:40 am College Life, Entertainment, geeks and gamers, movies and celebrities

How many films have been made with extraterrestrials? A lot. Since 1902, over 291 of these movies have been made in the U.S. and abroad. These movie aliens provide an amusing look into how we view foreigners, the government, and ourselves. This infographic compiles every movie ever made about extraterrestrials (for space sake, some foreign [...]

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2010 Summer Movie Season Recap

August 24, 2010 10:53 am College Life, Entertainment, geeks and gamers

The end of the 2010 Summer Blockbuster Season is fast approaching and the time has come tolook back and meditate on Hollywood’s most recent offering of entertainment meant to amuse the masses during the hottest portion of the year (in the Western Hemisphere, that is).What better way to commemorate this event than with a “Best of” list celebrating the highs and lows in cinema released over the past few months?

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15 Action Movies to Get You Ready For The Expendables

July 20, 2010 3:03 pm College Life, Entertainment, geeks and gamers

Ah, the Eighties was a time of real men, real violence, and real action. No decade since has done real action. And The Expendables, hitting theaters on August 13 like a calloused fist of pure gristle, may be the closest we get to the Eighties at the cinema. Now, to get you ready for the explosion of testosterone and napalm this film promises to be, we have assembled our list of the 15 baddest action films of the Eighties.

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5 Great Upcoming Summer Movies

July 16, 2010 1:55 pm College Life, Entertainment

This summer movie season has been fraught with failure. With movies like Robin Hood not delivering what we’d hoped, a live action Marmaduke movie with George Lopez and a billion 3D CG Animation children’s movies, there has been a lot (at least for me) of disappointment in the summer movie season. Sex and the City 2 and Eclipse were honestly the best we could offer?

While there have been some obvious exceptions (Iron Man 2 and Toy Story 3 come to mind) and some surprise hits (Despicable Me and Cyrus) most movies this summer have let us down. Fortunately, things are starting to look up in the Dog Days of Summer. Here are 5 of the best movies that are yet to come.

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