Category Archives: film

Spidey Joins The MCU (Marvel Cinematic Universe)!

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Okay, big news, but no real surprise here. Real wheeling-dealing!

(I feel bad for the “Amazing Spider-Man” folks, since I guess it means that it’s all over for them, their coming plotlines, sequels, spinoffs, etc. The other losers–for a while–are hardcore fans of “Black Panther,” which now has been moved to 2018. Really, all the movies have been moved back one slot.)

This means he can join the coming “Civil War” movie adaptation (where, in the comics, he unmasks) and basically be in everybody’s movie, like Black Widow.

It’s A Superhero World, Vol. 4

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Arrow

Okay, The Atom.

 

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And now we know the membership of TV’s Teen Titans.

 

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WOW! But I guess it is time, after 50 years!

 

And, speaking of Marvel:

Okay, Marvel is going with Ultimate Fantastic Four. (After all, the movie Avengers is Ultimate Avengers, so…) I read it, and didn’t hate it. So we’ll see if I like it, even if it’s not my Fantastic Four.

 

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Crossover?!? YES!!!! I’m still excited! Less than four months to go!

 

Carter

Lotta geek buzz for “Agent Carter!” I try to catch glimpses of it when I’m home.

Enjoyed seeing The Howling Commandos!

FEBRUARY 8th UPDATE:

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Diggle as the John Stewart Green Lantern one day?!? It’s one of those ideas that I hate on paper, but I admit I wanna see it! LOL!

It’s A Superhero World, Vol. 3

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Atom on one side (played by a former Superman)

and Ant-Man on the other.

 Daredevil

Daredevil on TV, from the beginning, and Luke Cage named.

“Marvel’s Agents of SHIELD” keeping folks guessing (as is my other Tuesday night favorite, “The Flash”), while the “new” “Fantastic Four,”…..well, I don’t know what to say about that yet.

An upcoming “Lego Batman” movie.

Even a radio show starring Cap on “Agent Carter.”

Superhero crossovers now becoming a new television tradition, while “Gotham” settles into praise and criticism.

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Then there’s the new “Avengers: Age of Ultron” trailer, below:

And here’s the original trailer, but in Legos! LOL!

(Will Dr. Stephen Strange make a cameo in “Ultron?”)

(More on “Flash.”)

Female superheroes are finally about to get their film due. (And one on the Web. And women creators, in film.)

And finally, are comics (continuing the) re-writing (of) themselves to match the movies? Has it really gotten to this point?

TOO MUCH TO FOLLOW!

With All The Talk About “Selma”…………

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…..I thought it was time to get out of mothballs the 1978 “King” miniseries, produced and aired on NBC (as a counter to ABC’s “Roots” the year before?).

Very accurate in some aspects concerning King’s life, but LOTS of composite Movement characters, substituting for Jesse Jackson, Bayard Rustin, A. Philip Randolph, C.T. Vivian, Selma, Alabama Sheriff Jim Clark and others. (Ramsey Clark, Julian Bond and Tony Bennett [!] portray themselves. Maynard Jackson, the mayor of Atlanta, played a subsitute of Whitney Young, and Yolanda King played Rosa Parks.) And Malcolm X makes a cameo in 1966 (!) as a substitute for Stokely Carmichael. Between this and “Selma,” filmmakers seem to have a problem with Stokely (Kwame)–so much so that even Malcolm X is preferable.

My Favorite Documentary, “James Baldwin: The Price Of The Ticket,” Celebrates Its 25th Anniversary

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I never thought the intellectual and professional content of my life could be symbolically defined by the content of one feature film documentary, but the one celebrated above (and promoted directly below) comes dangerously close. It is the documentary that made me me.

(I’m glad that the moderator and guest remembered Black documentary legend William Miles, now an Ancestor, who was a co-producer of this masterwork.)

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FEBRUARY 7th UPDATE: Happy to discover this. I love it when Baraka said that Baldwin “threatened Western Civilization with divinity,” and when he quoted from “The Evidence of Things Not Seen.” I was also happy to see that the effort Herb mentioned to get a New York City street named after James Baldwin was ultimately successful.