Kick Ass

A Sequel To 'Kick-Ass'?

Posted 05.08.2012

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The costumed superheroes of 2010 comedy 'Kick-Ass' may soon be suiting up to .. kick ass again. Deadline.com reports that Universal Pictures, which di...

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What If All The Comic Villains Went To Europe?

The Huffington Post | Mallika Rao | Posted 03.20.2012

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Scottish writer Mark Millar might be the Nicholas Sparks of the comic world, but at least his book-to-movie machine is spitting out some fun movies. A...

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Movie Review: Texas Killing Fields

Marshall Fine | Posted 12.17.2011

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Marshall Fine

This is one of those thrillers that relies on the unreliability of cell phones for suspense. It also layers on a testy relationship between a pair of divorced cops (Worthington and the ever-present Jessica Chastain) who are forced to work together.

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Jordan Zakarin

The Biggest Little Badass In Hollywood

HuffingtonPost.com | Jordan Zakarin | Posted 12.14.2011

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Chloë Moretz is at an age where most girls are sending texts by the hundreds, screaming for a glimpse of Justin Bieber and getting anxious about high...

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McLovin Was A 'Predator'?

Posted 10.19.2011

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In the new 3D vampire flick "Fright Night," Christopher Mintz-Plasse (aka McLovin for you "Superbad" fans) plays a teen on the hunt to catch a blood-s...

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HuffPost Review: Griff the Invisible

Marshall Fine | Posted 10.16.2011

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Marshall Fine

The less said about Griff the Invisible, the better. This wan, fey little Australian film stretches the notion of quirkiness far past the snapping point -- though the film itself has very little in the way of snap.

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Curtains for 3D, Comic-Con?

Marshall Fine | Posted 08.17.2011

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Marshall Fine

Talk about mixed signals. First the New York Times runs a story about how the studios are losing faith in 3D as a money-maker. Which is good news -- ...

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Which Book Adaptation Attracted The Most Complaints In 2010?

guardian.co.uk | Ben Child | Posted 08.14.2011

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Peter Jackson's The Lovely Bones was last year's most complained about movie, according to the British Board of Film Classification, the body which cl...

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Movie Review: Hanna

Marshall Fine | Posted 06.06.2011

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Marshall Fine

Hanna and her father live in a cabin near the Arctic Circle -- but their time there is about to come to an end. He's training her for a mission: to find her way to a certain address in Munich.

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HuffPost Review: Super

Marshall Fine | Posted 05.29.2011

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Marshall Fine

If the description of Super sounds a lot like last year's Kick-Ass, well, it's essentially the same movie, with a slightly different sensibility. Kic...

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Comic-Con effect ripples through the culture

Marshall Fine | Posted 05.25.2011

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Marshall Fine

I didn't see a commercial for The Green Lantern during the Super Bowl a couple of weeks ago. Perhaps I wasn't paying close enough attention. But I sa...

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DVDs: Aaron Johnson Kicks Ass in Nowhere Boy

Michael Giltz | Posted 05.25.2011

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Michael Giltz

It's a pretty dreadful idea: a biopic about John Lennon as a teenager. But the result -- Nowhere Boy -- is pretty darn good, if flawed.

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2010 in Review: The Underrated

Scott Mendelson | Posted 05.25.2011

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Scott Mendelson

Let us continue our look back at the year in film with a token acknowledgement of ten films that were not quite as bad as their critical reputations. For the record, not all of them are good pictures, but none are pure failures, either.

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Insanity over obscenity

Marshall Fine | Posted 05.25.2011

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Marshall Fine

You could get whiplash understanding the way we deal with, shall we say, the coarseness of public discourse. On the one hand, you've got an exception...

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Movie Review: Let Me In

Marshall Fine | Posted 05.25.2011

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Marshall Fine

American remakes of foreign films? That would be a 'no' vote. Having said that, I can heartily recommend Let Me In, the moody, touching American remake of the Swedish vampire film, Let the Right One In, from 2008.

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DVDs: A Prophet the Next Godfather? Yep, it's That Good

Michael Giltz | Posted 05.25.2011

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Michael Giltz

A Prophet is a masterpiece. Obviously, it won't have the same cultural impact as The Godfather, but both are nuanced, emotionally gripping, and above all, wildly entertaining.

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For You To Succeed, Must Someone Else Fail?

Michael Sigman | Posted 11.17.2011

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Michael Sigman

"You have to know when to kick ass and when to kiss ass." That Tweetable maxim was Leonard Stern's principal advice to me during the six years I wor...

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Cinefantastique Horror, Fantasy & Science Fiction Podcast V1:N10 -- Kick-Ass

Dan Persons | Posted 05.25.2011

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Dan Persons

Cinefantastique's Horror, Fantasy & Science Fiction Podcast returns with a blow-by-blow knock-down debate regarding the merits (or lack thereof) in th...

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Enough of comic-book movies

Marshall Fine | Posted 05.25.2011

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Marshall Fine

There are a lot of elements of modern cinema on which I'd like to see a moratorium declared. Let's start with remakes - particularly remakes of reall...

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Forest for the Trees: How Some Critics Missed the Complexity of Hit Girl

Scott Mendelson | Posted 05.25.2011

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Scott Mendelson

We all say we want empowering female characters who can play in the action sandbox. Yet we collectively cringe when said female heroes receive the same kind of brutal violence that is visited upon male action heroes.

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Why Kick-Ass Kicked Ass As A Film, But Did Not At The Box Office

Steve Marmel | Posted 05.25.2011

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Steve Marmel

Hey. You. Dude in your 20s, 30s, or 40s. You, who wanted to see Kick-ass but didn't... I saw it, and I feel for you. Me? I'm "that guy." The...

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When Unrealistic Expectations Attack: Kick-Ass Opens to $19 Million Debut Weekend

Scott Mendelson | Posted 05.25.2011

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Scott Mendelson

To the surprise of many who obviously had no idea how the movie business works, Kick-Ass did not in fact set the movie-going world on fire this weekend.

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The Dangers of Being a Costumed Hero Revealed in Kick-Ass

Brad Balfour | Posted 05.25.2011

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Brad Balfour

Finally, an honest costumed crime fighter film. None of that smarmy "hey aren't we smarter than the fans" shit or this "Above it all NYTimes crit stuff" -- this is a comic book fan's movie, one for those who used to draw their own stories in grade school.

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Today's Front Pages: April 16th

Posted 05.25.2011

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Iceland's volcanic ash is delaying flights across Europe and making headlines here. The Yankees game in which Robinson Cano hit two home runs also m...

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The Politics of Hit Girl

Melissa Silverstein | Posted 05.25.2011

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Melissa Silverstein

No one would finance a film with an 11-year-old killer girl. Those movies are just not made in Hollywood.

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