We now have our first trailer for Concussion starring Will Smith as the Nigerian forensic pathologist whose discovery of CTE exposed a dark truth the NFL had long kept hidden about the lasting effects of brain injuries on its former players. Alec Baldwin, Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Eddie Marsan, Luke Wilson, and David Morse also star.
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Believe it or not there was a time not so long ago where it wasn’t common to have super-heroes ruling the box office. Back in the day comic fans were lucky to get a comic movie every few years let alone multiple movies released all in the same summer. Long before Marvel Studios began building their Marvel Cinematic Universe and Christopher Nolan rebooted his Dark Knight super-heroes still found their way to the silver screen, albeit in smaller numbers. Imbued with a certain cheesy charm that today’s far gritter heroes might scoff at, these movies give us heroes in the true meaning of the word. Released between the period of 1940 and 1996, here are the Top Ten Super-Hero Movies (Before They Were Cool).
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Magneto is dead. Again. Despite being my favorite villain in the Marvel pantheon I somehow can’t get moved by the the X-Men’s greatest enemy, and sometimes friend, stepping in to save the world which he’s always viewed as lesser than himself and has always viewed him as little more than a monster.
I have spent my time avoiding Marvel’s new Secret Wars crossover and its tie-ins so I don’t really understand why the world is being destroyed, what exactly is destroying it, where the other heroes seem to be, or what Magneto actually does to save the world in an issue that reads an awful lot like a cheap rip-off of The Final Night. Still, I will admit I enjoyed the flashabacks to the character’s more flamboyant past (and his trademark red and blue costume).
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What happens when a young boy meets a robot from outer space? You can find out as Brad Bird’s 1999 animated feature The Iron Giant is returning to theaters with a pair of all-new scenes on two separate dates (September 30th and October 4th) as part of the Fathom Events series.
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After entering a crystal cave which fragments his personality into hundreds of aspects of him it falls to Sylvia to capture and reconstitute a single Wander (Jack McBrayer). “The Wanders” offers a nice moral as Sylvia (April Winchell) struggles with collecting all the various aspects of her friend, even those she finds annoying or the pieces that inevitably get her into trouble. Learning Wander isn’t whole without every aspect of his personality Sylvia manages to come to terms with even the most annoying aspect of her best friend. And it doesn’t hurt that watching Sylvia deal with extreme examples of Wander’s personality turns out to be quite amusing.
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