Month: April 2012

Crawl inside Joss Whedon’s head as he makes The Avengers

Posted April 13, 2012

It’s a sweltering day in June last year. Inside the rusting hulk of an abandoned train depot on the edge of downtown, The Avengers has turned the empty space into a New York City battlescape. Flames and smoke rise from heaps of rubble along a strip made to look like a Manhattan street. Smashed cars are wheeled around on forklifts, and guys in alien motion-capture suits strut in to rehearse an attack on Captain America. Scarlett Johansson has just finished a scene where wires swing her through the air, and Mark Ruffalo is in a far corner looking at digital […]

unseen judgement

unseen judgement

Posted April 13, 2012

For the record, I have not seen Cabin in the Woods. But I did read the script about 3 years ago (Jan. 30, 2009), so this post is based on that version of the script and the thoughts I wrote

The Angelina Jolie Gap

The Angelina Jolie Gap

Posted April 12, 2012

I came across an interesting phenomenon sometime last year. It actually was a bit of a surprise, but the more I talked to people about it, the more I discovered there’s this interesting gap when it comes to Angelina Jolie.

Event Horizon| Titanic

Event Horizon| Titanic

Posted April 6, 2012

Kate Winslet in a photo full of glamour and history and she looks oddly alone.

Titanic is such a modern day classic and I loved it so much when it was in theaters (still do) but

Joss Whedon| Cabin in the Woods Q&A

Joss Whedon| Cabin in the Woods Q&A

Posted April 5, 2012

Collider: I was curious if you could talk about your writing process. A lot of writers I’ve talked to have a golden period where they’ll write when they wake up in the morning for three or four hours, and then they sort of burn out and do other things. Could you sort of talk about your process?JOSS WHEDON: You know, I always was an early morning or late night writer. Early morning was my favorite; late night was because you had a deadline. And at four in the morning you make up some of your most absurd jokes. I feel […]

A lesson in trailers

A lesson in trailers

Posted April 4, 2012

I’ve posted on what makes a good trailer before, and that hasn’t really changed. But with the 3D release of Titanic, Salon has taken the time to look at the evolution of trailers in the past 20 years with Titanic

Joss Whedon| Avengers Set Interview

Posted April 2, 2012

Question: So everyone that we have spoken with has been talking about how great the script is.Joss Whedon: And now it’s my turn. Even Downey has said it’s not tinkering, or maybe not tinkering much.There’s not tinkering and then there’s “not tinkering.” Yeah, no everybody seems to be on board. I’m still working on it. I hope to finish it sometime before the DVD release. (Laughs) It’s been very fluid, but it always is with a movie anyway and especially a movie where the perspective changes nine times every scene. I swore I would never make Serenity again and here […]