Here’s the thing: I was entertained by “Man Of Steel.” I didn’t love the reboot of the Superman franchise, but I didn’t feel like I wasted the last 143 minutes of my life when I left the theater, either. I remain decidedly lukewarm on the entire experience. It’s worth noting, though, that the real obstacle [...]

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The Kickstarter fundraising campaign for “Video Games: The Movie” already has enough to fund the project (and then some), but just as the money started rolling in, I had a nice chat with the film’s director, Jeremy Snead. I was curious about how he approached such an ambitious project, since the scope of this documentary [...]

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In advance of this week’s big “Man Of Steel” premiere (my review should be published soon), I interviewed producer Chuck Roven about Superman and the process of rebooting one of the world’s most famous big-screen superheroes. We also talked a bit about some other films he’s producing, including “Warcraft” and “Uncharted,” based on the popular [...]

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“Iron Man 3” is well on its way to becoming one of the biggest movies of all time, so I jumped at the chance to chat with Marvel Studios’ Vice President of Visual Effects, Victoria Alonso, about some of the cool sequences in the movie last week. Now that most of the world has already [...]

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Along with all of my other coverage of “G.I. Joe: Retaliation” last week, I had a nice interview with Jon Chu, the movie’s director. We spent a lot of time talking about his history with G.I. Joe, as well as how he approached the movie from a director’s perspective, since it feels significantly different from [...]

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Last week, I spoke to the “Olympus Has Fallen” writers, director, and cast about the White House siege that unfolds early in the film. It struck me as being a very realistic, plausible sequence, but I wondered exactly how plausible it really was. Apparently, the series of events that leads to the White House takeover [...]

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I got an early look at “G.I. Joe: Retaliation,” the sequel to 2009′s so-bad-I-wish-it-was-forgettable “G.I. Joe: the Rise of Cobra,” and really enjoyed this second adventure with the live-action G.I. Joe team. Of course, that could be because director Jon Chu and the film’s writers go out of their way to literally blow up all [...]

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