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Joss Whedon’s ‘​Avengers: Age of Ultron’ Ages Well

Joss Whedon’s ‘​Avengers: Age of Ultron’ Ages Well

Joss Whedon defied expectations with his ambitiously muted, psychological approach to Avengers: Age of Ultron but despite his best intentions and genuinely interesting vision, this would be his only effort with Marvel Studios. It was a good effort.

Joss Whedon’s ‘The Avengers’ Blasts Away All Other Comic Book Films

Joss Whedon’s ‘The Avengers’ Blasts Away All Other Comic Book Films

By perfecting the comic book superhero formula and creating the first big-budget shared universe with The Avengers in 2012, Joss Whedon and Marvel Studios came to define this decade of blockbuster filmmaking.

Fun Finish Can’t Save the Day for ‘Justice League’

Fun Finish Can’t Save the Day for ‘Justice League’

The delightfully cheesy and entertaining conclusion to Zack Snyder's superhero opus makes the rest of this listless, disjointed film all the more infuriating.

Deconstructing the Avengers: Bad Robot! Language Co-Opted

Deconstructing the Avengers: Bad Robot! Language Co-Opted

Like Joss Whedon himself, Ultron refuses to play fair: The bad robot in this film does not stand for the “shit” at all.
Deconstructing the Avengers: Language Transcended … Almost

Deconstructing the Avengers: Language Transcended … Almost

Black Widow’s reputation for cajolery, subterfuge, coaxing, and subtle persuasion endow her with a silver tongue that almost transcends Hulk’s chaos and unbridled, unreasoning emotion.
Deconstructing the Avengers: Good and Bad Language

Deconstructing the Avengers: Good and Bad Language

From the very outset Age of Ultron was weighed down by a lot of artistic, cultural, and commercial expectations: You don't take care of this particular problem by adding more weight.

Cars That Will Kill You, An ‘Avengers: Age of Ultron’ Triptych Finalé

Is Black Widow Still a Hero? Dissecting the Misogynistic Outrage Against the Avengers

Is Black Widow Still a Hero? Dissecting the Misogynistic Outrage Against the Avengers

Black Widow may very well be the pinnacle of the modern action heroine, so why is there so much backlash about her role in the new Avengers film?
Deconstructing the Star Beast: How the ‘Alien’ Saga Went Wrong

Deconstructing the Star Beast: How the ‘Alien’ Saga Went Wrong

Alien was a planned B-Movie that transcended its genre and spawned the rare sequel that is neither imitation nor complete deviation. Then the saga went to hell.
The Upside of No-See Me: Invisibility and ‘Buffy, the Vampire Slayer’

The Upside of No-See Me: Invisibility and ‘Buffy, the Vampire Slayer’

For Buffy, turning invisible allows her to indulge all her worst impulses; but in doing so, she realizes that she is not embracing life, but fleeing it.
The 20 Most Anticipated Films of 2015

The 20 Most Anticipated Films of 2015

Over the next 12 months, we will be bombarded with all manner of proposed cinematic spectacle. Here are the 20 films we are most looking forward to.
With Feeling: ‘Joss Whedon: The Biography’

With Feeling: ‘Joss Whedon: The Biography’

The only problem with the sincerely enjoyable Joss Whedon: The Biography is that we learn a heck of a lot more about his creative endeavors than we do about the geek god himself.