I was pretty cool with another movie taking place in the Blade Runner universe so long as we didn’t have to see a haggard ass Harrison Ford in it. I may not be pretty cool with it for much longer.

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There’s a new trailer for The Hunger Games. It’s got new footage. New things, man. New deep sayings, woman. Either you’re in or you’re not.

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There’s some new buzz afoot in regards to who is going to be present in Darren Aronofsky’s Bible Ecothriller. The latest speculation has a spectacular pair of ass kickers, Russel Crowe and Liam Neeson rowing the boat. Flood puns?!?

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Super Bowl Spot for G.I. Joe 2: Awesome Fest, where The Rock quotes Jay-Z. I’m sprung.

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Want a teaser of an Avengers spot dropping on Sunday? Sure you do! Featuring more Black Widow Cleavage Thunder and glorious homoerotic glances between Thor and Cap. Hell yeah!

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Dude. Dudette. I don’t know about you, but the only thing more awesomer than shelling out fucking awful amounts of money to see a movie in 3D is to shell out even fucking more  money to see the movie in totally gorgeous, totally cool, totally going to get you poon-butt-whatever-you-dig action custom glasses.

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Want a totally wizard  new image from The Hobbit: Subtitling Subtitles Subtitle Time?

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I didn’t really expect a sequel to last year’s X-Men: First Class. I don’t recall it making much money, and there’s only been murmurings since. Goes to show you what I know! Which, as you probably surmised a long time ago, is nothing! Jack shit. There is indeedly going to be a sequel poppin’, and Matty Vaughn shall be helming the ship once more.

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[face of a franchise presents two individuals that’ve fulfilled the same role. your task — choose the better of the two and defend your choice in the rancor pit that is the comments section]

Monsters kick ass.

Since the dawn of narrative itself, we have been absolutely obsessed with monsters. These grotesque aberrations of death and doom have served as metaphors, representations of the tests of will that the human spirit must endure. The talking snake in the garden paradise is actually the ever-present temptation to do wrong. The giant fire-breathing dragon is a warning against the dangers of hubris. The reanimated corpse-man is the reminder that, for better or worse, we will be remembered by our work.

Once again, monsters kick ass.

So when cinema came around, blessing us with the awe-inspiring combination of moving-pictures and sounds, it was only natural that monsters followed suit. This new medium enabled the monster-metaphors to be pushed even further, inducing more fear and provoking more thought than previously possible. The horrors were no longer confined to the breathy whispers of epic poems or the staid declarations of prose, but could now run as free as the imagination itself.

Unfettered, movies figured out the exact type of behemoth that horrifies, thrills, inspires, excites, and shocks more than any other. Ghosts and wolfmen and vampires and trolls might be scary, but they pale in comparison to the champion. `Cause at the end of the day, ain’t nothin’ better at conjuring up cold sweats and death-screams than this juggernaut:

The city-rockin’ monster.

In the nearly hundred years of cinema history we’ve accumulated, there’s been no scarcity of city-razin’ beasts. Truthfully, most of ’em turned out to be more sizzle than steak, and a select few terrified us beyond the capacity for rational thought. But two of these metropolitan menaces have stood the test of time, and as such now must battle for the title of most formidable city-rockin’ monster!

The combatants are, of course, Godzilla and King Kong.

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New versions of a couple of Empire scans from earlier in the week, plus a gnarly look at Nick Fury’s dumb scalp and the scarring from however he lost his eye in the movie universe’s iteration of the character.

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