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Critics Agree: Avengers a Blast

Matt Cantor — Fri, 04 May 2012 07:37:45 CDT

Sure, it's an effective moneymaking scheme: release movies about individual superheroes, then one about all of them. But with Joss Whedon at the helm, The Avengers really works. What critics are saying: "Even if you don't particularly like comic-book adaptations, this film just might make a believer of you," writes...

Cabin in the Woods Is Scary Good

Matt Cantor — Fri, 13 Apr 2012 11:30:02 CDT

Critics are applauding Joss Whedon and Drew Goddard's The Cabin in the Woods for its delectable mixture of horror and humor. From a familiar premise—five college students alone in the forest—come all kinds of surprises. "A fiendishly clever brand of meta-level genius propels The Cabin in the Woods...

Screw Stephen Baldwin— Restore Joss Whedon

Kevin Spak — Mon, 10 May 2010 14:30:00 CDT

Remember that goofy campaign to donate money to Stephen Baldwin because he was a Job-like Christian? A comedy outfit called the Big Honkin' thought it was pretty dumb, too, and has a better idea: How about restoring Joss Whedon? No, he's not broke or anything, but man, his shows get...

In a Decade, 'TV Became Art'

Harry Kimball — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 12:51:32 CST

For television, the past decade has been “as the sixties are to music and the seventies to movies”—some of the worst content ever was produced, but the cream of the crop rose to the level of art, Emily Nussbaum writes. Sure, “you could easily memorialize the aughts as the...

Colbert Vies to Be Namesake of NASA Module

Nick McMaster — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 16:24:01 CST

Again proving that his love for self-promotion knows no bounds, Stephen Colbert is urging fans to vote for his write-in suggestion for the name of the new observation deck attachment to the International Space Station, Space.com reports. In two days, Colbert nation has pushed his name to the top...

Dollhouse Is Weird, Rich, and Risky

Katherine Thompson — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 11:35:01 CST

Joss Whedon likes to mash up unexpected genres, so after creating teen soap-meets-vampire noir Buffy , it's hardly surprising that new show Dollhouse is a provacative sci-fi procedural "bubbling with Philip K. Dickish mind games." It's too bad it probably won't last, writes Emily Nussbaum in New York , because it has...

Cruise, Obama Top List of 2008 Viral Videos

Harry Kimball — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 18:50:21 CST

In the vast, fragmented online universe, videos tend to entice some and disgust others. But every year offers a list of viral vids enjoyed by all. The Washington Post runs down 2008's best: Tom Cruise on Scientology: A rambling, fervent Cruise extols his religion, saying he's the "only one who...

Whedon's 'Horrible' an Online Hit

Kevin Spak — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 11:19:10 CDT

Hollywood’s Internet video forays have mostly been failures—remember Quarterlife ?—but none of them starred a dorky singing mad scientist. Joss Whedon’s Dr. Horrible’s Sing-a-long Blog thankfully features just such a character, and it’s almost too successful for its own good. The first episode had been online less than...

Profs to Buffy : You Slay Me

Kevin Spak — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 14:03:27 CDT

Buffy the Vampire Slayer started out lowbrow, but don’t tell that to the academics converging on Henderson State University today for a 3-day conference on the campy TV classic. The cheerleader-turned-monster fighter has inspired the kind of study usually reserved for major philosophers, the AP reports. The Arkansas university boasts...