Every Marvel superhero universe finds its match in Avengers: Infinity War

The bad guy comes out in the latest edition from the Marvel Universe, and it’s all-hands-on-deck. Directors Anthony and Joe Russo work the patch-quilt of franchises built in this studio kingdom, and for the 2 hours, 29 minutes of the screenplay by Christopher Markus and Stephen McFeeley, the battles are many, deep, interwoven and fraught…

As a sexy superhero movie, Deadpool wins on both accounts

The Marvel Universe wins me over more and more each movie I see. With the timing (and expense) of one-a-week in the big-screen theaters, I didn’t get to join in on the Deadpool hysteria. I pulled it out of the Orange MediaBank machine with my card at the Liverpool Public Library – where you don’t…

A new meaning for the word Headquarters

Pixar will have a movie coming out next year. Now that I know about “Inside Out,” you bet I missed this company’s animation. In today’s edition of my weekly Film News blog for the Syracuse New Times site, I talk about the Cinema Blend story that reveals much about that movie. An important term is…

You can Marvel at their list that stretches to 2019

I have to give it up for Marvel Studios. The honchos have their stuff together. This week they put on a big to-do in LA to unveil Phase Three of their comics-to-silver-screen parade, and the list goes on to ………. 2019. Yowser. New characters getting movies of their own will be Doctor Strange, Black Panther,…

‘The Jungle Book’ gets selfies, courtesy of Favreau

Jon Favreau put a selfie on his Facebook page a trio shot, with he, Bill Murray and a 10-year-old, all grinning like best buds. They’re on location shooting a live-action version of “The Jungle Book” for Disney, which will be release in October 2015. Favreau will direct, and newcomer 10-year-old New Yorker Neel Sethi, will…

‘War of the Roses’ with grown kids, ‘Ant-Man’ big, too?

A quarter-century ago, movie-goers took great pleasure watching the Roses — that would be Michael Douglas and Kathleen Turner — do very mean things to each other as their marriage fell apart right in front of the world’s very eyes. Now there’s a sequel in the works, also being adapted from a novel by Warren…