Anghus Houvouras on why Transformers: Age of Extinction is the smartest movie of the year (warning: spoilers ahead)…. Michael Bay is the personification of a pinata. He’s this bright, garish, candy filled monstrosity which people take way too much pleasure taking swings at. Critics might talk about how bad his success is for filmmaking, but […]

Anghus Houvouras on why we should let Ghostbusters die already… We are nostalgic to a fault. That’s the thought that keeps ringing through my mind as I swim through the wake of remakes, reboots, and re-imaginings being put into production time and again. We’re living in the age of the franchise wars where studios only […]

Anghus Houvouras on whether Ant-Man will end the Marvel success streak…. The Marvel movies are beyond successful both with fans and financially. It’s a giant machine of perpetual motion that cranks out money-making, audience pleasing hits. However, at some point, the streak is going to die. One of their films will buck the trend and […]

Anghus Houvouras on whether we really need a grounded Fantastic Four movie… I’m just as prone to devolve into playing ‘armchair movie producer’ as any writer online. I’d like to believe I’m better than the raging masses screaming bloody murder about how their favorite comic book characters should be adapted. Fandom is interesting because often […]

Anghus Houvouras on whether the solo superhero movie can survive…. It’s been an interesting year for comic book films. Captain America: The Winter Soldier has doubled the take of the The First Avenger while Spider-Man has been anything but Amazing at the US Box Office looking to take in less than the first film in […]

Anghus Houvouras on the end credits scene of X-Men: Days of Future Past… Spoilers ahead, so if you haven’t seen Days of Future Past yet, you might just want to go ahead and skip this one until later… X-Men: Days of Future Past was another solid movie featuring everyone’s favorite mutants.  There are brilliant little […]

Anghus Houvouras on the Marvel Movie Model…. Edgar Wright quitting Ant-Man over ‘creative differences’ might be the most predictable cinematic event of 2014.  A lot of people saw this coming, and frankly it’s a bit disappointing.  But let’s be real honest here: Marvel doesn’t want auteurs or unique voices helming their films. They’re not looking […]

Anghus Houvouras on how he learned to love Jesse Eisenberg as Lex Luthor… The internet is a reactionary place.   Information is dispensed at a frantic pace and often times we are forced to quickly react to a story and offer whatever knee-jerk initial reaction we experience.  Often times these decisions aren’t made with our […]

Anghus Houvouras reviews the season one finale of Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D… I’m glad we’re not eulogizing Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. at the conclusion of the first season.  It’s a wonderfully imperfect show that has had some interesting highs and baffling lows.  Yet, I still think that there’s a workable rhythm to this whole enterprise that […]

Angus Houvouras reviews the penultimate episode of Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D…. There’s a sound I’m hearing while watching the latest episode of Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D..  It’s the sound of someone hitting the brakes over and over again bringing all the build up momentum to a screeching halt.  That would be the second to last  episode of […]