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The Avengers and Our Fascination With Saviors

May 08th, 201206:34 PM ET

By Marc Newman

Like the Hulk, The Avengers, directed by the imaginative Joss Whedon, has smashed all previous weekend box-office records, hauling in over $200M in just three days. So what is it about these kinds of films that draws people to see them over and over? Part of it is the sheer spectacle of it all, some of it is star power – and piggy-backing onto he...
Project X and Wanderlust – On Being Lost in America

March 01st, 201203:42 AM ET

By Marc Newman

What does it take to be included, to feel a part of something bigger than yourself? In the past two weeks, two films, made for two generations, have sought to answer that question. Both are comedies, both rated R, and both come to the most dismal answers imaginable. I think it was Francis Schaeffer who argued that this is the first generation of pe...
Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance Burns Out

February 18th, 201201:28 AM ET

By Marc Newman

In Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance, Nicholas Cage returns as Johnny Blaze, the man who once made a deal with the devil to save his father's life, and became the devil's bounty hunter. In the original Ghost Rider film, when he is in the presence of evil, Blaze turns into the Ghost Rider, a flaming skeleton in riding leathers who eats the souls...

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