The Love of a Good Woman: The Incredible Hulk vs. Wall-E

This summer has been rich with decent blockbusters, which isn’t something you can always say (I’m looking at you, 2006). But today it’s the biggest of the big that’s come to town: Marvel Studios’ reboot of the Hulk vs. Can-they-do-no-wrong?-Pixar’s Wall-E.

Damn.

First up, the Incredible Hulk. After deciding that Ang Lee’s version of Hulk could go take a running jump, Marvel went ahead and made the Hulk anew – sort of. It’s

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The Devil Came on Blades of Glory

I saw two wildly disparate movies last week: The Devil Came on Horseback and Blades of Glory.

TDCoH: A creepily restrained documentary about the dude who more or less forced the US government to acknowledge the genocide in Darfur. (Please Wiki or Economize "Darfur" if you don't know what I'm taking about). Ex-marine (name of Brian) is handed a camera, gets posted to observe the cease-fire in Sudan, hears about the atrocities in the Darfur region, and goes over and

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