Read more about the article ‘Guardians of the Galaxy’ review: The biggest surprise of the year
The motley Guardians in Guardians of the Galaxy

‘Guardians of the Galaxy’ review: The biggest surprise of the year

Marvel's space opera about a ragtag group of aliens plus one human is the massive surprise hit of the summer, and even gone on to be the highest-grossing movie of the year in the U.S., beating stalwart franchises like Transformers, X-Men and Spider-Man.

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Read more about the article ‘Edge of Tomorrow’ review (with bonus ‘Chef’ and ‘Maleficent’ reviews): LOVE ‘Edge of Tomorrow’. Liked ‘Chef’. ‘Maleficent’ is ok.
Emily Blunt (Rita Vrataski) and Tom Cruise (Major William Cage) in Edge of Tomorrow

‘Edge of Tomorrow’ review (with bonus ‘Chef’ and ‘Maleficent’ reviews): LOVE ‘Edge of Tomorrow’. Liked ‘Chef’. ‘Maleficent’ is ok.

Here's another massively overdue review bonanza. Unfortunately, I'm always watching things much faster than I write about them, so sometimes it's stale news by the time I post them.

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Read more about the article Second impressions: ‘Iron Man 3’
Robert Downey Jr. as Tony Stark/Iron Man in Iron Man 3

Second impressions: ‘Iron Man 3’

Re-watched Iron Man 3, this time with subtitles. I love re-watching movies with subtitles -- it just makes them much clearer. Whenever I catch a movie in theatres, I am only able to get about 80 percent of the dialogue, as they tend to mumble or speak too fast. And many times, for the dialogue that I do catch, the nuances of what they actually said don't really register until much later when I've time to think about it (which I don't, since I'll have forgotten it by then), or until I see it staring in my face in subtitles. (Yeah, you can probably tell that I am the worst kind of listener in conversations.)

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