Alex Pagliuca

"Is this the end of Marvel's place among the juggernauts of mass audience moviemaking?" It's become a question lingering in the air, every time a new film featuring one of their characters hits screens, big or small. The small screen outings have struggled, and been varied in quality. That Sony owns

There Will Be Blood is the kind of American epic we need(ed) in the twenty-first century. Its a picture of the black heart of an new iteration of American, in its infancy. It's a portrait of the cannibalistic self obsession at the heart of American empire during the opening of the twentieth century,