Movie Reviews & Stories In helming The Avengers—the long-awaited convergence of four Marvel Comics properties into one gargantuan nesting doll of a summer blockbuster—Joss Whedon is burdened with glorious purpose.    More

Movie Reviews & Stories How does someone in my position discuss The Cabin in the Woods? It’s a movie whose deliberately veiled marketing campaign insists critics tiptoe...   More

Arts & Books Cult sci-fi television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer may have ended its seven-season run in 2007, but the Buffyverse lives on—in Milwaukie, OR. Milwuakie-based Dark Horse comics has been continuing the story of ass-kicking Buffy Summers and her gang of variously magical, demonic and undead misfit friends in two-dimensional form, under the guidance of series creator Joss Whedon (also responsible ...   More

News Screened hours after our press deadlines, Iron Man 2 opens Friday, but we're giving you the review hot off the digital presses. Iron Man 2 WW Critic's Score: 67 Maybe it's because of its frank occupation with the research, construction and patenting of shiny new gizmos, but Iron Man 2 feels far more like industry than art. Like its predecessor, Jon Favreau's second box of Marvels gets ...   More