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The MARVELous Black Widow

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VIDEO GOLD: Dial S for Silence

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It's wierd how Hollywood has two different Hitchcock movies in popular circulation. The first was on HBO called The Girl which explored a very dark side of the Hitchcock film legacy. The other project is   Hitchcock starring Anthony Hopkins, Scarlett Johansson, and the return to the silver screen of the great Ralph Macchio. More so than Hitchcock hype, I am a stickler for theatre ettiquette. I believe that the filmic experience is sacred. In movie theatres we are in a shared space. Partaking in a sharing of experiences and ideas.  Talking should be at an extreme minimum. Cell phones should be silent and touched rarely through out the film. The following is a viral video for the film which comes out January 2013. The video ironically looks like it was shot on a cell phone, and it imagines what Hitchcock's cellphone ettiquette message would have sounded like. Hopkins Hitchcock looks prettyy legit, I can barely see Odin in it.

The Avengers :Yeah you're gonna want to see it.

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THE AVENGERS PREVIEW- REVIEW IN STEREO  STEPHEN = RED DANIELLE= Before the terrifying Disney legal monsters come and take down this post I will commit to NO SPOILERS, though by now a few thousand people have seen the movie so I mean "eh". I saw Avengers this weekend with fellow blogger Stephen Escudero. I know I'm cool. We were very lucky to have a last minute connect. So we woke up at 7am and we were on our way to the movies. For a possible 10am viewing, it was however first come first serve and we could've been turned away. The wait was pretty smooth, the anticipation was the worst thing. The security for the event was no joke, they were protecting the movie at every turn from dastardly pirates. We got pretty good seats center and to the right. The people running the preview event really wanted people to see the movie, they packed people everywhere they could spare with out getting them in the aisles(you know in ...