Captain America: The First Avenger starts out like one of those old advertisements in which the 90-pound weakling lifts weights and becomes Charles Atlas. Kick sand in my face? No more, bully!

In this case, the setting is World War II, and the scrawny fellow is Steve Rogers (Chris Evans), a young man who wants to enlist to battle Hitler and all he represents. Because of his size and physical limitations, Rogers is classified as 4-F and rejected by Uncle Sam.

But, ever the underdog, Steve is determined, and during his umpteenth attempt to slip into the armed service, a scientist (Stanley Tucci) observes his courage and great heart. Full Article…

Jim Garling will be among the performers at today’s National Day of the American Cowboy celebration at the National Cowboy Museum.

Meet “Amazing Race” contender Jet McCoy, hear live music by Gary S. Pratt and Picket Wire, Jim Garling and A Bar Bunkhouse Band and see the John Wayne film “The Cowboys” at the National Day of the American Cowboy celebration from 9:30 a.m. to 3:15 p.m. today a

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As part of our apocalyptic theme, Douglas Noble reviews Richard Stanley’s dystopian cyber-horror movie Hardware (1990).

Format: DVD Release date: 1 June 2006 Distributor: Warner Home Video Director:George Miller Writers: Byron Kennedy, James McCausland, George Miller Cast: Mel Gibson, Joanne Samuel, Hugh Keays-Byrne, Steve Bisley Australia 1979 89 mins

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Cinematic visions of society on the brink of collapse have rarely been as frightening – yet thrillingly visceral – as Mad Max, the pre-apocalyptic Australian action classic that marked the directorial debut of George Miller and demonstrated how cash-strapped genre movies could make a virtue out of threadbare production values. Wor

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Far, far on the other side of the Hollywood spectrum from James Cameron and Steven Spielberg lies Charlatan Studios, a shoestring venture founded by a pair of 29-year-old Simi Valley High School graduates named Brian Harrison Mack and Douglas Lamore.

Mack and Lamore make independent, low-budget film shorts — about two dozen in all since officially forming Charlatan Studios in the summer of 2007.

Their latest offering, “Restructuring Michael Swift,” a satire on downsizing in corporate America, will screen Wednesday night at the Los Angeles Short Film Festival, better known as the L.A. Shorts Fest. T

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SAN DIEGO – By now, most anyone who knows anything about Comic-Con International knows it has become a grand platform from which Hollywood’s studios launch promotional campaigns for upcoming films and television shows.

A problem, for reporters and bloggers trying to cover those launches, is that having seen only brief clips of the films or TV shows, it’s often hard to discuss them in a serious way.

But Reuters sat down with Justin Timberlake and Amanda Seyfried on Thursday for a brief chat to ferret out the details of their upcoming action film, “In Time,” which is set for release in October of this year.

From its description, the movie sounds like an old-fashioned crime thriller, only it is set in the future and people stop aging when they’re still young and pretty — which is perfect for a Hollywood movie.

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