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MasterChugs Theater: ‘Captain America: The First Avenger’

I’m a big comic book movie fan. Hell, I’m a comic book fan. I’ll readily admit that I’m a sucker for the character that does good acts just because (as an only child for a fairly long time, and with no children living near me, and going to school that was in another town, comics were one of many forms of media that helped shape my childhood).

To tell the truth, though, I almost thought I was comic-book-superhero-movie’d out. I thought the genre had hit a wall. I thought the spandex onslaught that has been distinguished by Spider-Man, Iron Man, and the X-Men flicks had of late filled that particular cup to overflowing with sputtering also-rans. It doesn’t help that the most recent one, Green Lantern, really stunk.

Apparently not.

There’s nothing like crisp movie making execution — a spirited mix of action, sci-fi fantasy, humor, nostalgia, and romance — to blast through one’s enough-already reservations and been-there-done-that fatigue. That’s exactly what Captain America: The First Avenger does. Continue reading MasterChugs Theater: ‘Captain America: The First Avenger’

Do not adjust your monitor

Today’s Picture of the Day comes from Saini Sunpura, India, where a baby was born with two faces.

Both faces are functional, the father saying that “she drinks milk from her two mouths and opens and shuts all the four eyes at one time.” She also shows no signs of respiratory problems.

All should be well in India, unless she grows up to become the District Attorney of a city plagued with supervillains who will burn one of her faces with acid. There’s no fate worse than being played by Tommy Lee Jones. (“Gosh, we won’t need as much fake burned skin with his already cratered face!”)

Of course, her parents will be disqualified from settling their disputes with a baby toss. She’s twice as likely to land on heads.

Image Source: “Baby with two faces worshipped as a goddess,” CNN. 9 April 2008.