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8 Actors Who Haven’t Been Shortlisted for a Superhero, But Should Be

Posted on June 8, 2010 by | Leave a comment

These days, it seems that every actor in Hollywood has made the shortlist for a new superhero movie — and that could be a liability for the onslaught of comic book movies to come, since casting directors are always on the hunt for the hot new up-and-comer, not the guy who got cut before his final Captain America screen test. With that in mind, then, Movieline has assembled a list of eight men who are superhero-ready, yet haven’t been named as a close contender for any past roles.

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REVIEW: Winter’s Bone a Little Too Pleased With its Own Folky Bleakness

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Debra Granik’s Winter’s Bone is one of those movies — like last year’s inner-city down-a-thon, Precious — that can’t quite make a distinction between profundity and plain old bleakness. The story of a 17-year-old girl in rural Missouri who’s desperate to find her ex-con father (he’s skipped bail, endangering not just the family’s modest house but its very survival), Winter’s Bone often feels stiffly self-conscious: Even though it’s based on a novel, it has the aura of a gritty documentary, as if Granik distrusted the idea that fiction alone could ever be good enough to get to the truth of human lives.