I am the Watcher. Of various films and TV programmes. I’ve watched loads of ‘em. And do you know what you need to make a film or a TV programme? Actors. You need people to play the many characters who will be appearing in said moving picture show, otherwise all you’ve got is a script scrolling across the screen or images of places where not much is happening.

The thing is, there are a number of actors who become so very linked to one of the parts they’ve played, that when you see them in something else, certainly to begin with, you can only see them in that part. A good actor can overcome this, and by the end of whatever it is you’re watching, they’ve become this new character, all trace of that other part you know them for gone and forgotten, at least temporarily.

But, sometimes, your brain starts to ask the question. “What if…” you ask yourself, “What if they were that other character I know them so well for? How would that change what I’m watching now? Would it make it better? Worse?” And then you’ve rewritten the entire film in your head. We’ve all done it. I know I have. So, here, for you, I present five of my own personal what ifs.

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Link: http://www.empireonline.com/news/story.asp?NID=31051

In an interview with Empire magazine whilst at Cannes film festival, Stellan Skarsgard let slip that the now standard post-credit sequence in Thor was actually directed by upcoming Avengers director, Joss Whedon.

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Link: http://marvel.com/digitalcomics/titles/iron_man_2-_phil_coulson~colon~_agent_of_s~dot~h~dot~i~dot~e~dot~l~dot~d~dot~.2010.1

So by now it would be a little redundant of me to post a review for Iron Man 2, there's plenty of opinion already out there and I want to see it again before I settle on a final verdict, at the moment I'm thinking "not bad, could do better". What I do want to focus on is the man I think is the real star of the show; Agent Phil Coulson.

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