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#AvengersEvent – Taking Aim with Hawkeye and Maria Hill – An Interview with Jeremy Renner and Cobie Smulders

Jeremy Renner and Cobie Smulders with 25 #AvengersEvent Bloggers - Photo Credit - Disney
Jeremy Renner and Cobie Smulders with 25 #AvengersEvent Bloggers – Photo Credit – Disney

Our very first interview during the #AvengersEvent press junket was with Jeremy Renner (Hawkeye) and Cobie Smulders (Agent Maria Hill). I attended an expense paid trip by Disney to press events for Marvel’s Avengers: Age of Ultron (#AvengersEvent, #AgeofUltron), all opinions as always are 100% my own.

I was looking forward to this interview because, after seeing the movie, I had a better respect for Hawkeye as a character. There was a lot of character development for Hawkeye in this movie including something that I wanted to ask him about right away, but it is a spoiler and so I’ll have to leave that question for the spoiler episode of Dad.FM podcast that I did.

Each time I hear people talk about the movie and the female characters they always mention Black Widow and Scarlet Witch but they don’t mention Maria Hill as much. Maria Hill certainly is a strong female character in the movies and she also shows up in Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. once in a while. It think that it is because she isn’t in the movies as much as the other characters and there hasn’t been much of a story around her so far. The first question that I can talk about was for Cobie. Continue reading #AvengersEvent – Taking Aim with Hawkeye and Maria Hill – An Interview with Jeremy Renner and Cobie Smulders →

Movie, Review

DVD Review: Delivery Man

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Delivery Man Box Art

I was sent a copy of Delivery Man starring Vince Vaughn to watch and review. Opinions of the movie are 100% my own.

Last Thursday Allison and I had a free night so we watched Delivery Man. I had heard about this movie and I had also participated in some campaigns to promote it. I was interested to see it because the idea was a crazy one. A guy, lovable loser David Wozniak – Vince Vaughn, donates to a sperm bank an exorbitant amount of times and his donations are also selected many many times, so many that he is the father of 533 children. When a group of those children sue the donation facility to find the identity of their father Davids already crazy life gets turned upside down but at the same time he finds purpose and order.

I thought this was a cute movie. Certainly a fun Friday night on the couch rental type movie. The performances by Vince Vaughn, Cobie Smulders and Chris Pratt were good. I especially liked Chris Pratt and Vince Vaughn talking while all of Chris’ kids were misbehaving. It was one of my favorite scenes, here is a small snippet.

“I Think I Want a Kid”

I know that parents can certainly relate to this scenario. How often do you feel like whatever you say beyond the word “cookie” are falling on deaf ears. Keep at it because those things that you say over and over will eventually sink in. They will hear you and more so they will hear your actions. So, say what you will but do what you want them to do.

Despite the whole premise of Delivery Man being so unbelievable there are genuine moments of heart in this movie. Moments of parenthood that may not happen in every family but if you have 533 kids you are going to experience the gamut of situations. All through it David is a guy who tries, fails often but keeps trying and has some great moments of success. It is worth picking up to watch.

Below I have the official movie synopsis as well as some clips from the movie and one deleted scene, which in my opinion it should have been deleted, it doesn’t quite fit. Continue reading DVD Review: Delivery Man →