With a sixty-second spot airing during Sunday's Super Bowl XLVIi, Disney is laying on the Iron Man 3 hype extra thick.  The latest Marvel morsel intended to whet our collective appetite before Sunday is an entirely new poster.

Opening in theaters on Thursday, February 14th is the new romantic thriller from Academy Award-nominated director Lasse Hallstrom (The Cider House Rules) entitled Safe Haven, which is based on the novel of the same name by extremely popular author Nicholas Sparks (The Notebook). The film features an excellent cast that includes Josh Duhamel (Transformers: Dark of the Moon), Julianne Hough (Rock of Ages), Cobie Smulders (The Avengers), and David Lyons (TV's Revolution), as well as young actors Noah Lomax (Playing for Keeps), and Mimi Kirkland. 

IAR's Managing Editor Jami Philbrick recently had an opportunity to sit down with Cobie Smulders to talk about her work on Safe Haven, as well as reprising her role as Maria Hill in the upcoming sequel Captain America: The Winter Soldier and possibly The Avengers spin-off TV series S.H.I.E.L.D. The popular actress discussed her new movie, collaborating with legendary director Lasse Hallstrom, preparing for her complicated role, working with actress Julianne Hough, reprising the role of Maria Hill in Captain America: The Winter Soldier, when she begins shooting, the secrecy behind Marvel's movies, watermarked scripts, playing a character in multiple franchises, and why her commitments to How I Met Your Mother wouldn't stop her from possibly appearing in the proposed S.H.I.E.L.D. TV series. 

This is, for the time being, an unconfirmed rumor, but if it turns out to be true, it constitutes a substantial Iron Man 3 spoiler. 

So if you want to remain pure until your butt is in the seat for Tony Stark's next adventure this May, stop reading now.  We're serious, it's potential spoiler territory from here on out. 

You've been warned.  Repeatedly.

No less a source than Cobie Smulders – S.H.I.E.L.D. Agent Maria Hill – is sharing some inside information on next year's Captain America: The Winter Soldier and the possibility that we'll see the character in action on the S.H.I.E.L.D. television series.

That we know virtually nothing about Justice League for sure beyond the writer and that Warner Bros. is hoping to have it in theaters during 2015 hasn't stopped a steady stream of rumors, all of which will remain rumors for the time being.  Earlier this month, one such rumor concerned just which DC Comics characters would make up the titular superteam.

Now, a follow-up rumor specifies five familiar heroes who will form the Justice League, along with several other, less familiar characters who might just pop up in cameo appearances.

Here we are in 2013, a year that will see the returns of both Iron Man and Thor with Iron Man 3 and Thor: The Dark World.  The latter, dropping in November, is still a ways off, so let's focus on the third solo adventure of Tony Stark.  Marvel Studios head honcho Kevin Feige is offering some thoughts on the upcoming sequel in his usual style: talkative, tantalizingly hype-building, and fundamentally vague.

While Feige is, as always, careful not to reveal too much, he does offer quite a bit of insight on the next adventure of Tony Stark, explaining how he, incoming director Shane Black, and the ever-reliable Robert Downey Jr. are tackling Iron Man in his latest outing.

The Visual Effects Society, which consists of well over 2,000 professional magic makers and is also known as VES, has announced its full list of nominees for the 11th Annual VES Awards, acknowledging visual effects excellence in 24 categories across live-action and animated feature films, television series, video games, and commercials.

Bad news, everybody: Cap's dance date has finally cancelled.

In next year's Captain America: The Winter Soldier, Hayley Atwell will not reprise her Captain America: The First Avenger role as Peggy Carter.

Hey Rogues and Roguettes, how about a handpicked compilation of some of a favorite fried gold IAR stories from the year that was 2012?

With 2012 quickly coming to an end, it’s time to take one last look back at the year in film, and frankly, it was another great year for movies! 

We had excellent dramas based on true stories (Argo, Zero Dark Thirty), hilarious comedies (Ted), incredible superhero movies (The Avengers), game-changing sci-fi (The Cabin in the Woods), groundbreaking 3D (Life of Pi), outstanding animation (Frankenweenie), high-octane Westerns (Django Unchained), fascinating documentaries (Searching for Sugar Man), award-worthy biopics (Lincoln, Hitchcock), satisfying sequels (The Expendables 2), record-breaking reboots (The Amazing Spider-Man), marvelous musicals (Les Miserables), the conclusion to Christopher Nolan’s Batman trilogy (The Dark Knight Rises), and the triumphant return of a legendary film character named … Bond, James Bond (Skyfall)!

The following is a look back at some of my favorite films of 2012. It’s important to note that unlike last year, I was actually able to watch just about every movie released in 2012 with the exception of director Paul Thomas Anderson’s The Master (my apologies to PTA). That being said, the list compiled below is based on the movies that I did see this year, and which of those were my favorites overall. I’m not necessarily saying that these are the ten best films of the year, but in my humble opinion, they are the ten that I enjoyed the most. 

However, honorable mention goes to Beasts of the Southern Wild, Silver Linings Playbook, Searching for Sugar Man, Cabin in the Woods, and Ted, all of which came extremely close to making the final cut.