Hey, remember when Joaquin Phoenix fooled a bunch of people into thinking he was going to retire from acting to pursue a career in rap? Ha, ha, ha! If he'd followed that up by telling everyone he wanted to star in a movie about the Marvel Comics hero Doctor Strange, it would have seemed like another piece of insane performance art, but here we are in 2014, and Joaquin Phoenix starring in Marvel's Doctor Strange movie appears to be all but a done deal.

By now, we're all accustomed to the boundless visual possibilities of computer-generated effects, and aware that we're living in a world in which filmmakers have the ability to show us just about anything within the realm of human imagination. In fact, if you've got enough of the studio's money, amazing visuals are now the easy part -- these days, Hollywood's toughest trick is coming up with enough old-fashioned narrative magic to support all that splendor.

Benedict Cumberbatch and Tom Hardy were previously rumored to be in the running for the role, but it appears that Joaquin Phoenix is Marvel's top choice to play the title role in its upcoming comic book adaptation Doctor Strange.

When you see Doctor Who’s Karen Gillan in Guardians of the Galaxy, you might not recognize her with a shaved head and blue body. She looks like her old self again in her upcoming ABC comedy Selfie, and the reason is because Marvel saved her hair for her.