New HD trailer for the Losers movie based on Andy Diggle and Jock’s comics series; DC just released a new version collecting volumes 1 and 2 last week. (via Andy’s Twitter):
Continue reading...Thursday, January 28, 2010
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With his exquisitely subtle wit, his relentless eye for contemporary absurdity and his distinctively modern visual language, Jacques Tati is doubtlessly one of the most original voices cinema has ever produced. Add to this the character of Monsieur Hulot, the modern everyman, forever amazed and never really involved, and you also get one of the [...]
Continue reading...Monday, January 11, 2010
Electric Sheep Magazine – Winter 09 Edited by Virginie Sélavy with assistance by Alex Fitch, Sarah Cronin and Toby Weidmann. The latest print edition of Electric Sheep magazine was released in December 2009. But it’s not just the latest , it’s also the last. Financial realities have forced Electric Sheep out of the print game. [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, December 3, 2009
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The great Robert Englund graced our Nostalgia & Comics store in Birmingham this week and Dave from N&C tells me that he was a real delight, utterly charming his fans and staff alike and telling them some great stories while signing copies of Hollywood Monster. I’m quite jealous, would have been wonderful to meet him, [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, November 10, 2009
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With the next Twilight movie, New Moon, about to hit cinemas very soon (not soon enough for some very eager fans, I know!), here’s a video of some behind the scenes footage via Collider.com to whet your appetite:
Continue reading...Monday, September 21, 2009
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Imax announces that Disney’s Tron sequel, Tron: Legacy, will be released simultaneously in Imax along with the general 3D release on December 2010; that will look pretty mind-blowing, I’d bet (via the Hollywood Reporter)
Continue reading...Wednesday, September 16, 2009
The seemingly endless cycle of remaking classic films rolls on; this time the film being pillaged by modern film-makers is George Romero’s landmark Night of the Living Dead, originally shot in black and white on a shoestring budget in the late 60s and mixing solid, contemporary horror (right in modern society, not in some remote [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, September 16, 2009
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Steve ‘Frosty’ Weintraub talks to director Sylvain White about adapting Frank Miller’s Ronin over on Collider.com; it seems Sylvain wouldn’t want to slavishly copy the original graphic novel but adapt it to the film medium while drawing on the style and flavour of the comic, staying truer to the feel of the book rather than [...]
Continue reading...Friday, September 4, 2009
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Variety reports that former ‘Mr Madonna’ Guy Ritchie, currently working on the Robert Downey Jr/Jude Law-starring Sherlock Holmes movie (which is creating quite a buzz in movie circles) will be directing a film based on DC Comics’ Lobo for his next flick. The alien bounty hunter, created by Keith Giffen and Roger Slifer, was originally [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, September 3, 2009
The BBC reports that the award-winning graphic novel Tamara Drewe is heading to the big screen. The tale of relationships, jealousies, loves and lust in a small English village sparked by the arrival of a vivacious young woman – the eponymous Tamara – was the creation of Posy Simmonds, one of the most interesting female [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, September 1, 2009
Over the holiday weekend I was lucky enough to attend the Edinburgh International Book Festival once again, this time to see top Scottish comics scribe Mark Millar on what I think was his first appearance at this venerable literary bash. I bumped into Mark outside the Writer’s Yurt just before the event was about to [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, August 18, 2009
The Glasgow Science Centre folks tell us they are showing the fifteen minute 3-D trailer for James Cameron’s much-anticipated, highly secretive (let’s hope the finished work equals the hype!) return to feature films, the science fiction movie Avatar on August 23rd. They’re also offering one lucky soul a chance to win a pair of tickets [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, July 28, 2009
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Artist Chu will be installing a piece of Watchmen inspired street art in the skatepark in London’s Southbank to mark the DVD release of Zack Snyder’s adaptation of Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons’ seminal graphic novel; Chu’s website has some preparatory sketches you can check out (as well as some other very cool street art). [...]
Continue reading...Monday, July 27, 2009
Blockbuster Buzz picks up on news of yet another old show being rebooted, this time one of the wonderful Gerry Anderson’s early live action series, UFO, which is heading fora possible big screen outing, with legendary Hollywood figure Robert Evans producing and effects wiz Matthew Gratzner down for directing duties. I’ve always found UFO interesting [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, July 23, 2009
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Over on Den of Geek Michael Leader talks to the Dave Gibbons about the Watchmen movie as it comes out on DVD and how the addition of the Black Freighter and the ability to stop and re-watch scenes on disc adds to the sense of the film (I must confess I’m not convinced on that [...]
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