Over the last few weeks you may have caught Matthew Vaughn going on the offensive on any number of TV and radio shows defending Kick-Ass and doing it rather well. I haven’t seen it yet, but to be honest, given the pre-press and the snippets I’ve seen I’m expecting it to be good, throwaway action [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, March 25, 2010
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The Geek Syndicate boys have a cool video interview up with Jane Goldman, wife of Jonathan Ross and screenwriter for Kick-Ass and Stardust:
Continue reading...Tuesday, December 29, 2009
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New trailer for Mark Millar/John Romita Jr’s Kick Ass, soon to be a Sun baiting, Daily Mail “ban this filth” headline generating movie from director Matthew Vaughan. Obviously you’re not stupid, so you realise it’s an 18 trailer, adults only, gratuitous swearing and gore throughout. And, rather bizarrely and brilliantly, soundtracked by The Banana Splits. [...]
Continue reading...Monday, December 21, 2009
Today’s guest for the latest picks for our annual Best of the Year posts is a man who spent part of his professional comics career with green skin and eating plastic cups as he filled in for the Mighty Tharg editing 2000 AD (as well as putting together the 30th anniversary history of 2000 AD, [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, November 11, 2009
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Kick-Ass Trailer Park | MySpace Video Yep, there is an official trailer for Mark Millar and Matthew Vaughn’s Kick-Ass, the unusual superhero movie where the guys went around the traditional studio system and raised finance themselves to fund the film, allowing them to make it as they thought it should be, free of endless notes [...]
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 [...]
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Tuesday, April 6, 2010
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