Tag Archive | "movies"

Kick-Ass trailer

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 [...]

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Singer considering return to X-Men movies

Wednesday, October 14, 2009

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According to The Hollywood Reporter director Bryan Singer is considering a return to Fox for another installment of the X-Men movies, which I’d imagine would be pretty much welcomed by fans. Singer, who made his name with the wonderfully convoluted noir-esque Usual Suspects, delivered the first two X-Men movies which proved successful with fans, critics [...]

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Iron Man Versus Bruce Lee!

Saturday, October 3, 2009

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It’s Iron Man versus the great Bruce Lee in this brilliant wee animation by Patrick Boivin!

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Favreau and Downey Jr to play Cowboys and Aliens

Monday, September 7, 2009

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Iron Man movie duo Jon Favreau and Robert Downey Jr are teaming up for another cinematic outing, the enticingly titled Cowboys and Aliens. That’s a title that practically sells itself to you with a big smile, the idea of cowboys and Native Americans fighting aliens. I do hope they have a classic Western shoot-out with [...]

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Guy Ritchie to direct Lobo movie

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 [...]

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Marvel teams up with Disney

Monday, August 31, 2009

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Its been announced that the Mouse Kingdom is buying mighty Marvel in a combined cash/shares deal worth around a cool 4 billion dollars. Over on his Twitter Paul Cornell seemed pretty pleased that it should put Marvel on a sounder financial footing and exclaiming “I’m working for Disney!” “Disney is the perfect home for Marvel’s [...]

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Wrath of the Mandalorian

Friday, August 7, 2009

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This Star Wars fan film has been on YouTube for a while, but I hadn’t seen it until SF Signal blogged about it -- it’s pretty impressive for a fan film. Not only does it throw in Walkers and TIE Fighters flying over a forest as Jedis take cover I noticed even the wipes between [...]

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Who watches the Watchmen on the wall?

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). [...]

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GI Joe – making the grade

Saturday, July 11, 2009

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With the big screen outing for GI Joe heading our way soon the PR machine is beginning to crank up online and Jenny at Rubber Republic points us to this new quiz game, Make the Grade, which they’ve just put up, where readers get to test their knowledge of what’s true or false about the [...]

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Smurf flick

Friday, July 10, 2009

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The BBC announces  (via Hollywood Reporter) that director Raja Gosnell has been signed up to helm a feature length Smurfs movie. Yes, Peyo’s little blue folks who were celebrating their fiftieth anniversary on the Continent (where they remain well known, unlike here)  just last year, are coming to the big screen in glorious 3D (as [...]

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