the avengers

Trailer For AVENGERS: AGE OF ULTRON Lacks Event Movie Status

The Marvel movie bubble isn’t going to burst anytime soon (I keep writing about fatigue but it hasn’t come…yet). Each movie keeps making more and more money at the box office but even the biggest Marvel fans will have to admit that [...]

January 15, 2015

Marvel Phase Three: Sequels, Spin-offs, Black Panther & New AVENGERS: AGE OF ULTRON Clip

Marvel Studios has announced its Phase Three movie plans and the Marvel fanboys can’t contain themselves. ‘This is wonderful news’ the say, ‘it’s brilliant’. I say it’s overkill – do we really need a 2-part [...]

October 30, 2014

No IRON MAN 4 For Robert Downey Jr; He’s Getting $40 Million For CAPTAIN AMERICA 3

Robert Downey Jr has been talking a lot about Iron Man while doing the publicity for his latest (and non Marvel) movie The Judge. He’s been talking about his contract (which is nearly up) and how his Tony Stark/Iron Man character can be used [...]

October 14, 2014

First Trailer For Michael Mann’s Cyber-Thriller BLACKHAT Starring Chris Hemsworth

Chris Hemsworth might just be the only viable leading man that we have who is under 35 – that’s pretty worrying. He has teamed with Michael Mann to deliver Blackhat – a new cyber-thriller which Mann wrote with Morgan Davis Foehl. [...]

September 26, 2014

Scarlett Johansson’s LUCY Tops The US Box Office; UK Poster

Scarlett Johansson starrer Lucy smashed all sorts of expectations at the box office, grossing a mighty $43.8 million last weekend – meaning that Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson’s Hercules had to settle for second place with just $29.8 million. The [...]

July 29, 2014

Josh Brolin Is Marvel’s Thanos – But It’s Hard To Get Excited

It seems like every A-list (and even B-list) actor needs to be in a superhero franchise these days (just check out the cast of American Hustle). It’s money in the bank, it’s a way of keeping your profile high. The latest big name to join the [...]

May 31, 2014

Oh My God! The First GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY Image! Yawn

Guardians of the Galaxy – isn’t this film about owls? No, wait that’s Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga’Hoole. Fanboys will be excited in ways that I can’t even imagine because of this photo. I’m totally un-perplexed. This [...]

January 1, 2014

DVD Review: ALL SUPERHEROES MUST DIE Isn’t Supposed To Be THE AVENGERS

On paper All Superheroes Must Die sounds like a disaster – it’s a no-budget superhero film with limited scope and an unknown cast. It’s hardly The Avengers, but it manages to fly in the face of adversity, making it a slight but enjoyable 75 [...]

October 8, 2013

DVD Review: Joss Whedon Tackles Shakespeare With MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING

The fanboys love Joss Whedon. They’ll follow him everywhere, so I think that it’s rather cunning that he has tackled William Shakespeare’s Much Ado About Nothing. Will they follow him here? I hope so. Much Ado About Nothing is one of [...]

October 5, 2013

Review: MAN OF STEEL

Warning: This review may contain spoilers! Man of Steel arrives with a great weight of expectation on its shoulders. It’s a reinvention of a much loved character, a brand new take on the world’s first superhero. The last cycle of Superman films [...]

June 16, 2013

Epic Trailer For MAN OF STEEL: Believe A Man Can Fly

Wow. Right. I’m a DC Comics man and not a Marvel dude, so the recent spate of Marvel based superhero movies hasn’t really rocked my world. Don’t get me wrong – they’re good – I like them (read the Movies In Focus review for The [...]

April 18, 2013

Profile: Robert Downey Jr.

A decade ago nobody would have believed that Robert Downey Jr. would be one of the most bankable stars on the planet. In 2003 the recovering drug addict was a supporting player in dire Halle Berry schlocker, Gothika, while his close friend Mel [...]

April 4, 2013

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