Archive for the 'DC' Category

PREACHER SERIES ABORTED BY HBO

Monday, September 1st, 2008

What? WHAT?! WHY?!!! Come on, HBO are hardly the most family friendly outlet, so how come they could possibly be worried about the content of a Preacher show? The Preacher graphic novels are confrontational, controversial and excellent, but then, doesn’t that fit in exactly with BO’s output? Could it be they have finally chickened out [...]

THE STARSTORE NEWS ROUNDUP: WHEEL OF TIME, GREEN LANTERN, ROCKY HORROR, DARK KNIGHT

Thursday, August 14th, 2008

Hey there folks, here’s our daily roundup of what is currently making big nerd-shaped waves on planet geek. Up today we have a legendary series of books coming to the movies, a much loved DC character gets closer to having a movie out, a cult classic gets remade (um, I know this happens pretty much [...]

NEWS ROUNDUP: THE X-FILES, THE DARK KNIGHT, VENOM, SUSPIRIA, ZACK AND MIRI

Thursday, August 7th, 2008

THE X-FILES: I WANT TO BELIEVE Our in-depth review of the brand new X-Files feature film is now up. You can check out our review of The X-Files: I Want To Believe over on our Blogspot page here. We’re all  hoping that this one performs well enough for the mooted third film to be made! [...]

THE DARK KNIGHT DEBATE

Wednesday, August 6th, 2008

While The Dark Knight takes Batman and the Joker ever further into the annals of movie history with its huge opening run, there have been some conflicting voices in reviews of the film. While most have been blown away by the formidable spectacle of a gritty vision of DC’s most famous characters waging war against [...]

NEWS ROUNDUP- VENOM MOVIE, WATCHMEN IMAGES, TRANSFORMERS 2, ROBOCOP

Thursday, July 31st, 2008

SONY COMMISSION NEW VENOM SCRIPT Alongside the proposed fourth entry in the Spider-man franchise (and the fifth, which is said to be shooting back to back with number 4), Sony have commissioned a new script to be written for a standalone VENOM movie. Introduced to movie audiences with Spider-man 3, Venom has long been a [...]

THE DARK KNIGHT: The Starstore Review

Monday, July 28th, 2008

As the lights dimmed for our screening of The Dark Knight, there was a hushed reverence throughout the entire cinema, as though everyone, adult and fidgety child alike, knew they were about to witness something special. As one of the most anticipated films of the year this was hardly surprising, and as expected, it didn’t [...]

NEWS ROUNDUP: SDCC, WOLVERINE FOOTAGE SHOWN, RED SONJA, CAPTAIN AMERICA, LONDON AFTER MIDNIGHT

Friday, July 25th, 2008

SAN DIEGO COMIC-CON UNDERWAY! Well, geeks all over the world are now lapping up the news and pics that those lucky &%$£@#s that got to go to this year’s San Diego Comic Con are putting up, and it certainly seems to be a bumber year for good stuff. Mind you, the absence of things like [...]

WATCHMEN: THE TRAILER IS HERE!!!

Friday, July 18th, 2008

The most anticipated comic book movie adaptation of the last twenty years is now a step closer to hitting our screens! The first trailer for Zack Snyder’s film of Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons’ legendary WATCHMEN graphic novel has hit the net and cinemas in the US, and it really is a breathtaking look at [...]

CURRENT READING

Monday, July 14th, 2008

I must admit I’ve not been keeping that up to date with comics and graphic novel reading lately, mainly down to writing blogs and doing all the other stuff that comes with working in a busy comic store, but I’ve been trying to check out some recent stuff again and here’ the titles that have [...]

NEWS ROUNDUP: Superman, Stargate, Batman, Infected, Harry Potter…

Thursday, July 3rd, 2008

SUPERMAN: A NEW DIRECTION? Mark Millar, riding high in the public eye after the success of Wanted, not to mention being known to comics fans as one hell of a big name, is apparently turning his eye to The Man of Steel. Talking to The Daily Record, Millar states he has a new vision of [...]