Geeks rejoice! Marvel superheroes ‘The Avengers’ team-up movie with Iron Man, Captain America, Thor and Hulk is thought to be close to having fanboy-favorite Joss Whedon in the director’s chair. This will come as a huge relief to movie and comic book fans to know that their Marvel comic book heroes are in safe hands. [...]
I’m not posting the link to it as I don’t want to upset Marvel, but I’ve seen the Iron Man 2 footage that was shown at San Diego Comic Con last month at long last, and I just had to talk a bit about it. The footage, despite the shaky phone-cam nature of the version [...]
One of the new Marvel Comics movies that is underway has apparently found its lead. Thor, the Asgardian Thunder God, is apparently going to be played by Chris Hemsworth, the Australian actor who you all saw at the start of JJ Abram’s new STAR TREK movie as James Kirk’s heroic father, George. The Thor movie [...]
AICN’s decision to put out a story informing the world that the Wolverine movie has been leaked has caused some controversy this past week, and understandably so, but some people seem to be missing the point. Yes, it brought the leak to many peoples’ attention, but if the movie was already out there, it was [...]
Marvel Movie Date Changes There have been some big changes to the slate of Marvel movies to be released in the next few years, mostly in order to accommodate the new Spider-Man films. Only Iron Man 2 has kept its release date, and will be out in May 2010. Thor will now hit on June [...]
The cast for Iron Man 2, the hotly anticipated sequel to this year’s Marvel blockbuster, has had a bit of a change to that of the first film. According to various sources the character of Jim Rhodes, aka War Machine, will now be played by Don Cheadle (eh?). Apparently Terence Howard, who played the character [...]
Well this is more like it. In an age where directors are thrown at projects in a less than sensible fashion, the forthcoming movie adaptation of Marvel’s THOR character has gone and got itself someone respectable. Not just respectable, fanboys and girls, we’re talking about Kenneth Brannagh. Yes. Kenneth Brannagh will be directing a big-screen [...]
Ladies, gentlemen, boys, girls, Daleks and Klingons, we are proud to bring you STARSTORECAST, the new podcast series from STARSTORE.COM and The Last Picture Show. Presented by Andrew Hawnt with Jonathan Winwood and Rich Thorp, the show brings you chat, reviews and all the geek infighting you can eat. Covering the latest in movies, TV, [...]
No, this piece isn’t meant to be as patronizing as the title suggests. I’d like to talk a bit about how comics should be read, as a way of helping new readers getting to grips with the medium. There has been something of an influx of new readers to the comics world thanks to recent [...]
ARNOLD (SORT OF) IN TERMINATOR SALVATION On set pics and video have revealed that Arnold Schwarzenegger is *sort of* in the new Terminator flick, currently filming under the direction of McG. Arnold is lending his voice to the project as well as his face, and was on location supplying dialogue for the composite version of [...]
