I don’t feel any compulsion, even impulsion, to purchase a single action figure. For one thing, that’s money I could be spending on Blu-rays. For another thing, that’s money I could be spending on cinema tickets. Here’s a new Mattel action figure showing Hal Jordan as per the upcoming Green Lantern movie. Do you like?…
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Courtesy of a product listing at Amazon, we now have more information on the Toy Story film due to hit cinemas in the summer alongside Cars 2. Here’s how the tie-in book is described: Bonnie is off to Hawaii, and Barbie and Ken are excited to go along on their first tropical vacation! But when…
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Back in 2004, we saw the publication of Youngblood Bloodsport #1 by Rob Liefeld and Mark Millar. Then… nothing. During the promotion for the series, I asked Rob Liefeld since you left Image, hell, for a while before, your output has been sporadic at best and you’ve gained a reputation for not delivering what you’ve…
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Top Twenty Posts Of The Year 1. Batman XXX Trailer And Screencaps – how could it be anything else?An absolute monster of a hit, two and a half times the amount of traffic than the second post and still popular week after week. Odds are it’ll be on next year’s too. 2. Gay Robin Vs…
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Alex De La Iglesia’s most recent film, The Last Circus or The Trumpet’s Last Ballad or The Tumpet’s Sad Ballad or, perhaps most properly, Balada Triste de Trompeta, is still to make its way to English speaking territories, leaving me hanging. Meanwhile, the director has appeared on the Spanish TV show, Versión Española and discussed his…
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One of the more memorable moments at New York Comic Con this year was at the Cup O’ Joe panel where one attendee called on Joe Quesada to resign as Editor-In-Chief. And was batted back by Dan Buckley in return with a pretty unarguable retort. And by a bizarre coincidence the guy was videoing the…
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I suppose I rather enjoyed Brad Silberling’s 1995 Casper movie, but found its direct-to-DVD sequels A Spirited Beginning and Casper Meets Wendy to be hilariously awful. Both of those direct-t0-DVD follow ups were directed by Sean McNamara, who I’d give my nomination for Most Bizarrely Bad Director In The World, and there are shots in…
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I don’t know if you’ve seen Rob Thomas’ TV crime-mystery-comedy-drama Veronica Mars, but it is really very, very good indeed. I gave Rich the first season box set as a gift and by the time I thought he’d be finished it, he’d already bought himself seasons two and three. Unfortunately, there’s no more than that…
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As well as the upcoming 3D, animated Asterix movie, to be adapted from The Mansions of the Gods, there’s a new live-action movie coming – also in 3D. Of course. There’s been a couple of live action actors to play the tiny, power-packed Gaul already, but Allocine have word that the role has been recast…
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In my most recent column I talked about the somewhat too-fervent passion that some superhero fans bring to the subject of diversification. I mentioned comics’ black Captain America and the campaign to cast a black actor in the new Spider-Man movies, both of which were met with strong opposition, but a fresher example has since…
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Back in August, Zack Snyder told the world that his next picture, Sucker Punch, was now going to be released only in 2D, not the previously announced 3D. He said: We really were considering it. But we had seen a bunch of tests and conversion didn’t sit with me that great. Without being baked in,…
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At the moment, David Fincher is busy at work on The Girl With a Dragon Tattoo, and beyond that has two more, potential Millenium/Girl With… pictures to get done. Somewhere along the line, though, I’m sure there’s a good chance that he’ll take a break from the Swedish noir and apply himself to something different….
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