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First Mortal Kombat: Legacy Webisode Online Now
Last year, Mortal Kombat : Rebirth proved an unexpected success on Youtube, paving the way for what looks to be a revival for the once venerable series with this year Mortal Kombat 9 set for release next week. Yet while many originally interpreted the short as the trailer for a new MK movie, it was in fact a teaser that … read more
Posted in Movie News
Tagged DC Comics, Mortal Kombat, superhero movies, video game movies, video games
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DC Universe Online Receives Belated Update 2
SOE may have announced a severe staff culling, but that hasn’t stopped the release of the second major update pack for DCUO – imaginatively title Update 2, and formally known as the March update.
So, what does the belated March update bring those of us lucky enough to have made it through to early April? A similar set of distractions … read more
Posted in Video Game News
Tagged Batman, DC Comics, DC Universe Online, Green Lantern, video games
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Marvel vs Capcom 3 DLC List is Fake. For Now…
Since releasing Shuma Gorath and Jill Valentine for MvC3, Capcom have kept rather schtum on exactly who will be filling in those two additional DLC slots – though the current crisis in Japan is probably of more concern to the game’s developers.
But this hasn’t stopped one beaver from spreading a 14-strong roster of new characters; a list that, while … read more
Posted in Video Game News
Tagged Capcom, comic books, Marvel Comics, superhero comics, video games
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Rubber DVD Review
2010
Director: Quentin Dupieux
Writer: Quentin Dupieux
Cast: Stephen Spinella, Roxanne Mesquida, Jack Plotnick, Wings Hauser, Ethan Cohn, Charley Koontz, Tara O’Brien
A bespectacled man stands by a dozen or so wooden chairs on a desolate highway. A police car approaches, knocking down the chairs as though they formed a driving course, and halts. A lawman climbs from out of … read more
Posted in Movie Reviews
Tagged films / movies, Horror Movies, Independent Cinema, metafiction
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Is New Green Lantern Movie Trailer Cause for Concern?
This is a few days late, but I thought I’d share the new Green Lantern Wondercon trailer that’s given us a considerable idea of how Martin Campbell’s slightly worrying blockbuster is shaping up.
I’ve had my doubts about this one (as have many), but there’s some really impressive visuals on display here, Mark Strong’s Sinestro looks spot on, and Campbell … read more
Posted in Comic Movie News
Tagged comic book movies, DC Comics, Green Lantern, superhero comics, superhero movies
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Michael Jai White at Black Dynamite Comic Panel
Where: Meltdown Comics, 7522 Sunset Blvd, Los Angeles, Ca 90046
When: Monday, April 4th
6:30 PM Screening
8:00 PM LIVE Podcast
9:00 PM Comic Book Signing and Live Music
Chris Hardwick will lead a panel that includes Michael Jai White (“Black Dynamite”, co-writer), Byron Minns (“Bullhorn”, co-writer), Scott Sanders (director, co-writer), Brian Ash (comic author, writer for The Boondocks) to … read more
Posted in Press Releases
Tagged blaxploitation, comic books, films / movies, kung fu movies
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Justice League Movie Rumours Return
A recent interview with Warner Bros. executive Jeff Robinov in The Los Angeles Times has suggested new plans for a Justice League movie, no doubt inspired by the hype (and good will) surrounding Marvel’s upcoming Avengers.
Unlike this year’s continuity primers Captain America and Thor, however, it appears that the Justice League film will itself establish a DC … read more
Posted in Comic Movie News
Tagged Batman, Christopher Nolan, DC Comics, Justice League of America, superhero movies
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The Door (Die Tür) DVD Review
2009
Director: Anno Saul
Script: Jan Berger
Cast: Mads Mikkelsen, Jessica Schwarz, Heike, Makatsch
Following on from such curiosities as The Box and The Bothersome Man, German thriller The Door fits into a science fiction subgenre perhaps best described as “could have been a Twilight Zone episode.” It’s a dark and inventive “what if?” fantasy tale, based the novel … read more
Caged (Captifs) DVD Review
2010
Director: Yann Gozlan
Script: Yann Gozlan, Guillaume Lemans
Cast: Zoé Felix, Eric Savin, Arié Elmaleh
Organ trafficking gets the Texas Chainsaw treatment in this Gallic horror, which sees a group of humanitarians captured in Eastern Europe and kindly alleviated of their burdensome components.
While this premise may sound like the set up for another torture-porn endurance test, director Yann … read more
Posted in Movie Reviews
Tagged films / movies, French cinema, Horror Movies, world cinema
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2011 Eagle Awards Voting Opens
Due to my ongoing technical problems this is going up a little late, but nevertheless: the voting selection for the 2011 Eagle Awards is now up here.
It’s a vast and varied list, too, comprising 29 categories. Voting will close at midnight BST on Monday 11 April, and the winners will be announced at the MCM Expo London Comic … read more
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