A real can of worms seems to have opened up over the Hulk's appearance in The Avengers. The upshot seems to be that the Hulk will appear, but Bruce Banner won't be played by Ed Norton.

Reading between the lines, I get the impression that Norton gave Marvel major headaches during the making of The Incredible Hulk, by making lots of demands for ( Read more... )

Now there I was yesterday, complaining about American actors playing British icons like Doctor Who and Sherlock Holmes, and now we get the news that a British actor will be playing Peter Parker/Spider-Man in the upcoming re-boot!

He played a relatively small role in the series 3 episode of Who, Daleks in Manhattan, but I can't say he made much of ( Read more... )

There's a rumour going around that Marvel Studios might start making short features based on their lesser known characters, to stick in front of their big franchise films ( Read more... )

I am devastated.

My DVD of Supersonic Man has different music from the groovy disco tunes heard in the trailer and clip I found on Youtube! For some insane reason, the English language version has some generic heroic music instead. What were the fools thinking???

*weeps*

To console myself, I have ordered Super Inframan. :)

This film arrived in the post this morning! It looks FABULOUS! :D

We went to see this last night, and enjoyed it lots ( Read more... )

We watched this yesterday! It's another one of those post-post-modern takes on the superhero genre, and is great, violent, foul-mouthed fun ( Read more... )

This news gives me very mixed feelings. I really love the first two Raimi Spider-Man films, and I even have a lot of time for the third one. It grows on me each time I watch it ( Read more... )

This looks quite interesting.

Although from what we see in the teaser, the heroes actually seem to be pretty skillful as masked vigilantes, which seems to undermine the whole point of the film. Or am I missing something?

Anyway, it looks like it could be fun. :)

I try not to judge a film until I've seen it myself, but this review pretty much confirms my expectations ( Read more... )