Iron Man 2 is due in the­atres in two months, and this new trailer makes me appre­ci­ate the work that Jon Favreau has put into this fran­chise. Of course the big sell is the onscreen debut of War Machine — now played by Don Chea­dle, who replaced Ter­rence Howard.  We can’t for­get  the Black Widow as well, who looks like she will make things inter­est­ing for Mr. Stark.

Mickey Rourke and the always awe­some Sam Rock­well are your vil­lains from what we’ve seen so far. Rourke will play Whiplash (who may or may not also become Crim­son Dynamo) and Rock­well is crim­i­nal mas­ter­mind and busi­ness­man Justin Hammer.

Iron Man 2 looks like it has the right spark to start the new sum­mer block­buster sea­son and quite frankly I wouldn’t have it any other way.

As a fight­ing game & mar­tial arts enthu­si­ast, I try to sup­port both gen­res respec­tively. Every time one of my favorite fight­ing game fran­chises makes the jump to the sil­ver screen, I am there, popcorn in hand with the hopes of being enter­tained and finally see­ing a real life film imi­tate some­thing I enjoy.

For years, I have endured the good ( Mor­tal Kom­bat 1) , the bad ( Mor­tal Kom­bat 2), and the awful ( Street Fighter-Legend of Chun-Li) in terms of fight­ing games jump­ing to the sil­ver screen. The newest chal­lenger is the  film based on the Namco Tekken fran­chise. With a decent cast and a semi-accurate story, I think that maybe they got it right (some­what). This inter­pre­ta­tion of Tekken fol­lows Jin Kazama as he bat­tles his way through the tournament.

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Let’s start off by say­ing that I have been a fan of Mel Gibson’s for a long time. When­ever he has done thrillers and period pieces he seems at his strongest. “Edge Of Dark­ness” takes Mel back to those thriller roots we know him so well for. His per­for­mance in this movie bor­rows from movies like Ran­som, Taken and Pay­back in terms of pace and ferocity.

Gib­son plays Detec­tive Thomas Craven, a man whose daugh­ter is bru­tally killed in his home. Craven thinks she was killed because of his police work. How­ever, her mur­der is a part of some­thing far big­ger and far more dan­ger­ous.

I am glad to see that Mel Gib­son is return­ing back to his suc­cess­ful roots. I will be going to check this out for sure.

For months I have heard about the pos­si­ble remake of The Karate Kid, and I said to myself, “the plot is sim­ple and to the point, so the odds of get­ting it wrong are slim”. Sadly, I was mis­taken with that assess­ment. The basic premise goes as fol­lows: Sin­gle mom and son move to new home — son has trou­ble fit­ting in — son takes a lik­ing to pop­u­lar girl — boyfriend/bully makes life hard for the son — son meets jan­i­tor who is mar­tials art mas­ter — son learns to fight and beat bully/boyfriend in tour­na­ment or con­test of some sort.  How easy does that sound? It has been used in count­less movies and is usu­ally okay.

I’ll leave you with this: Karate = Japan­ese mar­tial art.  Jackie Chan = Chinese.  The boy =  learn­ing Kung Fu. Oh yeah, and it’s called The Karate Kid. You be the judge:

Trailer Credit: Traileraddict.com

A few months back I had the chance to post some pho­tos regard­ing the upcom­ing A-Team film. After los­ing UFC fighter Quin­ton “Ram­page” Jack­son to the film, I knew there was going to be a ton of buzz from MMA fans as well as A-Team fans. Joined by Liam Nee­son, Bradley Cooper and Sharlto Cop­ley, the A-Team has a great mix of young, hip new­bies as well the pres­ence of a qual­ity actor like Liam Nee­son, which makes the prospect of this movie being suc­cess­ful quite real.

The trailer is mix of an intro to the story and buzz­wor­thy action scenes. My only gripe regard­ing the trailer is a scene involv­ing a tank on a plane. I found the scene to be way too Charlie’s Angels-like in terms of action. I trust the film main­tains the grit, grime and raw appeal that made the A-Team a sta­ple back in the day.

What do you folks think?