A few days ago I posted a sneak peek at the upcom­ing reimag­in­ing of the Preda­tor mythos and while most peo­ple seemed to like the over­all con­cept some of my lis­ten­ers felt that they went beyond typ­i­cal sto­ry­telling and did not rep­re­sent the fran­chise accu­rately. Here is the offi­cial trailer which give a bit more footage than the sneak peak along with a poster. Feel free to share your thoughts in the com­ments below or in the forum.

The Preda­tor films have been a guilty plea­sure of mine for a long time, from the bat­tles with Schwarzeneg­ger and Glover, to the two films bat­tling the Aliens. The Preda­tors them­selves have always had a unique pre­sen­ta­tion to movie fans because they really are anti-heroes and there are times you actu­ally end up root­ing for them.When Robert Rodriguez announced his intent to reboot the fran­chise there was a part of me that was con­cerned because of the cast­ing that was involved, but as I researched the film more, I enjoyed the con­cept Rodriguez was using. In this new inter­pre­ta­tion human “Preda­tors”  and cold blooded killers are taken to a planet which serves as a Preda­tor hunt­ing ground and, of course, it becomes sur­vival of the fittest. I feel that the Preda­tor books as well as the films always focused on the hunt­ing of the strongest prey, and this film con­tin­ues to enforce that.  Here is your sneak peek at the Robert Rodriguez’s Predators.

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.