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.

With the great suc­cess that Iron Man became, we knew that Mar­vel was going to con­tinue the exploits of Tony Stark on the sil­ver screen. A few days ago I put up the poster for Iron Man 2, which showed the debut of War Machine. Fol­low­ing the release of that poster we were treated to a another one of Mickey Rourke as Whiplash. The buzz sur­round­ing Iron Man has been huge and will con­tinue to grow by leaps and bounds until the release of the film.

The newest pro­mo­tion for Iron Man is a viral mar­ket­ing cam­paign where fans are given the task of decod­ing secret mes­sages. One of the first pic­tures had a silou­ette of what appears to be Bruce Ban­ner. Whether I am right or wrong will be revealed in the com­ing months. For now feast your eyes on the trailer for Iron Man 2.

Enjoy!

When you hear Rid­ley Scott & Rus­sell Crowe in the same sen­tence you think of the mas­ter­piece known as Glad­i­a­tor. Crowe and Scott  are col­lab­o­rat­ing for the fifth time to bring the leg­end of Robin Hood to life. To me, the Robin Hood sto­ries never play out well on the sil­ver screen — with the only excep­tions being Robin Hood from Dis­ney as well as both Errol Flynn and Kevin Costner’s inter­pre­ta­tions. This newest adap­ta­tion looks to bor­row from the film style of Glad­i­a­tor and adds a bit more blood­shed which to me isn’t a bad thing.  With an all-star cast, Robin Hood may be a suit­able hero to walk in the foot­steps of Max­imus. What do you think? Share your thoughts below.

Ever since I was a kid I was always a fan of greek mythol­ogy and I watched most of the movies based on those sto­ries grow­ing up.One of the movies I remem­ber the most was the 1981 clas­sic Clash Of The Titans which at the time had some of the great­est spe­cial effects i’d ever seen.Not only did I become a huge fan of this movie,but I also was intro­duced to the work of Ray Har­ry­hausen who did mem­o­rable spe­cial effects for other movies I enjoyed. When I first heard they doing a remake of this clas­sic film like always I cringed at the thought of another child­hood favorite  being ruined. My only com­fort was that the modern-day spe­cial effects would make a great story better.

After learn­ing about the cast which includes

• Sam Wor­thing­ton as Perseus
• Liam Nee­son as Zeus
• Ralph Fiennes as Hades
• Gemma Arter­ton as Io

With a solid cast I fig­ured it was going to be good. After see­ing the trailer I see this movie doing the orig­i­nal jus­tice. While they may go crazy with effects if the over­all story stays true to the orig­i­nal I think it’ll make money.It’s nice to see the new gen­er­a­tion get intro­duced to an old favorite.

Check out both the trailer for the 81 clas­sic as well as the nice and new 2010 version.Enjoy!

With the pop­u­lar­ity of comic movies and lack of cre­ativ­ity from hol­ly­wood a new trend is start­ing. That trend is movies based on niche char­ac­ters. From Spawn to Con­stan­tine to Wanted to the upcom­ing Jonah Hex and Preacher niche comics are becom­ing the new “it” thing to make movies from. While I can give hol­ly­wood shit for the what they are doing I actu­ally have enjoyed these films because the char­ac­ters they are based on have more adult con­tent and most direc­tors stick to the story for the most part.

In the same vein as Wanted I present Kick-Ass( Based on the pop­u­lar Icon comic of the same name) a movie about a kid who wants to be hero and has no idea what he’s got­ten him­self into. Mark Mil­lar who cre­ated Wanted brought his own brand of humor and social awk­ward­ness to Kick-Ass that was so preva­lent in Wanted.

Based on the trailer I see a ton of poten­tial for another comic book to trans­late well into film. Do you agree/disagree?