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Daily News 2/23/2013

Posted in News and Editorials, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , on February 23, 2013| Leave a Comment »

CinemaBlend – Bryan Singer Hints About Peter Dinklage’s X-Men: Days Of Future Past Character
“He’ll be himself. Not that he’ll be playing Peter Dinklage, he’ll be playing this character. It’s not a shy character. He’s just such a phenomenal actor; I’m a huge fan of Peter’s and Game of Thrones. He was my first choice and I was really happy [about the casting]. It’s so funny to talk to him because he does that impeccable accent [on Game of Thrones] and then you talk to him and he’s this guy from New Jersey.”

ComicBookMovie – Bryan Singer Teases Return Of  Scott And Jean In X-MEN: DOFP; Hints At Shared Fox Universe
When the site put it to him that a lot of fans would like to see Scott and Jean  return, he teased: “Who wouldn’t? Who wouldn’t? [Laughing] That’s all I can  say. The good news is that we’re all on the same page!”

ComicBookMovie – Bryan Singer Talks About His  Role In X-MEN: FIRST CLASS
“It would be [weird to direct Days of Future Past]  if I didn’t write the story for X-Men: First Class. I wrote the story to that  movie and I produced it and I was instrumental in the casting, in design and  involved in the post-production, so I was part of that movie. I initiated that  movie and originated it so in that way, and worked with Matthew and I was the  one who actually hired Matthew so in a way I feel like I’m not completely  entering someone else’s franchise. I’m entering one that he executed  wonderfully, but one that I was also part of.”

CinemaBlend – Captain America: The Winter Soldier Will Be A Political Thriller

ComicBookMovie – James Gunn Meets With DnA On  GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY

CinemaBlend – Fantastic Four Reboot Adds Matthew Vaughn To Its Team

CinemaBlend – Stan Lee’s New Project Annihilator Brings Us A Chinese Captain America

ComicBookMovie – Doing Business With Marvel Studios – interesting…

CinemaBlend – Watch The Trailer For The Inspirational Batman Doc Legends Of The Knight

CinemaBlend – Megan Fox Joins Michael Bay’s Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Film – I thought these two didn’t get along?

ComicBookMovie – VIDEO GAMES: ESRB Has Rated  Deadpool the Video Game ‘M’ for Mature – anything less would be criminal

io9 – The 8 Incredibly Gross Powers Superman Doesn’t Even Realize He Has

io9 – Real-life Spidey Sense suit tingles when objects get close

Facebook – New Mandarin poster for Iron Man 3

Twitter – James Mangold shares another The Wolverine behind the scenes photo.

io9 – A mash-up of real-life bad guys with comic supervillains

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Daily News: 2/21/2013

Posted in News and Editorials, tagged , , , , , on February 21, 2013| Leave a Comment »

Facebook – New The Wolverine Image – is it just me or is Wolvie looking kinda old?

CinemaBlend – The Amazing Spider-Man 2 Set Gets Invaded By The FBI In New Photo
CinemaBlend – Latest Amazing Spider-Man 2 Set Photo Gets Presidential

CinemaBlend – Sam Raimi Admits He Hasn’t Seen The Amazing Spider-Man

ComicBookMovie – Bryan Singer On MAN OF STEEL; Endorses Nicholas Hoult As A Young Han Solo
“Oh, very excited to see it. I love the trailer, and I think Zack Snyder is incredibly talented,” says Singer. “It would have been strange for me if this was a few years ago; it would have been a little weird. But now there’s so much distance from that world that I’m actually pumped to see it, genuinely. So I’m just looking forward to it.”

Newsarama – 10 Best Comic Book-Based Movie PERFORMANCES of All Time

CinemaBlend – The Avengers Featurette Explores Building A Digital New York

io9 – The Strange, Secret Evolution of Babylon 5

Twitter – Mangold tweets behind the scenes picture from The Wolverine

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Review: Arrow S01E15 “Dodger”

Posted in Reviews, tagged , , , on February 20, 2013| Leave a Comment »

CW's ArrowTL;DR – Captain Old Spice steals the largest Ring Pop ever and Robin, erm, Speedy, makes his entrance.

Seriously, I don’t usually diss on props but that ruby looked like a Ring Pop… like it was candy. It just made me laugh.

Moving on, nice to see Captain Old Spice (or Baltar if you must) on the screen again, but much like Crichton, what a waste of the man’s talents. The Dodger must be pretty slick though because how in the world did he get that collar on Felicity without her kicking him or at least screaming, cause I’m pretty sure she could have easily just jumped back and shouted and the jig would have been up. But assuming he is that quick, how did he slip it on and not get it caught in her hair?

This episode also sees the introduction of Roy Harper Jr, aka Speedy, though they are probably going to skip the whole Robin-esqe storyline of Roy being adopted by Oliver and jump ahead to Roy being Red Arrow (especially since he was wearing that red hoodie). Not sure how it will play out but we’ll be seeing more of him in the coming episodes. I like how he was snarky with Thea, he didn’t completely win me over but there is promise there.

Overall, there was a distinct lack of Thea and whingeing in this episode, always a plus. The constant need to put Oliver into some kind of relationship… thing… has already worn its welcome. The flashback was again a pointless waste of space, okay, so Oliver made a tough choice, thank you, we get that, it’s not like we can’t infer it from the fact he spent five years on the island with a bunch of psychopaths.

Still, Felicity has shown herself to be the heart of the group and that made the first half of the episode rather enjoyable. Things are definitely looking up as that’s two episodes in a row that haven’t made me scream WTF or STFU, let’s hope this continues and the quality starts to rise. With China White back in the mix (and with better hair), things should get interesting.

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DOFP goes from Model to Practical

Posted in News and Editorials, tagged , on February 20, 2013| Leave a Comment »

Bryan Singer has tweeted a new photo:

It seems that it could be the practical set for the model that he tweeted a little less than a month ago:

No word yet as to what this building is. Speculation is this is Xavier’s underground facility and that is the most likely bet at this juncture. It will depend what these walls get painted and fitted with. If it’s shiny grey, then we have our answer.

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Daily News: 2/19/2013

Posted in News and Editorials, tagged , , , , , on February 19, 2013| Leave a Comment »

TVLine – Joss Whedon Talks of ‘Hopeful’ S.H.I.E.L.D. Pilot, Plans for Maria Hill and Other Marvel Characters
“Whedon says to expect “not a ton” of familiar faces from the Marvel-verse, though “there’s a little bit of talk of that” for any possible future the project has in primetime. “Right now, I want to involve people in the characters that we’ve created for the show,”  Whedon said, “and then we’ll worry about [the other stuff].”” – Arrow atm the does suffer from cameoitis where names are just thrown at the screen without any depth at all, so good to see S.H.I.E.L.D. won’t try to the same gimick, at least at first.

ComicBookMovie – Micro-News: Joss Whedon On Growing Up Marvel, Agent Sitwell Teases A Return And More

CinemaBlend – Spawn Reboot Still In The Works With Animated Series Planned To Follow

Newsarama – 10 Best Comic Book-Based Movie PERFORMANCES of All Time

ComicBookMovie – The First Trailer For MORTAL KOMBAT: LEGACY Season 2 Now Online

CinemaBlend – Iron Man 3 Character Poster Suggests Much Bigger Role For Guy Pearce

Bleeding Cool – The Iron Man 3 Collectors’ 3D Glasses – Four Different Styles On Offer

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Singer tweets DOFP Wheelchairs

Posted in News and Editorials, tagged , , , on February 18, 2013| Leave a Comment »

Bryan Singer has tweeted an image of Xavier’s iconic wheelchairs, but has anyone else noticed that there is a poster for The Wolverine on the wall of the cubicle behind them?

Specifically this one.

The Wolverine International Poster

The Wolverine International Poster

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Review: Arrow S01E14 “The Odyssey”

Posted in Reviews, tagged , , on February 18, 2013| Leave a Comment »

CW's Arrow

I think this may have been the best episode yet… I’m kinda annoyed now I waited so long to sit down and watch it.

I know I’ve been putting down the flashbacks a lot but in this episode the flashback is the A-plot while Diggle and IT-Girl Felicity are the B-plot. The flashback itself is a complete story from beginning to end and actually gives us really useful insight not only on Oliver, but on Slade, Yao-Fei and Fyers. Here the flashback is more than just random window-dressing. As for Diggle and Felicity (too bad Black Cat is Marvel), sure, they are mostly just standing around doing exposition but at least these two actors can keep it from being too boring as Diggle is just awesome and Felicity is also, well, awesome.

There was also no ‘cameo villain’ in this episode, instead existing villains are given a bit more depth and the overall plot arc is explored. As a special bonus, Thea is not really in the episode and there is a distinct lack of whining. Oh, there was still whining at the end (Arrow, dur, your mom was playing you so she could get the gun) but it’s not thrown at us every five seconds with long speeches.

Oh, speaking of mom… dang! Now where know where Oliver gets it.

Now, it wasn’t an awesome episode by any stretch, but I wasn’t screaming at it every five seconds, telling people to shut up, or shouting ‘oh, come on!’. They did take better care putting this episode together and if they can keep that going and work on it then Arrow could start getting up to the level it should be.

Lastly, I was remiss in not pointing out last episode that notably Oliver killed (or at least seriously maimed) all those hired guns but the bad guy is just cuffed and sent off (I know he stopped the dad but why didn’t he do it himself? He said so himself that is what guys like him do, not cops, even though that cop willfully followed Arrow knowing that people were going to get hurt so I think the moral high-ground was already lost in the shuffle).

I need to find the article and reblog it, but they writer pointed out that Arrow is not about ‘the little guy’ cause he does seem to do this, kill the hired guns but let the rich get away without a scratch to either ‘clean up’ or ‘get arrested’… and we all know how well it turns out for rich people who get arrested… rather well for them actually.

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Fan Fiction Writing Workshop – Part 4

Posted in Press Releases, tagged , on February 18, 2013| Leave a Comment »

I’ve uploaded Part 4 of my Fan Fiction Writing Workshop. It is entitled “Setting and World Building: I Am So Lost…”

In this section I go over how to pick the location for your fan fiction, how much description is too much when you’re writing in a world that has already been established, and tips on how to create your own new location/world. I could have literally wrote pages and pages, but hopefully I’ve condensed it enough to get across the major points.

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Review: Uncanny X-Men #1

Posted in Reviews, tagged , , on February 16, 2013| 1 Comment »

Uncanny X-Men #1The last Uncanny X-Men run was short and ended on a pretty high note, I was sorry to see it go. So when the new run started, I wanted to give it a chance.

It was… interesting.

We know Scott Summers has lost his mind (or doing what needs to be done depending on what side you want to take) and is leading a bit of a mutant revolution. In his gang is Emma, Magneto, Illyana and a couple of newbies, all of which got swanky new uniforms. Which brings me to a side note: Emma Frost wearing something other than white… is this a sign of the apocalypse?

Not a whole lot happens in this story, action wise, and that’s okay, because it’s a very nice set up story. Someone, who remains in the shadows, is telling Director Hill all about Scott Summers and how he’s barely holding it all together. That someone… is Magneto.

Yeah, if Magneto thinks you’re arrogant and a ‘murdering monster’ who needs to be stopped… you got problems.

So like I said, interesting turn of events, we shall see how they play out.

Oh, as for ol’ Mags… what happened to your hair?!? Rogue dump you so you decided to try the Bruce Willis look?

 

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Review: Wolverine & the X-Men #25

Posted in Reviews, tagged , , , on February 15, 2013| Leave a Comment »

Wolverine & and the X-Men #25I heart you Quentin Quire. Just goes to show I have bad tastes in men.

Yes, this latest issue of WatX is about getting Wolverine’s brother, Dog, on the scene and setting up for some brotherly butt-kicking, but really, Quentin is the star of WatX #25.

The whole concept of the story arc is Wolverine decides to take a ‘tough love’ approach to some of the problematic and soft students (seemingly proving Mystique’s point from All-New X-Men and being a bit hypocritical towards disagreeing with old Cyclops view of child-rearing). Logan decides that instead of doing one of those weekend camping trips, he’d just drop him into the middle of the Savage Land and let them find their way back to the Blackbird.

Quentin, for his part, tried to be responsible, but his tact was definitely lacking. He’s not an inherently bad person. He acts like a rebel and anarchist but in reality, if he truly wanted to leave then he could have already done so, or destroyed the school. He’s shown on more than one occasion that when it comes down to the wire, he’ll do the right thing… or a close proximity there of.

Logan says it’s because Quentin likes being the big fish in the little pond of the Jean Grey School… but I think it’s more of Quentin not really knowing how else to be. Plus being the rebel is pretty fun.

Quentin Quire really could be the next great Anti-Hero in the X-Men franchise… if he can survive the Jean Grey School.

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