Share Your Shame: Percy Jackson & The Lightning Thief [2010]

May 14, 2013 No Comments by

In keeping with the spirit of Share Your Shame, I’m going to start with a guilty confession. As  passionate and engaged with the medium of film as I am, as intelligent and reasonable and considered a person I would like to believe myself to be, I have the occasional failing. Despite all the movie pretensions [...]

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Joss Whedon Comments on Firefly Kickstarter Movie

Mar 15, 2013 No Comments

As expected the massive response to the Veronica Mars Movie Kickstarter Campaign has opened the floodgates, yesterday Chuck star Zachary Levi announced on Twitter that he’d like to get a Chuck film funded through Kickstarter much to fans approval. Naturally this caused lots of chatter about the future of Joss Whedon’s beloved (but audience neglected) sci-fi [...]

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New Release DVD: February 11th

Feb 11, 2013 No Comments

Customary greeting! Welcome to this week’s round-up of the new release DVD and Blu Ray. Jumping right in with both feet, SINISTER is from the guys behind pleasingly scary (but balls) Insidious and stars Ethan Hawke as a true crime writer who moves his family into a murder house to research a book he’s writing [...]

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Item 47 Comic Con Poster

Jul 11, 2012 No Comments

Directed by Marvel co-president Louis D’Esposito, the first poster for the 12 minute short film has now been released. The story picks up directly after the climatic battle at the end of The Avengers, S.H.I.E.L.D Agents gather up all the alien technology that crash-landed on in New York City, but one Chitauri weapon has gone [...]

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Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog (2008)

May 10, 2012 2 Comments

Although it’s not strictly a TV show (more on that in a mo), with Joss Whedon’s Marvel  team-up movie Avengers Assemble flying high in the charts it seemed a perfect time to go back and have a look at his first foray into the world of superheroes, the sublime Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog. In 2007, [...]

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