Archive for the ‘Comicbook’ Category

WOLVERINE PREVIEW: Turns out Hugh Jackman actually IS Wolverine

Tuesday, April 28th, 2009

With interviews with Hugh Jackman, Liev Schreiber, Ryan Reynolds, Daniel Henney and director Gavin Hood, the advanced preview clips we’ve got for you from Wolverine are high octane, funny, and classic Wolverine; just the thing to make Matt want to grow a mean set of mutton chops year round!

It’s been three movies of watching Logan share the screen with other mutants while we pretended he wasn’t the main character… and now we don’t have to pretend anymore. X-Men Origins: Wolverine centres on everyone’s favourite Candian Ball of Berserker Rage, and makes no apologies for it. With Hugh Jackman producing the film as well as starring, it looks like the man who might just know Logan best is shouldering a lot of the responsibility in bringing us his origin story well.

~Matt + Nat

REVIEW: “X-Men Origins – Wolverine” Workprint

Saturday, April 11th, 2009

Thanks to an industry contact who has to remain nameless, we’ve managed to get our hands on a copy of the much publicized Wolverine Workprint… and boy do we have some things to say about it! Some good, some not so good, but this version is by no means the final film we’ll be seeing in theatres in May. It, in fact, is the version that lead to Fox commissioning millions of dollars in re-shoots and changes. Will that make it better? Worse? There’s no way to know yet, but this will give us some rare insight to the process of making a blockbuster!

~Matt + Nat

WATCHMEN REVIEW: Oh-oh Alan… it was good. REALLY good.

Thursday, March 12th, 2009

More positive than we were expecting with an ending that just might take Alan Moore to school. And we’re saying ALL that without seeing all the extra DVD-released scenes that have been shot with Hollis Mason, Sally Jupiter– oh yeah and the Black Freighter! So you can bet this will be the first of at least two reviews we’ll be doing of Watchmen. Once that DVD comes out, we’ll be getting an even more accurate, comprehensive and faithful adaptation.

~Matt + Nat

WATCHMEN PREVIEW: Can it Live Up to the Source Material?

Friday, February 27th, 2009

We’ve had our eye on this project for YEARS, literally, and we couldn’t have more anticipation and enthusiasm for this film if we tried. Mostly because we’ve been fans of the graphic novel for as long as we can remember, and the pressure couldn’t be higher for Snyder to deliver a truly great movie from the greatest graphic novel of all time.

~Matt + Nat

THE SPIRIT REVIEW: It’s Better Than You’ve Been Told!

Thursday, January 1st, 2009

When we went to the theatre, neither of us really wanted to be there… possibly lower expectations than we’ve ever had for any film ever. Maybe that’s why we enjoyed “The Spirit” more than anyone we’ve talked to. It’s a film noir comicbook that takes Frank Miller’s last film, “Sin City”, and re-applies every single trick he knows to great effect. Despite all the poor reviews for it, we think that if you liked “Sin City”, there’s really no reason that you’d dislike “The Spirit”!

~Matt + Nat

PUNISHER REVIEW: War Zone Splits the Geeks!

Monday, December 8th, 2008

It’s a completely two-sided review for Punisher: War Zone, with one of us madly in love with the dark live-action romp through the pages of Marvel Knights favourite hero, and the other simply unimpressed with comic violence pushed past the point of enjoyable. Where do your feelings fall on this third installment of the Punisher franchise?

~Matt + Nat