The Dark Knight Rises Photos & Videos Aplenty!

Lots and lots of photos and videos for The Dark Knight Rises coming out since Nolan and the team recently started shooting in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Bunch of photos below, and a video too!

Justin Timberlake’s In Time for Comic Con

IGN has posted this interesting little trailer which aired at Comic Con today for Justin Timberlake‘s new movie In Time.

The film explores the idea of a world where ‘time’ has replaced hard cash as currency. Every grows up to the age of 25, then stops aging… The kicker is that everyone is genetically engineered to only live to 26… Unless you can accrue some additional time credit, then you get to live forever – or at least until your clock runs out. Literally.

Also stars Cillian Murphy (Batman Begins, 28 Days Later), Olivia Wilde (House, Cowboys & Aliens) and Vincent Kartheiser (Mad Men, Angel). Nice interesting concept, and should be one to look out for!

In Time is due for release in the UK on 1st November 2011.

Pre-orders galore in the Star Wars Universe!

Couple of interesting little bits have been release recently for all the Star Wars fans out there.

STAR WARS: THE COMPLETE SAGA on Blu-ray!

STAR WARS: THE COMPLETE SAGA ON BLU-RAY

First is the announcement that STAR WARS: THE COMPLETE SAGA will be released on Blu-ray on September 12th 2011, and if you pre-order it, you’ll get yourself a limited edition Star Wars Sentiype™, contains a unique 35mm film frame reproduced from the original film footage using state-of-the-art imaging and printing techniques.  The film frame is mounted and features original artwork from the Star Wars Blu-ray collection.  Each senitype™ is numbered for authenticity.

The comprehensive collection also features numerous deleted, extended and alternate scenes, new documentaries and a cross-section of the countless Star Wars spoofs that have appeared in pop culture over the past three decades. Marking the first time ever that the full Saga is available in one complete collection, STAR WARS: THE COMPLETE SAGA ON BLU-RAY also features a coveted peek into the making of the Saga with vintage documentaries, audio commentaries, behind-the-scenes moments, interviews, prop and costume turnarounds, retrospectives and more.

The Limited Edition Star Wars® Sentiype™ is available whilst stocks last from: Amazon, Play, HMV, The Hut and Tesco

Star Wars: The Old Republic Pre-order now Live!

Star Wars: The Old Republic Pre-Order

The second bit of news is the the long, long awaited Star Wars: The Old Republic is now available for pre-order from Amazon, Game, Play, and EA’s Origin online store. It comes in 3 flavours – The Collectors Edition, The Digital Deluxe Edition, and The Standard Edition. All 3 pre-orders get the Color Stone, which changes the color of your Lightsaber blade and blaster bolts, and more importantly, early game access!

The Star Wars: The Old Republic Digital Deluxe Edition is availible from EA’s Origin online store at £59.99, and gives you 7 Additional Digital Items including:

• Flare Gun
• Training Droid
• HoloDancer
• HoloCam
• STAP
• Exclusive Mouse Droid
• Exclusive Collector’s Edition Store

Game are selling the Star Wars: The Old Republic Collectors Edition (£129.99) which comes with:

• Exclusive Gentle Giant Darth Malgus statue
• Game disks collectible metal case
• The Journal of Master Gnost-Dural as annotated by Satele Shan
• The Old Republic galaxy map
• Custom Security Authentication Key
• Music of Star Wars: The Old Republic CD
• High-quality Collector’s Edition box

Amazon, and Play are selling the standard Star Wars: The Old Republic edition for £39.99.

Still no actual release date for Star Wars: The Old Republic, but given the hype that’s going to be around in Sept over the blu-ray releases, and the news of Star Wars Galaxies closing in December, it’s a pretty safe bet were going to be seeing SW:KotOR at some point between Sept and Dec this year!

Real Official Dark Knight Rises Trailer

This time it’s officially been released by WB, it’s the full Dark Knight Rises Trailer

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Richard Armitage as Thorin Oakenshield Revealed!

Richard Armitage as Thorin Oakenshield

Last but certainly not least of dwarves from The Hobbit is finally revealed – Richard Armitage as Thorin Oakenshield! Thorin is leader of the Company of Dwarves, and was the son of Thráin II, the King of Durin’s Folk in their exile from Erebor, and the grandson of King Thrór. The sword Thorin is wielding in that picture is Orcrist (goblin-cleaver).

So there you have it! All 13 of the dwarves from Peter Jackson’s The Hobbit!

12 Dwarves From The Hobbit (click to enlarge)

Review: James Gunn’s Super

Super - Out on Blu-ray and DVD on 1st August 2011

Super is the latest film from Troma alumni James Gunn, and it follows the story of Frank D’Arbo (played by The US Office’s Rainn Wilson). Frank is a pretty normal guy – he’s got a house, a crappy job, a belief in God, and a recovering drug addict wife Sarah (played by Liv Tyler). Is he happy? No, not really… but he’s okay with that. It’s all ‘fine’ until the dastardly Jacques (Kevin Bacon in true weaselly evil form) turns up and steals Sarah away from him and gets her hooked back on the white stuff.

At this point Frank becomes somewhat unhinged and after a rather visceral vision from god (aided along by a great cameo from the ever watchable Nathon Fillion as The Holy Avenger), Frank decides to become The Crimson Bolt! Armed with only his trusty pipe wrench he’ll rid the city of scum, and get back his girl!

Super is the sort of low-budget independent film making that really brings writer/director Gunn back to his Troma roots. On the one hand it has an extremely dark tone with some very twisted sensibilities, on the other, some lighter comic moments. However, neither seem to gel particularly well and hit the darkly-comic target it seems to be aiming for.

Rainn Wilson is passable as the lead, but for me works much better once Ellen Page arrives as the rather neurotic Libby (aka Boltie). Not only does she give Wilson someone to bounce off, but also steal the movie from under him. Kevin Bacon turns in a nice balance of slimey evil mixed with a jittery deviousness as the villain of the piece, whilst Liv Tyler is perfectly fine during her extremely brief screen time.

I have been desperately trying to ignore the Kick-Ass shaped elephant in the room, but you really can’t review Super without some comparison to the aforementioned ‘reality superhero’ film. Gunn apparently had been working on a script for Super since 2002, but as Matthew Vaughn’s movie beat Super to the punch, it makes Gunn’s film look like an attempt to cash in, even though I know that’s not the case.

Overall Super is a strange, off-the-wall little film. Dark yes, but not quite comic enough to balance it out. Some good performances from Page and Bacon, and I can’t help but cheer any time Fillion pops up in a movie (he SO should have been Green Lantern). But the lack of cohesion in the direction and story lets it down. I really wanted to like this film, I just wish it had been a bit more… well… Super…

Super is out on Blu-ray and DVD on 1st August 2011

6/10 – An Off-the-wall B movie that very dark, but not so comic.

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