Each year for C2E2, Revolution Brewing creates Galaxy Hero beer, for 2016 the brewery has also launched an official comic book.
Galaxy Hero, the exclusive beer that shoots a raygun blast of Galaxy and Zythos hops into your mouth, will once again supply superhero adults with a refreshing treat throughout the weekend at C2E2. The beer will also be available in the Chicago at the Revolution Brew Pub, (2323 N Milwaukee Ave., 60647), Tap Room (3340 N. Kedzie Ave., 60618), as well as other locations and watering holes throughout the city.
Local artists Max Bare and Melissa Sue Stanley, along with writer David Schneider, banded together with an ample supply of energy, beer and tacos to write, illustrate and produce a new comic book depicting the origin of the Galaxy Hero and an age-old tale of good vs. evil.
Revolution Brewing will hold a panel at C2E2 Beer and Comics’ room S403 on Friday, March 18, from 8 pm – 9 pm. The Galaxy Hero comic creators will join Revolution Brewing character artists and designers Oliver Barrett and Ian Law for a discussion on the development of characters, storytelling, and of course, beer.
You can find out more about the comic and how it was created at the C2E2 Panel, “Beer And Comics”. The Galaxy Hero comic creators will join Revolution Brewing character artists and designers Oliver Barrett and Ian Law for a discussion on the development of characters, storytelling, and of course, beer. The Panel will be in C2E2 room S403 on Friday, March 18, from 8 pm – 9 pm.
C2E2 is held from March 18-20 at McCormick Place in Chicago.
Yes, of course there will be spoilers here. We’re talking about the end!
10 Cloverfield Lane is a tremendous film, a claustrophobic and balanced thriller, soaked with paranoia fueling the flames of apprehension. It’s a masterfully-composed chamber horror with stellar performances from Mary Elizabeth Winstead and John Goodman, and a pretty solid supporting turn from John Gallagher Jr.
At least it is for about 85% of the time.
That final reel of 10 Cloverfield Lane is nothing but problematic. As it stands on its own it’s a thrilling showdown between Winstead’s Michelle – free from her very troubled and ultimately layered captor, Howard – and one of the alien ships, or creatures, who has invaded the planet. But that’s precisely the problem, it stands on its own.
The buildup to the final few minutes is some of the most incredible 90 minutes of tension and misdirection I have seen in some time. As Michelle transforms from fearful prisoner, to accepting daughter-figure, to ultimate problem solver with a way to break free from Howard, Winstead never allows her character to lose focus. More observant than interactive, Michelle is forever thinking, moving her eyes as the gears in her brain churn out solutions to problems. Winstead is fabulous. And Goodman does what Goodman does; he is clearly a disturbed person in the end, but we run the gamut of trust and mistrust as Howard’s past reveals itself through deft touches in the screenplay. He is a layered, fascinating antagonist, and Michelle’s escape is earned and cathartic.
But once Howard is out of the picture in the end and Michelle is free outside, everything 10 Cloverfield Lane had worked so feverishly to perfect in the first two (and a half) acts is upended. Now, tension is thrown to the side in lieu of some heavy effects and what seem to be forced action. Michelle spots the alien ship, or creature, roaming the fields outside Howard’s home, and realizes she must now fight off this ship and the sentinel it dropped in the nearby stalks. The complete shift in tone is jarring. A suspenseful thriller has now become an alien invasion action film for the sake of shoving CGI in our face and – feebly – branding this film with the original.
Fine, shift the tones, have Michelle fend off aliens and take off to Houston to help the resistance. But doing it in the final fifteen minutes of a film that had been basically a stage play to that point? It’s a caboose slowing down the entire train. When Michelle jumped on top of Howard’s car and saw the alien craft in the distance, I hoped that would be the final shot. Because it’s chilling to realize Howard was right, and you don’t know Michelle’s next move. Instead we have another ten minutes or so of action that, while well staged, is unsatisfying. And Michelle’s Molotov cocktail into the mouth of the beast is weak. Yes, I know, it’s similar to War of The Worlds. Much of this film is (the first 90 minutes are basically a riff on the Tim Robbins scenes in Spielberg’s film), but War of The Worlds was a large-scale film told on a broad canvas with hundreds of moving parts. And it was a clear allegory for human nature post-9/11. 10 Cloverfield Lane isn’t interested in all that, so aesthetically it may owe itself to Spielberg’s film; emotionally and tonally, it is something entirely separate. At least until the end.
There was another end to the film Collider detailed today, where Michelle finds herself looking over a destroyed Chicago skyline. She removes her gas mask, takes a breath, and the credits roll. This would have been a perfect ending, adding mystery to a film steeped entirely in mystery. But reshoots and rewrites happen in Hollywood. So 10 Cloverfield Lane became part of a brand, a spiritual sequel to an existing film that has less than 1% to do with the first go round. But the movie is solid work from Dan Trachtenberg, a film that deserves credit for creating a thrilling, intimate look at some great characters in a weird situation. It just seems like that final reel was out of his hands in the end.
Star Wars Episode VIII continued filming in Dubrovnik today and with that brought a whole fresh set of photos to along with it. For those who may not have seen yesterday’s article, we posted videos and pictures of what looked to be a land speeder chase. We also wondered why everyone was wearing black. Well, that trend continued today. Let’s take a look but be forewarned; these are certainly spoiler filled pictures that I’m about to post.
Okay, don’t say I didn’t warn all of you.
These costumes seem to have an imperial feel to them. What are your thoughts?
Anyone recognize who’s on what looks to be some space horse? It certainly seems to be Finn and Rey or it could be their stunt doubles. Still check out the guys jacket and tell me that doesn’t look like Finn to you.
A couple of really cool shots of people in these scenes. Again more photos of people in black but the part that sticks out to me is that we have that one lady who’s in white. Who is she? Any theories? Also, we have more men in black robes that look similar to a Jedi robe. Why? Then we, of course, have the group gathered on the street all in black. Is this some funeral that we are witnessing?
Lastly, we have shots that map out an explosive land speeder chase. Who are the actors in these pictures? Stunt doubles?New Actors?
Let us know what you think about all these photos as we continue to countdown the days till Star Wars Episode VIII is released.
CINEMAX announced Monday that Robert Kirkman’s ‘Outcast’ will debut on June 3 with a 10-epiosde first season, and the network also announced it has picked up the series for a second season.
“OUTCAST has been a passion project of mine for many years. Seeing it come together has been a huge thrill for me. What we’ve been able to achieve on CINEMAX, with its unprecedented creative freedom, frankly, almost scares ME at times,” said Kirkman.
“Going into the first season of OUTCAST, we knew that Robert Kirkman had once again created a world that would scare us to our core. But what he, Chris Black and the rest of their team have delivered has exceeded even those high expectations. We believe our viewers will immediately be sucked into OUTCAST’s intense and creepy landscape, which is why we have chosen to pick up a second season,” said Kary Antholis, president, CINEMAX Original Programming.
Outcast is based on the Skybound/Image comic title by creator Robert Kirkman and artist Paul Azaceta. The book follows Kyle Barnes, a young man who has been plagued by demonic possession all his life. Now, with the help of the Reverend Anderson, a preacher who has personal demons of his own, Kyle embarks on a journey to find answers and regain the normal life he lost. But what Kyle discovers could change his fate — and the fate of the world — forever.
CINEMAX also provided character descriptions:
Patrick Fugit stars as Barnes, a man searching for answers, and for redemption, who sequesters himself from those he loves for fear of causing greater hurt.
Philip Glenister stars as Reverend Anderson, a West Virginia evangelist who believes he is a soldier in God’s holy war against the forces of evil on Earth. An inveterate drinker and gambler, he doesn’t believe God intends people to sweat the small stuff.
Gabriel Bateman stars as Joshua Austin, an eight-year-old who lives across town from Kyle. To his family’s dismay, he appears to be in the clutches of demonic possession, but there’s something very different about this possession and its connection to Kyle Barnes.
AMC is at SXSW this week, and the network announced Garth Ennis’ Preacher will make its small screen debut on May 22, following the mid-season finale of Fear the Walking Dead. AMC also released a new poster for the series.
The series follows a West Texas preacher named Jesse Custer, who is inhabited by a mysterious entity that causes him to develop a highly unusual power. Jesse, his badass ex-girlfriend Tulip and an Irish vagabond named Cassidy come together, and when they do, they are thrust into a crazy world populated by a cast of characters from Heaven, Hell and everywhere in between.
Preacher stars Dominic Cooper as Jesse Custer, Joseph Gilgun as Cassidy, Ruth Negga as Tulip, Lucy Griffiths as Emily, W. Earl Brown as Sherriff Root, Anatol Yusef as DeBlanc, Tom Brooke as Fiore, Derek Wilson as Donnie Schenck and Ian Colletti as Arseface, and Jackie Earle Haley as Odin Quincannon.
AMC’s Preacher is an adaptation of the comic book series of the same name created by Garth Ennis and Steve Dillon and published by DC Comics’ Vertigo imprint.
The 10-episode season was developed for television by Seth Rogen & Evan Goldberg
Since its premier at the 2015 Cannes Film Festival the French thriller Disorder (Maryland in France and Belgium) has garnered a lot of praise, competing for the Un Certain Regard section and being one of Variety’s top 21 movies at the festival. It is worthy of most of the praise.
Vincent (Matthias Schoenaerts) is a French soldier who is suffering from hearing loss and Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. He also moonlights as a private security contractor in between missions and after working the security detail for a wealthy Lebanese businessman, Whalid’s (Percy Kemp) party he is hired to protect Whalid’s wife (Diane Kruger) and their young son, (Zaïd Errougui-Demonsant) while he is away. But Whalid’s dodgy business dealing start to catch up with him and Vincent’s simple job seems to become more complicated. Or is it a case of Vincent’s paranoia running amok? Disorder is the second feature from writer/director Alice Winocour and shows she is a filmmaker with great potential. With Disorder she delivers A compelling psychological thriller with a realistic social twist. It is a surprisingly effective mix as it provides the thrills and drama. At the beginning of the movie, the doctor asks Vincent to return if he suffers from anxiety or hallucinations which leads to questions about whether there really is a conspiracy or if it’s just a figment of Vincent’s imagination.
Winocour gives Disorder a down beat look – one of the first scenes in the movies is Vincent undergoing medical tests, followed by him nearly losing it on a bus and going to his rundown apartment in a rough estate. It sets out a bleak tone, and it is kept throughout the movie. Even when Vincent enters into the wealthy Maryland estate there is a voyeuristic quality as he looks at Kruger’s character who remains nameless for most of the movie. When Vincent observes Kruger and the rest of the house through the security cameras, it was very reminiscent of the excellent British film Red Road, using the cameras to follow Kruger and others while also acting as a way to see events in the house.
Most of Disorder is told through Vincent’s eyes. It is focused on the relationship with Kruger. Any information about Whalid and his criminal activities is kept in the background, either overhearing Whalid and his guests at the party or through news reports. There is an element of political corruption which explains a lack of action from the police and the spectre of crime and political corruption is kept ever-present. But the focus is on the relationship between Vincent and Kruger – they are just pawns in a larger scheme, and their only objective is to survive. There are not planning to expose a conspiracy.
Violence is infrequent in Disorder but when it does appear it is quick and very brutal. Disorder has a very realistic depiction of violence, when people get stabbed or shot it has an impact as blood splatters on the walls. There is no glorification of the violence; we are not meant to cheer when it shown on screen – it is shown to be a struggle for life and death, and there is shock when an act is committed or seen. Vincent is a soldier, and he is shown to be very skilled when fighting off attackers and can break limbs with the best of them. This is the biggest concession Winocour makes to the genre’s tropes. Disorder has two excellent leads. Schoenaerts is best to English language audiences for his roles in The Drop, Suite Française and Far from the Madding Crowd, but he truly shows his range as Vincent. Schoenaerts was able to portray Vincent’s psychological distress, having small outbursts of anger and acting irrationally, putting others in danger. He was perfect at being the unhinged soldier and the unflinching badass. Kruger was great at giving Vincent looks of disdain and holds him in contempt but depends on the soldier to protect her and her son – warming to him as the movie progresses.
Disorder is a taut thriller that has the look and feel of a gritty European drama while also being a strong character study and an intriguing thriller. It delivers with some hard hitting action sequences and shows that Alice Winocour is a filmmaker to watch, whether she decides to work in action, drama or horror.
Warner Bros. released an international trailer Sunday night for Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice. The new trailer features new scenes from the battle between the two heroes, and you even get a smile from The Caped Crusader.
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Fearing the actions of a god-like Super Hero left unchecked, Gotham City’s own formidable, violent vigilante takes on Metropolis’s most revered, modern-day savior while the world wrestles with what sort of hero it needs. And with Batman and Superman at war with one another, a new threat quickly arises, putting the world in greater danger.
Batman v. Superman: Dawn Of Justice stars Henry Cavill, Amy Adams, Jason Momoa, Ben Affleck, Jesse Eisenberg, Gal Gadot, Jena Malone, Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Diane Lane, Ezra Miller, Jeremy Irons, Holly Hunter, Michael Shannon, and Laurence Fishburne.
Batman v. Superman: Dawn Of Justice has a worldwide release on March 25.
In this week’s The Walking Dead, we got to focus on a lot of the show’s strong female characters. Carol and Maggie played the protagonists throughout the episode, clashing with TWD newbie Paula and her female Savior squad. We’ve still not met the mysterious, murderous Negan, but the show is doing an excellent job of building up the legend of Negan ahead of his appearance. Instead of giving us Negan, however, The Walking Dead reintroduced us to Carol and gave an excellent look at how her character has changed since the beginning of this season.
I was very on edge when they began messing with Carol’s character formula. Sure, her harsh words essentially got Sam & his family killed, but it was still working for her very well. Since Sam’s death and her standoff with Morgan, The Walking Dead has begun softening those edges, and Carol’s been doing out of character things, like kissing Tobin’s face and keeping a death toll diary. When they tried working this in on last week’s episode, it felt forced and messy. This episode, however, really solidified what their goals are for Carol going on from here. The new Carol hasn’t entirely lost her killer instincts – she was able to cut herself free and kill the Saviors that had her. But it’s now a ruthlessness informed by necessity and motherly instinct. She was more than willing to let Paula walk free, but once Maggie’s baby was threatened by Michelle (not Michonne), Carol didn’t hesitate to go for the kill shot. It’s not that she’s abandoned her fighting spirit for religion and beet cookies. She’s a conflicted character, seeing the opportunity presented by Maggie’s pregnancy as a chance to redo her mothering of Sam. Or Sophia. Or maybe Lizzie & Mika.
The only possible downside to Carol’s transformation is that Maggie seems to be taking the same path of development as Carol. Certainly not to the same extreme – Maggie wanted Paula to get shot down the moment she was in range. But neither Carol nor Maggie felt good after barbecuing the remaining Saviors, and Maggie’s final line for the episode cinched that she wasn’t feeling too hot (get it?). It’s another informed change, as Maggie’s now got the life of her child to consider as well. But the fact that it’s coming along at the same time as Carol makes it feel cheaper. Not to mention the fact that a similar loss of bloodlust is taking place in her husband Glenn, too. Maggie just had an incredible scene where she dominates Gregory and gets the group half of Hilltop’s supplies. Will Maggie be abandoning this bold, authoritative figure once her child’s been born? And thinking of the cast as a whole, are we getting to a point where more and more characters can’t bear to kill? The Walking Dead is, after all, a show about dead people attacking alive people, so there’s got to be a good number of people making a stand to keep the momentum going.
The way I can see this concept working is through this episode’s reveal of who Negan is – or rather, who “Negan” are. The Saviors bringing out this “we’re all Negan” concept is pretty interesting, in what this sets up for their personalities. We already know there’s a definitive Negan that will exist, but the concept of a whole group of people embracing the same name of a brutal, bloody killer sets up a new group war that promises to be the fully fleshed out conflict that we never really got with the Wolves. If the group does let themselves get soft, with their children and home base and reignited love lives, it could make for a particularly bloody encounter to end the season. That’s how it can set up for an interesting argument – that once the Alexandrians have gotten comfortable in their new roles and new home, only to have The Negans take it all away. And when that day comes, the Alexandrians had better hope they have their killer instincts. As well as their rocket launchers.
You may be a little preoccupied with the release of Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice and Captain America: Civil War, but there is this small movie coming out this summer with four turtles, Rocksteady, BeBop, Krang, and the Shredder.
Brian Tee who plays Shredder released an image of Shredder on Instagram from the new sequel that is more in line with the orginal series.
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows is directed by David Green, from Josh Appelbaum and André Nemec’s script, and stars Megan Fox, Will Arnett, Alan Ritchson, Noel Fisher, Pete Ploszek, Jeremy Howard, Stephen Amell, Tyler Perry, Brian Tee, Laura Linney, Sheamus, and Gary Anthony Williams.
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows will be in theaters on June 3, 2016.
Star Wars: Episode VIII has been filming in Dubrovnik since March 9th. Thanks to some very friendly Croatians, we now can show you some video and some pictures from the set. Let’s start with this video.
My guess is that this stunt man maybe in some sort chase and gets knocked off that staircase by either a vehicle (this will make sense in a minute) or he’s force pushed. Click on the link below for the next Instagram video.
