Spectre is believed to be Daniel Craig’s last film in the James Bond franchise and Idris Elba is getting a ton of fan and Hollywood support to be the first OO7 of color, but British tabloid newspaper The Daily Mirror is reporting that Damian Lewis has been given “an unofficial nod” that he is the first choice if Craig should step down.
“If Daniel Craig leaves, it’s Damian Lewis who will be crowned the new Bond. He is seen as an all-round international star who is perfect for the role. As he ages, he looks increasingly suave and sophisticated,” said source at the Mirror.
Lewis is best known for his roles in Band of Brothers and Homeland. The actor is also 44-years-old and might be a bit old to wrap a franchise around.
About Spectre: A cryptic message from Bond’s past sends him on a trail to uncover a sinister organization. While M battles political forces to keep the secret service alive, Bond peels back the layers of deceit to reveal the terrible truth behind SPECTRE.
Spectre is directed by Sam Mendes, and stars Daniel Craig, Léa Seydoux, Monica Bellucci, Ralph Fiennes, Christoph Waltz, Dave Bautista, Andrew Scott, Naomie Harris, Stephanie Sigman, and Ben Whishaw as Q.
It’s important to remember that regardless of how many great shows any single season may have, we must also fill our quota of terrible shows. I’ve given us a couple of those. But hopefully, this action, drama, fantasy, romance, ecchi, martial arts, school life show Rakudai Kishi no Cavalry (translated as A Chivalry of the Failed Knight) will be the last.
Synopsis: “Magic Knights are modern magic-users who fight with weapons converted from their souls. Ikki Kurogane goes to a school for these Magic Knights, but he is the ‘Failed Knight’ or ‘Worst One’ who is failing because he has no magical skills. However, one day, he is challenged to a duel by Stella, a foreign princess and the ‘Number One’ student. In this duel, ‘the loser must be obedient for life.'” (Source)
Despite being surprisingly well animated, the rest of the show looks… meh. In all honestly, the promise of quality seems all over the place. We have Silver Link, which has done good stuff like Penguindrum, Kokoro Connect, and even Watamote, but the also have Fate/kaleid liner Prisma Illya and Shomin Sample. The director has done good stuff like both ef: a tale of shows, and even Watamote, but he’s also done Fate/kaleid liner Prisma Illya.
Quick! How do we get people to realize our show is trashy?
Another comment of concern is the naming. Sometimes it’s Rakudai Kishi no Cavalry, others it’s Rakudai Kishi no Chivalry, and I’ve also seen it as Rakudai Kishi no Eiyuutan. But hey, at the very least you’ll get a good looking stupid ecchi harem, which is more than what most of the others can say.
Rakudai Kishi no Cavalry will begin airing October 3rd, 2015, for the Fall 2015 season.
Anna Paquin who sports a Rogue Twitter profile picture tweeted Sunday night that she will not be in the Channing Tatum’s X-Men spin-off Gambit. This makes sense as the first film will probably deal with Gambit’s origin and Rogue doesn’t show up till later.
As of now, Gambit has no director and appears to be hanging on by a thread. The film could introduce that romance that is Rogue and Gambit but FOX has to find a director and the rest of the cast together first. Gambit is supposed to start filming in early 2016.
The elegant death and decay of our natural world during Fall is perfectly mirrored through the gut-munching destruction horror films provide. Horror and Fall go together like children and piles of leaves (add a hidden serial killer to that pile of leaves and voila, instant horror). Like the ways in which we celebrate the season, each person takes to horror films differently than the next. I posit that no one actually hates horror, they just prefer a particular brand of the genre. The most benign pieces of art and entertainment almost always involve horrific elements because fear is such a universally evocative feeling.
Bringing friends together and watching horror movies is a cornerstone of autumnal celebration. It is key that when curating these events that you understand who your audience is. Challenging your established opinions is always a great approach toward entertainment, but you also want to try to provide your friends with a good time and not show your arachnophobic friend, Arachnophobia.
Here are 5 types of friends you probably hold very dear to your lives, and recommendations based on the type of horror they’ll dig:
1. The Significant Other/Date You’re Trying to Impress
Whether they’re the loves of your lives, or a crush on a Friday night, introducing horror into a romantic situation can make for a very stressful choice. You want to show them that you have style and taste, all with a good sense of fun. You want to be cautious, not wanting to totally freak them out (you better leave that Region Free DVD of Cannibal Holocaustin the box under your bed where it belongs–for now.) but adventurous, proving you aren’t a total wuss.
Darren Aronofsky‘s 2010 film has the perfect amount of psychological, supernatural and body horror, with the cerebral qualities that give you plenty to discuss when it’s over. Even if you’ve seen it before, Black Swan is great on a rewatch, discovering each bit of insanity as it creeps into the edges of the frame. The balance of the ballet-centric plot with the allure of Natalie Portman and Mila Kunis‘ riveting performances makes this film appealing for all people. This one allows you to show off some art house film-cred along with your steel nerves.
2. Big-Game-Talking Buddy Who’s Got It All Figured Out
I have three words for you: Shock and Awe.
You want to absolutely annihilate this person. They go into horror films with a level of braggadocio reserved for battle rappers in 8 Mile. They’re smarter than you, they’ve always “seen it coming” and they laugh at your visible emotions. Of course they’re masking their own fear and everyone around them knows it, but you want to take delight in finally being the person to bring the giant down to earth. Don’t worry about going too far here. This person is likely stubborn enough to stick around in your friend group no matter what you do to them.
Remember that box you keep under your bed, hopefully chained shut, the contents inside being hidden by something seemingly innocuous? I want you to take that box and unleash all of its horrifying contents upon this soul.
Each of these films serve up some of the most grotesque imagery in cinema. You might find it difficult to get through Audition or Visitor Q by Miike due to the absolute absurdity of the Japanese director’s visions, but trust that his work will get the job done.
The Last House on the Left provides you not just with an awful tale of sexual abuse and revenge, but a window into the creation of one of horror’s greatest legends, Wes Craven.
Cannibal Holocaust‘s director, Ruggero Deodato was arrested and charged for murder because it had been thought he actually filmed the real murders of his cast. Italian authorities thought this was a snuff film. That is all I have to say.
Pick one and go wild.
3. Needs To Be Tricked Into Watching a Horror Movie
These friends discuss what they would do in horrific situations mostly by saying, “Uh-uh. I’m getting out of there. I don’t have time for that.” I think this group has more courage than they give themselves credit and just need to be slightly goaded into the realm of scares with a low piece of dangling fruit.
You can take two approaches to this friend: Completely surprise them with a movie that sounds nothing like horror, but is. Or dust off an old classic that is far scarier than anyone remembers/thinks.
For the first category, go for Creep (2015) by Patrick Brice. The film stars charming funnyman Mark Duplass and starts off loose and light enough, but travels down some very dark paths that will sneak up on and ensnare a typically cautious viewer.
As for the second, give The Last Man on Earth (1964) a shot. This Vincent Price starrer could feel unassuming to a modern audience with its black and white portrayal of vampires (which they are, though the line between zombies and vampires is muddled here) and the presence of traditional Horror-Ham, Price. This film gets downright creepy, however, and there are images and moments that will stick in all viewers’ heads, along with an ending much more poignant and ripe for discussion than Will Smith‘s 2007 take on the material in I Am Legend.
4. It’s Time to Raise the Bar
This friend is placated by just about anything that says “Boo!” or has a Pumpkin Spice flavor option. Which isn’t to say that this is necessarily a bad thing! They don’t typically get out of their comfort zones and rarely challenge themselves with material that deserves discussion. It’s not that the friend is plebeian sensibilities, horror movies simply aren’t a devotion for them.
I know, I know… this reeks of you, as curator, sitting there in your turtleneck, smoking an American Spirit, nose turned all the way up toward the sky. Except this isn’t pretension! Let the Right One In is a genuinely unnerving vampire tale that portrays adolescence and the pains of growing up and making the right choices. It’s smart, it has depth and, most importantly, it is horrifying.
Note: Don’t mistake this with the merely passable American remake, Let Me In.
5. Friend Who is Way Too Into Horror and Movies in General.
If you’re curating, this is likely yourself. You love horror and movies so much that it manifests through all-night horror-thons and bad jokes about Satanic rituals.
Let’s face it, you’re just as annoying to your friends for your constant analytical tendencies and know-it-all attitudes. Odds are, you’re super-stoked for Halloween because your friends have no choice but to placate your need to show them movies. So, how do you program for yourself?
Here’s the cop-out answer: You don’t. This is about having a great time with those closest to you over two hours of cinematic joy and terror. Pick what you feel works best for the group, taking into account the personalities around you and enjoy. Be adventurous! Be fun! Be creative! Let your freak flag fly!
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures, Warner Bros. Pictures and New Line Cinema released a new TV spot and poster for Creed. The film explores a new chapter in the “Rocky” story and stars Academy Award nominee Sylvester Stallone in his iconic role.
Adonis Johnson (Michael B. Jordan) never knew his famous father, world heavyweight champion Apollo Creed, who died before he was born. Still, there’s no denying that boxing is in his blood, so Adonis heads to Philadelphia, the site of Apollo Creed’s legendary match with a tough upstart named Rocky Balboa.
Once in the City of Brotherly Love, Adonis tracks Rocky (Stallone) down and asks him to be his trainer. Despite his insistence that he is out of the fight game for good, Rocky sees in Adonis the strength and determination he had known in Apollo—the fierce rival who became his closest friend. Agreeing to take him on, Rocky trains the young fighter, even as the former champ is battling an opponent more deadly than any he faced in the ring.
With Rocky in his corner, it isn’t long before Adonis gets his own shot at the title…but can he develop not only the drive but also the heart of a true fighter, in time to get into the ring?
Creed also stars Tessa Thompson as Bianca, a local singer-songwriter who becomes involved with Adonis; Phylicia Rashad as Mary Anne Creed, Apollo’s widow; and English pro boxer and former three-time ABA Heavyweight Champion Anthony Bellew as boxing champ “Pretty” Ricky Conlan.
Ryan Coogler directs from a screenplay he wrote with Aaron Covington, based on characters from the “Rocky” series written by Sylvester Stallone. The film is being produced by Robert Chartoff, Irwin Winkler, Charles Winkler, William Chartoff, David Winkler, Kevin King Templeton and Sylvester Stallone, with Nicholas Stern executive producing.
Joining Coogler behind the scenes are director of photography Maryse Alberti and costume designers Antoinette Messam and Emma Potts, as well as his “Fruitvale Station” team: editors Michael P. Shawver and Claudia Castello; production designer Hannah Beachler; and composer Ludwig Göransson.
Hugh Jackman has been in media blitz mode promoting his next film Pan, earlier this week Jackman suggested that Tom Hardy would make a good replacement as Wolverine. As we all know, Jackman will retire from the X-Men franchise after the third solo Wolverine film which is rumored to be based on the Mark Millar storyline ‘Old Man Logan.’ Adam Chitwood from Collider talked with Jackman about the third film and had a real nuts and bolts conversation about what is going in the mind of Jackman.
Jackman stated that he won’t start filming the project till the script is perfect.
“I’m saying ‘but’ and I’m sounding a little cagey because this is the last time I’m playing him, and I have just made the commitment to myself, really, and told everyone that until that script is perfect, until it is that perfect way to sign out, I’m not gonna start shooting. So that’s why I don’t wanna say ‘Yes’ for sure, because until Page 115, 120, whatever it is…,” said Jackman.
As a fanboy this next quote sounds great, the guy playing Wolverine wants to leave blood on the studio floor everyday. As a former sports reporter this comes off as catch phrase and the only thing that matters is the script or have we already forgotten X-Men Origins: Wolverine.
“I feel that I’m pushing harder than I’ve ever pushed before. I suppose the stakes just go up when you announce before your last season that this is your last season, you don’t want one game to not be your best… People ask me, ‘How are you gonna be able to let it go?’ To me the only way you can let it go is if you left blood every day on the studio floor,” said Jackman.
Jackman ends the interview with plan for filming and a glimpse into what he wants to accomplished with Wolverine 3 a.k.a. Old Man Logan.
“The ultimate plan is let’s start shooting next year… I’m starting the training, I’m starting the eating and mentally really preparing for it. It’s not just me, the studio as well—I’m trying to do something with this that’s a little special, a little different. I’ve got a very, very strong idea of what that is. I really have known for quite a long time how I want to finish this sort of odyssey that I’ve been on, this amazing journey. And I won’t let it fall anywhere in between. I won’t fall short of it,” said Jackman.
James Mangold is set to direct Wolverine 3 and Patrick Stewart has been cast as well, the film is scheduled for release on March 3, 2017.
Yeah I know I didn’t do a review last week when episode 12 of Charlotte came out, but I was busy doing other things. And personally I had given up a little due to my hatred for episode 11 and distaste for episode 10. I figured I should watch the last two episodes together, sort of like ripping off a band-aid. But once I did finish both episode 12 and 13, I found myself rather surprised.
Episode Summary’s
Yu recovers in episode 12 and decides to go and plunder everyone’s ability with the prospect of coming back to Nao and becoming lovers.
Episode 13 is him plundering every ability in the world and slowly losing his mind. He comes back to Nao not being able to know who she or anybody is. But Nao sees that he kept her gift to him this whole time and they begin their relationship as lovers.
Episode Thoughts
It took me a while to put aside my personal feelings about the direction that Charlotte has taken. I can be rather stubborn and if a story totally changes direction I have a knee jerk reaction to the point of feeling betrayed by the show. But once I took a two-week brake and came back to Charlotte, I realized that, while the change in shift was a major negative for the show as a whole, I still could try to salvage where it was going. Thankfully episode 11 must have been a fluke in the plot, because episode 12 sort of brought the show back to form. And in doing so, brought my interest level slightly back to what I had expected of this show up until episode 10.
Sure nothing really happens in episode 12 but the anticipation of what is to come is enough to warrant the episodes existence. They didn’t really have to show Yu healing for a whole episode. But if they didn’t it wouldn’t have made his choice to go and save literally every ability user in the world believable. The episode helps sink in the reasons for why he needs to go and save everyone as a character. And not why he needs to save everyone because that’s the plot of the show. It feels like there is legitimate decision-making again and not just characters being jerked around by what needs to happen to move on with the plot.
Plus I have been anchoring for closure with Yusa/Misa ever since their intro. So the fact that they implemented it so well and didn’t really beat around the bush really made that scene. I mean sometimes its really easy to say what you need to say, especially when its a second chance you’re getting. I think that this was the perfect place to implement this closure and have it be as important to what was going on in the story.
So if episode 12 left me hopeful about how the show was going to wrap up, episode 13 brought be back down to reality. 16 minutes of him hoping countries stealing abilities and losing his mind just wasn’t effective this time. Maybe it would have been if we didn’t already see this when Ayumi died, but we did. It felt like the same thing and that’s all I could think of when watching the majority of this episode.
Well that’s not completely true. Once he got the ability to heal I started to scream at my TV “Why don’t you just heal every one with abilities? It’s a disease, isn’t it? You are fucking retard!” From then on everything that happened with his mental state I couldn’t get into because I knew he had this ability that literally could solve everything he was going through. And you might be thinking, “Well you don’t know if the healing ability only works on wounds and isn’t able to heal the ability disease.”
First of all, if his ability to speed up diseases works on abilities, then he should be able to heal them as well. Secondly, all it would have taken was him attempting and failing to heal an ability, and then I would have known. But no, that doesn’t happen. I’m just left with the rest of his journey thinking this whole situation could have been avoided if he weren’t a fucking idiot. They introduce that ability to show how he is resolved to not use abilities for personal gain, but they ignore it because otherwise they wouldn’t get the stupid sappy ending that they wanted.
What would be so wrong with him coming home fine and having his memory in tact. Why did we have to see 16 minutes of him saving the world and only got four minutes at the end to tie up the most important relationship of the show. Isn’t that what people want to see? The resolution of Nao and Yu’s promise. Sure we get scenes of him being overly protective of her gift to him, but again that only is touching if you don’t think about how he could be healing himself, and that this shouldn’t even be a problem! And somehow Nao’s brother is calm with an autograph from Sarah again. when did that even happen? That was in a previous timeline. How does Yu even contact Sarah? He met her by chance. Ugh, this doesn’t make any sense!
Episode 13 just makes me mad because they set up everything so well in episode 12 to have an emotional fulfilling finale. But they instead took too much time on things I didn’t care about and used stupid reasoning to make the ending feel as sad and emotional as possible, almost to the point to where I feel I’m being manipulated by the story.
I have many more thoughts about these set of episodes but I think I’ll save it for my series review, because those points pertain to Charlotte as a whole. Also I need some time to cool down for what feels like a second betrayal from this show. As it stands I don’t know what I’m going to rate this show as a whole. Episode 12 was really good, but the complete face-plant in the finale ruined the ending for me.
As a life long Spider-Man reader and fan the end of an era for the franchise was with Amazing Spider-Man #545 and the reboot of the status quo with Dan Slott’s ‘Brand New Day.’ The ‘One More Day’ story arc ended the marriage between Peter Parker and Mary Jane Watson through the magical effort of Mephisto. This journey down the rabbit hole of no return start with Spider-Man revealing his secret identity during the events of ‘Civil War’ written by Mark Millar.
We can talk the pros and cons of the change all-day long but it really doesn’t matter while Joe Quesada is the Chief Creative Officer of Marvel Entertainment.
“I remember editors and editors in chief lamenting that a married Spider-Man was not where we want to be,” said Quesada in an interview with USAToday. “A married Peter Parker makes for a less interesting soap opera than a single Peter Parker going about his nerdy kind of life.”
It was too hard to write interesting stories for Spider-Man?!
I will always say that Quesada needed to find better editors and writers that don’t mind that it is difficult to write great comic books.
Here we are eight years later and Millar is opening old wounds and pouring gasoline on them. The writer did an interview with IGN about his two new comic book series: ‘Chrononauts’ and ‘Jupiter’s Circle.’ During the conversation Captain America: Civil War was brought up and Millar discussed the day they decided to revealed Spider-Man’s secret identity on national television in the original story.
“People remember that because it was such a good stunt. It’s a seven-issue series, which is 150 pages or something, and Spider-Man appears it it for three pages, one of which is a splash. It was such a tiny part of it. To be honest, it was just a way of boosting up our sales. We were just sitting there thinking, what can we do with Spider-Man for three pages? And that worked,” said Millar.
Some one at Marvel has to respect the history of the product they are working on, and this comment by Millar demonstrates that no one in the ‘Civil War’ conversation did. We all understand that it is a business and Marvel’s sole job is to sell as many comics as possible, but the gimmicks don’t work and they insult the fans that have invested time and money supporting the product.
“Looking into the future, this is really the right thing to do for the long-term health of the character,” said Quesada in 2007.
Now that time has past, almost a decade, do you think Quesada made the right decision?
Avengers: Age of Ultron comes out on October 2 to the home theater and their marketing campaign has been directed at us nerds as they reveal some deleted scenes from the film that foreshadow Captain America: Civil War and Avengers: Infinity War.
In the Norn Cave Thor (Chris Hemsworth) explores the future in this deleted scene.
Tron was released in 1982 on a $17 million budget and almost doubled its return in box offices receipts. Tron: Legacy came out 28-years later to lack luster reviews and box office return in 2010. If this trend continues, we will see Tron 3 in 23 years. UGH!
The star of Tron: Legacy Garrett Hedlund was out promoting his latest film Pan, he plays pre-captain Hook with two hands. While talking with comicbook.com Hedlund talked about the future of Tron and the chances that fans will see Tron 3 anytime soon.
“I haven’t been told it’s totally dead. Ever since we did Legacy, we knew that to have another story follow it up, it had to be concrete and exciting. Disney needed to have the right story to go forward. I think it was going to introduce some things that were as exciting as Legacy was and then some, though,” said Hedlund.
“Who knows, maybe it’ll be like Legacy was to the first Tron, it’ll be 30 years, and I’ll have my young Flynn CGI face, who knows? But they could do it anytime from now, and I would of course jump back in. Something like that could be quite fun, though,” said Hedlund.
