Lots of details about Superman v Batman: Dawn of Justice have poured out of the latest issue of Empire. The fine folks over at ComicBook.com uncovered a few filming schedule nuggets about Wonder Woman and Justice League Part 1.
Wonder Woman is directed by Patty Jenkins and stars Gal Gadot and Chris Pine.
Logistically it is staggering. As Batman V Superman gains its coat of special effects, and the various stages of editing, scoring, grading and sound mixing are completed, Deborah Snyder, along with Roven, is watching over a sandbox that stretches around the world. Jenkins is in London prepping Wonder Woman, which will shoot there this autumn. Suicide Squad, already well underway in Toronto under the earthy gaze of Ayer, will shoot through to September. “I do watch the dailies,” she promises, enthusing about the film’s “street quality.” They are already doing soft prep for the Justice League, which will begin shooting in the spring, and overseeing the script for Aquaman, which James Wan will direct. – Empire
Wonder Woman is scheduled to open on June 23, 2017.
Justice League is written by Batman v Superman screenwriter Chris Terrio and will be directed by Zack Snyder.Justice League Part One will be in theaters on November 12th, 2017, followed by Justice League Part Two on June 14th, 2019.
We’ve known that the Five Nights at Freddy’s Movie was a possibility since April. But we’ve just learned that director Gil Kenan has joined the project. The question for many Five Nights at Freddy’s fan was, what will the movie be like?
This guy
will be directing this guy… girl… thing?
Thankfully, Gil Kenan is more than happy to answer some of our questions. You can check out his twitter page for all the questions he’s answered, but here are a few highlights.
Gil’s first tweet about the movie and according to his Instagram the Henson Creature Studio is building the animatronics.
@TheRealRoscoe I want this to be crazy practical – that's what makes animatronics so unnerving – they're REAL
So it seems that the Five Nights at Freddy’s movie, which seems like the ultimate cash-grab project could turn out to be something with heart behind it? Scott even seems to involved in someway.
@LiamJoly1 I made him a promise at the start of this that I want him to be involved in a real way. Scott IS fnaf
Furthermore, we’ve even seen what a good FNAF movie could look like, albeit this has a little more CGI.
Ultimately, we’ll have to wait for further information before we can make a final verdict. But at least it seems like it’ll be approached as more than a cash-grab (We’re looking at you Uwe Boll).
Movie Mt. Rushmore is a new feature at Monkeys Fighting Robots, where we dive into genres and decades to try and disseminate who, among the collection of candidates, belong on the Mt. Rushmore of said genre and decade. Only four can make it, who will it be?
What better place to start than 80s action? The decade catapulted the action genre to new heights of excess and explosions, and birthed some of the most celebrated, muscle-bound, karate chopping action afficionadoes in cinematic history. The style of 80s action may be antiquated in this new era of subtlety and reservation, but the impact of the supreme 80s action stars resonates beyond the borders of the decade. Let’s dive in…
Place #1: Arnold Schwarzeneger – Is there really any debate? Arnie’s 80s filmography reads like a greatest hits of the decade’s action films. He came into his own as Conan the Barbarian in 1982, and the success of that film opened up the door for the Austrian Mr. Universe to star in some of the biggest blockbusters throughout the decade. Conan became The Terminator, then Commando, one of the purest action movies of the decade. Then there was the brilliance of John McTiernan’s Predator and the hokey hit thriller The Running Man.
Interspersed between these hits were action flicks Raw Deal, Conan the Destroyer, and Red Heat, all working to solidify Arnie’s status as the leading man with the biggest biceps and the most dominant screen presence. Schwarzenegger also managed to cultivate his own cottage industry, redefining the one-liner:
Schwarzenegger’s place on the Movie Mt. Rushmore of 80s Action Stars is undeniable, as is the next person on this list, Arnie’s ultimate rival in the decade excess.
Place #2: Sylvester Stallone – Two Rocky films and three Rambo‘s anchor the career of Sly in the 80s. Stallone, who mysteriously sculpted his doughy body in the original Rocky into an Adonis, carved from wood, matched Schwarzenegger step for step at the box office. He began by throwing his acting weight around in First Blood, not only the beginning of the Rambo franchise but a well-crafted, tense blend of drama and action. Stallone was doing some legitimate action in First Blood, a film more about the detachment of Vietnam veterans from the society they were forced to defend, less a throwaway reason to blow shit up:
Stallone parlayed First Blood into the success of the Rambo franchise, which rewrote history in the most Reaganomics-influenced action movie of the decade, Rambo: First Blood, Part II. Rambo III hit in 1988, the same year Stallone may have ended the Cold War by defeating Ivan Drago in Rocky IV. Scattered throughout Stallone’s hit franchises were Nighthawks, Cobra, the arm-wrestling actioner Over the Top, and Tango & Cash. Stallone’s place on Movie Mt. Rushmore is as undeniable as Arnie.
Place #3: Chuck Norris – The biceps didn’t bulge quite as much, but the baddassery from Chuck Norris was on full display in the 80s. After cutting his acting teeth with his mentor, Bruce Lee, in the 70s, Norris came into his own in a slew of increasingly excessive action flicks throughout the 80s. The list numbers in the dozens, all the way from The Octagon in 1980 to Hero and The Terror in 1988. In between were the corny classics Lone Wolf McQuade, The Missing in Action trilogy, Code of Silence, Invasion U.S.A., and The Delta Force, which, in a sense, passed the torch from the gritty war actor Lee Marvin to Norris.
While Norris’s action films may have never reached the box-office heights of Stallone and Schwarzenegger, there is no dismissing his impact on the action film landscape throughout the 80s. His machismo even created a seemingly endless lists of Chuck Norris Facts we all know and love.
Place #4: Mel Gibson – Despite the genre or the decade, the fourth entry onto Movie Mt. Rushmore will forever be the most difficult and controversial decision. There will always be a handful of candidates to place on the mountainside, and here we reach one Mel Columcille Gerard Gibson. The controversial and troubled star may have faded in recent years, and for good reason, but the 80s was his coming out party to the world. Once The Road Warrior hit the domestic box office, Gibson became a legitimate, bankable action star.
From The Road Warrior, Gibson completed the initial Mad Max trilogy with Beyond Thunderdome in 1985. Two years later, Gibson cemented his status as a loose cannon action hero with Richard Donner’s searing 1987 buddy-cop thriller Lethal Weapon. As is the case with any wildly successful film, Lethal Weapon spawned three sequels and a number of buddy-cop ripoffs. 1989’s Lethal Weapon 2 is, for my money, the best entry into that franchise, and Gibson’s unhinged performance as Martin Riggs steals the show:
Gibson also starred in smaller action/drama fare like the quirky comedy Bird on A Wire, Tequila Sunrise, and The Year of Living Dangerously in the decade. He brought something to the table Stallone, Schwarzenegger, and Norris didn’t bring: sex appeal. Gibson’s impact in the 80s action landscape brought in the important female demographic, and for that he deserves his place here.
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There is an argument to be made for Patrick Swayze, but his career departed from the action hero mold too often to be included. Kurt Russell will find his way onto another list, I assure you. Smaller stars like Michael Dudakoff and Dolph Lundgren didn’t cut a wide enough swatch across the pop-culture landscape, and Van Damme, Willis, and Seagal really belong in consideration for the 90s.
Do you agree? Who do you think belongs?
Coming soon on Movie Mt. Rushmore: All-Time Sci-Fi Stars!
In case you might have been thinking that at this point, 19 years after the first Mission: Impossible film hit theaters, that making another film in the series that could possibly be as much fun as the last few entries have been, that there had to be a letdown at some point and Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation could be it, well, you thought wrong. Rogue Nation proves to be a very strong follow up to 2011’s Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol, bringing together all the key elements that have to come to characterize this film franchise while also displaying enough of a difference in style and tone from its predecessors to keep it from feeling at all like a retread.
A little over a year since Senior IMF Agent Ethan Hunt (Tom Cruise) and a hastily-assembled team of IMF agents went rogue in order to stop a former Soviet nuclear strategist from initiating a massive missile attack against the U.S. and setting off global war, the fallout from the team’s unsanctioned actions and the collateral damage they caused is still being felt. CIA Director Hunley (Alec Baldwin) has made it his personal mission to have the IMF permanently shuttered, its agents and assets folded into CIA operations, and Ethan himself called on the carpet for all the “mayhem” he’s caused throughout his career in the name of protecting global security.
Ethan, meanwhile, has been on the trail of a shadowy group simply known as “the Syndicate”, which he believes is a network of highly-trained non-official cover operatives very much like the IMF that’s responsible for creating political instability around the world via carefully coordinated “accidents” and “disasters.” When Hunley’s efforts on Capitol Hill result in the IMF’s shutdown, Ethan does what he’s always done and goes off the grid in order to stay on the trail of the greater threat.
His investigation brings him in contact with a British MI6 agent, Ilsa Faust (Rebecca Ferguson), who has already infiltrated the Syndicate and hopes to bring them and their leader, Solomon Lane (Sean Harris), down from within. Ethan and Ilsa, with some help from Ethan’s old team mates Benji (Simon Pegg), Luther (Ving Rhames), and Brandt (Jeremy Renner), thus embark on a series of capers to keep top secret information from falling into the Syndicate’s hands, information that would support their operations for decades to come. But Lane and the Syndicate are every bit as skilled as Ethan’s team, especially in the area of misdirection and subterfuge, and as the chase takes them from London to Vienna to Casablanca, the question of just how much the IMF boys can trust their new ally Ilsa looms large as their enemy seems to stay just one step ahead of even Ethan’s considerable skills.
The Mission: Impossible series of films has always been characterized as more of an “anthology” and a “director’s series”, rather than a set of direct sequels, with each film — 1996’s Mission: Impossible, 2000’s Mission: Impossible II, 2006’s Mission: Impossible III, and the aforementioned Ghost Protocol — all easily distinguishable from each other by the signature style and vision of the director at the helm. But since J.J. Abrams took the reins to direct the third installment, and his production company Bad Robot took an active hand in partnering with Cruise to produce every installment since, there has been greater consistency between the films in terms of the type of plot and action audiences can expect when they choose to accept a new “mission.”
For Rogue Nation, Cruise and Abrams turned to writer Christopher McQuarrie, who is arguably still best known for penning the screenplay for The Usual Suspects and has now collaborated with Cruise on four projects, including 2008’s Valkryie, 2012’s Jack Reacher (which he also directed), and last year’s Edge of Tomorrow. If you’ve enjoyed McQuarrie’s previous suspense-driven screenplays and the directing work he put into Jack Reacher, work characterized by a devotion to “old school” (translation: little to no CGI) film making and action choreography, then you’re bound to enjoy what he delivers in Rogue Nation.
Once again sticking to practical effects and stunt work, McQuarrie shows he’s just as adept at large scale set pieces with lots of moving parts as he was with the smaller, grittier action he’s given us previously. Particular standout examples of McQuarrie’s skill and vision in the film include a cat-and-mouse pursuit backstage at the Vienna Opera shot almost entirely without dialogue, an equally-elaborate underwater sequence shot in a single long take, and a thrilling motorcycle chase shot using multiple cameras mounted directly on the bikes and chase vehicles, among others. While these set pieces aren’t as outlandish and frenetic as the ones director Brad Bird brought to bear in Ghost Protocol, they certainly stand among the best crafted for the film series, and are certainly among the most memorable sequences audiences have been treated to this summer thus far.
As for the actors in the midst of those incredible set pieces, once again Cruise lives up to the reputation he simply must have at this point as a studio’s worst nightmare in terms of insuring a Hollywood film, as he continues to insist on performing his own stunts in these films at the ripe old age of 53. The “aerobatic insanity” of Cruise’s stuntwork in the Mission: Impossible films have become as characteristic of these films as their exotic filming locations and stunning leading ladies, and here he maintains that fine tradition by literally hanging by his fingertips off of a cargo plane thousands of feet in the air, holding his breath far longer than any human reasonably should to shoot the aforementioned underwater sequence, and indulging his lifelong “need for speed” riding a crotch rocket at top speed along with a group of stunt riders in what is arguably the most exciting motorcycle chase on film in years. How much longer he’ll be able to do all these things is anyone’s guess, but here, as it has all these years in these films, Cruise’s commitment to taking part in these scenes and eschewing the use of a body double just adds to the tension and excitement of what we’re seeing. It’s what we’ve come to expect from these movies, and he delivers.
That said, Swedish actress Rebecca Ferguson turns in an equally-committed and commanding performance as the formidable and inscrutable Ilsa, one that will no doubt leave fans hoping she might return for a future installment the way Renner did from the previous film, Pegg did from the previous two films, and Rhames has throughout the series. Ferguson’s role in the plot demands just as much physicality as Cruise’s and far more nuance in terms of drama and conflict, and thus what she gives to audiences is captivating from the moment she first enters to her final exit. While most of the other supporting players — Renner, Pegg, Rhames, and even Baldwin, whose character is new but whose demeanor and archetype are not — are known quantities to each other and the audience, Ilsa is the wild card, the living embodiment of the trust issues career intelligence agents are forced to deal with in order to do their sometimes nasty business in a world of shifting alliances and fluid loyalties. For those familiar with her Golden Globe-nominated work in the British TV series “The White Queen”, perhaps the depth and quality of her dramatic non-action work here won’t come as much of a surprise, but to those for whom Ferguson is a new face, she’s sure to make a lasting impression.
Considering all that, a strong case can certainly be made for Mission: Impossible Rogue Nation being the most satisfying action movie experience of the year overall, and thus it’s one that should not be missed in theaters. It has cinematic ingenuity and adrenaline-fueled excitement that are easily on par with this summer’s other tentpoles, and like Mad Max: Fury Road back in May accomplishes its thrills almost entirely without the use of the green-screens and computer imagery that the other big summer movies of 2015 — the ones with the superheroes, the dinosaurs, and the aliens that look like 80’s video game characters — all so heavily relied upon. Put another way, if you just love movies or you enjoy a good spy thriller but you’re generally not a fan of Cruise, who certainly is as polarizing as ever at the box office these days, make an extra effort to put those negative feelings aside for a few hours and choose to accept this mission. You won’t regret it.
Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation
Starring Tom Cruise, Jeremy Renner, Simon Pegg, Rebecca Ferguson, Ving Rhames, Sean Harris, and Alec Baldwin. Directed by Christopher McQuarrie.
Running Time: 131 minutes
Rated PG-13 for sequences of action and violence, and brief partial nudity.
Marvel Comics is slowly killing off the entire X-Men Universe. The once proud franchise is now floundering over a movie deal with FOX that helped pull Marvel Comics from the brink of extinction. Now that Disney owns Marvel, decisions are made solely with the best interest of Disney in mind.
Marvel Comics could create the most amazing X-Men comics readers have ever seen, but it is not in the best interest of Disney.
Marvel Senior VP of Publishing answered a question on his Tumblr almost one year ago, which was an indicator of what was to come.
“If you had two things, and on one you earned 100% of the revenues from the efforts that you put into making it, and the other you earned a much smaller percentage for the same amount of time and effort, you’d be more likely to concentrate more heavily on the first, wouldn’t you?”
It’s an obvious sentiment from a business standpoint; but how could Marvel remove characters who fought through so much adversity and bigotry?
X-Men Purge
Marvel has already started to put the X-men on the back burner. A simple look at Marvel’s product page will show few X-Men related products. The Marvel Movie page is another site which doesn’t feature the X-Men prominently.
The most intricate move involved the alteration of two characters who began as X-Men but later joined the Avengers and even appeared in both the Avengers: Age of Ultron as well as X-Men: Days of Future Past.
In December of 2014, Scarlett Witch and Quicksilver had their origins revealed, which altered their lineage. The fact that Magneto is not their father is huge change in the Marvel Comics Universe. Marvel is changing the universe to be more in line with the Marvel Cinematic Universe where there are no mutants.
Marvel also killed Wolverine off. Wolverine is a flagship character, that is why he was on 20 teams at one time. To take Wolverine and put him on the shelf is a huge blow to the X-Men Universe.
One theory is that Marvel hopes to dam up the stream of new material by not creating any new mutants, which will hopefully bring the price tag down to buy back the film rights from FOX, but that is based on if the X-Men films begin to falter.
If the response to the X-Men Age of Apocalypse trailer is any indication, you may want to buy some X-Men comics before they are all gone.
Brian Bendis, who has helmed the two main X-Men installments —All New X-Men and Uncanny X-Men— has left the franchise. Rick Remender, one of the main writers of the series also announced his departure last month.
Uncanny X-Men #600 will be out in October after a massive delay. “It was bumped until after ‘Secret Wars’ for editorial and commercial reasons,” Bendis wrote on his Tumblr.
X-Men fans held their breath as we entered the Secret Wars saga. It appears that the X-Men will survive for another day, but the once proud franchise that boasted 12-15 titles a month has been chopped in half. The X-Men line is down to six titles, three team-centric and three solo —All New X-Men #1, Extraordinary X-Men #1, Uncanny X-Men #1 and Deadpool #1, All-New Wolverine #1, Old Man Logan #1.
The future of the X-Men remains to be seen, but there are clear indicators that Marvel has mutants in their crosshairs. If you don’t think this is a possibility, go and try and find a new Fantastic Four book in your local comic book store.
Black Mass is ramping up its ad campaign ahead of its September release. We have a third full-length trailer for the film, unpacking more of the mechanics of the plot, and showing the rest of the cast in action.
Here is the latest Black Mass trailer:
In addition to this latest trailer, Black Mass also has a new poster ahead of its release:
I don’t know about you, but I was satisfied after the initial trailer for Black Mass hit earlier this summer. It was brief, threatening, and brimming with an undercurrent of tension and danger. Alas, studios are privy to showing off as much of the film as they can ahead of its release September 18. Let’s hope this is Johnny Depp’s comeback.
Beasts of No Nation, the new film from Netflix (studios?), stars Idris Elba as a coldblooded leader of child soldiers in Africa. The film is stirring some controversy, and some theater chains are boycotting because Netflix has opted to release it on their streaming service the same day it hits multiplexes.
Here is the trailer for Beasts of No Nation:
The film will first debut at the TIFF, and here is the synopsis from the Festival:
Based on the highly acclaimed novel, director Cary Fukunaga’s Beasts of No Nation brings to life the gripping tale of Agu (newcomer Abraham Attah), a child soldier torn from his family to fight in the civil war of an African country. Idris Elba dominates the screen in the role of Commandant, a warlord who takes in Agu and instructs him in the ways of war.
Beasts of No Nation will generate intrigue from fans of True Detective who think his influence is sorely absent in the muddled, uneven second season. It will also be interesting to see, if this film does generate Awards buzz, how its release on Netflix is handled.
Beasts of No Nation hits theaters and Netflix November 16.
Welcome to the last installment of the Summer 2015 Anime Roundup series! This time we only have four shows to cover since the rest of the action was rounded up in other posts. Don’t worry, though – I’ll make up for it by giving you more information.
Aoharu x Machinegun
This series airs on Crunchyroll and updates Saturdays at 1:00am.
Director: Hideaki Nakano (has not fully directed anything until now) Anime Production: Brain’s Base (One Week Friends, Natsume’s Book of Friends, Penguindrum) AKA:Aoharu x Kikanjū
Hotaru Tachibana is a brash action girl with a strong sense of justice. Unfortunately, she is often mistaken for a boy. She goes into a fit of range when she thinks her best friend was swindled by a host at a club, who turns out to be her neighbor, Masamune. He challenges Hotaru to a survival game duel. Survival games are played with toy guns that fire plastic bullets.
Hotaru not only loses the duel – she causes a lot of damage to the club. Instead of forcing Hotaru to pay off the debt, he suggest she work it off by joining his survival game team because she is strong and has fast reflexes. Unfortunately, Masamune’s team is males only. Hotaru ends up enjoying the thrill of the games but must continue to masquerade as a boy to play on Masamune’s team.
This show easily could have been under last week’s comedy post, but there is enough action to warrant it being placed here instead. The action is very silly. Hotaru will just push off the ground in a jump and destroy the ground with the force of her foot digging in. It even happens on tile!
She did this to move a few feet. Why? WHY?
I know this show isn’t that great, but I keep laughing at it and I enjoy the action, so I guess I’ll just be calling this one my guilty pleasure of the season even if it isn’t ecchi like Shimoseka. I would go so far as to say this series would be enjoyed more by women than men because it can creep into reverse-harem mode, even though her teammates think that Hotaru is a boy.
Food Wars! Shokugeki no Soma
This series airs on Crunchyroll and updates Fridays at 3:25pm.
Director: Yoshitomo Yonetani (Brigadoon, Tiger & Bunny: The Beginning, Tiger & Bunny: The Rising) Anime Production: J.C. Staff (Excel Saga, Ikkitousen, Shakugan no Shana, Witch Craft Works, and many more)
Soma Yukihira has worked all his life in a small but successful diner with his father, Jōichirō Yukihira. They often compete to see who can make the best dish, with those dishes often eliciting sexy and bizarre reactions from the judges. After Soma saves his diner from being sold with one of his amazing dishes, Jōichirō decides to pack up shop and sends Soma off to Engetsu Teahouse Culinary Academy, a cutthroat cooking school.
It turns out that only a small percentage of students ever graduate from Engetsu, and they often have food battles (called shokugeki) and challenges similar to what Soma and his father always did in the diner. Soma not only has to pass entrance exams to get into the school. He must earn a place in a dormitory, survive “hell week”, participate in shokugeki, and more, all with his continued enrollment on the line.
Food Wars started last season, and you have probably heard a lot about how it is “food porn”. Well, it kind of is. The food looks delicious and often times when someone takes a bite of food, you enter a mindscape where the diner’s clothes have burst off and they are writhing around like they’ve had a roll in the hay. However, this doesn’t happen every time, and many times you just guffaw out loud when, for example, someone compares what they are eating to getting a kiss from the Prince of Apples.
This show is a true shounen. At first it may not seem like Soma is going to get any growth or character development. He starts out really full of himself. But as the show goes on, he experiences defeat at the hands of people other than his father, begins to understand that he has a lot to learn, and gains rivals who cause him to want to improve himself. Isn’t that what a shounen is all about? Well, besides crazy fighting skills. In this case, we have crazy cooking skills, so that aspect is still there, too!
RIN-NE
This series airs on Crunchyroll and updates Wednesdays at 3:00pm.
Director: Seiki Sugawara (D-Frag!) Anime Production: Brain’s Base (One Week Friends, Natsume’s Book of Friends, Penguindrum)
AKA: Kyoukai no Rinne
Sakura Mamiya has been able to see spirits ever since she was tricked into visiting and eating food in the otherworld when she was a child. She finds out her classmate, Rinne Rokudou, is “sort of” a shinigami. He helps spirits pass in and reincarnate. Because he is poor, he has a donation box set up at school for offerings in exchange for his help, and often ends up asking Sakura (or other characters) for assistance.
This is a Rumiko Takahashi series that started last season, and I would say if you enjoyed the hijinks of Ranma 1/2 but kinda wished Akane wasn’t such a harpy or that Ranma wasn’t completely socially inept, you might like this show. There isn’t anything new about it, but it is nice to have “good guy” characters that are a bit more mellow than usual for their stereotype while still retaining enough characteristics to make you laugh. For example, Akane would just see or hear what she wanted and interpret it as perverted. Sakura still has this “selective seeing” and remembers Rinne holding hands with someone else even though it didn’t happen that way. However, Sakura doesn’t kick Rinne into outer space for it. Therein lies the difference. I’d say the only character who is over the top for a character stereotype is Rinne’s father. Oh man. He’s Genma + Miroku. I’ll let you think about what this means.
This show is cute and charming. I love the it when ridiculous things happen (find the fun Ranma 1/2 homage in episode 17). I love the silly attack names and items. I love the antics of the villains and rivals. I don’t mind that there is no overarching storyline aside from the threat of the Damashigami, who try to trick the living into the otherworld for reincarnation so they can hit a quota. I hope the series goes on for a long time so I can giggle at it every week.
Ushio and Tora
This series airs on Crunchyroll and updates Fridays at 10:30am.
Director: Satoshi Nishimura (Trigun, Fighting Spirit) Anime Production: Studio VOLN (this series only), MAPPA (Zankyō no Terror, Kids on the Slope, Punch-line)
Ushio Aotsuki finds out the crazy stories his dad tells about youkai are true when he finds an ancient youkai (whom Ushio later names Tora) pinned to a wall in their temple with a spear. He was initially inclined to leave Tora there, but the Tora’s aura attracted lesser demons to his house. Ushio was forced to free Tora to kill the other demons and save his friends. As it turns out, the spear is called a Beast Spear and gives the wielder aspects of a beast, allowing the person carrying it to fight demons more effectively. So long as Ushio holds the spear, Tora is afraid to act against Ushio. The two end up fighting other demons that show up in the area, though Tora is mostly reluctant to do so.
This series is based from a manga released in the early 90s, and it shows (in a good way). The designs definitely look like they come straight from the 90s without looking dated. The banter and tropes come straight from early 90s stereotypes, and they make me feel nostalgic. The opener is basically 90s punk and is awesome. Plus, the characters have the best expressions. Especially for Tora. He can look super evil, and super silly, and super cute. I would own a Tora figure, and right now I don’t really own any anime figures.
I’ve heard people say this series doesn’t bring anything new to the table. Well, it kind of doesn’t. It’s from the 90s and already had one anime adaptation already. But if you want action, the nostalgia factor, and enjoy the “friendly enemy” trope with all the banter it entails, this series is a great fit for you.
More to come!
While the Summer 2015 Anime Roundup has come to a close, there will definitely be other roundups and reviews between now and the Fall 2015 season. Stay tuned for more!
Peter Parker will make his first appearance in the Marvel Cinematic Universe in Captain America: Civil War, the third installment in the series is currently filming and will be in theaters on May 6, 2016.
The Latino-Review is reporting that they have a source who has seen the new Spider-Man costume being used for Captain America: Civil War; and instead of posting an illegally obtained photo they have released an image that closely resembles the actual costume. The image below is from SpikeSDM’s Deviant Art page.
In the grand tradition of not publishing things illegally obtained, I’m happy to report this is an artist’s rendering of the Civil War Spider-Man costume. [UPDATE: ED. the concept art was not drawn from descriptions of the concept art as the initial version of this post stated, this photo was found by a source with access to the Spider-Man costume as a way of legally reporting on how it looked.] That means specific details (like how the lenses and gloves are styled) might be a little different when they hit the screen next year. HOWEVER, it’s really easy to see the “home made” costume look that Marvel Studios has been touting. – Latino-Review
Amazon has announced in their UK website that they’ll be releasing a new show with British journalist and writer Jeremy Clarkson, formerly host of one of BBC’s gem, Top Gear.
Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond and James May are reuniting to create an all-new car show, exclusively for Amazon Prime. The show will be produced by the trio’s long time executive producer Andy Wilman. On working with Amazon, Jeremy Clarkson said “I feel like I’ve climbed out of a bi-plane and into a spaceship.” The first show will go into production shortly and arrive exclusively on Amazon Prime in 2016.
Jeremy Clarkson was fired from Top Gear in March for provoking a quarrel with a producer. Both sides parted on bad terms. Clarkson’s co-hosts and producer Andy Wilman followed him not long after. It has been rumored that a new project was in the works, so this comes as no surprise.
However, it seems that this new Amazon show will be about cars, which was Top Gear’s “thing” and what made it so popular. We’ll see how they make it different.
.@AmazonVideoUK now saying I can’t be their chief drone pilot. Apparently they want us to make a car show.
