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Trailer: Nicole Kidman Returns To The Outback For The Thriller, Strangerland

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Native Aussie Nicole Kidman returns to the Australian Outback for her new film, Strangerland, which looks like an intense missing persons thriller. The film focuses on a married couple whose two daughters disappear in the midst of a ferocious dust storm, and paranoia consumes them. The trailer showcases the panoramic beauty of the Outback, and juxtaposes it with the grit and grime of those stuck in the towns in this unforgiving land.

Here is the Strangerland trailer:

Aside from Nicole Kidman, Strangerland also stars Joseph Fiennes, Hugo Weaving, and Maddison Brown as one of the daughters. It is directed by Kim Farrant in a feature-film debut behind the camera. The film hit the festival circuit earlier this year, and will find a broader audience this summer.

Strangerland hits both theaters and VOD on July 10.

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Hulu Secures Exclusive Rights To AMC’s ‘Fear The Walking Dead’

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AMC Network programming chief Craig Erwich announced Wednesday that Hulu has secured exclusive SVOD rights to the spinoff to The Walking Dead, Fear the Walking Dead. According to The Hollywood Reporter this is a multi-year deal with AMC Networks.

“We believe in the combination of compelling content and technology to engage audiences and deliver viewers back to the linear television experience,” said AMC Networks COO Ed Carroll. “We are excited about this new partnership with Hulu, a growing company that has created a network-branded environment for content in a highly competitive space.”

The deal also gives Hulu exclusive SVOD rights to new and upcoming scripted programming from AMC, IFC, BBC America, Sundance TV and WEtv.

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Asa Butterfield Is Your Next Peter Parker, a.k.a Spider-Man?

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According to Kellvin Chavez of Latino Review, his sources have Asa Butterfield (Ender’s Game) landing the role of Peter Parker in Captain America: Civil War in 2016 and Spider-Man: New Avenger in 2017.

Latino Review reached out to Asa’s reps who have given us a “no comment.” They also reached out to other industry sources who have confirmed that he is indeed the front runner including one who believed that he already had has the role.

“Marvel had liked him since day one,” unnamed source from Latino Review.

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Hawkeye (Jeremy Renner) Sings About His Super Powers

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Avengers: Age of Ultron star Jeremy Renner (Hawkeye) sings about his super powers on The Jimmy Fallon Show Tuesday night.

Hawkeye from “Avengers” sings about his lesser-known powers.

When you’re on a team with the Hulk and Thor
And we’re all up there on the movie screen,
Will the people believe that I’m not quite as tough?
Will anyone even notice me?

But listen I’ve got powers too, they’re pretty sweet.
I promise I can do so much more than just archery.

I’m serious guys.
I’ve got a collection of scarves and berets.
I play trombone in a ska band.
I once got to second base on my Tinder date.
And my cat has got its own Instagram.

I tell you now
I kick ass at Mario Kart.
This year I played an extra in Paul Blart.
I can open a pickle jar.
I’m friggin’ Hawkeye.
Maybe I’m as super as they are.

So maybe I still haven’t lost my virginity.
But when I bowl I always score at least 70, after six beers

Yes I know ’bout Captain America’s strength.
Hulk becomes a towering man.
But I got seventh place in my fantasy league.
And I once butt-dialed Jean-Claude Van Damme.

When I go to Chipotle I get free guac.
I flirt with the cashier and she says I rock.
I own water-resistant socks.
I’m friggin’ Hawkeye.
Maybe I’m as super as they are.

Maybe I’m as super as they are.
Maybe I’m as super as they are.

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The Punisher Spotted at Baltimore Riots

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Check out this man in Baltimore, sporting a Punisher t-shirt, standing between an angry mob and law enforcement in an attempt to diffuse the situation and prevent anymore violence from erupting.

The riots in Baltimore, sparked over the death of Freddie Gray in police custody after sustaining severe spinal cord injuries, have led way to violence and looting in the city. It is nice to know there are real heroes out there!

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Indie Comics Spotlight: Bitch Planet, Descender, The Infinite Loop

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It’s Tuesday night, and you’re excited for new comic book day! Tomorrow you will go into your local comic book store and pick up another arm-crippling stack of comic books to tear into as soon as you get home. Do you need more titles thrown onto your pile? Of course you do. Here are a few indie comics that are out now that you can grab tomorrow!

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Bitch Planet – Kelly Sue DeConnick, Valentine De Landro

If you want one of the best [if not the best] independent monthly series, pick up Bitch Planet. The comic tells the story of a not-too-distant dystopian future in which women who are judged as “non-compliant” are sent to an off-planet prison known as “Bitch Planet.” Women who do not fit in with the societal standards constructed by men, or flat-out refuse those standards, are condemned to Bitch Planet by the oppressive patriarchal government. This book is the new, electrifying wave of feminism in comics. The second printing of the first issue was recently released, so it’s easy to jump into the series from the beginning. This title is perfect if you enjoy feminist literature, stories set in dystopian futures, punk rock, and really fantastic comic book writing and art. If Penny Rolle isn’t your hero, you’re reading it wrong.

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Descender – Jeff Lemire, Dustin Nguyen

If you’re like me, and I know I am, you like stories about robots. Descender is the new ongoing science-fiction series by Sweet Tooth‘s Jeff Lemire. The story begins with the nine planets under the control of the United Galactic Council having their orbits invaded by The Harvesters, massive interplanetary robots that obliterate life from the planets and disappear. Life that remains works to purge their worlds of artificial intelligence and robots, but one companion robot boy, Tim-21, remains. Once he is discovered, it is believed that Tim-21 holds in his make-up the key to The Harvesters. Soon, Tim-21 is hunted by humans desperate for answers. The artwork in this book is hypnotic, and the story is beautiful thus far. It’s the perfect union of a great script and captivating artwork. This book is perfect if you like breath-taking art, stories about robots, the film AI that we deserved instead of the one we got, and good science-fiction.

Infinite Loop

The Infinite Loop – Pierrick Colinet, Elsa Charretier

 

This crowd-funded French series is now available in English through IDW. The story begins with Teddy, a woman who works hard correcting time paradoxes. At the end of the first issue, Teddy encounters a time paradox that challenges her: the woman of her dreams. What is Teddy willing to risk for true love? How will it affect time and space? The Infinite Loop promises to be an interesting adventure in love and time-travel. This title is perfect if you like time travel, dinosaurs, philosophical questions, queer fiction, and love stories.

Enjoy your Wednesday, everyone, and be sure to take a moment to pick up something new at your local comic book shop. If you pick up any good titles this week, let me know in the comments section below! Happy reading!

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‘Avengers: Age Of Ultron’ Thor Hammer Prank Is Awesome!

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Do you remember this line:

“Whosoever holds this hammer, if he be worthy, shall possess the power of Thor.”

To celebrate the release of Avengers: Age of Ultron, Trollstation decided to stick Thor’s hammer to the ground with super,super no nails glue.

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Movie Show: RiffTrax, MST3K Crew Fix The Worst Film Ever, ‘The Room’

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Matthew Sardo of Monkeys Fighting Robots chats with Mystery Science Theater 3000 Alumni; Mike Nelson, Kevin Murphy, and Bill Corbett about their upcoming Rifftrax Live session on the worst movie ever The Room.

Bonus: A review of Chuck Palahniuk’s ‘Fight Club 2’ from Dark Horse Comics.

It’s true—it is possible to love bad movies, thanks to our friends at RiffTrax. After the cult series Mystery Science Theater 3000 was prematurely (and unjustly) canceled, comedians Michael J. Nelson, Kevin Murphy and Bill Corbett started RiffTrax to continue to share hilarious quips and observations about bad cinema with comedy lovers and movie fans everywhere.

On MST3K, the trio was restricted to low-budget B-movies due to budgetary constraints. As RiffTrax, the group is able to comment on any film they want—beloved franchises, supposed classics, summer blockbusters, science fiction favorites, and of course, many very, very bad movies. Because of copyright issues, viewers must use their own methods to obtain the films, but they are able to download commentary tracks right off the RiffTrax website.

The hysterical team tours the country performing RiffTrax Live in accompaniment to films like Sharknado and Birdemic. May 6th, RiffTrax will present The Room live from Nashville and beamed to hundreds of movie theaters coast to coast (with an encore on May 12th)! For tickets and locations: fathomevents.com

Other live RiffTrax events coming this year include:
SHARKNADO 2 – July 9th
MIAMI CONNECTION – October 1st
SANTA AND THE ICE CREAM BUNNY – December 3rd

Monkeys Fighting Robots holds two weekly podcasts, the Movie Show and the Comics Show. The Comic Show goes live Wednesday with the Movie Show going live on Friday (holidays could change scheduling).

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Thank you for listening!

About the Movie Show:

A Gen Xer and a Millennial debate the latest topics in pop culture. One guy is a filmmaker and the other is a journalist, but both are nerds. We make your slowest days at work better. Hosts, Matthew Sardo and EJ Moreno.

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Never heard of Matt Sardo?
For starters, he made the Kessel Run in less than 11 parsecs. Prior to that, he gave Doc Brown the idea for the flux capacitor and led the Resistance to victory over SkyNet – all while sipping a finely crafted IPA. As a radio host, he’s interviewed celebrities, athletes and everyone in between. He’s covered everything from the Super Bowl to Comic-Con.

Who’s EJ Moreno?
Is he a trained physician? No. Is he a former Miss Universe contestant? Possibly. But what we know for sure is he’s a writer, filmmaker, and pop culture enthusiast. Since film school, EJ has written & directed several short films. He’s used his passion of filmmaking to become a movie critic for MonkeysFightingRobots.com.

Places you can find the show:
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Retro Review: The Road Warrior (1981)

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In ramping up to the release of the hotly anticipated Mad Max: Fury Road, we continue our journey through George Miller’s original trilogy. Where Mad Max felt like a test run, the superior 1981 sequel The Road Warrior was Miller and his producer, Byron Kennedy, firing on all cylinders, creating not only the best Mad Max film, but one of the finest action films ever made.

The name was changed from Mad Max 2 to The Road Warrior for American audiences, as the original was never given wide distribution stateside. Mad Max 2 is still the title card for this 1981 film, but enough about that. The Road Warrior opens the floodgates of madness in this universe, as the world that was holding on by the thinnest of threads in the original picture has entirely disintegrated into tribes of maniacs and desperate societies always fighting for oil. It opens as if shot out of a cannon, with a visceral car chase sequence that sets the stage for the entire film.

Miller has fully realized Max here, tapping into the common mythology of a renegade hero, a loner and vigilante familiar to Westerns and Samurai pictures. Max is reluctant to help anyone but himself and his dog, but when a thief with a gyrocopter tells him about a small society rich in oil and a tanker full of gasoline, he suddenly becomes interested. Because oil supersedes all. Max and The Gyro Captain (Bruce Spence) travel to this small colony in the middle of the desert, only to discover that a gang of insane and eccentric bandits is trying to get the oil themselves.

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This renegade band is one of the best creations in Miller’s universe. Led by The Humungus – also given the wonderful nickname the Ayatollah of Rock and Rollah – a hulking figure in a hockey mask, and the psychotic Wez (Vernon Wells, also the villain Bennet in Commando), the band of miscreants tell the defensive society, “walk away, and we will spare your lives.” They know better, and vow to defend their spot on the earth despite being outmanned and, clearly, not insane enough to battle this band of renegade nihilists.

Max has a plan to get the society and their fuel out of this dangerous setting, and this leads to a thrilling thirteen minute chase sequence across the Outback. The Road Warrior holds on to its charm as a true action film, one of the truest, and maybe is more potent today because everything we see is real. Cars barrel into one another full speed, tanker trucks roll across the desert at 60 miles per hour, and the intensity of the kinetic action sequences create a stunning visual experience. And how about those cars, chaotic creations of what has been left behind in this wasteland of twisted metal and madness. An entire world has been created within these frames.

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I suspect The Road Warrior was the film George Miller always wanted to make with these wonderfully vibrant characters, but he needed Mad Max to exist in order to set up his hero’s loss of humanity, his wife and son run down in the street. This was the film that opened the doors for Mel Gibson, who plays Max with an appropriate coldness and steely determination, his dialogue only filling about fifteen minutes of screen time.

The disenchanted singularity of Max would not be anything had it not been for the story which unfolded in the 1979 film. Here, however, Max becomes an iconic cinematic creation, and The Road Warrior will forever remain a template for how to effectively shoot an action film.

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Secret Wars: Inferno Is Back Along With Some Demons

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This May, the world of Secret Wars takes you back to the fiery wastes of Manhattan as the X-Men delve back into…INFERNO! Today, Marvel is pleased to present your new look at INFERNO #1 – from writer Dennis Hopeless (Spider-Woman, Avengers Arena) and artist Javier Garron (Cyclops)! Welcome to the ruins of Manhattan, now ablaze with fire and brimstone. Five years ago, a band of demons rose up out of those fiery depths and turned the world to Hell on Earth. The X-Men were all that stood in the way of complete obliteration. The X-Men fought for survival. The X-Men failed…

Now, on this the fifth anniversary of the fall of the world, Colossus is leading a surviving team of X-Men back into the Inferno. None of them know what lies on the other side, but one thing is certain, they’re not coming back without his sister! Now, amidst the fire and the fury lies demons, ghouls, and the Goblin Queen herself. Colossus and his team of Nightcrawler, Boom Boom and Domino will face them all in an effort to save Illyana. But can she be saved? Or has she already been lost? The answer lies beyond the fires True Believer as INFERNO #1 is set to burn up the comic stands this May!

INFERNO #1
Written by DENNIS HOPELESS
Art & Cover by JAVIER GARRON
Variant Cover by ADI GRANOV
On-Sale 05/27/15


Source: Marvel Comics Media

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