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STAR TREK INTO DARKNESS Spoiler Free Review

Star Trek: Into Darkness courtesy Paramount Pictures
Star Trek: Into Darkness courtesy Paramount Pictures

  Star Trek Into Darkness goes boldly with excitement, action and passion! J.J. Abrams and his crew honor the Star Trek legacy while taking it warp drive into new directions. It’s everything you love about Trek yet feels fresh and exciting like a cadet on their first Starfleet mission!

The story is thrilling packed with moments that make your heart race and make it hurt as Captain Kirk and his crew face threats within the Federation and in deep space. Every member of the Enterprise crew you love (Spock, Uhura, Scotty, Bones, Chekov) stars in their own powerful sequences that all thread into the greater story of family. The acting is superb with emotion, humor and power.

Benedict Cumberbatch – no words can express just how incredible this actor and his character is!

The action is relentless. From exotic and horrific alien landscapes to the inner sanctums of Continue reading STAR TREK INTO DARKNESS Spoiler Free Review

Marvel Characters Wanted for AGENTS OF SHIELD

Clark Gregg in Marvel's Agents of SHIELD courtesy ABC
Clark Gregg in Marvel’s Agents of SHIELD courtesy ABC

The Marvel’s Agents of SHIELD television series hits ABC this Fall! Set in the world of Marvel’s Cinematic Universe, Agent Phil Coulson (Clark Gregg) leads an elite team of agents in the new world of Gods, monsters, aliens and heroes as seen in The Avengers. The pilot was written and directed by Joss Whedon.

Now that we’ve seen the full trailer featuring a character that many speculate (and hope) could be Luke Cage (aka Power Man) played by J. August Richards (Angel) let’s start the wish list of Marvel characters we hope to see in the new series:

Daredevil #509 featuring Iron Fist & Luke Cage courtesy Marvel
Daredevil #509 featuring Iron Fist & Luke Cage courtesy Marvel

Danny Rand (Iron Fist) The billionaire Continue reading Marvel Characters Wanted for AGENTS OF SHIELD

New Television Show Picks for Geeks!

Agents of SHIELD courtesy ABC
Agents of SHIELD courtesy ABC

The biggest news of the network Fall up fronts (when all the U.S. television networks reveal their new shows and lineups) is the official word that Marvel’s Agents of SHIELD has been picked up and will air on Tuesdays at 8pm on ABC. Marvel’s The Avengers director Joss Whedon wrote and directed the pilot starring Clark Gregg as Agent Phil Coulson leading an elite team of spies working for S.H.I.E.L.D. as seen in Iron Man, Thor, Captain America and The Avengers.

Here are some other picks for sci-fi and comic book geeks to look forward to:

Almost Human Karl Urban (Star Trek Into Darkness, Lord of the Rings) and Michael Ealy in a new series from J.J. Abrams and J.H. Wyman (Fringe) as police officer forced to work with an android partner in this sci-fi crime drama. This will air Mondays on Fox midseason.

Crisis Gillian Anderson (The X-Files) returns to U.S. television in new thriller. Anderson plays a powerful CEO who teams up with her rookie FBI agent sister (Rachael Taylor) to solve a multiple kidnapping case.

Dracula Jonathan Rhys Myers plays the Count, Thomas Kretschmann plays Van Helsing, Jessica De Gow (recently seen as Huntress on Arrow) plays Mina Murray. Dracula will follow the renewed Grimm on Friday nights.

Believe Kyle MacLachman (Twin Peaks) stars in a new series by J.J. Abrams. In this supernatural drama a man spring from prison fights to protect a gifted young girl from evil forces who want to control her.

Crossbones John Malkovich will play Blackbeard in this mid-season series by the writers of Luther.

More to come!

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First Look: Giamatti as Rhino on AMAZING SPIDER-MAN 2

rhino  Amazing Spider-Man 2 marks the big screen debut of Electro (Jamie Foxx) and the Rhino (Paul Giamatti.) Director Marc Webb shared a first look at Giamatti as the Russian bad guy via twitter over the weekend. The picture of the acclaimed actor came with the message “say hello to Aleksei Sytsevich” (the real name of the man who wears the horned battlesuit. See below)

courtesy Marvel
courtesy Marvel

Giamatti is looking badass, bulked up and bald – perfect for Kingpin?

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Hugh Jackman & Nicholas Hoult in X-MEN: Days of Future Past

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courtesy @BryanSinger Twitter

Far out X-Man!

Director Bryan Singer just revealed a shot of Nicholas Hoult and Hugh Jackman on the set of X-Men: Days of Future Past via Twitter.

Hoult and Jackman are looking 1970’s groovy as Henry McCoy (aka Beast) and Wolverine.

Singer accompanied this pic with “welcome to 1973!”

Looks like Beast will have created the image-inducer to hide his mutated appearance?

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Meet the Team of AGENTS OF SHIELD

Agents of SHIELD courtesy ABC
Agents of SHIELD courtesy ABC

Who’s who in Agents of SHIELD?

Agent Phil Coulson (Clark Gregg) is back leading an elite team of operatives for the law enforcement agency S.H.I.E.L.D. in the upcoming ABC television series based on Marvel’s The Avengers but who else is on the team?

Agent Grant Ward (Brett Dalton), highly trained in combat and espionage.

Agent Melinda May (Ming-Na Wen) Continue reading Meet the Team of AGENTS OF SHIELD