MOST ANTICIPATED MOVIES OF 2016

Captain America: Civil War courtesy Marvel via Twitter
Captain America: Civil War courtesy Marvel via Twitter

DC vs Marvel at the box office, one of the X-Men’s greatest enemies strikes, a Star Wars legend revealed, two huge video game inspired fantasies and two of the naughtiest comic book films yet.

Here are our 16 most anticipated movies with comic book/sci-fi twist coming in 2016:

The BFG

Steven Spielberg directs this children’s tale of a young girl and a big friendly giant fighting to stop an army of evil, hungry giants. July 1.

Passengers

When Mystique met Peter Quill? No, but Jennifer Lawrence and Chris Pratt star in a sci-fi romance from the director of The Intimidation Game. Pratt plays a man who awakens from his ship’s sleep chamber too early and awakens another from hibernation rather than live and die alone. December 21. Continue reading MOST ANTICIPATED MOVIES OF 2016

ASSASSIN’S CREED Comic Book Trailer

Assassin's Creed #1 courtesy Titan Comics
Assassin’s Creed #1 courtesy Titan Comics

New blood in a brand new Titan Comics series based on the video game.

Assassin’s Creed #1 by Anthony Del Col & Conor McCreery with art by Neil Edwards is one of our picks of the week.

Watch a new trailer for the series after the official description:
“Charlotte de la Cruz is overeducated and underemployed, wasting her time in San Diego, spending her free time chasing down conspiracy theories.

When a real-life conspiracy crashes into her life, she is​ ​pulled into the orbit of the Assassins, a mysterious organization with​ ​roots stretching back thousands of years, and users of stolen Animus​ ​technology, which allows them to experience the memories of their​ ​ancestors as if they were there! Continue reading ASSASSIN’S CREED Comic Book Trailer

New Comics Picks for October 14, 2015

Chewbacca #1 courtesy Marvel
Chewbacca #1 courtesy Marvel

Chewbacca #1 Sometimes you get what you wish for! At a Marvel Emerald City Comicon panel, I asked for a Chewie solo book even if the word balloons were just grunts and growls. I think we’ll see more from writer Deadpool writer Gerry Duggan and artist Phil Noto as Chewie gets a new sidekick on a new planet but familiar Imperial trouble.

New Avengers #1 Hanging out on Avengers Island with a rebel team (Sunspot, Cannonball, Squirrel Girl, Wiccan, Hulkling, Hawkeye and Songbird) by Al Ewing and Gerardo Sandoval. When an Avenger buys A.I.M. is science, superheroics and the threat of a twisted Reed Richards. Continue reading New Comics Picks for October 14, 2015

Michael Fassbender Updates ASSASSIN’S CREED Movie

Michael Fassbender in Prometheus courtesy 20th Century Fox

Michael Fassbender (Prometheus, X-Men: First Class) has two huge movies coming out. Fassbender reteams with director Ridley Scott on The Counselor and director Steve McQueen for 12 Years a Slave.

 

The project fanboys and girls are most excited about after X-Men: Days of Future Fast is the movie based on the video game Assassin’s Creed. Continue reading Michael Fassbender Updates ASSASSIN’S CREED Movie

Michael Fassbender for Assassin’s Creed

Michael Fassbender in Prometheus courtesy 20th Century Fox

  Michael Fassbender (Prometheus, X-Men: First Class) will star and produce Assassin’s Creed based on the hit Ubisoft video game according to The Hollywood Reporter Heat Vision. The in-demand actor will play Desmond Miles, a man descended from a long line of assassins. The story takes place in modern and ancient times as Miles faces the Knights Templar.

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Top 5 Picks for 2-1-12

Winter Soldier #1 cover from Marvel.com

Winter Soldier #1

Bucky Barnes gave the Captain America mantle back to Steve Rogers and becomes the Winter Soldier again. Partnered with the Black Widow, they are the “Mr. and Mrs. Smith of the Marvel Universe” according to writer Ed Brubaker. The Seattle writer spins new adventures of Marvel’s hottest spies as they team up to take out awakened ex-Russian sleeper agents.

Fatale #2

  This is a potent brew of crime noir and supernatural horror. Two men in two time periods chasing down the same woman. Ed Brubaker and Sean Phillips create dueling time crossed mysteries with the impeding dread that a poor bastard is inching closer to a demonic end. 

Batman: The Gates of Gotham trade paperback

Batman assembles some of greatest detectives in the DC Universe when a mystery as old as Gotham City challenges the Dark Knight. Batman soon learns the dark history of Gotham’s past and sins of its most famous families – including the Waynes. Scott Snyder and Kyle Higgins

Assassins Creed: After the Fall trade paperback

Based on the killer video game this story follows the Russian assassin in a race against the Templars to claim a powerful artifact.

Avengers X-Sanction #3 courtesy Marvel.com

Avengers X-Sanction #3

Cable Versus Red Hulk! The mutant from the future has taken on Captain America and Iron Man – now it’s smash time with RULK! Why does Nathan have to take out the Avengers to save Hope of the X-Men?