Showing posts with label culture. Show all posts
Showing posts with label culture. Show all posts

Wednesday, 20 January 2016

First Look At Wonder Woman Movie In This Featurette


It's about time that Wonder Woman (Gal Gadot) was made into a film and from the look of this featurette, the film is going to be ass-kickingly good and from the looks of it, Batman/Bruce Wayne (Ben Affleck) will also be making an appearance.

Check out the featurette below:










Wonder Woman will be in cinemas 23rd June 2017


The First Full Trailer For Suicide Squad: And It's The Best Trailer Ever!


Think of when you're sat at the cinema and the trailers come on. You see an epic trailer and you turn to who ever you are with and say "we're going to see that!" It was a very rememberable trailer and then you tell your family and friends about this film that looks awesome - because the trailer was so good.

Well, forget about any of those trailers that you've seen and have said "that was the best trailer ever". Forget it. Because the Suicide Squad full trailer is going to be your new favourite.


The trailer shows all of the characters in action and gives you more of a peek at the Joker (Jared Leto) - since we haven't really seen much of him before this.

Margot Robbie as Harley Quinn


Will Smith as Deadshot


Jai Courtney as Captain Boomerang


Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje as Killer Croc


Cara Delevigne as Enchantress


Karen Fukuhara as Katana


Jared Leto as the Joker






Jay Hernandez as El Diablo

Not only is it absolutely crazy but with 'Bohemian Rhapsody' by Queen in the background, it proves to be mind-blowing. 
Check out the trailer here:




Suicide Squad will be in cinemas on 5th August 2016



Tuesday, 19 January 2016

Neil Patrick Harris To Star As Lemony Snicket's Count Olaf



Neil Patrick Harris announced on his Twitter account on 16th January that he would be portraying the role of Count Olaf in Netflix's rendition of the books.

These books were most people's - 18-25 age group mainly, considering the first book (A Bad Beginning) was released in 1999 - childhood and they were magnificent. Lemony Snicket (actual name, Daniel Handler) created a world that was frightening yet brilliant, it was magical.

The film 'A Series of Unfortunate Events' was released in 2004 and starred Jim Carrey and Emily Browning. It wasn't that good. They tried to fit three very detailed and very genius books into one film and it didn't work.





So far all we know is that Netflix have had this show under production since 2014, but has been slowed down due to the man that was supposed to be running the show - Mark Hudis - left, leaving no replacement. That was a pain. Barry Sonnefeld joined the show's crew last year as a producer and may even be a potential director. Daniel Handler has also come on board the show to be an executive producer.

Netflix has already ordered a first season for the much-anticipated TV show - but how many episodes there will be in the first season is unknown and the release date is also unknown.

Knowing how good Netflix have made Jessica Jones, Daredevil, Orange is the New Black and more original Netflix shows, hopefully they will delve into the darkness and the grittiness of the books instead of making it a PG family film. Only by making it dark will they truly show the horror of what this orphans went through.

The set of 13 books follows the journey of three orphans: Violet, Klaus and Sunny Baudelaire who are trying to escape the clutches of their evil relative, Count Olaf. He pretends to be all kinds of different people throughout the books to try and capture the children so he can have their fortune that their parents left them. 




Vin Diesel Releases First Information About Fast & Furious 8


Vin Diesel released the first piece of information about the upcoming Fast & Furious 8 movie - or just Fast 8 - carrying on from the perfect farewell to Paul Walker which was more commonly known as Furious 7.

As we can tell from the new poster and from what Diesel has said in the past about the newest film in the franchise, Fast 8 will be set in New York City and may also be set in Cuba.

Fast 8 will be directed by F. Gary Gray who has also directed Straight Outta Compton.

Fans of the films in the UK can expect to see it on May 17th 2017 and US fans can see it a whole month beforehand on 27th April 2017.

The Flash Season 2 Extended Trailer: The Team Heads for Earth 2



We all love The Flash. It's a brilliant show that engrosses the audience in every episode and with the look of the new extended trailer for the mid season premiere, it doesn't look like that's about to change any time soon.





Will it work though? Will the team going to Earth 2 and seeing villains that are dead in their world alive in this one and seeing friends, who are villains in the other Earth work? Or is it just a cop-out because the writers couldn't think of an actual gripping story? We will see. It all depends on how the story is told. If the storytelling is weak (which is very doubtful) then this idea will not work.





The Flash season 2 mid season premiere will start possibly end of February, beginning of March in the UK on Sky1

In the U.S, The Flash season 2 mid season premiere will air tonight - 19th January.

Monday, 18 January 2016

Old Enemies Are Introduced In New The X-Files Trailer






Mulder and Scully are back and with the X-Files being re-opened, it's time the old enemies came back and it looks bigger and better than ever.

The 6 episode event will premiere 24th January on Fox in the U.S and around February on Channel 5 in the UK.

If people in the UK need a refresher on the series before it airs, the show airs on Channel 5 and 5* and started airing the recap episodes on Monday 11th January 2016.

You can also watch the complete season of The X-Files (series 1-9) if you have Amazon Prime

 Buy the complete season on Amazon here

Jessica Jones S1E7 AKA Top Shelf Perverts Review


Jessica Jones continues to impress with it's dark and gripping seventh episode.

In this episode, Kilgrave (David Tennent) makes his dramatic appearance and it feels right. This is what the previous 6 episodes have been building up to; us seeing Kilgrave in the background psychologically manipulating people, then slowly becoming a bigger role by buying Jones' (Krysten Ritter) childhood home, to having a full five minutes on screen with Jessica.

We see how evil Kilgrave can also be, as he manipulates poor but odd Reuben (Kieran Mulcare) to kill himself as Reuben is lying on Jessica's bed. All Reuben wanted was to being Jessica some food. As soon as Jones comes back to her apartment and sees Reuben dead, she knows that enough is enough. She tried to get herself locked in Supermax prison - "Supermax only houses the worst criminals: top-shelf perverts, cannibals, serial killers who make mosaics out of their victims fingernails...It's living hell", as Hogarth (Carrie-Anne Moss) describes.





Hogarth's presence in the show is still not fully understandable and her storyline with her divorce and Jones helping her finalise it makes another appearance in this episode. The writers surely must have a proper plan for Jeri Hogarth and her storyline and hopefully not just make her scenes filler episodes and a useless subplot.

Another part that is starting to lose it's effect is that of Trish Walker (Rachael Taylor). We get it, she's now having sex with Will Simpson (Will Traval), but that's all her scenes seem to be at the moment; that, and trying to convince Jessica not to do the wrong thing for a few minutes. Hopefully, she has a better character development further on into the show.



This episode is based around Jones finally realising what's making her crazy: when she murdered Luke Cage's (Mike Colter) ex-wife, Reeva under Kilgrave's mind-control. The grief is suffocating her and she realises that as long as she's around in the open air, she's also open to Kilgrave holding people that she loves against her to get what he wants. Getting told by Luke that she was a "piece of shit" at the end of the sixth episode has caused her so much emotional distress that she just wants to put things right: Jessica Jones style. 

It's when Jones goes to the police station with Reuben's severed head (yes, Jones actually pulled his head of his dead body) that she starts to put her plan into action - not knowing that it's going to fail. She proves to Detective Oscar Clemons (Clarke Peters) of her superhuman strength to try and get herself into Supermax because she's "dangerous" and that's when another officer walks in to tell her that she's free to go.

Turns out that Kilgrave knew that she was turning herself in and had mind-controlled everyone in the police precinct to hold a gun to their own head or a civilians - it's nice what a man will do for a girl's attention isn't it? No. It's scary. He's scary. It's here when he confesses his undying love for Jones, he's "yearning" for her and wants her to feel the same. 

So Jones does what she thinks she has to do. She surrenders to Kilgrave and meets him at her childhood home that he bought; hopefully she's going to develop a new plan to take him down whilst she's spending 'quality' time with him. 





We're also introduced to a new character. Trish's Mom and Jessica's foster Mom, Dorothy Walker (Rebecca De Mornay). We learn that she's the reason that Trish got addicted to drugs and that she's basically a terrible mother that only cares about herself and uses her daughter and took Jessica in to gain the media's attention. She's a nasty character, but it was interesting to see Jones go and see her. Why was she introduced now? Hopefully Dorothy will get some character development of her own throughout the series. 



This was a very good episode as it showed a new side to Jones that was essentially for the story to develop and have her continue on her path. It was fantastic for Tennent to finally showcase his talent as Kilgrave in an actual scene of conversation with Jones and for some reason, Malcom's (Eka Danville) character is becoming more and more loveable.

Bring on the eighth episode!



What do you think of Jessica Jones? Is there anything you wish you would've seen in this episode? Anything you think shouldn't have been in this episode? Leave a comment below.

Sunday, 17 January 2016

The Hateful Eight Review


This is a stereotypical Quentin Tarantino film and if you love his movies, you're going to love this. Similarly, if you love Django Unchained, you're going to love The Hateful Eight as it's similar in ways.

Shot in the Ultra Panavision 70 format - which was last properly used in the Fifties and Sixties - it uses the archaic cameras to capture the long, magnificent opening scene. The cinematographer, Robert Richardson deserves an award for his work during this film; the cinematography is superb during the first chapter. Same goes to the composer, Ennio Morricone who's score during the entire film is a piece of art. He captures the western theme perfectly.

The three hour and seven minute film is divided into chapters which adds a brilliant touch to separate the different parts of the story. There is also a nice narrative by the director himself, where Tarantino does a voiceover to describe a party of the story; maybe it wasn't needed but it added a nice touch.

The all star cast is Samuel L Jackson as Major Marquis Warren, Kurt Russell as John Ruth, Jennifer Jason Leigh as the black-eyed Daisy Domergue, Tim Roth as the very British Oswaldo Mobray, Michael Madson as the stereotypical cowboy, Joe Gage, Walton Goggins as the soon-to-be Sheriff of Red Rock, Sheriff Chris Mannix, Bruce Dern as General Sanford Smithers and Demián Bichir as Bob.

Kurt Russell and Samuel L Jackson as John Ruth and Major Marquis Warren

The problem with such a long film is that you have to make sure that every moment is captivating otherwise you're going to lose your audience and they're going to get bored. There were only very few of these moments where time seemed to go very slow but for the rest of the two and three quarter hours, it was suspenseful and crazy.

The Hateful Eight starts out with John Ruth, O.B Jackson (James Parks) and Daisy Domergue riding in a carriage through a blizzard in Wyoming on the way to Red Rock so Ruth can hang Domergue for murder. 

On their way, fellow bounty hunter, Major Marquis Warren stumbles across the carriage where he asks Ruth if he can ride with them so he can also escort his dead to Red Rock. The three of them plus O.B also come across Chris Mannix and reluctantly let him ride with them. 

45 minutes later and they come to Minnie's Haberdashery where they meet the other 5 men.

Tim Roth, Kurt Russell and Jennifer Jason Leigh as Oswaldo Mobray, John Ruth and Daisy Domergue

The plot unfolds as a whodunnit and Cluedo type of film where gore and expletives are thrown in for the fun of it and the casual expression of n**** is a typical in a Tarantino film but the racism almost becomes the subplot of the film.

The rest of the movie is set in the Haberdashery and feels like a theatre production with the one room settings and pushing in a group of people who don't know each other together. Basically a recipe for disaster.

Tarantino pulls it off and this is a brilliant film; even though it's slow at times and more gore was expected, it was a breathtaking piece of work.

Daisy Domergue played by Jennifer Jason Leigh

Major Marquis Warren played by Samuel L Jackson