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

X-Men: Apocalypse New Poster

X-Men: Apocalypse has a new poster! It promises death and destruction from the tagline "only the strong will survive". 

Oscar Isaac will be portraying the super-villain, Apocalypse - who is known for being in the top 10 of Marvel's super-villains. 

Other newcomers joining Isaac on the big screen is Tye Sheridan (Scouts Guide to the Zombie Apocalypse) as Cyclops, Sophie Turner (Game of Thrones) as Jean Grey, Kodi Smit McPhee (Dawn of the Planet of the Apes) as Nightcrawler, Lana Condor as Jubilee, Alexandra Shipp (Straight Outta Compton) as Storm, Ben Hardy (Eastenders) as Angel and Olivia Munn (Iron Man 2) as Psylocke. X-

X-Men: Apocalypse will be in UK cinemas from May 16th 2016 and in US cinemas from May 27th 2016

New Legends of Tomorrow Poster!

DC's Legends of Tomorrow trailer has shown us that this show is going to be awesome. Bringing characters together from Arrow and The Flash and making them travel back and forth in time to save the day, sounds like something amazing.

Legends of Tomorrow will air on The CW channel in January 2016 and the UK air date will follow.

Check out the trailers here

Empire Magazine Releases Six Different Star Wars Covers For New Issue

You're a massive Star Wars fan and you want to keep up to date with everything about the new film: The Force Awakens.

Look no further. Empire Magazine, for their new issue (out November 26th), released six - yes, six! - different collectible covers that are in 3D.

You can purchase any of them in any newspaper/magazine store but you better be quick, because the magazine is selling fast.

Take a look at the different covers and see which one you're going to buy.

Stormtrooper-now-rebel Finn (John Boyega) wielding his blue lightsaber

                                      

  Rey (Daisy Ridley) with the new droid BB-8

   

  Game of Thrones' Gwendoline Christie moves from Westeros to The First Order as Captain Phasma

                     

   Poe Dameron (Oscar Isaac) 

                                                      

Adam Driver plays the main antagonist, Kylo Ren

                                                 

 Harrison Ford resuming his role as Han Solo, with Chewbacca played by Peter Mayhew

           
These covers are awesome. They are collectibles so go to a shop now, buy all of them and then sit and stare at them all day and night to revel in the fact that you have six things that are so beautiful, you just can't bear to them alone.

Don't forget! The covers are in 3D!

Comment below on which cover you want and if you've already bought it, share a picture with you and your cover!

Shadowhunters New Poster!

If you are a massive fan of the Mortal Instruments series (books or film) keep reading.

If you don't know already, there isn't going to be a sequel to the 2014 film but there is going to be a television series based on the series of books by Cassandra Clare.

The books were a massive success and even the prequel series - the Infernal Devices - have been successful so it's safe to say that this TV show is going to be a hit. If they do it right.

Katherine McNamara will star as the badass female lead, Clary Fray, along with Dominic Sherwood as Jace Wayland and Alberto Rosende as Simon Lewis.

Trailers:

Shadowhunters premiers on 12th January on ABC Family (now known as Freeform) in the US.
Date unknown for UK release.

Are Superheroes Taking Over The World? (And Not In A Good Way)

My Dad had grown up with the Marvel comics and occasionally the DC ones. My first film I saw at the cinema was 'Star Wars: The Phantom Menace' in 1999 so you can see where I get my love of the 'nerd culture' from.

I think the very first superhero movie I ever saw was when Tobey McGuire starred as Peter Parker in the 2002 film 'Spider-Man'. I was 7. I then went on to watch the rest of the 'Spider-Man' films. They then re-made the 'Spider-Man' films, only this time using Andrew Garfield as Peter Parker - who I think makes a better Spiderman than Tobey McGuire - but now they're re-making Spider-man AGAIN using Tom Holland. I decided I would branch out; so I started watching the 'Batman' franchise and loved every minute of it - which yet again, they are re-makin (but I simply cannot wait til Batman v Superman)

It wasn't until I got older that I realised actually how much money Marvel was making from all of these adaptations. Over the past few years I have seen every single superhero film and TV show out there and I plan to watch the ones that are coming out over the next few years. 

Will there ever be a time that Marvel and DC stop? 

I spoke to a few people and some of them said that "[they wished] that Marvel would just stop making adaptations. I loved reading the comics, the first editions of the storyline. I don't want to watch someone else's version".

And maybe that person was right. I used to read all of my Dads comics when I was younger, I just loved the drawings and I have to admit it was brilliant seeing the films made, to see which actors the directors would just to live out most people’s childhood. Sure, it's nice to watch the stories you've read about so many times play out in front of your eyes. But isn't that why people read? So that they can make scenarios up using their own imagination? Making their own interpretation of that world?

I don't know... I'll leave that opinion up to you.

Daredevil, Season One

Daredevil is gritty. Daredevil is dark and bloody - and it's awesome.

The Netflix original series follows the tradition story of Matt Murdock (Charlie Cox). Instead of showing his life story in chronological order, the show starts a lot later on in his life, when he starts up a law firm - Nelson and Murdock - with his law school friend, Foggy Nelson (Elden Hensen). Throughout the show, we are given flashbacks into his earlier life where we find out the origin story of 'Daredevil' and that's one of the things that is so brilliant about this show. It sticks to Stan Lee's origin story of Murdock very well and completely blindsides (excuse the pun) Mark Steven Johnson's 2003 adaption of the comic.

The thirteen episodes show is the journey that Murdock makes as 'The Devil of Hell's Kitchen', from a boy who is blinded by radioactive chemicals that heightens his senses, to a lawyer by day and a masked figure by night slowly fighting criminals in "his city". Nelson and Murdock's first case as lawyers, is a woman -Karen Page (Deborah Ann Woll) - who has been framed for the murder of her co-worker at Union Allied (a company which seems to be the common demoniator in Hells Kitchen's problems). Together, the three of them - along with a newspaper journalist, Ben Urich (Vondie Curtis-Hall) - try and take down Hells Kitchen's crime lord, Wilson Fisk (Vincent D'Onofrio).

Ultimately, it doesn't even seem like a Marvel show. From what I have seen over the years, Marvel has always been the light, shiny, comical side of superheroes and DC has been the dirty and dark. Daredevil is more like DC in this Netflix original. There's blood, there's shooting, there's bones crunching - everything that you wouldn't expect from the Marvel Universe.

For me, one of the most gory scenes in the show, that is so unlike anything that you would see from Marvel is a scene in episode four. Fisk a.k.a The KingPin, seduced Vanessa Marianna (Ayelet Zurer) - an art dealer - into having a meal with him. The meal was interrupted by a Russian gangster, Anatoly (Gideon Emery) and Fisk was furious with him. Imagine a crime lord infuriated. It's nasty. So nasty, that Fisk decided to decapitate Anatoly with a car door. Blood sprays everywhere and you hear Anatoly's head slowly being hacked off and all Fisk says to his right-hand man, Wesley (Toby Leonard Moore) is "tell Mr. Potter I'll need a new suit." This scene builds the foundations of Fisk's character perfectly. You get to see the monster that he is and the monster that he will stay being throughout the show. He is easily one of my favourite characters in Daredevil and sometimes, Fisk's story supersedes Murdock's.

I like this Marvel, it feels like they're taking a risk and I like that because Daredevil is a dark story and I feel like they've done Murdock's story the right way. They haven't tiptoed around the bloody horror of what Fisk does to Hell's Kitchen, they haven't tiptoed around that Murdock actually needs to heal from his fighting rather than look and act like he's healed and everything is okay in five minutes. Daredevil takes the time to show Murdock's healing process and that he needs the help of his nurse friend, Claire Temple (Rosario Dawson) to get back on his feet.

The show is fast paced and exciting, apart from the cliché 'to be continued' ending of episode thirteen where Murdock, Nelson and Page enter the Nelson and Murdock building all laughing and smiles. It's obvious that there's going to be a second season and boy, I hope there is. This show is brilliant, the casting is brilliant and the way it's done is brilliant. Bring on season two.

Sense8

At first, I was a bit weary about this Netflix Original show - a group of twenty-something’s with special powers and they use their powers to help each other out. It sounded a lot like Heroes to me, but boy, was I wrong. I watched this season of perfection in a day and a half. I stopped to eat and go to work and to get the right amount of sleep so I could wake up in the morning and start watching it again.

The concept of the show sounds quite simple yet when you watch it, it’s quite complex. A group of twenty-something’s are connected by a suicide – even though they are in different countries - and after they get some killer migraines, they have special powers and they use their powers to help each other out in their different life situations. Sounds simple? It’s complex because it’s so many genres rolled into one; there’s sci-fi, romance, drama and thriller, but it works so well.

The Wachowskis and J Michael Straczynski are the creators of this magnificent show and you’ve got to give it to them, they’ve done 
such a brilliant job at making a show that you will want to binge, at making a show where you - I guarantee it – will not want to miss a second. You know what I love about this show? All of the different people types of people in it. Sure, there’s a bit of tokenism in there with the stereotypical “Whoo! Gay pride!” lesbians, the Korean who loves martial arts and the American cop, but that’s what I love. It brings together eight different people, from eight different corners of the world.

This show will make you laugh, it will make you cry – I kept a box of tissues by me throughout the twelve episodes – it will knock you breathless because you’ll be thinking “can that even be put in a TV show”, but it pushes the boundaries of TV and doesn’t make you feel like you’ve wasted your time binge watching it.

There wasn’t much of a cliffhanger at the end of the finale but I felt like you didn’t need one. There’s still a lot more to be told about the eight main characters, their backgrounds, their connections with each other (warning: you will ship characters, it’s inevitable), and that’s what makes me so excited for season two. Looks like I’ll be waiting a while, because season one has just come out, but I’m willing to wait for a show so perfect.