‘Contraband’ director Baltasar Kormakur is putting together a film adaptation of Steven Grant’s BOOM! Studios graphic novel, ‘2 Guns’ for Universal. The film centers on a DEA agent and an undercover navel intelligence officer who unknowingly investigates each other as each steals money from the mob. Working from a script by TV writer Blake Masters, [...]

This week, Spidey and the team decide to take on Marvel’s Most Wanted, to disastrous results. Spoilers below! Peter gives us a quick recap of the last two episodes, which premiered in tandem in last week’s season premiere to get everyone up to speed: He’s been recruited by Nick Fury to be a part of [...]

I guess the new trend is now emerging where trailers now get their own trailers (or teasers as they are now called). While most of the time I’d rather wait until the full trailer is released, I do have to make an exception with this teaser for ‘Looper.’ The movie hasn’t had too much publicity [...]

On its midnight release a few weeks back, ‘The Hunger Games’, the movie based on the novel from Suzanne Collins, broke box office records. Since then, the flick, which is about kids being forced to fight to the death for the amusement of a corrupt government, has been continuing strong at the theaters. This past [...]

‘Game of Thrones’ gets a lot darker and a lot nastier in this week’s episode. We get to see some new lands, meet some interesting new people and see more sex than I can actually remember this show having in the past. In other words, it’s just another week in Westeros. Sex, profanity and lots [...]

‘Avengers: Earth’s Mightiest Heroes’ plows right ahead with a potentially startling new plot development- are the Avengers headed for Civil War? Tonight’s episode, ‘Alone Against A.I.M.’ seems to suggest so. To begin, a little recap. EMH brings us back to season one, specifically when the evil scientific organization A.I.M. tried to steal tech from Stark [...]

For those who haven’t followed the series up to this point, Green Lanterns Hal Jordan and Kilowog have been stranded in distant space, on board their sentient space craft which can manifest itself as a cute female artificial intelligence construct with full Green Lantern powers, which Hal has affectionately dubbed Aya.  They are also in [...]

Last month’s ‘Action Comics’ #7 set up the final showdown between Superman and Brainiac and this issue delivers and wraps up the ‘Collector’ storyline in true Superman fashion. When we last left our hero, he was being forced to choose between saving either the city of Kandor from his homeworld of Krypton or his adopted home [...]

The episode opens in Bruges, Belgium on the Haly Circus, which we know is the circus that Dick Grayson and his family The Flying Graysons were a part of, until his parents were killed when a criminal sabotaged their trapeze act.  Meet their new feature attraction, The Daring Dangers– Dan and Dawn Danger, the trapeze [...]

Last month’s ‘Animal Man’ #7 continued this series’ holding patern with Buddy Baker (aka Animal Man) and his family sitting around and holding off undead animals while waiting on the story in ‘Swamp Thing’ to catch up so that their stories could cross over and move on. Thankfully, this issue finally makes some small but substantial [...]

The second half of this two-part trials episode begins with the remaining Cats on a ridge overlooking Mumm-Ra’s pyramid. They’re planning how to get the Sword of Omens back, and Tygra is more than a little depressed at how he became king. After the adults leave, WilyKat sees Kitt drawing on a rock. When asked, [...]

With the Penguin defeated after ‘Detective Comics’ #7, it’s onto the New 52 introduction of another Batman rogue… the Scarecrow! As the issue opens, Catwoman is falling to her death after a bungled robbery that she committed under the influence of the Scarecrow’s fear gas. As Batman rushes to save his… er… “dance partner”, it’s [...]

On Saturday, April 7th, this year’s prestigious Hugo Award Nominees were announced. Those who attended the Norwescon, Leprecon, Minicon, Marcon, and the Olympus 2012 conventions were able to see the announcements delivered live while those at home were able to stream it via UStream. The Hugo Awards is the leading award for excellence in the [...]

It took seventh months but, at the close to ‘Swamp Thing’ #7, Alec Holland had finally accepted his destiny and become the Swamp Thing again. But, when he did, all readers were given was a silhouette of the new Swamp Thing. Then on DC’s website, the cover had the actual image of the Swamp Thing [...]

Now that ‘Circle of Four’ is at an end, Flash Thompson (aka Venom) has to deal with the fallout of his decision to go AWOL from the US Government and to pick up the broken pieces of his personal life. As the issue opens, Flash’s teammates in the Secret Avengers are discussing what to do [...]