Three character trailers from First Class have arrived today courtesy of MTV. The featured mutants are Banshee, Havok, and Beast. I think this makes a lot of sense considering that none of these genetic superiors got a whole lot, if any, screen time in the previous films. It’s nice to get a little preview of [...]

Hell on Wheels AMC is batting well over .500 right now with shows like Mad Men and Breaking Bad racking up Golden Globes and Emmys like it’s a forgone conclusion. Now it looks like they are getting into Deadwood (prematurely canceled by the way) territory with their unique take on the post-civil war Western. Check [...]

The Cabin in the Woods If you hear a strange sound outside . . . have sex. First of all, best tagline of all time. Hands down. Secondly, how has this film been stuck in development for the last year and a half. TCITW was originally slated for an October 2009 release, but then with [...]

Django Unchained Despite Tarantino’s mild (to put it lightly) obsession with Uma Thurman, the auteur has apparently put his potential Kill Bill 3 project on hold to delve more fully into the Western genre. Quentin teased at the Western in Kill Bill 2, and went all out Sergio Leone spaghetti in Tsukiyaki Western Django, even [...]

R.I.P.D Dark Horse’s series R.I.P.D is apparently pretty awesome. It’s one of those comics that has been on my “to read” list for a while now, but whenever I go to read it something else, like Axe Cop or Sweet Tooth, ends up distracting me. It looks like I’m going to need to motivate myself [...]

Arnold is Back I’m sure you’ll get plenty of “He said he’d be back lines” so I am going to spare you any sort of disastrous pun on the famous Terminator line. The shift for Arnold Schwarzenegger back into film following his political career has been swift and, thus far, smooth. His upcoming comic book [...]

Green Lantern The more I see Ryan Reynolds as Green Lantern, the omnipresent image of Val Wilder fades to reveal a powerful and authentic Hal Jordan. The real issue moving forward seems to be whether or not Blake Lively can shed her Gossip Girl skin to harness to confidence and strength of Carol Ferris, Lantern’s [...]

Attack the Block Can’t wait for this one! If nothing else, Attack the Block looks like it might give Don’ you go Rounin’ Roun to Re Ro a run for its money for the most British film of the year. Official Synopsis: From the producers of Shaun of the Dead and Scott Pilgrim VS The [...]

Luck After Boardwalk Empire and Game of Thrones threw me into the “HBO can do no wrong” camp I decided that I needed to calm my enthusiasm for the Home Box Office. But after checking out the behind the scenes trailer of their new show Luck, I may have to just own up to being [...]

Looking for the perfect accent to that Bushidō themed gaming den you call a bedroom? Need some films to round out your Takeshi Kaneshiro DVD collection? Maybe you just want some swag just to have some more swag? Whatever the reason, 30ninjas has you covered. Prolific filmmaker Takeshi Miike’s (Audition, Ichi the Killer) latest film [...]

Thor Reviews Thor may nor be arriving to theaters until next month (May 6th) but the studio started screenings this past weekend (usually a good sign that they are confident with the film that they produced). The reviews thus far are mixed, leaning towards positive, but I think the general feeling is that the film [...]

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part II Trailer This Summer, July 15th to be exact, the journey from childhood to adulthood, and student sorcerer to Maestro of Magical Mayhem will finally be complete. Like any series that has had a run as long as Harry Potter has (14 years if you count the initial [...]

The Hobbit Set Peter Jackson is going to unleashing an onslaught of vlogs from the set of The Hobbit and I couldn’t be happier. Seeing The Shire, even if it is in its studio incarnation reminds me of a time not so long ago (10 years I guess) when we were introduced to Peter Jackson’s [...]

Shaun of the Dead Described as a love letter to all things Edgar Wright/Scott Pilgrim, Youtube user Pippinopalon submitted the following video to the 2011 Empire/Jameson Done in 60 Seconds Competition. Using the animation and video game style employed by Scott Pilgrim creator Bryan Lee O’Malley, and the story of Edgar Wright’s Shaun of the [...]

Mortal Kombat When Kevin Tancharoen directed and produced the popular Mortal Kombat: Rebirth fan short, I’m not so sure he had delusions of Mortal Kombat web series grandeur. Yet here we are several months later and the first episode of of Mortal Kombat Legacy has just been released. Part one of the nine part series [...]