[comics] 75 comics being made into films … they are really digging through the comic archives for film properties. The Hands of Shang-Chi: ‘This kung-fu crazy character emerged from Marvel comics at the height of the early 70s martial-arts boom and the stories incorporated Sax Rohmer’s Fu Manchu and Nayland Smith characters. Ang Lee is in the producer’s chair with Forbidden Kingdom stunt arranger Woo-ping Yuen set to direct, but most of the news on the project is pretty old.’ [via Robot...

Exclusive: Star Trek Official Movie Trailer is here! This is the new movie trailer for the new Star Trek XI Movie, for release on May 8 2009. (wide) Take a look. More Star Trek (coming...

The New Watchmen Trailer is Here! The Theatrical Trailer.This is Trailer 3 - Watch Trailer 2 - Watch Trailer 1 Tell us what you think, leave a...

2012Coming July 2009With the Mayan calendar ending in 2012, a large group of people must deal with natural disasters such as volcanic eruptions, typhoons and...

TwilightComing: December 19 (uk) - November 21 2008 (us) Bella Swan has always been a little bit different, never caring about fitting in with the trendy girls at her Phoenix high school. When her mother re-marries and sends Bella to live with her father in the rainy little town of Forks, Washington, she doesn't expect much of anything to change. Then she meets the mysterious and dazzlingly beautiful Edward Cullen, a boy unlike any she's ever met. Edward is a vampire, but he doesn't have fangs and his family is unique in that they choose not to drink human blood. Experience Twilight at Yahoo...

Director Zack Snyder talks about the Female Superheros in this short video for the up and coming film,...

Angels and DemonsComing 15TH May 2009 (wide)Starring: Tom Hanks and Ewan McGregor"When a murder of a physicist, Leonardo Vetra, finds a symbolist, Robert Langdon, and Mr. Vetra's daughter, Vittoria, on an adventure for a secret brotherhood, The Illuminati. Clues lead them all around the Vatican, including the four alters of science, Earth, Air, Fire and Water. An Assassin working for the Illuminati, have captured four cardinals, and murders each, painfully. Robert and Vittoria also are searching for a new very destructive weapon that could kill millions."Source:...

Ged Carroll memed me to find out where I get my inspiration from for my blog and thoughts? Plenty of places but here are a few ideas… - Suggested links from blogging, Facebook, Twitter and FriendFeed friends - Delicious, Digg and other social bookmarking tools - Traditional media reading such as The Times, The Guardian, The Economist, BBC, NY Times - An endless array of podcast subscriptions - ViralVideoChart.com - Top political blogs and PoliticsHome.com - Job experiences - Film, music and sport - When I’m on a run - And most importantly pub chatter i.e. people I meet Next up for the meme? Well, my esteemed Weber Shandwick digital colleagues…James Warren, Robert Anderson and Simon Collister.       ...

Dr. Manhattan (click on a poster to enlarge it) The Comedian RorschachOzymandiasNite Owl IISilk Spectre II(click on a poster to enlarge it) Above are 6 new Watchmen posters which have surfaced on the Internet. They include the six main characters of Zack Snyder's epic film Wathcmen. Taken from DC Comics, the film looks to be a huge hit when it's released in June 2009. Watchmen News: Directer Zack Snyder has sparked fan fury claiming there will be a non squid ending in the movie, his earlier claims lead us to believe he wasn't changing much of the script based on the graphic novel. Read more over at ComicBookMovie.com. Also there is confirmation that a second trailer will screen in the previews before Quantum of Solace, released 14Th November 2008 in the US. It is to include new footage...

New York radio host Erica Bain has a life that she loves and a fiancé she adores. All of it is taken from her when a brutal attack leaves Erica badly wounded and her fiancé dead. Unable to move past the tragedy, Erica begins prowling the city streets at night to track down the men [...] Read the full post at shaolintiger.com....

For all those people settling down to another week of commuting, meetings and Excel spreadsheets - here’s a brilliant video to remind you of your childhood air-guitar dreams. Lip-synching is a simple technique that’s been done a million times before, but that doesn’t detract from its impact. They add to the global reach by having their performers in front of landmarks such as the Sydney Harbour Bridge, Times Square and St Paul’s Cathedral. Nickelback’s video is brilliantly executed with guest appearances from the public, Gene Simmons (KISS), Billy Gibbons (ZZ Top) and numerous other...

TakenStarring: Liam NeesonDirected by: Pierre Morel "This is Liam Neeson at his best, a definite must see!" When I saw the trailer for this film I thought this film looks good, and of course it was. The film sees a former spy called Bryan (Neeson) having to use his old skills to save his daughter when she's kidnapped, but the reason she was taken is every parents worst nightmare. Bryan only has a 96 hour window to find his daughter, or she will be lost forever. What a brilliant film from start to finish, at the start we see exactly what sort of job Bryan is involved in, little does he know he will need those very skills to save his daughter. The film seems to be some sort of cross between Bond and Bourne, very well constructed, a brilliant plot that brings awareness to what is happening...

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Underworld: Rise of the LycansComing January 23rd 2009 (wide) Explores the origins of the centuries-old blood feud between the aristocratic vampires known as Death Dealers and their onetime slaves, the Lycans. Yahoo Movies...

Yes ManStarring Jim Carrey, Coming December 19th 2008. (wide) A man signs up for a self-help program based on one simple principle: say yes to everything... and anything. At first, unleashing the power of "yes" transforms his life in amazing and unexpected ways, but he soon discovers that opening up his life to endless possibilities can have its drawbacks. Yahoo Movies More comedy...

Quantum of Solace - the review......Starring Daniel Craig as James Bond. I don't want to start off on a negative note but there's much bad press about this film not "living up to the original James Bonds", "Quantum of Solace was not a great Bond film", "Daniel Craig just isn't right as Bond". But what we need to realise is that the Bond films seem to be moving into a new and exciting direction, Sean and Roger were excellent Bond's, but their day has now gone, Daniel Craig is taking it into a new era, and it's going to be good! Quantum of Solace is a direct sequel to Casino Royal, a film which set the new standard for Bond films, so I'd watch this film first before seeing Quantum of Solace. Quantum of Solace sees Bond looking to track down the organization which he feels is responsible...

TIGER WOODS WINS 2008 US OPEN DESPITE KNEE INJURY CAUSED BY ILLEGAL KARATE ATTACK FROM EVIL MAFIA GOLFER ROCCO MEDIATE. OBTAINS CRUCIAL PAR SCORE ON SUDDEN-DEATH HOLE USING “CRANE KICK” BEFORE COLLAPSING ON THE FINAL GREEN IN AGONY, MUTTERING “I DID IT FOR YOU, ELIN!” LEWIS HAMILTON CLINCHES WORLD F1 DRIVERS’ CHAMPIONSHIP IN HIS MCLAREN, HERBIE, DESPITE...

I'm not the best judge of birds, but I believe this to be an egret. The bird was fishing in the shallows of Doha harbour.For more great photos of Qatar bird life check out John Thompson's gallery of birds in Qatar.Qatar Visitor FriendsDoha...

So now the hype for Quantum of Solace is almost over, and the Dark Knight is well in the past, will we now all be following one of the most anticipated films for 2009, Watchmen? It's safe to say that films originating from Comic Books become huge hits, and the internet hype can be enormous. If watching the trailer for Watchmen makes you shiver, then you've certainly been bitten by the bug. I know I have. I'm sure you have too. But sometimes these big money making film companies can release too much pre-release content, and so spoiling the surprises, or just the entire film. I suppose if you don't want to know then don't watch or read. But with so many sites out there now releasing that content, it's hard not to. We could all do with a little taster now and again, as Watchmen isn't due for...

The New Watchmen Teaser Poster:Showing Eddie Blake, in his deadly fall. View our Watchmen Special...

Watchmen Trailer 2: Scream Awards. "God help us all"Watchmen due for release June 2009.Watch Trailer...

This is an actual film, a classic no doubt. Good on him I say.       ...

Halloween is great. It makes me re-watch the scary films I’ve always enjoyed. Here are my favourites, how about you? The Omen The Thing Halloween The Shining 28 Days Later Notable but just missing out…Alien, The Truman Show and Teen Wolf       ...

Saw VDirected by: David Hackl, Starring: Tobin Bell as Jigsaw. Well here we have it, the fifth instalment of the Saw series. Mark Hoffman and Agent Strahm are much of the focus this time round. But whilst trying to uncover the truth one shall meet a crushing end, whilst the other will live to continue Jigsaw's work, undetected. Also 5 more people are put to the test, and must do the opposite of their instincts to survive. But will they listen carefully enough to the tape? It's hard trying not to give too much away really, the film sets it's self out from the start, we kind of know who's who. There are many flashback too, used to uncover the truth. The film starts with quite a gory test, but is that test really real. We see alot more depth in the film and perhaps less gore and frights....

Eight years ago Budweiser changed its image from the Traditional heritage theme of the Budweiser Horses to the zany Wassup series of commercials. They managed to make cutting edge adverts that embodied the craze of ‘Water Cooler moments’… when co-workers would meet at the water cooler or at a coffee break and say ‘Wassup’. Well, times have changed and now Barack Obama’s marketing team have brought them back to life with this brilliant and poignant send up. It’s the first and only great political broadcast I’ve seen; with a bit of humour it points out what has happened under the Bush administration: the credit crunch, Iraq, global warming, the housing crises, unemployment and healthcare. Without saying anything, it says everything. Right on...

I really have no excuse for putting this on other than the person described in this video - a women who first went abroad in 2007, who thinks she has experience of foreign policy because she lives in Alaska (it faces Russia) and a woman who thinks dinosaurs roamed the earth 4000 years ago - could soon be dealing with the complexities of Middle Eastern politics.Qatar Visitor FriendsFind the best deal, compare prices and read what other travellers have to say about...

[movies] Dog Day Afternoon … a page about the Al Pacino movie Dog Day Afternoon which includes a Life Magazine article about the real robbery which inspired the movie … ‘Inside the bank is bedlam. Bank robbers and hostages listening to live radio coverage of the caper. Phone calls going out, phone calls coming in. “I hope they kill you all,” a voice, at the end of the line tells bank manager Barrett. “Make your move now,” whispers another voice, calling every 15...

The Nameless Libertarian has written a really excellent essay on how classic works of dystopian fiction tend towards... well... fiction. They tend to rely on some massive cataclysm to enable the totalitarian governments, when this is not, in fact, the case.All of this literary criticism does have a point, and it is this: dystopian works of fiction have their place, there is no doubting that. But they are fiction: they do not represent reality. As I’ve already mentioned, the reality of the slide towards totalitarianism is far less exciting, or obvious as it is presented in fiction. Don’t imagine that there will be terrible war before the state takes complete control; they won’t need to do that. And they are not going to utter clear statements of intent, like burning books. The...

By Erik SamdahlWell, my weekly column covering U.S. movie releases has hardly been weekly. I’ll blame it on a vacation to Cancun and a subsequent virus I picked up in that hellhole, but excuses aside, a ton of movies have come to theaters recently, with only more on the way. This week, we see several big releases hit the stage, including High School Musical 3 and Saw V. High School Musical 3, the first theatrical release for the Disney franchise, is expected to be huge. Analysts are predicting anywhere from $50 to $100 million in its opening weekend. As such, I will spend the week praying that this doesn’t happen. High School Musical 2 was almost unbearable to watch, with its cheerfully bad music and choreography, and I don’t expect this watered down sequel to be any better....

Liberte, Egalite, Fraternite. This film examines the three pillars on which the French Republic stands through the eyes of soldiers summoned from its colonies to fight a war for liberalising a people, while enjoying few of those rights themselves. Put into the worst of battles towards the end of World War II, with the least compensation in terms of money, promotion, leave or even rationed tomatoes, soldiers from France’s colonies in North Africa - particularly Algeria - fight a cold, brutal war and die an unknown death. The Government they are fighting for feels no need to understand their religion, needs or culture.Days of Glory (French: Indigènes) is a French drama film directed by French-Algerian Rachid Bouchareb. The cast includes Sami Bouajila, Jamel Debbouze, Samy Naceri, Roschdy...