Dead Avenger?

Holy Cr*p

An Avenger dies in Siege 2? Who? No don't tell me. I'll find out soon enough - it is out tomorrow.

2010 OSCAR NOMINATIONS

It is interesting this year. I have seen very few of the films that are up for an Oscar. Avatar and The Hurt Locker are both up for nine nominations each. Inglourious Basterds has eight. Of those three I have only seen Avatar. I guess I should make a point of seeing the other two!

Of the categories that interest me, we have:

Best Actor:

Morgan Freeman – "Invictus" (haven't seen but want to)
Jeff bridges – "Crazy Heart" (haven't seen and don't know much about it)
George Clooney – "Up in the Air" (quite keen to see, although heard mixed views)
Colin Firth – "A Single Man" (quite keen to see)
Jeremy Renner – "The Hurt Locker" (keen)

Best Picture:

“Avatar” James Cameron and Jon Landau, Producers
“The Blind Side” Nominees to be determined
“District 9” Peter Jackson and Carolynne Cunningham, Producers
“An Education” Finola Dwyer and Amanda Posey, Producers
“The Hurt Locker” Nominees to be determined
“Inglourious Basterds” Lawrence Bender, Producer
“Precious: Based on the Novel ‘Push’ by Sapphire” Lee Daniels, Sarah Siegel-Magness and Gary Magness, Producers
“A Serious Man” Joel Coen and Ethan Coen, Producers
“Up” Jonas Rivera, Producer
“Up in the Air” Daniel Dubiecki, Ivan Reitman and Jason Reitman, Producers

What do you think? Which film should win?

More comment to follow.

Awesome trailers

Clash of the Titans
Iron Man 2
Wolf Man
Kick Ass
Legion

There should be a 'Best Trailer' Category at the Oscars.

New York Trip YAY!!!!

End of Feb - we are going to New York (my wife and I). Well excited. Have given some thought to the different things we could do in our five days in the city that never sleeps.

Here is a little taster:

Columbus Avenue Market - leafing through old comic books - sweet!
Movieoke - re-enact favourite movie scenes!
Visit Yoda in Queens - Museum of Moving Image
Mintons Jazz House - Miles dubbed it as the Black Jazz Capital of the World!
Met Museum - cocktails on the Roof Garden - Sweet!

Plenty more to follow :-)

Revenge of the Fallen.

So Revenge of the Fallen. Wanted to see this at the cinema when it came out, but never got round to it. So Saturday night, watched it on DVD. It was one of those films where I could not stop saying ‘cool’ under my breath repeatedly. This of course was due to the fact that the effects for the most part are awesome. Really awesome. Story…not so much. Acting…ok. Dialogue…couldn’t hear it. Action and effects…awesome. Slow-mo robot fighting! What more do you want? No really…what more do you want? Yep I was a kid again watching this…well I kinda am a kid most of the time anyway but this enhanced that. One of the things that I now want to do (and this is the geek in me) – I want to go through both Transformer films and see which Transformers appeared in the original Hasbro cartoon. There were definitely a lot of additions. Very cool film though.

4 February 2010

Blackest Night Wonder Woman #3 (Of 3)
Question #37 Blackest Night
Red Robin #9
Siege #2 (Of 4)
Siege Embedded #2 (Of 4) (maybe)
Ultimate Comics X #1

Flashforward

Watched the first episode, season 1 this morning. One word 'Awesome'. really liked the premise for the story. I had deliberately not read any magazine or website articles - didn't want any spoilers (although the name does give a fairly good idea of what happens). Anyway, looking forward to getting properly into it.