I’ve been watching films long enough now not to be too disappointed when sequels don’t match the brilliance of original films. I don’t mind that and have an inbuilt expectation of diminishing returns when film series go into multiple instalments. So I wasn’t expecting Avengers: Age of Ultron to be as good…
Iron Man 3
25 April 2013 by Leave a Comment
The sun is out, the lawn is ready to be mowed and after a couple of films as a warm-up I think it’s safe to say that summer blockbuster season is open for business. Oblivion and Olympus Has Fallen both served as decent appetisers but it’s now time to get serious. We’re now in Avengers Phase Two and it’s kicked off in some style with the return of Tony Stark in Iron Man 3…
The Avengers 2 Gets A Release Date
16 August 2012 by Leave a Comment
After the news last week that Joss Whedon would be returning to write and direct The Avengers 2, Walt Disney Studios and Marvel have gone one step further and announced that the sequel to this year’s superhero behemoth would be released…
The Amazing Spiderman
11 July 2012 by 4 Comments
2012 is undoubtedly the summer of the superhero blockbuster. Avengers Assemble set the bar very, very high and set the box office alight. The Dark Knight Rises is building anticipation with trailers and featurettes released on a regular basis and it looks like it could be one of the best films in the genre. And in the middle of these two is the reboot of the Spiderman franchise…
Avengers Assemble
27 April 2012 by 2 Comments
It’s been a long wait – for me it’s been since August last year, for others it’s been much longer. That wait however is now over, Avengers have indeed now Assembled in our cinemas and we get to find out if all our hopes were met…
Iron Man 2
25 April 2012 by Leave a Comment
It’s coming excitingly close to the opening of superhero supermovie Avengers Assemble and I’ve been preparing by catching up with the series so far. As I wrote a couple of months back, I wasn’t massively enamoured of the first Iron Man film…
Thor
26 March 2012 by Leave a Comment
In just one month (26th April) The Avengers Assemble will be released. I have massively high hopes for this film – the trailers look great, I loved Captain America and Joss Whedon is directing. Only an Aaron Sorkin script could excite me more…
New Avengers Trailer
29 February 2012 by 5 Comments
Marvel have released a new trailer for this summer’s superhero mash-up The Avengers and I think it’s looking pretty bloody good. Less emphasis on Robert Downey Jr’s Tony Stark/Iron Man and more of the rest of the team. Shame Jeremy Renner only got a couple of seconds but he’s certainly looking good as the next great action hero…
Runaways: Pride and Joy
12 September 2011 by Leave a Comment
As a little girl I loved comics – The Beano and Bunty were my two favourites. I moved on to teen magazines like Jackie and Smash Hits and then the magazines that I still read today – Empire, Marie Claire, Sport Diver. I was never interested in comic books like Superman ….