It goes without saying that Wolverines first solo film was kind of a disaster in the eyes of many people. It created a gargantuan amount of continuity problems, it butchered the already well done Weapon X story in X2, got rid of Deadpools mouth and was generally a bad film with  few redeeming qualities so people are understandably apprehensive about this new solo outing, especially after its very long and troubled production.But like another troubled film that came out earlier this year and pleasantly surprised me, The Wolverine is a fantastic Wolverine film and its the second best X-Men film …

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I usually dislike reviewing single issues of a comic books as I feel that you can’t get a right feel for the comic based solely on one issue and some of the problems you may have in one issue may be resolved by the next one, making your complaints moot. But I decided to make an exception for this particular title as it sort of came out of no where and got my attention almost instantly. 

For the longest time now I’ve had this need to read a heist comic book, I tried Thief of Thieves and while it was solid, …

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Going into this film I had absolutely no positive expectations, for over a year I kept track of this particular film and was well aware of its very long and very troubled development. From constant changes to the script, various re-shoots, close to a dozen writers being brought on to the project and insanely high production costs were just some of the films many, many problems during production. Being a fan of the book I was also among those not pleased by the changes that were seemingly being done and from the outset a World War Z movie instead of an …

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I think it’s fair to say that Jonathan Hickman is the Grant Morrison of Marvel, both of these writers have a reputation for writing stories that are very out there, trippy, esoteric and not very accessible to everyone and Hickman’s first volume of Avengers proves this. If you’re not a fan of very grand scale, dense, dry, sci-fi and cosmic stories, you will not like this book at all; in fact you will down right hate and despise it. Though even if you do like all of those things, this is a book you need to read multiple times to truly …

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To me, Enter the Dragon is a classic for one reason, Bruce Lee. Lee changed the landscape of martial arts cinema in the 70s when he introduced a more “realistic” style of fighting, rather than the traditional “Crouching Tiger” style of kung-fu. Not to mention that many martial artists today consider Lee the pioneer of MMA (mixed martial arts). Lee’s philosophy is, to discard what is useless, and take what is useful. It doesn’t matter what style it came from. This philosophy is showcased in the first part of Enter the Dragon, when Lee uses grappling to beat down …

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Going into this particular film, I was very worried about it, mostly due to its critical reception. Currently standing on 57% on Rotten Tomatoes, the critics, particularly some of the harsher ones said some very nasty things about MoS and I was genuinely worried about it. The whole DC Cinematic Universe rests on its shoulders and if with the audience and at the box office, it would probably kill any non Batman DC movie for god knows how long. Well after seeing the film and giving myself some time to think about it, I gotta say the critics were dead wrong …

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What? But you already did a post on Dead Master?! NOT this one my friend and wow is she cool or what!

NEW from Max Factory and for Figma fans around the world is Dead Master as she appeared in the 8 episode TV Anime of Black Rock Shooter. This time around the characters are battling to shoulder the pain of their real world counterparts and with their death (usually at the hands of Black Rock Shooter), the girl in the real world is left empty and without much memory of the one who had troubled her.

Dead Master is still …

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X-Men Days of Future Past is one of the most renowned X-Men stories ever told. Its part of the critically acclaimed run by writer Chris Clermont and the final story drawn by John Byrne in collaboration with Clermont. For these reasons and because of the movie coming out in about a year, I decided to check this one out and see just what makes it so good and to get an idea as to how will it translate to the big screen. After reading it I hope to god they don’t do a straight up adaptation…

The first thing you should …

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We all knew this one was coming for a long time now. The new Avengers show that was given birth to once EMH was shoot in the head and left to bleed out in a dark alley. I was just as skeptical as anyone else, especially with the posters looking like amateur fan art or the promos looking like Ultimate Spider-Man. And now that the first two episodes of Avengers Assemble are out I have to say…. I kinda like it…. Now I know it has a very long way to go before it can reach the level of EMH, but …

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New on DVD and Blu-Ray is “K-ON! The Movie,” which features the conclusion of the Anime series. “K-ON! The Movie” tells the final tale of the Light Music Club as they decide to take a trip overseas before their graduation from high school.

Mio, Ritsu, Yui, Tsumugi and Azusa find themselves on their way to London England after their pet turtle chooses the location by way of tea cup. Mio is elated and their junior Azusa jumps in on planning their itinerary for them.

Once in London, the girls have to battle the language barrier, try to find …

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