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Jason Bourne Review: You Too Can Get That Déjà Vu Feeling
But it seems that neither the agency's after him, nor the screenwriters learn any new tricks. Sure, Matt Damon has evolved into a very passable action star He reads like a badass American agent capable of about whatever he puts his mind to If I was being perfectly honest, if there were to ever be a[...]
London Has Fallen Review: A Mediocre Action Thriller With Grander Asperations
Unfortunately once Banning and American President Benjamin Asher (Aaron Eckhart) manage to avoid the initial onslaught, the contrived cat and mouse that ensues become progressively less and less believable. The backbone of action films has always been that the protagonist is able to endure superhuman levels of damage and still walk away with barely a limp[...]
Is Sleepy Hollow Keeping The Faith?
I loved the art direction, the humor, and the endless new strangeness each week introduced. [*Mild spoilers for the Season 1 finale and Season 2, episodes 1 and 2 below!] My reaction to the season finale was a little more circumspect It seemed unnecessarily complicated, though I could give points to the way in which it involved[...]
Olympus Has Fallen — The Bleeding Cool Review
Almost as soon as news of John McClane's guerilla defence of the Nakatomi Building reached the cinemas, action filmmakers across the greater Los Angeles area started trying to duplicate its magical alchemy of wiseass and whopass Few have succeeded. Die Hard 2 was the only film of the 'badass in a box' genre to come even[...]
Taken 2 – The Bleeding Cool Review
Instead Taken 2's most memorable moment is the strangest, funniest and most downright irresponsible use of a hand grenade in motion picture history. There's a whole thesis to be written on the semiotics of weapons in action movies Heroes tend to favour accurately fired semi-automatic pistols, I've noticed, with the odd smattering of pump-action shotguns[...]
Safe – The Bleeding Cool Review
Some things are the same no matter where you go: A Big Mac, a Gap store, that look a man's wife gives him when she finds out he has blown £100 on action figures. Jason Statham is a performer who trades on that kind of predictability That's not an insult It's a trait that worked for[...]
Picking The Brains Behind Voltron, Merciless And Dejah Thoris
In VOLTRON: YEAR ONE, however, the action is on a more human level, reading like a military black ops mission Where did the idea come from to go in the new direction? Thomas: The choice to go in that direction is really an extension of some of the things we're doing in the main series[...]
Mike White Passes
Mike had worked on a variety of [Action and 2000AD] strips from the controversial Kids Rule OK, through Invasion, Disaster 1990, Ro-Busters, Mean Arena (a favourite of mine) and a fair few Future Shocks including some truly memorable ones with Alan Moore eg: Eureka and Bad Timing as well as the classic Time Twisters –[...]
Superman Panel New High Res Art From Supergirl, Superboy, Action, and Superman
Below, take a look at the art from ACTION COMICS, SUPERBOY, SUPERGIRL and SUPERMAN that debuted today: Here's what we've been waiting for: If you were at today's Superman panel at San Diego Comic-Con, you were treated to a first look into some of the art for the Superman group books in DC Comics-The New 52[...]
Action Comics #900 Gets A Second Print
But I understand that DC Comics has sold out of Action Comics #900 And they're going back to print. The fuss around the nine-page story by David Goyer in which Superman tells the American government that he's going to renounce his citizenship so that his actions arent mistaken as an extension of US government foreign policy[...]
Swipe File: Action Comics Annual And Casanova
The latest Action Comics Annual, exploring the early adult life of Lex Luthor has been a critical hit, both writing and art But does artist Marco Rudy owe a little inspiration to Gabriel Ba on Casanova? Here's the hardcover cover to Casanova and two pages from Action Comics Annual Don't simply dismiss the glass of wine,[...]