Author: Carl Doherty
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Caged (Captifs) DVD Review
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2010 Director: Yann Gozlan Script: Yann Gozlan, Guillaume Lemans Cast: Zoé Felix, Eric Savin, Arié Elmaleh Organ trafficking gets the Texas Chainsaw treatment in this Gallic horror, which sees a group of humanitarians captured in Eastern Europe and kindly alleviated of their burdensome components. While this premise may sound like the set up for another…
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2011 Eagle Awards Voting Opens
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in Comic NewsDue to my ongoing technical problems this is going up a little late, but nevertheless: the voting selection for the 2011 Eagle Awards is now up. It’s a vast and varied list, too, comprising 29 categories. Voting will close at midnight BST on Monday 11 April, and the winners will be announced at the MCM…
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The Man Who Fell to Earth DVD Review
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1976 Director: Nicholas Roeg Script: Paul Mayersberg Cast: David Bowie, Candy Clark, Rip Torn, Buck Henry Nicholas Roeg’s deceptively elaborate tale of an extraterrestrial striving to bring water to his drought-inflicted homeworld is by far his most ponderous. A film as imaginative as it is indulgent, The Man Who Fell to Earth presents Roeg’s visual…
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New X-Men: First Class Posters are Second Rate
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With so many Marvel movie projects on the go at once, nary a day goes by where we’re not treated to another intriguing publicity image or poster. These two new X-Men: First Class posters, however, are anything but a treat.
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Exclusive Genki Gear T-Shirts for London MCM Expo
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in Comic NewsThose quirky garment designers at Genki Gear have unveiled several official T-shirts that will be exclusively available at this May’s MCM Expo London Comic Con, allowing geeks everywhere to connect with like-minded dreamers when May 2011 is but a distant memory. Sob…
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Special UK Screenings for Quentin Dupieux’s Rubber
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in Movie NewsQuentin Dupieux’s Rubber has generated a fair bit of media attention recently, much of which is undeniably down to the movie’s plot – a sentient car tire, named Robert, goes on a killing spree. This highly stylish trailer alone is enough to make it the cinematic oddity you just have to see for yourself: Rubber…
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Batman: The Return of Bruce Wayne TPB Review
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2011, DC Comics Story: Grant Morrison Art: Chris Sprouse, Frazer Irving, Yanick Paquette, Cameron Stewart, Ryan Sook, Lee Garbett Like Superman and Captain America before him, Batman was always going to best the Grim Reaper and return to the DCU – even though technically he was never dead. It was more a question of when…
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New Thor Movie Posters are Epically Fugly
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Following the release of 20th Century Fox’s promising X-Men: First Class posters last week, Paramount and Marvel Studios have decided to take a less inspired approach to promoting that other impending Marvel movie, Kenneth Branagh’s Thor (source: IGN). Yup, they’re bland, inappropriately Gothic, and unlikely to appeal to a) those clued into the Thor comics,…