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Get Your First Look at Marvel’s ‘Deadpool: Pulp’ #1

Posted on August 9, 2010

Among Marvel characters Deadpool ranks pretty high in popularity. Sure, he’s probably not as famous as Wolverine or Spider-Man, but he’s found a place on the list of many a comics fan’s favorites.

Plus, he’s already had the big screen treatment as a character in X-Men Origins: Wolverine and may soon have his own movie franchise and be represented again by star Ryan Reynolds. Until the, we will just have to content ourselves with the comic version.

A great example of that looks to be the upcoming comic Deadpool: Pulp #1. Written by Mike Benson and Adam Glass with art by Laurence Campbell, this comic features Deadpool as the CIA’s deadliest, and craziest, agent.

But for better or worse, crazy is what it will take as Deadpool hunts down a rogue CIA agent to recover a stolen nuclear suitcase she’s carrying before she hands it over to America’s enemies. Who is she and is Deadpool crazy enough to stop her? We’ll just have to wait for the comic to find out.

Deadpool: Pulp #1 hits store shelves on September 1. Until then, check out the preview gallery of this comic after the jump.

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First Trailer For ‘I Spit On Your Grave’ Remake Goes Online

Posted on August 9, 2010

Since Tarantino and Rodriguez reintroduced the allure of the Grind House genre to an unsuspecting worldwide audience, original films and scripts from that time have been fair game for studios to snatch up and update for the modern audience. Rogue continued that trend last year by rebooting Wes Craven’s classic Last House On The Left. It opened with moderate success, and now it’s Anchor Bay’s turn, with a reboot of 1978’s I Spit On Your Grave (also known as Day of the Woman).

For those not in the know,  this is basically the ultimate revenge flick, updated for the modern, jaded youth with ultra sex and hyper violence. Need more? Here’s the film’s full synopsis.

Writer Jennifer Hills (Sarah Butler) takes a retreat from the city to a charming cabin in the woods to start on her next book. But Jennifer’s presence in the small town attracts the attention of a few morally deprived locals who set out one night to teach this city girl a lesson. They break into her cabin to scare her. However, what starts out as terrifying acts of humiliation and intimidation, quickly and uncontrollably escalates into a night of physical abuse and torturous assault. But before they can kill her, Jennifer sacrifices her broken and beaten body to a raging river that washes her away. Against all odds, Jennifer Hills survived her ordeal. Now, with hell bent vengeance, Jennifer’s sole purpose is to turn the tables on these animals and to inflict upon them every horrifying and torturous moment they carried out on her… only much, much worse.

Just hitting the web is the trailer to this frightening remake, and we can honestly admit that this remake plans on doing the original film justice.

Check out the full trailer after the jump, and be sure to catch the full film in theaters and Unrated on October 8th. No word on how a lack of MPAA rating will effect distribution, but be sure that we’ll be the first in line when this flick hits our local theater.

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SDCC10 Extra: ‘Marvel vs. Capcom 3: The Fate of Two Worlds’ Hands On

Posted on August 9, 2010

San Diego Comic Con was a huge show for Marvel vs. Capcom 3: The Fate of Two Worlds. At the start of the show, four new characters were added to the game’s roster with Doctor Doom, Super Skrull, Trish and Chun-Li. Then two days later, Thor, Marvel’s god of thunder and star of his upcoming self-titled feature film, and Amaterasu, the wolf god from Capcom’s Okami were added to the game as well. Make sure to check some killer new gameplay videos and screens below from Comic Con.

While on the show floor at the Con, I got the chance to get hands on with Marvel vs. Capcom 3. An old school fan of not just Marvel and the Capcom fighting properties, the Marvel vs. Capcom series has been one of my favorite’s since its debut in the arcade over ten years ago. There was some initial apprehension about actually playing the game. It had a lot to live up to. Even seeing video and screens, things could totally change if the gameplay didn’t live up to expectations.

Luckily, Marvel vs. Capcom 3 delivered. While it was still an early build of the game and more balancing will surely be taking place as more characters are added to the game, it felt like things never changed. Not only does the game look beautiful with some awesome visual effects but it plays great too. The feel of completely organized chaos of everything going on during a fight that a player can still know exactly what his or her team is doing at the time has been recaptured.

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The Flickcast’s ‘On the Radar’

Posted on August 6, 2010

Welcome to this week’s On the Radar where we delve into all corners of the entertainment, tech and geek Internets for news, views and whatnot that may have escaped our regular coverage this week. Let is know if we missed something interesting. Otherwise, on to the links!

• Think seven Saw films are enough? The filmmakers think you are WRONG!

• Star Wars: Episode One candy? Your taste buds can’t repel flavor of this magnitude. Or can they when Jar Jar is involved?

• Don’t understand Inception? Don’t worry, perhaps this Scrooge McDuck comic will help you.

• We can’t tell if the episode is going to be painful or hilarious, but this new image from Jusin Beiber’s appearance on CSI may say it all.

• It’s the 25th Anniversary of both Real Genius and Weird Science, so of course it begs the question “Who would win in a fight?”

• Tired of worrying if some stranger will take your seat because you got up for 5 seconds? These guys have you covered.

• Because we love lists almost as much as you do, here’s the 10 Songs That Movies Need To Stop Using.

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Check Out Previews for Tonight’s ‘Eureka’ and ‘Haven’

Posted on August 6, 2010

Happy Friday. Hope you’re enjoying the day. If you’re plans call for some TV watching tonight we’ve got clips for brand new episodes of both Eureka and Haven to share with you today.

First up on a Eureka episode called “Crossing Over”, Warehouse 13‘s Claudia pays a surprise visit to Eureka looking for something or someone. What she’s doing is anyone’s guess, but you can bet things won’t be as they seem.

Next up on Haven in an episode called “Ball and Chain”, strange things are happening as time speeds ahead and the men of Haven begin to rapidly age. Just like that episode of the original Star Trek where Kirk and Spock go to that planet and McCoy is older so he ages faster and . . . Sorry. Never mind.

Check out clips for both shows after the jump. Eureka airs at 9/8C and Haven at 10/9C tonight only on Syfy.

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New Trailer for ‘Unstoppable’ With Denzel Washington Hits

Posted on August 6, 2010

As far back as I can remember, I’ve been a fan of Denzel Washington. No matter what film he’s been in or if they’ve made money or not, he’s always fun to watch and a great actor as well. I’m sure most people would agree.

Conversely, people may criticize me for this but I’m also a fan of director Tony Scott. Sure, he’s not as artsy or sophisticated as his brother Ridley (His name is Ridley, after all) but he does know how to use a camera and call tell some pretty interesting stories when he puts his mind to it. So naturally, when these two get together on a film, as they have before for Crimson Tide and Man on Fire and now for the upcoming Unstoppable, I’m going to give that film my attention.

In the movie, Washington and Star Trek‘s Chris Pine are struggling to stop an out of control train before it derails on a curve and causes a toxic spill that will decimate a town. The trailer, while superbly put together, does seem to give quite a bit of the movie away. However, it does look pretty good — at least to me.

Judge for yourself after the jump. Unstoppable, which also features Rosario Dawson and Ethan Suplee, hits theaters on November 12th.

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Review: ‘The Other Guys’

Posted on August 6, 2010

The fourth offering from the comedy team of Will Farrell (star) and Adam McKay (director, writer), The Other Guys doesn’t reach the zany heights of their earlier hits Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy and Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby, but still gives Farrell plenty of opportunities for the inspired silliness and extended surreal bits that are his strengths.

Will Farrell plays Allen Gamble, a police forensic accountant with a hidden dark past, now partnered with Terry Hoitz (Mark Wahlberg), a disgraced detective who has been relegated to a desk job after making a catastrophic error.

The movie opens with the hot shots of the department, played with patented swagger and bombast by Samuel L. Jackson and Dwayne Johnson, but when they unexpectedly leave the force, so to speak, Hoitz jumps at the chance to get back on real cases. The only hitch is that he has to convince the reluctant, conscientious and safety-loving Gamble to join him.

Meanwhile, Gamble’s painstaking forensic accounting and obsession with unpaid scaffolding permits has actually turned up a real case, a financier (Steve Coogan) about to pull off a $32 Billion heist. It’s classic bumbling cops versus cool, efficient and ruthless mastermind criminals with MBAs and meat-head body guards, but the sometimes creaky plot does its job—that is, set up lots of hilarity involving Priuses, hot Broadway shows, the pitfalls of hyperbole and more.

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‘Spider-Man: Shattered Dimensions’ New ‘Vulture’ Trailer

Posted on August 6, 2010

You’ve seen all four dimensions. You’ve seen Spidey square off against the Juggernaut, Hammerhead, the Goblin, Kraven and Scorpion. Now, Activision has released a new trailer for Spider-Man: Shattered Dimensions featuring the Noir version of the Vulture.

Of any version of the Vulture, this is without a doubt the most interesting (yes, even more so than the “new” Vulture that spits up corrosive bile in the pages of Amazing Spider-Man). In Noir, the Vulture is a cannibalistic sideshow freak that has been recruited by the Goblin as one of his enforcers. Compared to the old man in the green suit, this Vulture more closely resembles one of the vampires from 30 Days of Night. The eerie image transfers great from the page to the screen as you will see in the trailer below.

Keep it here for more on Spider-Man: Shattered Dimensions including an upcoming interview with one of the developers from San Diego Comic-Con where we delve into the thought process in the origins of the title and why many of the creative decisions took place.

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