To celebrate the home entertainment release of the X-Men: Days of Future Past Rogue Cut Blu-ray on July 14th, fans at San Diego Comic-Con were treated to a special advance screening of the extended version of the film. Shown on four screens simultaneously at the Reading Cinema in downtown San Diego on Saturday, July 11, the Rogue Cut features an extra 17 minutes of footage including bringing Anna Paquin’s Rogue into the film’s main plot.

The additional scenes add some more humor and action to the film. It’s important to note that although the Rogue storyline accounts for probably 50% of the extra footage, the other 50% is equally as golden. Highlights of the later portions include some very funny bantering between Quicksilver and Magneto and a romantic scene between Beast and Mystique. Several fans at the SDCC screening pointed out they had already seen these portions online as deleted scenes.

As for the Rogue bits, they fit and strangely enough they seem essential to the plot. Sadly, since we’ve all seen how the film carries on without, they end up feeling more superfluous than they were intended to be. That said, that Bryan Singer was able to take Rogue out and still make Days of Future Past work and work well is commendable. It couldn’t have been easy to re-work scenes, dialogue, and climatic moments all to remove one character.

You knew it was bound to happen. After all, it’s been years since the last cinematic incarnation of Marvel’s Fantastic Four. You know, the one that featured Captain America‘s Chris Evans in his first Marvel superhero role: Johnny Storm aka The Human Torch.

Well, have no fear, there’s a new version of the Fantastic Four coming our way. In fact, the first teaser for it just dropped and we have to say, it looks pretty good. Sure, you could argue about some of the casting or story choices (especially certain family ties, or lack of) but that’s not really the point.

This is a movie based on a comic book series. It may not satisfy everyone, especially hard-core comics fans, but it might just be a good movie anyway.

We’ll find out when it hits theaters on August 7. Check it out after the break.

It’s an all-new episode of The Flickcast for your listening pleasure. Five new ones in a row. It must be some kind of record.

Anyway, on this week’s episode Chris and Joe discuss the latest developments on The Walking Dead, the whole slew of DC movies recently announced, superhero movies in general, the mystery that is Carl’s hair and a whole lot more. That’s right people, more! Woot!

Picks this week include Chris’ pick of the movie Fury and Joe’s pick of the new Blu-ray and DVD release X-Men: Days of Future Past.

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And, we’re back. We took a week off last week for various reasons, but now we’ve got a brand new episode of The Flickcast for you. As usual, there’s no need to thank us.

On this week’s show Chris and Joe take on some new topics and revisit old ones. Some of these topics include X-Men: Days of Future Past, Batman v. Superman: Dawn of Justice, the true Star Wars day, Starlog magazine, Gareth Edwards and the new Star Wars, Godzilla, shakeups in the Marvel world including Edgar Wright leaving Ant Man and Drew Goddard leaving the Daredevil TV series,  the merits of time travel, the history of the Rancor and a whole lot more.

It’s a pretty good episode, all things considered. Plus, all the more is pretty amazing.

The guys also made picks this week. Chris’ pick is the novel The Hydra Protocol by David Wellington and Joe’s pick is the new Samsung Galaxy Tab 4.

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Once again there’s a brand new episode of The Flickcast for you to enjoy. And on the correct day too. Again. Two weeks in a row. Wow, right?

As you would expect, this week Chris and Joe take on some new topics and revisit old ones. Some of these include, you may have guessed, X-Men: Days of Future Past, Joss Whedon’s latest bit of cinema (which may change the world as we know it), that controversial Game of Thrones scene from last Sunday, the amazing (TBD) sequel to the classic Sword and the Sorcerer and whole lot more. Yes, more! You can’t handle all the more!

This week’s picks include Chris’ pick of the beer Modern Times from the gang at, well, Modern Times Beer and Joe’s pick of the webcomic Cura Te Ipsum.

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