Comic book fans, rejoice. While you anxiously await the arrival of The Dark Knight Rises, television network The CW is prepping the premiere of their new series Arrow, a show based on DC Comics’ other billionaire playboy/masked vigilante, Oliver Queen aka The Green Arrow. The series arrives this fall, and the network just debuted the [...]
May 20, 2012
Max-El
Comics, Trailers, TV
The Boondocks, Aaron McGruder‘s acclaimed (and controversial) society-skewing cartoon starring a 10-year-old Black radical and his 8-year-old menace to society of a brother, will be returning for a fourth season, according to Adult Swim. [...]
May 17, 2012
Max-El
Comics, TV
Kapow!, the UK’s largest comic convention now in its second year, is in London this weekend. After welcoming around 10,000 visitors at the inaugural convention, 30% of those being women, organisers Lucy and Sarah Unwin hope to see an even bigger turnout of women this year. [...]
May 15, 2012
Melissa Sinclair
., Comics, London, UK
Starring in the exciting sci-fi flick Prometheus, which hits cinema screens on June 1st, Idris Elba has confirmed that he will return to play Heimdall in the sequel to last year’s superhero film, Thor. Elba announced his plans in a recent interview with Collider. [...]
May 15, 2012
aboynamedandy
Film, Geek
It’s not often that Beyonce – or hubby Jay Z - are in the headlines for anything other than being amazing… however it has recently been revealed that the Queen B herself is currently being sued by video game developers Gate Five after allegedly pulling out of a deal to create a motion sensing computer [...]
May 14, 2012
Alya Mooro
., Games, Music, News
The anticipation continues to build for The Amazing Spider-Man, and after having watched the most trailer in 3D myself last week, I’m quite hyped up about this release. For all fans of Marvel’s web slinger, here are two new viral videos that focus heavily on The Lizard aka Dr. Curt Connors, played by Rhys Ifans. [...]
May 14, 2012
Aamir Yaqub
., Film & TV, Geek
As a recent iPhone convert, I’m always looking for some fun apps to keep me occupied during those boring moments when I’m waiting around for a meeting to begin or doing something equally mundane. Enter MyFaceWhen. Designed by Washington D.C.’s Space Age Nerds, the app allows you to create testable .GIFs either from prerecorded videos, [...]
May 10, 2012
Aamir Yaqub
., Geek, Tech
There’s no doubt that Instagram, a social way to share photos with some hipster filters, has become the standard way for iPhone and Android users to show the world what a good time they’re having. The company was recently bought out by Facebook for a cool 1 billion. ADR Studios has taken the popular photo-sharer [...]
May 10, 2012
Aamir Yaqub
., Geek, Tech
The Avengers Assemble film (at least that’s what they called it here in the UK) “Hulk Smashed” the box office in its opening weekend with the second-biggest opening of all time. Having seen it (and loved it — read our review here) there was no doubt that the merchandise would be free-flowing after the release, [...]
May 10, 2012
Aamir Yaqub
., Comics, Style
A sequel to 2010′s unexpected box office hit Kick-Ass is in the works despite the original’s director being unavailable, Deadline reports. [...]
May 9, 2012
Max-El
., Comics, Film