Here is the deal. I am still stuck in a glass cage of emotion over Batman v Superman. Part of me wants to think of it as an enjoyable and something that I would like to watch again. Then there is another part of me that wants to throw it in a well and never look back. A lot of my hatred is due to the Aquaman scene. It made me feel uncomfortable and sad for Jason Mamoa. I will get into that at another time. Let’s focus on what we came here for.

In a terribly awkward and clunky way we were shown what some of the other members of the Justice League look like. So, were they trying to say that Lex Luthor came up with the names of some of our favorite superheroes? Anyway, I am guessing that the little glimpse into their lives was supposed to pique our interest or something.  

In a very interesting interview with Forbes, BvS producer and wife of Zack, Deborah Snyder touched on a number of subjects surrounding her husband’s work. I particularly enjoyed the segment on how Sucker Punch is a good movie. The article is totally worth a read; however, I feel the most interesting thing she said was this:

"David Ayer’s Suicide Squad has such an amazing, brash tone. It’s fun and it’s about the villains, and it’s super-different than Patty Jenkins’ Wonder Woman, which is an origin story and tells her story. As you can imagine, when we get to the Flash movie, Ezra Miller and Ray Fisher — who plays Cyborg — are kind of our youngest characters, and they have a really nice comradery with each other. Ezra is super funny, so the tone of that film will be very different than the rest of them."

The way she words that suggests that Cyborg will be joining in on the Flash’s solo movie. This just makes me think that DC is finally using elements from the MCU movie making model. This is a good thing because we as the collective fandom enjoy it when our heroes get some backup in their solo films. 

Those who know me know that this Flash movie is a very touchy subject. The Flash is my favorite DC hero and I have been waiting a long time for a Flash movie to come out. I was even more excited when I saw Grant Gustin’s portrayal of Barry Allen and all was right in the world. Then Snyder went and cast Ezra Miller to play The Scarlet Speedster in the DCU and the wind went out of my sails. Please don’t get me wrong, Miller is a very talented young actor, but he doesn’t fit as Barry Allen in my mind. I understand the trend to cast actors that don’t exactly fit the traditional mold of a character, I do. However, it just doesn’t work sometimes. 

I am hoping that Miller can pull it off. The inclusion of Cyborg gives me hope that this might be a bearable movie to watch. Does this give anyone else hope?

Marvel has released some new goodies for you check out over the past few days for Captain America: Civil War. We’ve got two new promo spots for the film, on of which features a good amount of new footage including Black Panther attacking Captain America. We also have an alternate poster in which Iron Man has his helmet on as well as a couple of images featuring Don Cheadle as Rhodey and Sebastian Stan as Winter Solider in lockdown. There's also a piece of promo art that I included featuring the Avengers epically at war with each other. 

"We're still friends, right?" #CaptainAmericaCivilWar, in theaters May 6. Get your tickets: https://t.co/2Ei6cbmucGhttps://t.co/1Tcb68sizr

— Captain America (@CaptainAmerica) March 30, 2016

One of the film projects that I’m most looking forward to seeing this year is DC Entertainment’s animated feature film adaptation of Alan Moore’s Batman: The Killing Joke. This is one of the most famous and controversial Batman stories ever told, and the fact that it’s finally being brought to life for the fans as an animated film is pretty spectacular. The best part is that Kevin Conroy has come back to provide the voice of Batman and Mark Hamill is once again breathing life into The Joker! 

Warner Bros. Home Entertainment has released a teaser trailer for the film along with a behind-the-scenes featurette that gives us our first look at some footage of the movie. The sneak peak includes interviews with the Bruce Timm, Sam Liu, and some of the other crew members talking about what it took to adapt this story into an animated movie. It also includes interviews with Conroy, Hamill, and more. They’ve made a few changes to the story to help it flow a bit better, such as the addition of a new prologue, and they are expanding the role of Barbara Gordon, which makes sense because of the horrific fate that awaits her in the story.

According to the grinning engine of madness and mayhem known as The Joker, that's all that separates the sane from the psychotic. Freed once again from the confines of Arkham Asylum, he's out to prove his deranged point. And he's going to use Gotham City's top cop, Commissioner Jim Gordon, and his brilliant and beautiful daughter Barbara to do it. 

Now Batman must race to stop his archnemesis before his reign of terror claims two of the Dark Knight's closest friends. Can he finally put an end to the cycle of bloodlust and lunacy that links these two iconic foes before it leads to its fatal conclusion? And as the horrifying origin of the Clown Prince of Crime is finally revealed, will the thin line that separates Batman's nobility and The Joker's insanity snap once and for all?

It looks like the team of talented artists that worked on this project have done a great job bringing it to life for the fans. Batman: The Killing Joke will premiere at San Diego Comic-Con, and it will most likely be released shortly after that.

From the moment I saw the first footage of The Jungle Book at D23 last year, I knew that Disney and director Jon Favreau had something special on their hands. That first footage gave me goosebumps and brought tears of joy and excitement not just to me, but to everyone in attendance. I am happy to say that while I watched the full incredible adventure of Mowgli and his animal friends unfold on the big screen, I was flooded with those same exact feelings.

Like many of you, I grew up on the old Disney animated films, and I absolutely loved The Jungle Book. One of the things I was most looking forward to seeing is how well this live-action/CGI film carried the spirit of the original. The trailers for the film made us believe it was there, but until we see the film in its entirety, we never really know what to expect. Well, the movie 100% delivered on what we were all hoping for. The spirit of The Jungle Book was in every frame of the movie and in every word of dialogue spoken. I couldn’t ask for a better adaptation as it wonderfully retold the story that we all know and love.

The visuals created to tell this story were absolutely stunning. This movie is a beautiful work of art. It’s a freakin’ masterpiece! Every frame looked like it was meticulously crafted to wow the audience, and that’s exactly what it does. The mix of live-action and CGI was flawless, and these characters were brought to life in a way that blew my mind. You really only get a taste of it in the trailers that have been released, but watching all these elements play out on the big screen in the context of the story takes it to a whole new level. One of the most impressive things about the film is the musical score. It helps the story naturally flow in and out of the two classical musical numbers in the movie, which consists of "Bare Necessities" and "I want to Be Like You". It's this musical score that really ties the film together.

It’s not only the incredible visuals that make this movie so great, though. It’s the story and the characters that really drive this film home and into the heart. Favreau has always had a talent for developing characters in the stories he tells, and he made sure that the characters in The Jungle Book were properly developed in a way that the audience cares for them, and it also wonderfully pays respect the original movie. I was completely invested in all the main characters in the story, and they were perfectly brought to life by the actors who voiced them.

The voice acting in this film was completely phenomenal by everyone that was involved. They all amazingly fit the roles that they played. The movie starred Ben Kingsley as the Black Panther Bagheera, who wonderfully pulls the audience into the story; Scarlett Johansson as the python Kaa, who was hypnotically entrancing; Lupita Nyong’o as the mother wolf Raksha, who brought a ton of emotional weight to the role; Bill Murray as the free-spirited bear Baloo, who was extremely entertaining and perfect as perfect can be for this lovable character; Christopher Walken as King Louie, who sings the song “I Wanna Be Like You” like a champion; and then Idris Elba as the fierce tiger Shere Khan, who was absolutely terrifying.

Don't worry, I haven’t forgotten Neel Sethi as Mowgli! This kid was the only live-action human character in the film, and he was so freakin’ charming! I don’t see how anyone can watch him in this film and not love this kid. He brought a classical purity to the role which is what this character needed, and he steals the show.

The Jungle Book is a thrilling cinematic adventure full of action, drama, and comedy. There are also some incredibly intense moments that will have you on the edge of your seat. I absolutely loved this movie. Like I said in the title of the review, it’s a majestic masterpiece, and it’s a film you won’t want to miss watching on the big screen. It's a jaw-dropping moviegoing experience. 

It looks like there’s a chance that Guardians of the Galaxy star Dave Bautista has joined the cast of Ridley Scott’s Blade Runner 2. The actor posted a photo of himself holding a silver origami unicorn. It came with the following caption:

"I can't wait to share some really exciting news..."

For those of you who aren’t sure what the origami unicorn means, in the 1982 sci-fi classic, Gaff, who is played by Edward James Olmos, taunts Deckard (Harrison Ford) with origami figures. Some of those figures included a chicken, a man with an erection, and a unicorn. The unicorn shows up at the very end of the movie as Deckard and Rachael (Sean Young) run away together. Deckard sees the origami unicorn on the floor and picks it up before they leave. As he looks it, we hear the last words spoken in the film by Gaff, "It's too bad she won't live. But then again, who does?"

There are a lot of theories and speculation about what the unicorn symbolizes, but in this case, it seems like it means that Bautista might have another great gig in a big movie!

Blade Runner 2 is being directed by Denis Villeneuve (Prisoners) from a script co-written by Hampton Fancher, who was the co-writer of the first film, and Michael Green. As of right now the rest of the cast includes Harrison Ford, Ryan Gosling, and Robin Wright.

Recently we've been hearing a lot of talk about Zack Snyder's Justice League films, and there have been a ton of reports that the main villain would be Darkseid. Turns out that might not be the case for at least the first Justice League film. 

According to El Mayimbe on his new YouTube show Heroic Insider, Darkseid is maybe being used as misdirection. He says he's been hearing that there will be another threat that the Justice League will have to fight. The following information is just a rumor, but if you don't want it spoiled for you, don't read beyond this point.

According to the report, Atlantis will be the main conflict in the film, and they will attack the surface of the world in the first Justice League movie. He explains that when Batman tries to recruit Aquaman, he's not interested because the Amazonians and Atlantians don't get along because they've had a 1000 year conflict with each other. So Aquaman isn't too thrilled about fighting alongside Wonder Woman. There are no specifics at this point, and all of this is subject to change. It looks like there's a possibility the movie will be inspired by Geoff Johns' 2012 miniseries, Throne of Atlantis. The report goes on to say that we will see Batman piloting a Bat-submarine to get to Atlantis.

He also says that the solo Batman movie is on the fast track to production and that there's a chance we'll see it get released before the Aquaman solo film. Check out the report in the video below. All the Justice League talk starts at the 27:30 mark.

I'm sure Darkseid will eventually make an appearance in Justice League Part Two. After all, there were signs of Apokolips littered all through Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice. What do you all think about this latest Justice League rumor?

Another batch of photos from the set of Scott Derrickson’s Doctor Strange have surfaced online. This is in addition to the photos that we already posted this weekend, only these images feature Benedict Cumberbatch as the Sorcerer Supreme without his signature red cloak of levitation. They also offer us our first look at Mads Mikkelsen's mysterious villainous character.

The photos were taken while the film was shooting in New York City. They also include additional pics of Chiwetel Ejiofor as Baron Mordo. I also included a new video from Daily Mail of the two actors shooting an action scene. Judging from what I’ve seen in these photos that have been taken, this movie looks like it’s gonna be freakin’ awesome! I can’t wait to see the first trailer for it!

Doctor Strange is set to be released on November 4th, 2016. Now that you've seen what Mikkelsen's character looks like, who do you think he's playing? Dormammu? Mephisto? Blackheart? Nightmare? Kaluu? or anyone else you can think of?

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A new tv spot for Independence Day: Resurgence was unleashed last night during the disappointing season finale of The Walking Dead. The spot features even more new footage from the sequel that seems to have fans of the first film crazy excited. It's so cool that after all these years we're actually getting a sequel to Independence Day, what's even cooler is the fact that it looks like it's gonna be awesome!

We always knew they were coming back. After INDEPENDENCE DAY redefined the event movie genre, the next epic chapter delivers global spectacle on an unimaginable scale. Using recovered alien technology, the nations of Earth have collaborated on an immense defense program to protect the planet. But nothing can prepare us for the aliens’ advanced and unprecedented force. Only the ingenuity of a few brave men and women can bring our world back from the brink of extinction.

Independence Day: Resurgence invades theaters on June 24th, 2016.

If you’re into funny, ridiculous, vulgar animated features about trying to make it in Hollywood, then Nerdland is the movie for you! The project stars the voices of Paul Rudd and Patton Oswald as the two main characters. 

The Hollywood-set story centers on an aspiring screenwriter (Oswalt) and an aspiring actor (Rudd) who make a last-ditch effort to achieve fame before they hit their 30th birthdays.

As you’ll see, their adventure to fame and stardom is packed full of absurd insanity. The film was directed by Chris Prynoski from a script written by Andrew Kevin Walker, and it also stars Hannibal Buress, Mike Judge, and Molly Shannon.

The trailer that was released for the movie is NSFW and is only for mature audiences as it is full of animated nudity and vulgar language. It’s hard not to laugh at what this trailer delivers. 

NERDLAND is the story of two best friends, aspiring screenwriter ELLIOT and aspiring actor JOHN, whose dreams of super-stardom have fizzled. With their 30th birthdays looming and their desperation growing, John and Elliot decide that in this 24/7, celebrity-obsessed world of over-shared navel-gazing, there are more ways to become famous — or infamous — then ever before. So why not become famous TODAY? NERDLAND is that day.

Making up for what they lack in brains and talent with abundant, witless enthusiasm, John and Elliot troll Los Angeles on a fame-grab journey, encountering and abusing friends both new and old. Navigating their hyper-stimulating landscape of consumerism gone wild, our two consumers want desperately to be consumed — and they will have their FAME, no matter what the cost.

Nerdland is set to premiere at the 2016 Tribeca Film Festival on April 14th.

Source: Variety

I'm sure some of you heard about Daniel Radcliffe and Paul Dano's Swiss Army Man. When it premiered at Sundance earlier this year, it was known as the farting corpse movie, but it's so much more than that! A lot of people were split on this film and audiences either loved it or hated it. I fell on the side of those who loved it, and it was one of my favorite movies at the festival. You'll get a taste of its awesomeness in this first trailer.

As I said in my review, this is a strange, different, quirky, and original film. "There’s a great, charming story with fantastic characters that makes this movie worth watching. The utter weirdness of the film is just the icing on the cake." I also said it's "a movie that must be experienced to fully appreciate! You cannot miss this one because it’s seriously unlike anything you’ve ever seen before."

Hank (Paul Dano) is stranded on a deserted island, having given up all hope of ever making it home again. But one day everything changes when a corpse named Manny (Daniel Radcliffe) washes up on shore; the two become fast friends, and ultimately go on an epic adventure that will bring Hank back to the woman of his dreams. 

"There are 7 billion people on the planet. You might be lucky enough to bump into the one person you want to spend the rest of your life with."

Swiss Army Man will be released in theaters on June 10th, and it's a movie you won't want to miss!

Bethesda and id opened the gates to the DOOM Multiplayer Closed Beta this weekend and my thoughts are many though mostly consumed by excitement over...read more on Gametyrant

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Hot Toys has unveiled their 1/6th scale collectible action figure of Ant-Man from Marvel's Captain America: Civil War. It gives us our best and most detailed look yet at Scott Lang's newest Ant-Man suit design. I absolutely love it, and it will be fun to see how it evolves over the years from movie to movie, just like all the other Marvel superhero costumes. 

Here's the description that came along with the images:

With the Marvel Cinematic Universe being divided over the rising concern of collateral damage caused by the Avengers in Captain America: Civil War, fans will finally witness the epic showdown between Captain America and Iron Man when the two heroes hold different views on the system of accountability to oversee the Avengers.

Today Hot Toys is excited to officially present the new 1/6th scale collectible figure of newest supporter of #TeamCap, the size-shifting hero, Ant-Man!

The movie-accurate Ant-Man collectible figure is specially crafted based on the film featuring a newly developed head sculpt with authentic likeness of Paul Rudd as Ant-Man in the movie, an interchangeable helmeted head with LED light-up function, meticulously tailored new Ant-Man suit, an Ant-Man miniature figure, and a Captain America: Civil War themed figure stand.

Don’t pass up on the opportunity to add the latest Ant-Man collectible figure in your collection.

After years of writing about the film, we finally have our first look at James Gray's adventure drama The Lost City of Z. Brad Pitt and Benedict Cumberbatch were attached to the lead role at various points during the film's long development process before the producers ultimately cast Pacific Rim star Charlie Hunnam, with Robert Pattinson and Tom Holland joining him in this excursion into the jungle.

The video seems to be more of a sales pitch to potential distributors than a regular trailer, so A) apologies if it gets taken down later today, and B) while it looks like it does a good job of getting across the tone of the movie, it also appears to give away a LOT more of the story than a normal trailer would (or should). If I were you, I'd only watch a minute or two of this just to get the gist of it, but you do you. Meet me below for a more detailed explanation of what this film is about:

Hunnam plays Percy Fawcett, a soldier who headed into the depths of the Amazon jungles in Brazil in 1925. Intending to map the jungle, he contracted malaria and discovered a mythical city he called The Lost City Of Z. His peers claimed that this ancient kingdom was a fraud, but Fawcett later traveled back into the jungle with his son and another man in an effort to prove his discovery. None of them were ever seen again.

There's no release date information for this film yet, but hopefully we'll see it before the end of 2016.

As someone who thought X-Men: Days of Future Past was an extremely enjoyable piece of summer entertainment, I'm still a little concerned about the prospects of X-Men: Apocalypse. Everything I've seen so far indicates that Bryan Singer and the film's writers are trying to up the ante in a major way, but they may have gone too far — the whole film just looks like a whirling mass of destruction and debris, and I don't know about you, but I'm getting a little tired of superhero films with the "bigger is better" mentality. It's OK to take it down a notch and make things more character-centric, you know? Not everything needs to be about the end of the world. (As much as I wasn't crazy about Deadpool, at least that movie knew this to be true.) I wish they had gone a different direction with the story, but as soon as they brought Apocalypse into the picture, it pretty much guaranteed massive amounts of destruction. We'll see if Singer and company can sustain the highs of Days of Future Past or if they'll get bogged down in their own chaos, but in the meantime, check out this new featurette that concentrates on the villain's four horsemen. 

Since the dawn of civilization, he was worshipped as a god. Apocalypse (Oscar Isaac), the first and most powerful mutant from Marvel’s X-Men universe, amassed the powers of many other mutants, becoming immortal and invincible. Upon awakening after thousands of years, he is disillusioned with the world as he finds it and recruits a team of powerful mutants, including a disheartened Magneto (Michael Fassbender), to cleanse mankind and create a new world order, over which he will reign. As the fate of the Earth hangs in the balance, Raven (Jennifer Lawrence) with the help of Professor X (James McAvoy) must lead a team of young X-Men to stop their greatest nemesis and save mankind from complete destruction.

X-Men: Apocalypse is set for release on May 27, 2016.

We have a fresh animated short for Overwatch, and this time, it's featuring the series now infamous Tracer! I'm kind of curious as to why Tracer is so invested...read more on Gametyrant

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There's a large discussion to be had about whether an actor's off-screen behavior should affect the way you view their films, but ultimately it comes down to drawing your own personal line in the sand. Whether or not Mel Gibson is on the wrong side of that line is up to you, and we can spend all day arguing about whether or not he deserves any more chances to make movies after the stuff he's said and done over the years. Someone gave him a chance, and the trailer for his new film Blood Father is out now. In it, he tries to protect his estranged daughter (Erin Moriarty from The Kings of Summer) from what appears to be a deranged gang. Gibson's off-screen antics aside, this looks like it could be a decent little thriller.

Blood Father hits Australian cinemas on August 25th, and though Lionsgate is handling distribution in the U.S., the movie doesn't have a release date scheduled for this side of the pond yet. Check out the trailer below (NSFW language):

Originally scheduled for a 2014 release, Search Party will finally arrive in theaters on May 13, 2016. The movie seems very much like a blatant attempt to cash in on the success of The Hangover franchise, but it does have a super appealing cast: Thomas Middleditch, T.J. Miller, Adam Pally, Alison Brie, Jason Mantzoukas, Krysten Ritter, and more all pop up here. This movie probably would have played a lot differently in 2014 since its cast members were all very visible at that time: Silicon Valley was first getting started, Community was in its Dan Harmon-led fifth season, and Happy Endings had just wrapped up a short-lived but comedically spectacular run on ABC. In any case, I hope this will be a case in which the movie was worth the wait, but when your first red-band trailer involves a donkey vomiting as a reaction shot in the first ten seconds, that might not be a great sign.

Wedding bells threaten to break up three best friends’ long-running bromance, but they aren’t going down without a fight in Search Party, the directing debut of screenwriter Scot Armstrong (The Hangover Part II, Old School). Convinced that his buddy Nardo (Thomas Middleditch) is making the mistake of a lifetime by marrying Tracy (Shannon Woodward), Jason (T.J. Miller) puts a dramatic end to their wedding. When the furious bride decides to take her Baja honeymoon solo, Nardo follows her south of the border—where the lovesick groom is carjacked and left stranded, naked and penniless in a remote part of the Mexican desert. With no one else to call for help, Nardo sends out an SOS to Jason and their pal Evan (Adam Pally), an up-and-coming ad exec slated for an all-important business meeting the next morning. As Jason and a reluctant Evan rush to Nardo’s rescue, the trio embarks on a series of increasingly outrageous misadventures involving con artists, drug smugglers and even the Federales in this wild and wacky action comedy.

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A lot of people are understandably upset at last night's finale of The Walking Dead. All that build up for...cut to black, roll credits. Imagine if Game of Thrones did something like that! For those with a lack of imagination, Beben did it for you. Here's what it would look like if GOT had the TWD writing staff. 

We've written a lot about how Jared Leto disappeared into the role of The Joker during production of David Ayer's Suicide Squad, to the point where co-star Will Smith never even met the actor during the six months they spent shooting the film. But we haven't heard much about it from Leto himself, other than a couple of quick comments about five months ago. Now EW has spoken with the actor about the men who embodied this character before, and his own unique take on Mr. J:

“The work that’s been done on this character by so many people before me has been so impactful, so incredible, so much fun, so profound, so risky, that it’s a very special thing to be asked to take on that responsibility.

“You just knew you had to do something different. You had to make it your own. That happens all the time. Whether you’re a composer working on a piece of music that was written a century ago, or you’re an actor on stage, reinterpreting a play, it’s very common these days. Directors take on great works of cinema, actors reinterpret roles, that’s been going on for a great deal of time. From Scarface to Hamlet. In some ways it’s really interesting to reinterpret, redefine.

“It a weighty thing to do. But it’s exciting. The Joker is one of those roles. He was written brilliantly when he was first shared with the world 75 years ago, or something crazy like that. And I think I’m just really grateful I had the opportunity.”

Love it or hate it, it definitely sounds like Leto is going to be giving us a version of The Joker that's wildly different from the ones we're familiar with. We'll have to wait and see how fans react to his spin on the Clown Prince of Crime, but without having seen the movie yet, I'm excited about his approach to the role and am very intrigued to see just how bonkers he gets with it.

There's also this, which is all kinds of weird:

Exclusive! Meet the bearded JOKER #JokerWasHere pic.twitter.com/RNJZmTMJ7I

— JARED LETO (@JaredLeto) April 1, 2016

Suicide Squad hits theaters on August 5th.

Horror is perhaps the most constantly-evolving genre of film. It seems like as soon as one type of film gets hot, a hundred others like it appear with little variety against the grain. This is especially true in the paranormal possession/found footage era of filming. In this video, Chris Stuckman analyzes the current state of horror films, and what sets them apart from past trends in horror.