Author: Maurice Mitchell

Superman #701 (2010) comic panel by J.P. Mayer Read on to find out the times Superman saved several people from suicide including someone in real life. Today is “World Suicide Prevention” day and it highlights a very real and important issue. In the United States over the past two decades, suicide rates have increased nearly 30 percent. In real life, Superman has been touched by two high profile suicides. George Reeves, the Superman actor from the 1950s TV show “Adventures of Superman” sadly died from an apparent suicide. Margot Kidder, who played Lois Lane in the Superman films tragically died May…

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Black Panther (2018) – T’Challa (Chadwick Boseman) It used to be that comic book and superhero movies were few and far between in Hollywood. Nowadays, they are grabbing up screenplays for just about everything because, for the most part, if it has the name Marvel or DC attached to it, it’s most likely going to be a box office smash. 2018 was no different, and some fantastic films were released. The best sports betting sites will have odds on the Oscars, so we’ll have to check as we get closer to awards time. A Brief History in Time (Comic Books…

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Find out the top 9 comics featuring ethnic characters or talent this week. 1. Astonishing X-Men #15 Astonishing X-Men #15 cover by Greg Land Publisher: Marvel Comics Writer: Matthew Rosenberg Artist: Greg Land Cover Artist: Greg Land Summary: After the events of last issue, Havok and his team are on the run from the law. Plus, the Reavers’ secret mission is revealed! On Sale: Sep 5th, 2018 Price: $3.99 Buy Astonishing X-Men 15& on Comixology 2. Batman #54 Batman #54 cover by Matt Wagner Publisher: DC Comics Writer: Tom King Artist: Matt Wagner Cover Artist: Matt Wagner Summary: Dick Grayson—the…

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See the first official photo of Brie Larson’s Captain Marvel costume. After tons of behind-the-scenes photos, Marvel has released the first official look at the Captain Marvel costume. Entertainment Weekly has a cover story on the upcoming MCU movie and includes a cover with the newest MCU hero. Captain Marvel is coming next summer and is the 21st film in the MCU. It’s the first to star a solo female superhero. Just like “Black Panther” has a black lead and black director, “Captain Marvel” stars a female lead and a female director. Over the years Marvel has collected a range of female…

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Billy Dee Williams at Premiere of “Solo: A Star Wars Story” See video of actor Billy Dee Williams training for the upcoming movie “Star Wars: Episode IX”. Lucasfilm recently confirmed Billy Dee Williams will be coming back as Lando Calrissian in Star Wars: Episode IX. Now the 81-year old actor has shared a video of his training for the role. William December “Billy Dee” Williams Jr. is an actor, artist, and singer. Williams is best known for his role as Lando Calrissian in the Star Wars films and first appeared in Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back back in 1980.…

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Here’s everything you may have missed this morning Tuesday, September 04, 2018. In Case You Missed It (ICYMI). Is Peter Parker going to show up in Sony’s Venom? Will Dave Batista return to “Guardians of the Galaxy? 1. VENOM Director Ruben Fleischer Remains Coy When Asked Whether Spider-Man Is In The Movie via Comic Book Movie Director Ruben Fleischer recently sat down with the Los Angeles Times to offer his thoughts on the rampant fan speculation about whether Spider-Man is or isn’t in the movie and in lieu of tipping his hand too much, he replied coyly, “I honestly don’t…

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Find out the top 10 new comics this week featuring ethnic characters or talent. The secret history of the symbiote and Wolverine is revealed. Lando and Poe Domeran drop new issues. Misty Knight teams up with Daredevil. Plus, Ms. Marvel struggles to control her powers. Check out our list of hot new comics this week. Batgirl #26 Publisher: DC Comics Writer: Mairghread Scott Artist: Paul Pelletier Cover Artist: Sean Murphy Summary: “Art of the Crime” part one. During a high-speed chase with murderous art thief Grotesque, the villain K.O.’s Batgirl with a souped-up stun gun that temporarily fries the device…

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There’s a lot of darkness in the world right now but this mashup by Nerdist adds just the right amount of goofiness in your life. The late Robin Williams never got to play in a superhero movie. He got close. Williams was almost cast as The Riddler in Batman Forever (1995). Now he finally gets his due. Nerdist took his under-appreciated remake “Flubber” and mixed it with the dark violence of Tom Hardy’s upcoming “Venom”. Check it out. We don’t know how “Venom” will turn out, but if it has half the dancing and singing of this video we’re in…

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A.X.L. (2018) Miles (Alex Neustaedter) Here are the early genre box office results of this past weekend Aug 20, 2018 – Aug 26, 2018 Week 34 Box Office Winner: Crazy Rich Asians Warner Bros.’s prehistoric shark movie “The Meg” stayed in the number two spot in its third week. It lost about 39% to make $12.9 million for a domestic box office gross of $105 million and a worldwide total of $409 million. Global Road’s “A.X.L.” about a boy who finds a robot dog opened in the number 10 spot. It made $2.8 million for a domestic box office gross…

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Black Panther (2018) – T’Challa / Black Panther (Chadwick Boseman), N’Jadaka / Erik “Killmonger” Stevens (Michael B. Jordan) Marvel wants “Black Panther” to win a “Best Picture” nomination and isn’t settling for “Best Popular Film”. LA Times has a piece explaining how Marvel has a plan to get a “Best Picture” nod for “Black Panther”. The article says Disney hired veteran Oscar strategist Cynthia Swartz to “orchestrate a campaign” to get Ryan Coogler’s movie an Oscar nomination. She’s working with Marvel Studios President Kevin Feige with a “significant awards season budget”, apparently larger than any Marvel has done before. Hanging over the head…

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Check out my review of the Chris Pratt vest from New American Jackets! Chris Pratt once said, “Just be comfortable with who you are.” Of course it doesn’t hurt to have a cool leather vest. In Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom Owen Grady, played by Pratt, wears an amazing leather vest. The awesome clothing store New Amercian Jackets sent me a vest to try in exchange for an honest review. It’s awesome! Here’s my unboxing video and review! The leather is soft and very comfortable. The look is very, very close to the movie version except for the pockets which are slightly different.…

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Jurassic Park (1993) Dr. Alan Grant (Sam Neill) Read a list of classic movies based on books and stories. “The book is better” is a phrase you hear a lot. In most cases it’s true. But every now and then a movie comes along that is a classic in its own right. Here’s a list of fifteen classic films based on books. Frankenstein (1931) Frankenstein (1931) (1931) The Monster (Boris Karloff) Official synopsis: “This iconic horror film follows the obsessed scientist Dr. Henry Frankenstein (Colin Clive) as he attempts to create life by assembling a creature from body parts of the…

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Here’s everything you may have missed this morning Monday, August 20, 2018. In Case You Missed It (ICYMI). 1. New RIRI WILLIAMS: IRONHEART Title Launches This Fall via Comic Book Movie Writer Eve L. Ewing, a Chicagoen, said that she is tuning into Williams’ own Chicago roots. “She was born and raised in Chicago, but because she’s a superhero, her adventures take her all over the place. She also had a lab at MIT, that’s also kind of her headquarters. Her mom still lives in Chicago. I decided specifically that she’s from South Shore,” said Ewing. “Previous writers put in…

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Here are the early genre box office results of this past weekend Aug 13, 2018 – Aug 19, 2018 Week 33 Box Office Winner: Crazy Rich Asians Warner Bros’s “The Meg” dropped one position to the number two spot in its second week. It lost about 53% to make $21.2 million for a domestic box office gross of $84 million and a worldwide total of $314 million. It’s still a solid win for Statham and shark-lovers everywhere. Or haters depending on how you look at it. In other news, all of the other genre films have dropped out of the…

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Aretha Franklin, nicknamed “The Queen of Soul” has died at 76 but her legacy lives on. Franklin was best known for hits like “Respect”, “Think” and “I Say a Little Prayer”. She passed away in Detroit on Thursday, August 16, 2018 after battling ill health for several years. She’d been battling cancer since 2010 and the cause of her death on Thursday is listed advanced pancreatic cancer. In 1960, at the age of 18, she started recording for Columbia Records before switching to Atlantic Records where her career took off. She had a string of hits in the 1960s and…

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Find out the top 10 comics featuring ethnic characters or talent this week. 1. Aquaman #39 Publisher: DC Comics Writer: Dan Abnett, Rob Williams Artist: Vicente Cifuentes Cover Artist: Rafa Sandoval Summary: Guest-starring Task Force X, and continuing from SUICIDE SQUAD #45, also on sale this month! After Atlantis rises to the surface once more, Aquaman finds himself outnumbered and outgunned when Amanda Waller sends in the… On Sale: Aug 15th, 2018 Price: $3.99 Buy Aquaman 39& on Comixology 2. Astonishing X-Men Annual #1 Publisher: Marvel Comics Writer: Matthew Rosenberg Artist: Travel Foreman Cover Artist: Rod Reis, Jee-Hyung Lee Summary:…

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Captain America: Civil War (2016) Steve Rogers / Captain America (Chris Evans), Tony Stark / Iron Man (Robert Downey Jr.) Here’s everything you may have missed this morning Wednesday, August 15, 2018. In Case You Missed It (ICYMI). 1. Ethan Peck is DISCOVERY’s Spock via TrekCore “One of the biggest casting questions of Star Trek: Discovery‘s second season has been addressed today, as CBS has revealed who will don the famously pointed ears of Enterprise science officer Spock in 2019: the answer is actor Ethan Peck. “The 32-year-old Los Angeles native, grandson of legendary Hollywood actor Gregory Peck, will take…

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Black Panther (2018) – N’Jobu (Sterling K. Brown) Actor Sterling K. Brown recently shared his thoughts on the Oscar’s controversial new “Popular Films” category and admits he’s torn on “Black Panther”. Recently the Academy Award created a new category called “Popular Films” to help movies that don’t traditionally fit into the Oscar “Best Picture” category get a nomination. Marvel films have traditionally gotten technical nominations but have never been nominated for “Best Picture” Academy Awards. For example, “Iron Man” was nominated for “Best Achievement in Visual Effects”. Recently Brown, who plays Killmonger’s father N’Jobu in “Black Panther”, admitted he goes “back…

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The Meg (2018) Here are the early genre box office results of this past week Aug 06, 2018 – Aug 12, 2018 Week 32 Box Office Winner: The Meg Warner Bros.’ “The Meg” opened in the number one spot this weekend. Jason Statham’s prehistoric shark movie made about $45.4 million domestically and has a worldwide total of $141 million. This has shocked box office experts who originally started tracking the film in the high teens before saying the movie could make between $20 – $30 million and that seems generous. No one thought the movie would make almost $50 mission…

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Here’s everything you may have missed this morning Friday, August 10, 2018. In Case You Missed It (ICYMI). 1. Sony Holds The Rights To Over 900 Marvel Characters And More New Details About The Studio’s SPIDER-VERSE Plans via Comic Book Movie Despite claims to the opposite, “Venom” (2018) will be rated PG-13 to allow the movies to cross-over with the MCU 2. TERMINATOR Star Arnold Schwarzenegger Teases Bearded Look For Sequel via Comic Book Movie 3. Disney Plans To Release All Completed Fox Movies After Merger via Screenrant 4. VENOM Is Ready To Rip Heads In A Wicked New Photo From The…

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Sad, but late, news. Richard H. Kline, the two-time Oscar-nominated cinematographer who shot classic science-fiction films as “Star Trek: The Motion Picture”, the 1976 remake of King Kong and “The Andromeda Strain” (1971) has died. He was 91. His daughter Rija Kline Zucker told The Hollywood Reporter Kline died of natural causes on Tuesday, August 7, 2018, in Los Angeles. In his 52-year career, Kline mostly worked on genre films. Kline was born in Los Angeles, California, and applied for a position as an assistant cameraman at Columbia Pictures after graduating high school in 1943. He started as a “slate boy”…

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Here’s everything you may have missed this morning Thursday, August 09, 2018. In Case You Missed It (ICYMI). 1. Tom Hardy’s Venom Voice is the Rapper Redman Crossed With…Woody Allen? via /Film “Woody Allen’s tortured neurosis and all the humor that can come from that. Conor McGregor — the überviolence but not all the talking. And Redman out of control, living rent-free in his head.” Those are not details he revealed to the execs at Sony, which is producing the movie. “You don’t say s**t like that to the studio,” he says. 2. Kevin Feige Is Reportedly Fighting GOTG VOL. 3 Director James…

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“Avengers: Infinity War” is now available for digital purchase and to celebrate we’re giving away 10 free copies of “Avengers: Infinity War”. This contest is now closed Here’s How to Win All you have to do is follow us (@TheGeekTwins) and @VuduFans on Twitter. You can also tweet your favorite Avenger for an extra entry! a Rafflecopter giveaway This Friday, August 3 at 7 pm PT Vudu is hosting an incredible fan event. The #VuduViewingParty will be hosted by the “Avengers: Infinity War” directors Joe and Anthony Russo. It brings together fans from around the nation in a unique digital…

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The main cast of “Guardians of the Galaxy” has written an open letter asking for the James Gunn to be rehired for “Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3” James Gunn is instrumental in the monumental success of the space-faring superhero movies “Guardians of the Galaxy” and the sequel. The movies are blockbuster hits and turned some unlikely characters into household names. Plus, his humorous and quirky style make them the most original films in the MCU. But Gunn wasn’t always so beloved. He was fired after several vile tweets about rape and sex with children were given attention. The jokes are reprehensible…

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Star Wars: Episode V – The Empire Strikes Back (1980) Lando Calrissian (Billy Dee Williams) Find out some things you never knew about Lando. Recently it was confirmed that Billy Dee Williams is reprising the role of Lando Calrissian in the next Star Wars movie. The role was recently played by Donald Glover in the Star Wars prequel “Solo: A Star Wars Story” and he’s the stand-out part of the film. But the coolest cat in Star Wars will always be Billy Dee Williams as Lando. He’s smooth, cool and irresistible to the ladies. Since his first appearance in “Star…

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Ant-Man and the Wasp (2018) Hope van Dyne / The Wasp (Evangeline Lilly), Scott Lang / Ant-Man (Paul Rudd) Here are the early genre box office results of this past weekend Jul 23, 2018 – Jul 29, 2018 Week 30 Box Office Winner: Mission: Impossible—Fallout The weekend was dominated by the latest Tom Cruise film Mission: Impossible—Fallout and pushed a few genre films down a notch. Walt Disney’s “Ant-Man and the Wasp” moved one position to the number five spot in its fourth week. It lost a whopping 49% to make $8.4 million for a domestic box office gross of $183 million and…

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Find out everything you need to know about the cast of “Star Wars: Episode IX”. Today Lucasfilm announced the cast of the next movie in the “Star Wars” sequel trilogy. Star Wars: Episode IX will begin filming at London’s Pinewood Studios on August 1, 2018. J.J. Abrams returns to direct the final installment of the Skywalker saga. Abrams co-wrote the screenplay with Chris Terrio. Carrie Fisher as Leia Organa The late Carrie Fisher played Princess Leia Organa in the first three Star Wars movies and two of the sequels staring in 1977. While she’s best known for the role of…

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“Avengers Vs. X-Men” graphic novel cover Disney and 21st Century Fox shareholder have voted to approve the $71.3 million buyout after a crazy bidding war. It’s been a long time coming but Disney and Fox’s shareholders have finally approved the historic merger of Disney and Fox Studios. This follows months of wrangling with Comcast who tried to outbid the “Mouse House”. Here’s what Variety has to say about the merger: Shareholders gathered Friday morning at the New York Hilton for separate meetings to vote on the historic transaction that the companies first set back in December. Both meetings were brief,…

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Here’s everything you may have missed this morning Tuesday, July 24, 2018. In Case You Missed It (ICYMI). Warning: POSSIBLE SPOILERS 1. Robert De Niro Might Join Joaquin Phoenix’s Joker Movie in a Key Role for Some Reason via io9 “According to the Hollywood Reporter, Robert De Niro is in talks with the studio to join Joaquin Phoenix in the Joker film, playing the host of a late-night talk show who comes to play an instrumental part in the Joker’s origins. While that doesn’t quite map on to the character’s comic book origins, it makes sense that the film, set…

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Find out if you should buy the Champion Series Ergonomic Computer Gaming Office Chair with Pillows from EWin. If you spend a lot of time playing games or watching TV you’ve noticed it can get hard on the back. That’s why a comfortable gaming chair is essential. It’s one of the things I appreciate after a long gaming session. EWin Racing sent me an office chair for an honest review and I gotta say it’s a game-changer. It’s insanely comfortable. The gaming chairs come in four colors: grey, blue, orange and red. I chose red. I told my sons we were getting a…

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