The leaves have changed, the air is colder and I start to get that familiar, itchy, twitchy feeling. Where I need to get my hands on a pumpkin before I explode and start carving bananas or potatoes, or whatever I happen to have in my kitchen.
Every year I carve several pumpkins with a pop culture reference – movie characters, Disney themes, Harry Potter and classic horror images too. Here are a few of my past pumpkin designs to inspire your 2018 Halloween carvings.
It’s been years since I first fell in love with Kate Beckinsale, and her Instagram has proven over time that my early crush was a sign of excellent taste on my part.
Seemingly innocuous selfies come with hilariously unexpected captions, videos of her clambering into her famously favoured animal costumes delight her followers, and she’s no stranger to the inappropriate.
Well, I may not have been there but that’s not going to stop me from bringing you as many juicy titbits of information from the 2010 San Diego Comic Con as I can! Fans who attended the convention were treated to all kinds of goodies: exclusive footage from upcoming films and TV shows, meet and greets with the stars, panel talks and getting to see all the props and merch that the studios were pimping out.
The exclusive videos – also known as a sizzle reels – were just for the convention goers but now some of them are available online so I waited until I had something good to show you. Not every video is currently available but as soon as I get it, you’ll get it. There are a tonne of panels at the SDCC so I’ve cherrypicked the best to bring you our SDCC 2010 roundup, who knows, maybe next year I’ll actually be there..
DreamWorks Animation’s next big thing is Megamind which follows a supervillain who accidentally kills off his nemesis, the heroic Metro Man. Will Ferrell, Tina Fey, Brad Pitt and Jonah Hill are providing the vocal talent and it looks like Will got a little too excited to be at Comic Con and donned a very spiffy Megamind costume.
Tina and Jonah joined him on stage and ribbed him for dressing up as he lamented his decision, ‘”I feel a little bit like a turd up here.”’
Aside from the cast’s comedy stylings, the audience were treated to some tasty 3D footage that you can check out right now, courtesy of Yahoo! Movies.
Clickity click: http://d.yimg.com/m/up/ypp/movies/player.swf
Marvel heroes were out in force this year and one of the biggest came in the shape of Thor. With the exception of Anthony Hopkins, the whole cast turned out for the panel including Chris Hemsworth, Clark Gregg, Natalie Portman, Kat Dennings and director Kenneth Brannagh.
Audience members were treated to the following clip in 3D where they could fully appreciate the bulging biceps Chris Hemsworth was rocking. There’s been some copyright issues surrounding the video and so its been fecking difficult to find the comicon footage. So difficult in fact that I couldn’t actually do it. Sorry. Do It!
Inception is one of the most highly anticipated films of the year and it opens this Friday but if you want a little something to ease you into the story then we’ve got a present for you.
There’s an online comic book prequel that you can check out over at Yahoo Movies that will give you a little insight into the world of the movie. Don’t worry, it doesn’t really spoil the movie, the animation is good and it’s just a little added bonus for fans. Having said that, if you’re looking to go into the film blindly then best leave this until you’ve seen the movie as it does explain certain filming techniques.
Take a look at some of these non-spoilery pictures and see what you think. Based on this, we’d be happy to see an entire series.
I’m not going to beat around the bush here – I’ve been salivating over the movie Burlesque for quite some time now and now we’ve got some pictures to share with you!
Courtesy of USA Today and Slash Film, we’ve got some pictures of Christina Aguilera shaking her cans on stage and Stanley Tucci and Cher mooching around backstage admiring costumes.
USA Today have also provided more information about the plot of the movie:
‘Aguilera’s Ali runs away from Iowa in search of fame and ends up waitressing at The Burlesque Lounge on the Sunset Strip. But not for long. “Christina really takes it all off in terms of makeup and hair for a lot of the movie,” says director/writer Steven Antin. “She looks like a girl right off the farm.” That is until Kristen Bell’s headliner, Nikki, shows up tipsy one night and Ali must fill in.
Ali helps turn what once was a lip-sync club into a singing-and-dancing revue after she displays her vocal fireworks onstage in numbers like But I’m a Good Girl. Cher is Tess, owner of a retro club who has a modern-day problem: She can’t make the payments on her over-mortgaged property. Together, Ali and Tess manage to transform the Burlesque Lounge into a success. Stanley Tucci is Sean, the lounge’s stage manager, a go-to guy for the gals and best friend to Tess.’
Sounds like fun, right? OK enough plot, let’s get to the pics!
Aside from some additional casting news, things have been pretty quiet from camp Conan recently and then finally we got a bit of a treat. Nu Boyana studios have released the first official picture of Jasom Momoa as the eponymous warrior and he’s looking good ladies.
Momoa had previously been rocking dreadlocks and a rugged goatee but it looks like he’s been manscaped into a smoother, sleeker Conan. It’s not quite as impressive as some concept art I’ve seen recently but it’ll have to tide us over because the film hasn’t even got a release date yet.
It seems that the long-awaited Avengers gang are finally getting somewhere in terms of their own individual movies with these new images of Captain America and Thor’s costumes.
Fans have been a little skeptical about what these guys will look like because if their costumes are fully realised like they are in the comics, they might come off a little goofy. And having seen these images, I think Captain America comes off a lot better than Thor, probably because of the slightly weird photoshopping that’s been done.
The shots of Thor come from Collider and show star Chris Hemsworth in full costume, complete with crappy CGI hammer. I’m hoping it looks a hell of a lot bigger and better in the movie.
The Captain America: The First Avenger shots come from AICN and if you look closely, you’ll see that it’s actually the face of Chris Evans in the pictures, the lucky guy who won the role.
You can catch Thor in cinemas from May, 2011 and Captain America: The First Avenger from 22 July 2011.
If you were around the Docklands area over the weekend then you may have seen a few strange characters milling about the place. Some may have even been familiar to you: Darth Vader, Captain Jack Sparrow and a Mad Hatter or two.
That’s because it was the weekend of the MCM Expo – Movies, Comics and Media. Filled with a record breaking 41, 000 people, the ExCel centre played host to the best in all things geek including gaming demonstrations, panels of TV stars and thousands of fans in brilliant home made costumes.
In amongst all the hardcore fans, my trusty sidekick John Makepeace and I made the rounds, taking photos and chatting to the stars. 
We ran into a few familiar faces – Captain Jack and the Joker were kind enough to pose for us and made us dream of the fantasic crossover movie they’d make together. Do It!
If you are a huge fan of everything Potter then hold onto your hats because we have sneak peek photos from the epilogue scene from Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. If you don’t want to be SPOILED ROTTEN, then for your own good DON’T READ ON! Do It!
2011 will see Sucker Punch, a sexy, psychological action romp, released in 3D and now it’s confirmed that it’ll be getting the IMAX treatment, according to Empire. The news that it’ll be in the IMAX really is to be expected given Snyder’s previous success with 300 and Watchmen.
Snyder’s style naturally lends itself to 3D and the IMAX with the story often being overshadowed by visuals, but can he break the habit with Sucker Punch? The film revolves around young girls being trapped in an asylum and fighting to distinguish fantasy from reality with Vanessa Hudgens, Emily Browning, Jenna Malone and Mad Men’s Jon Hamm starring.
Well Snyder’s still got some time before he decides how he’s going to handle it – Legend Of The Guardians will be released in 2010 with Snyder once again delving into 3D.
But after Warner Bros. made the decision to have all of their ‘tent-pole’ movies in 3D, is the IMAX the next step?
While we’re waiting for Sucker Punch to hit our screens, here’s a piece of concept art designed by Alex Pardee. If you were lucky enough to be at the San Diego Comicon last year then you could have gotten it on a t-shirt. If you weren’t then hard cheese.
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