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Plot Synopsis:

200 years after his shocking creation, Dr. Frankenstein's creature, Adam, still walks the earth. But when he finds himself in the middle of a war over the fate of humanity, Adam discovers he holds the key that could destroy humankind. From the co-writer of the hit supernatural saga, UNDERWORLD, comes the action thriller I, FRANKENSTEIN, written for the screen and directed by Stuart Beattie, screen story by Kevin Grevioux and Stuart Beattie, based on the Darkstorm Studios graphic novel "I, Frankenstein" created by Kevin Grevioux. The story is brought to life by a cast that includes Aaron Eckhart, Bill Nighy, Yvonne Strahovski, Miranda Otto, Jai Courtney, and Aden Young as Victor Frankenstein.

Plot Summary: In 2028 Detroit, when Alex Murphy (Joel Kinnaman) - a loving husband, father and good cop - is critically injured in the line of duty, the multinational conglomerate OmniCorp sees their chance for a part-man, part-robot police officer.

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A young boy learns that he has extraordinary powers and is not of this Earth. As a young man, he journeys to discover where he came from and what he was sent here to do. But the hero in him must emerge if he is to save the world from annihilation and become the symbol of hope for all mankind. 

My Review:

WOW!!

Plot Summary: When the crew of the Enterprise is called back home, they find an unstoppable force of terror from within their own organization has detonated the fleet and everything it stands for, leaving our world in a state of crisis. With a personal score to settle, Captain Kirk leads a manhunt to a war-zone world to capture a one man weapon of mass destruction. As our heroes are propelled into an epic chess game of life and death, love will be challenged, friendships will be torn apart, and sacrifices must be made for the only family Kirk has left: his crew.

The movie that shouldn't have been.

The Hobbit was a single children's book by J. R. R. Tolkein about the adventures of Bilbo Baggins and a prequel of sorts to the Lord of the Rings trilogy. Seeing as the LoTR movies were so popular, Warner Bros decided to give the Hobbit the same treatment, even going as far as stretching the story from the novel into 3 movies. Highly unnecessary if you ask me but then, there's money to be made so...

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Since Dom (Diesel) and Brian's (Walker) Rio heist toppled a kingpin's empire and left their crew with $100 million, our heroes have scattered across the globe. But their inability to return home and living forever on the lam have left their lives incomplete. Meanwhile, Hobbs (Johnson) has been tracking an organization of lethally skilled mercenary drivers across 12 countries, whose mastermind (Evans) is aided by a ruthless second-in-command revealed to be the love Dom thought was dead, Letty (Rodriguez). The only way to stop the criminal outfit is to outmatch them at street level, so Hobbs asks Dom to assemble his elite team in London. Payment? Full pardons for all of them so they can return home and make their families whole again.

Just a week to go to the release of one of the most anticipated movies of the year: Man of Steel. Directed by Zack Snyder (300, The Watchmen) and produced by Christopher Nolan (The Dark Knight Rises, Inception), this movie gives a breath of fresh air to the story of one of the greatest superheroes of all time, Superman.

Yes!! Vin Diesel is back as Riddick in the 3rd movie of the franchise. In the film, the infamous Riddick has been left for dead on a sun-scorched planet that appears to be lifeless. Soon, however, he finds himself fighting for survival against alien predators more lethal than any human he’s encountered. The only way off is for Riddick to activate an emergency beacon and alert mercenaries who rapidly descend to the planet in search of their bounty.

Yeah, you probably know that The Avengers was an awesome movie but did you know that it was so awesome that they decided to create a spin-off TV series from the franchise?

Titled 'Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D', the series will follow a group of S.H.I.E.L.D. agents who do they usual stuff they've been portrayed as doing the usual stuff you've seen them doing in all the other Marvel movies they've appeared in: tracking down the supernatural and extraordinary.

Storyline:
Framed for crimes against the country, the G.I. Joe team is terminated by the President's order, and the surviving team members face off against Zartan, his accomplices, and the world leaders he has under his influence.

Review:
Long story short: I didn't really like it.

I know it was an action movie and the story wouldn't really be anything to burn your soul with but somehow I was still dissappointed with the movie. There was nothing to really differentiate it from any other action movie coming out this year. Yeah, it had ninjas but apart from the mountain fight scene everything else involving them was meh, plus everyone who has watched the trailers has already watched the good half of that particular scene so...

The acting was pretty decent though. All the key actors did pretty well with their parts and were able to fully embody their characters. I think Bruce Willis was an unnecessary addition to the cast. His presence didn't really do much to improve the quality of the movie. Also, RZA acting as the ninja clan head was just off. Those scenes reminded me of Nigerian home videos for some reason.

Some fans of the franchise are calling this a better movie than the first because it was more faithful to the source material and maybe that's true from the fans point of view. I watched some G.I. Joe cartoons when I was little but apparently not enough to be classified as a fan because I definitely prefer the first movie to this one.

My Rating: 6/10

The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey is now the fifteenth movie to surpass $1 billion at the worldwide box office. What were the other fourteen? And how did they fare review wise, comparatively? IGN has prepared an awesome breakdown of these billion dollar movies and their review scores...

Hot Damn!!

That's all that was on my mind as I watched the latest trailer for the upcoming summer blockbuster, Iron Man 3. More than enough explosions, robots suits to satisfy any geek cravings you may have. Plus if you watch carefully, you'll see glimpses of the self assembling Iron Man armor which comic book fans will know references the extremis technology from the Iron Man comics. One thing I did notice missing though was the trademark humor that Robert Downey Jr. brings to the role of Tony Stark. It seems like this release will be a more serious take on the franchise. 

Whatever the case, its Iron Man 3, its coming out May 3rd, 2013, if you don't watch it you'll lose all your friends and everyone will hate you! 

Just kidding. But seriously, you have to watch it!

Michael Bay famously booted Megan Fox between the second and third installments of his Transformers series due to personal differences, but apparently the two have since decided to kiss and make up. Bay has just announced that she will be joining his upcoming Ninja Turtles reboot, making her the first official bit of casting for the Jonathan Liebesman-directed film. Hit the jump to keep reading.

Bay revealed the news via his personal website, writing “TMNT: we are bringing Megan Fox back into the family!” Variety adds that Fox will play April O’Neil, and that the studio met with several actresses including Jane Levy, Anna Kendrick, and Elizabeth Olsen for the role. The character started out in Kevin Eastman and Peter Laird‘s original comics as a computer programmer, but is probably better remembered for her TV cartoon incarnation as a television reporter.

Paramount put the brakes on the project last summer to work out script issues, so we don’t know yet what the new plotline will be. However, an older draft of the script that made its way to a TMNT fansite indicated that the protagonists of the film would be not Leonardo, Michael, Raphael, and Donatello, but Casey Jones, a security guard and amateur hockey player. (Think of how Shia LaBeouf’s Sam Witwicky led the Transformers series.) If that’s still the case, April would likely serve as the love interest.

While Fox’s casting announcement is the first, we can expect to hear many more in the coming months. The project is expected to shoot in April, for a release date of May 16, 2014.

On a tangentially related note, Bay’s wording raises the question of whether the “Teenage Mutant” part of the title has been added back in. Last year, Paramount’s decision to drop the first half of the name drew fire from fans worried that Bay and Liebesman were changing the characters into non-teenage non-mutants. We haven’t heard any word of a title change, though, so it’s just as likely that Bay is simply using the common abbreviation for the characters.

Source: /Film