Fate of your planet – new Man of Steel trailer

 

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Oh-Em-Geee, there are only a mater of weeks until Man of Steel final hits cinemas and as you can probably tell I CANNOT wait!!! This week, Warner Bros released a new trailer, just to build the anticipation even more. This is a pretty impressive trailer, Zod is scary and we don’t even really seem him. But, I will say this. Stop now. Please, just stop showing so much of the film. And just let us wait to see it in context!

If you do want to see it then check out the trailer below. Man of Steel is in cinemas from 14 June.

 

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Waiting Sucks, so fill the True Blood void

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There are so many films I want to see this year I just don’t know how I am going to fit them all in! Especially as so many of them are super hero related. One of the non-super hero films I’m looking forward to is Byzantium. Don’t ask me how to pronounce this, as this word wasn’t made for the dyslexic brains like me! But it is apparently a stylish new take on a vampire story and as it’s in cinemas next week if gives me my vampire fix before True Blood returns next month.

The film stars Gemma Arterton (Prince of Persia), Saoirse Ronan (Atonement), and Sam Riley (Brighton Rock) and is directed by someone you might consider to be a bit of a vampire expert, Neil Jordan, (An Interview With A Vampire)

Here is the synopsis from Studio Canal: Two mysterious women seek refuge in a run‐down coastal resort. Clara meets lonely Noel, who provides shelter in his deserted guesthouse, Byzantium. Schoolgirl Eleanor befriends Frank and tells him their lethal secret. They were born 200 Years ago and survive on human blood. As knowledge of their secret spreads, their past catches up on them with deathly consequence.

And if you want to see a sneak peak of the film, then check out this clip below. It hits UK cinemas on 31st May.

What would Ryan Lochte do?

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I’ve seen all of the trailers for E!’s new show What Would Ryan Lochte Do and thought it looked quite funny so decided to check it out. Well the first episode aired last night in the UK and it had my flatmate and I in stitches.

The funniest thing is that Ryan constantly refers to himself in the third person, for example “for me being Ryan Lochte is awesome” or “Ryan Lochte is going zip lining!”. He is apparently America’s sexiest douchebag, but he doesn’t even know what the word means (apparently neither does anyone else in the UK – clearly I watch far too much American television). He is also apparently looking for ‘the one’, but doesn’t think he will find her anytime soon so he is simply enjoying life dating many beautiful women.

He does seem to be the new Jessica Simpson of reality TV (he isn’t the brightest spark), but he is a brilliant swimmer and from only the first episode we can see that he is a real family guy and has a lovely relationship with his brother, sisters and mother that many people would be envious of.

I am looking forward to the next episode – #Jeah!

 

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Preview Man of Steel score

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The music behind Superman is as famous as the man who wears pants over tights. In Man of Steel we know that the pants have been dropped, but what of the iconic John Williams score? Zack Snyder brought in Hans Zimmer, the man behind the music in hits such as Pirates of the Caribbean, Inception and the Dark Knight.

Today a sample of his music has been released ahead of the soundtrack going on sale.  From the six minutes of clips I haven’t heard anything that stands up to Williams’ legendary tune, but does this mean that the music just isn’t as good, or his never created music for the opening sequence, thus leaving space for us all to hear the classic again? We do know that this is a reboot, and if you hang too much on the past it is very hard to get people to see you in a new light.

So I expect there will not be any sight (or should that be sound) of one of the best movie musical scores in the history of film being resurrected. You can hear the music below, what do you think?

 

 

Source: Starburst magazine

Time for tea?

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A friend of mine told me about this great charity Dreams Come True which helps terminally ill children and tries to bring them a little joy by granting wishes. To help raise money to support these wishes they have created an exciting new summer fundraising campaign called Dream Tea. I love tea, especially of the afternoon variety so my ears pricked up when I heard about this.

The aim of Dream Tea is to encourage people to hold their own tea parties across the country to raise money. Every Dream Tea event should be hosted on 18 June.

The campaign is being supported by Miranda Gore Browne, a finalist from The Great British Bake Off, and she has created several recipes that you can create at your event. But she’s not the only one, even the likes of Marcus Wareing, Jane Asher, Ainsley Harriot and Rachel Khoo have all provided recipes. There is also a host kit that is available online or by post so it couldn’t be easier to host an event.

I’ve picked my favourite recipe below, Simon Rimmer’s Gooey Chocolate Fudge Pudding. Sadly I’m on a low carb diet at the moment, but luckily for me I’ll be ready for chocolate cake just in time for Dream Tea!

Ingredients: serves 6

  • 225g melted butter
  • 2 beaten eggs
  • 30ml strong espresso coffee
  • 550ml milk
  • 350g soft dark brown sugar
  • 175g sifted s r flour
  • 50g cocoa powder
  • 100g pecans
  • 75g raisins, soaked in 75ml dark rum
  • 30g golden syrup
  • sauce – 300ml double cream
  • 1 scraped vanilla pod
  • 50g sugar
  • 100g pink marshmallows

Method:

Mix the butter, eggs, coffee and 125ml milk.  Now add 225g sugar, flour, cocoa, boozy raisins and nuts and stir well.  Spoon into a 1.5ltr ovenproof dish (a big soufflé dish is ideal).

Bring the rest of milk to scalding point. Add syrup and stir to dissolve.

Sprinkle the rest of the sugar over the pudding, then milk mix.

Cook at 160c for about 50 hour (it should be springy on top, but will be gooey underneath.

Sauce:

Bring the cream, sugar and vanilla slowly to boil, then simmer for about 5 minutes to thicken.

Take off the heat and add the marshmallows, stir to start them melting and serve a big dollop of pudding with the yummy sauce over it.

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And now the Thor 2 countdown begins – first-look trailer

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Two days to go until Iron Man 3 hits UK screens and Marvel has already begun exciting fans with teasers for the next Avengers film, Thor: The Dark World. Yesterday Marvel released a couple of stills from the film (see above and below) and today the first teaser trailer was revealed. First thing I have to say is Thor’s hair just keeps getting longer, in fact from the brief moment we see Loki so has his! But that aside, this certainly looks dark, especially as we see Thor take Jane to his world, which in turn seems to put her life in danger. There also seems to be a brilliant fight seen at Greenwich University, London. These Hollywood films just can’t keep away from London can they!

I can’t wait to see the next trailer!

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Image source: Empire Online

The Iron Man 3 countdown begins

 

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It’s only three days until I can finally see the first of this year’s comic book movies and I can’t wait. Especially when I stumbled across all of the exciting marketing to support it. First this cool iPad cover for Empire and then today my bus stop had a moving poster too! Now if only if I could have this as a poster on my wall! Next up for Empire is a Man of Steel cover, that will be going into my Superman front cover collection then! I just wonder if the iPad version will be like Tony Stark, if so Empire will be making a lot of money off me for the print and digital editions!

I’ll be bringing you a review as soon as I’ve seen it here and at Amazing Stories.

Catching Fire first teaser trailer

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It might not hit UK screens until 22 November this year, but the marketing campaign has already begun with the first teaser trailer for The Hunger Games: Catching Fire being released this week. In a couple of days its had over 16 million views, confirming that this trilogy is filling the void left behind by the Twilight Saga.

Catching Fire was my favourite book, well I couldn’t put any of them down, but this was the most gripping one. I was really disappointed with the first film, although watching it a second time a few weeks ago me realise its not as bad as I thought it was. But, from this first look, I’m impressed with what I see. Check it out for yourself below.

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Man of Steel gets a new trailer…and it’s awesome!

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I am really getting excited now (even though I have Iron Man 3 to watch next week first) as the Superman reboot – Man of Steel approaches. I woke up this morning to stumble across the latest trailer and it seems to have set the world with excitement. In less than 12 hours it has received over 1.6 million views, will only a handful of dislikes (you can’t please everyone).

It’s the first time we get to hear Zod and Lois speak. The trailer is dramatic, pulls on the family drama heart strings and ends with a bit of comedy with Amy Adams as Lois Lane, to quote her:

Lois: “What does the S stand for?”

Superman: “It’s not an S, in my world it means hope”

Lois: “Well here it’s an S, what about supe…” [she is interrupted by a loud static microphone noise]

I know some people aren’t the biggest fans of Zack Snyder or his work, but I do think Watchmen and 300 are brilliant pieces of cinematography and can’t wait to see what he has done with my favourite superhero. Watch the full trailer below, I suggest you full screen it as you don’t want to miss an inch of it!

Source: screenrant.com

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What a super hero filled day – Superman and Captain America news!

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In the mist of my busy work day, I did manage to stumble across two exciting pieces of news. I opened them, probably around 11am and have now finally taken the time to read and explore them. The first is an image from the upcoming Captain America 2 has been released by Marvel (see above). This image was released as Marvel announced that filming on the sequel – The Winter Soldier, had begun today. They also released this brief synopsis on the film:

“Steve Rogers struggles to embrace his role in the modern world and teams up with Natasha Romanoff, aka Black Widow, to battle a powerful yet shadowy enemy in present-day Washington, D.C.”

So not much to reveal, other than the fact that he won’t be working alone as Black Widow (played by Scarlett Johansson) will be teaming up with him (as she did with Iron Man prior to Avengers Assemble).

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The other exciting news is that Man of Steel’s trailer is finally moving from the big screen and online to a TV spot. You can see the newly edited trailer below.

 

 

Sources: Screen Crush / Total Film