June 2011

Drive Angry

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  • Title: Drive Angry
  • IMDB: link

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The biggest problem with this grindhouse/70’s style car flick from Todd Farmer and Patrick Lussier is the almost complete lack of fun. A little humor, maybe a couple of sly winks at the camera, would have helped a story hellbent (so to speak) on trying to be gritty.

Nicolas Cage stars as an escaped soul from Hell who has returned to Earth to kill the leader of a Satanic cult (Billy Burke) who murdered his daughter and plans to sacrifice his granddaughter to bring about Hell on Earth. He’s assisted by a spunky waitress (Amber Heard, the only one here who seems to be enjoying herself) and hunted by an Accountant (William Fichtner) enlisted to return him to Hell.

Here’s what I knew going into Drive Angry: Nicolas Cage is occasionally wildly entertaining when choosing crazy projects like this one, and Amber Heard is really hot.

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Fear Itself #3 (of 7)

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fear-itself-3-coverEarth is going to Hell. The Gods of Asgard have abandoned the realm to return to Asgard and begin readying for a war whose first casualty will be the planet Earth. All across the world heroes and villains are picking up magic hammers and becomes mindless slaves (or sometimes not, a little consistency please) to the All-Father of Fear.

However, none of that is what this issue, and it appears ultimately this entire mini-series, will be remembered for. We knew Marvel was going to find a way to get Steve Rogers back into the role of Captain America before Marvel’s big budget summer flick hit screens this summer. What we didn’t know was what would happen to Bucky Barnes. Now we do. And it’s not pretty.

After returning the character to the comics for the first time in decades and actually finding a way to make me care about Captain America’s former sidekick, Ed Brubaker isn’t even on hand when Marvel Comics and writer Matt Fraction decide to kill him at the hands of the Red Skull’s daughter. Sigh. It may be worth a look, but don’t expect it to be a pleasant one.

[Marvel, $3.99]

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Coming Soon

/ / Film News & Trailers
  • Title: Horrible Bosses
  • IMDB: link

Jason Bateman, Charlie Day, and Jason Sudeikis star as three friends who can no longer take the abuse of their respective bosses (Kevin Spacey, Jennifer Aniston, Colin Farrell) and decide to take matters into their own hands – by killing them. Jamie Foxx, Julie Bowen, and Donald Sutherland also star. The murder and mayhem begin when Horrible Bosses hits theaters on July 8th.

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Comic Rack

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It’s a new week so it must be time to talk about comics! Welcome to the RazorFine Comic Rack boys and girls. Pull up a bean bag and take a seat at feet of the master as we offer you this quick list of all kinds of comic book goodness set to hit comic shops and bookstores this week from all your favorite publishers including DC, Marvel, Dark Horse, BOOM!, Dynamite, Image Comics, and others.

This week includes Birds of Prey, Booster Gold, Deadpool, Mega Man, New Avengers, Red Robin, Total Recall, X-Men Legacy, the first issues of 15-Love, American Vampire: Survival of the Fittest, Crysis, Fear Itself: Deadpool, Flashpoint: Citizen Cold, Flashpoint: Emperor Aquaman, Hulk-Sized Mini-Hulks, Mystery Men, New Avengers: Nannies and Nazis, The Samurai’s Blood, Screamland, Space Warped, Star Wars: The Old Republic – The Lost Suns, Supreme Power, and the final issues of Annihilators, Love and Capes: Ever After, and The Stand: No Man’s Land.

Enjoy issue #131

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X-Men: First Class

/ / Movie Reviews
  • Title: X-Men: First Class
  • IMDB: link

x-men-first-class-posterAfter jumping ship to make a largely forgettable remake of Richard Donner’s Superman, and leaving the franchise in the hands of Brett Ratner, Bryan Singer returns to the X-Men universe as a producer for a relaunch of the series (of sorts).

The newest film, which in some ways feels like a prequel and in others more of a half-hearted full-relaunch that lets part of the original film series stick around, is a period piece set duing the early 1960’s, specifically set around the events of the Cuban Missile Crisis.

After a short introduction of a handful of the characters as children (including an expanded version of the early footage of Magneto in a concentration camp we saw in X-Men), the film fast-forwards to 1962, where most of the story unfolds.

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