So when he’s not time travelling with the Doctor Noel ‘Mickey’ Clarke is taking on Zombirds.I have to say I watched the trailer and it looked pretty funny.
You can check out all the info on his new movie with Danny Dyer and Stephen Graham below. You can also pick up the trailer here.
DANNY DYER, NOEL CLARKE & STEPHEN GRAHAM ARE IN THE
DOGHOUSE
What can possibly go wrong?
Vertigo Films in association with Carnaby International are proud to announce the theatrical release of DOGHOUSE on June the 12th 2009.
The highly anticipated comedy horror is the newest feature from award winning director Jake West (Evil Aliens).
Vince (Stephen Graham) is handling his divorce badly. He’s depressed. Gone to pieces. But his mates aren’t giving up on him. Struggling with their own women troubles, they drag him off for an ultimate lads drinking weekend in the country. Arriving in the village of Moodley where the women outnumber the men 3:1, the boys find themselves holidaying in a village overrun by psychotic, homicidal Zombirds with a thirst for male flesh!
The cast includes BAFTA winner Noel Clarke (Adulthood, Kidulthood), Danny Dyer (The Football Factory, Severance), Stephen Graham (The Damned United, This Is England), Lee Ingleby (Place of Execution), Emil Marwa (East is East), Keith-Lee Castle (Young Dracula), Neil Maskell (Rise of the Footsoldier, The Football Factory) and Terry Stone (Rise Of The Footsoldier) .
Joining them in the cast are Christina Cole (Lost in Austen), Adele Silva (Emmerdale), Tree Carr (Evil Aliens), Emily Booth (Zone Horror) and Billy Murray (Rise of the Footsoldier, EastEnders).
DOGHOUSE is an original screenplay by prolific author and graphic artist Dan Schaffer (Dogwitch, Indigo Vertigo).
Vertigo Films will release Doghouse in the UK & Ireland on June the 12th 2009.
A loan officer ordered to evict an old woman from her home finds herself the recipient of a supernatural curse, which turns her life into a living hell. Desperate, she turns to a seer to try and save her soul, while evil forces work to push her to a breaking point.
With Sam Raimi hard at work planning the next Spidey flick, you might be wondering has he given up on making horror films? This is the man who put his own spin on horror with the notorious Evil Dead trilogy and now he’s back on familiar ground with Drag Me To Hell. He returns to horror after almost ten years since his genre film the Gift, which this reviewer still hasn’t seen yet! Read the rest of this entry »
With the impending issue 600 on its way soon, Jeph Loeb wraps up his Defenders/Offenders story arc, with predictable results. I’m going to go out on a limb here and say that I’m actually enjoying Loeb’s take on ol’ green skin. It’s due to the fact that everyone I know seems to have it in for Jeph Loeb or JLO as one of my mates calls him!
Although this storyline hasn’t been as enjoyable as the last two arcs, the last issue had the not-so-jolly green giant apparently killed by the new kid on the block, Red Hulk. Along with his old Defenders team, the Hulk and his red counter part are pawns of Marvel mainstays, the collector and his brother, the Grandmaster. In regards to the as yet unresolved identity of “Rulk”, a big reveal is planned for the aforementioned 600. Did anyone say Glenn Talbot?
Artwise, the best thing about this issue is artist Ed Mc Guinness. Since the start of the new series Guinness’s Hulk is by far one of the best renditions out there.
Recently certain sites have been abuzz with the news that Tony Scott, brother of Ridley is doing an Alien remake. Naturally there was a bit of a backlash about this. I mean, why would you want to remake one of the greatest horror/sci-fi flicks of all time.
But the truth is, it’s not a remake, it’s a prequel. Is this a good thing? Well first of it’s not a remake so score 1 in the pro column. Tony being the brother of the original creator Ridley is Read the rest of this entry »
And here she is folks, another companion to join the ranks of Dr Who’s finest. And she’s been in it before.
Meet Karen Gillan. She was last seen as the Soothsayer in Jame’s Morans episodes “The Fires of Pompeii”.
The 21 year old says “”I am absolutely over the moon at being chosen to play the Doctor’s new companion. – I just can’t wait Read the rest of this entry »
Most of you may know that I’m a huge Dr Who fan so when you have the temerity to write a comic about my favourite character, you better bring your A game.
So it was with a certain amount of trepidation that I approached this latest offering from IDW Publishing. It’s written by Tony Lee, who recently did a fantastic job on Dr Who: The Forgotten also by IDW. The art is by Paul Grist and as such is a delight and a treat. Grist has a very individual style and fans of his will know his work from his own wonderful series Jack Staff from Image comics. It’s not often that I mention colourists, but Phil Elliots work compliments Grists lines so well that this is a lovely comic to have. And the quality of the paper, something else I don’t usually mention, makes it a pleasure to hold.
So with the Small Press Expo 2009 regarding by many as a resounding success we caught up with it’s chief organiser, Mal Smith, to get her thoughts on the show.
How did you think the con went in your opinion?
I think it went extremely well. The success of a show must be gained of course by the number of visitors which were about what we expected but also i think by the reaction of the exhibitors, guests and the punters themselves which was overwhelmingly positive.
What are the lessons you’ve already leant from the con?
Signage, signage, signage. Getting people from point A to point B is not always as easy as it seems!
This was our first crack at a show for FAM however and i think for the most part we got pretty right and now it’s all just a matter of ‘tweaking’ – layouts, event times, space management etc, all the lovely logistics of a show can always be improved on and thankfully many of the exhibitors (and a few of the public) have been in touch to give us their opinions and ideas and we’re taking all those on board for next year. Fortunately, we now have a year to plan and with the show expanding in both space and time and the closer integration of the 2 venues we’re looking to have the slickest operation going.
What was your high point of the weekend?
On a fan-girl level, meeting Doug Bradley and Kevin O’Neill was wonderful (i managed not to geek-out too much) and seeing a lot of old friends from the small press scene was great too.
I wish i’d had more time to get some sketches from people though, i entirely missed getting a Jimmy Bott sketch for the second time.
On a personal level, having all of our FAM crew together for the first time (some of them had never actually met each other face to face) and having everyone working together and enjoying the show was fantastic.
On the whole though, the fact it all went off without too many cock-ups. Much thanks must go to the lovely Mike Allwood for that, without whose advice and experience non of this would have happened and for the fact he let me and my bunch of padawans in to play.
The Superman/Batman is going to have to go a long way to beat the Superman/Batman animated film that the team who did Batman:TAS put out years ago which was fantastic.
I’ve never read much of Green Lantern and know very little about his origin so looing forward to this movie more I think than the Superman/Batman film.
First an apology for those Merlin fans who tuned into our coverage of the live panel and the following live press Q & A session for the Merlin panel at last year’s MCM expo and were expecting the same.
We did record the live panel which hopefully should be up this week but the Press Q & A session was cancelled at the last minute. The reason given was that the BBC apparently did not want anyone giving away any plot spoilers for season 2.
Personally I found this an odd bit of reasoning as the stars and production team had just left a live hour long panel where a few questions on season 2 were raised. I’m a huge fan of the show and was looking forward to pitching my questions to the cast and crew, esp who’s first con this was.
I think it was an wasted opportunity to continue to build up the buzz for this great show.
Anyway I’ve stuck the press release we were given below so hopefully that will help to make up for the lack of the Q & A panel.
I just picked up this press release from the BBC website which confirms David Tennant is to guest star in two episode of season three of The Sarah Jane Adventures.
The show is squarely aimed at a younger audience, it’s good fun and a nice companion piece to Doctor Who. Having David Tennant guest starring in there is a good boost for the show.
I’ll be sad to see Tennant go but I’m looking forward to seeing what direction Matt Smith takes the Doctor in when the new series hits our screens next year.
You can read all the info on the press release below.
As I said on a previous post I was able to try out the upcoming Batman Arkham Asylum game from Eidos. During the day I was able to catch up with Paul Benjamin who was at the stand and chat briefly about the game.
We’re hoping to get Paul onto the show, at some stage, for a longer interview about the game.
The WildStorm universe has had its ups and downs over the years, but a few years ago, WildStorm was putting out some of the best books of its publishing history. Many people have read “Sleeper,” the excellent series by Ed Brubaker and Sean Phillips, but not as many people may have read “Point Blank,” the Brubaker-penned miniseries that preceded it. And they should. “Point Blank” is a fantastic mystery story that seamlessly blended some of the superhero elements of the universe with the black ops spy stories that were a hallmark of the WildStorm universe, all with the crime noir flair that Brubaker does so well.
The story opens with Cole Cash – aka Grifter, arguably the WildStorm universe’s most popular superhero – waiting for John Lynch, head of International Operations, a super covert government agency, to show up to a planned rendezvous. Through a series of flashbacks, Cash tells the reader that Lynch had recruited Cash to help him on a series of strikes against different criminal activities. Lynch won’t tell Cash why they’re doing what they’re doing, but eventually lets slip that he’s trying to find a guy named Carver. Before Cash can learn more, though, he learns Lynch has been shot and is in a coma. From there, Cash tries to find out who almost killed his former mentor, a mission that leads him through the seamier side of the WildStorm universe, where he learns there was far more going on with this mission than he was led to believe.
If you like crime stories, there’s nobody better than Brubaker, and he doesn’t disappoint with “Point Blank.” Although there are superpowered elements to this story, they don’t overwhelm the gritty mystery elements. And while a few WildStorm characters, like Slayton, Midnighter, and Savant appear, you don’t need to know who they are to understand the story. Also, while this story leads directly into “Sleeper,” “Point Blank” works perfectly fine either as a companion to the later series or by itself.
Colin Wilson, best known for his “2000 AD” work, provides the art for “Point Blank.” His linework is appropriately gritty and works in a noir story, yet is still clean enough that the many characters are easily recognizable, especially the mainstays of the WildStorm universe.
Anyone who enjoys crime noir, gritty superhero stories, or the work of Ed Brubaker or Colin Wilson would love this story. “Point Blank” shows mystery stories can work well in a superhero universe without relying too much on superpowers or other traditional elements of the medium.
Now I have been going to the MCM Expo for a few years both as punter and media and I find that the cosplay element of this show always brings out conflicting thoughts in my head.
On one hand I’m thinking, look at these freaky kids in their crazy costumes ( some of this is fuelled by the fact that not being into anime and manga, which is th majority of costumes, I don’t have a clue who these people are pretending to be).
This guy actually scared me. He didn't say a word and that made it worse.
On the other hand I have to admire the commitiment and creativity that these kids bring to something they love. It must be great to get together in a safe environment with mates and find a confidence that maybe you haven’t got in the restrictive and conformist enviroment of “the real world”.
I think that and then a moment later I want to run up to some ‘hardly pubescent’ girl and shout “Why are you dressed like a harlot -does your mother know?”
Anyway, how different is it really to the hordes of people who wear the same costume and paint their faces and sing and give out free hugs and glomps each weekend all in the name of supporting a football team.
