A little history / background lesson. The Losers is based off of the Vertigo comic book series of the same name. Published from 2003 to 2006, the series was actually a reboot of the original ‘Losers’ comic book series that took place during World War II.

While ‘The Losers’ is not the most familiar comic book series to your average mainstream movie goer, it does contain all the right ingredients to be a very entertaining movie if translated correctly, so I am pleased that Dark Castle Entertainment was able to look beyond the lack of mainstream popularity this comic has, and actually take a risk at developing ‘The Losers’ into a wide release main stream movie.

Kick-Ass was honestly the first big movie of the spring / summer movies blockbuster hopefuls that I was really excited to see. Reason being is that I am a fan of the comic in which the movie is based off of. Err, rather, more or less developed along side of. To say it was based off of it I feel is a bit untruthful because both comic and movie were created during the same time with both comic creator, Mark Millar, and filmmaker, Matthew Vaughn, working together to develop both properties.

So yeah, I had some history with the property before it was released in theaters and I really dug the comic. So just a heads up, I am reviewing this movie with that knowledge of the comic in my head. I do think that helped me enjoy the movie more because I was just so excited to see all the characters in live action. So you can call me bias, but in the end, I don’t think that matters.

The Good: This movie has almost all the goods. From ALL OF the cast performances to the amazing action / fight sequences. The movie rarely deviates away from the graphic intensity of the comic. Some scenes were changed in terms how someone gets their beat down, but this keeps both the movie fresh and surprising for someone like me who thought he knew what was coming around every corner.

Out of all of the monsters in the classic universal monster line up, the wolfman is by far my favorite. It’s the whole “power within” aspect of a man transforming into something far more intimidating and larger than life that gets me. Add in the factor that the man turns into a wolf of all things, and it’s a golden concept that just needs to be realized by the right person.

Seeing trailers for The Wolfman got my hopes up high for an epic Victorian monster masterpiece that would be sure to find its way onto my DVD shelf someday. My review starts in the full post.

I was looking for something to watch and I came across this 2008 South Korean film. Since superman was in the title I knew I had to watch it. I was expecting a goofy superhero film but I got so much more.

Song Soo-Jung, played by Jun Ji-Hyun, is a bitter anti-social filmmaker who unhappily works for a small company producing human interest stories. She doesn’t really care about these people or their situations, but she does it in hopes of becoming Korea’s Oprah Winfrey.On the day she left her company to go to Africa to film lions, her camera bag is stolen. She chases the thief and is eventually helped by a guy who thinks he is Superman. He claims to have lost his super powers because someone stuck a piece of kryptonite in his brain but he refuses to let that stop him from helping people who need it the most.

B.A.M.F. Cast, Episode 2 is here! This week we discuss The Imaginarium Of Dr. Parnassus & The Book Of Eli, along with a host of movie trailers and movie related topics.

PS. Sorry to Ray Stevenson for accidentally calling him Ray Winston when talking about The Book Of Eli.

Enjoy!

Open the full post to watch all the trailers we discuss in this podcast.

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“Darling…I don’t know how to tell you this but, there’s a Chinese family in our restroom.”

I finally caught ’500 Days of Summer’ on DVD after much urging from my friends. When I originally saw the trailer to this film, I had to real desire to watch it because I put it into the ‘just another romantic comedy’ category. I was wrong. Dead Wrong.

I stumbled upon this gem on Netflix and felt I had to share. Directed by Francisco Jose Lombardi, ‘Tinta Roja’, a peruvian film that came out in 2000, is a gritty look at the world of journalism. Based on Alberto Fuguet’s novel, this film follows Alfonso, a young writer whose dream is to write novels, as he adjusts to his first internship working for a tabloid in the police/crime section. His boss Faundez, a cynical journalist whose motto is “Journalism, like prostitution, is learned on the streets”, clashes with Alfonso’s traditional writing and challenges his morals all in the name of good journalism. Tagging along with Faundez, his silent photographer, and driver who like to speak in proverbs and philosophical quotes, Alfonso learns that writing about crimes isn’t what he expected.