Game Review: LEGO Marvel Super Heroes – PlayStation 3

Does the world really need another LEGO game? Well, dear readers, I can assure you that the answer is a huge, resounding “EXCELSIOR!” Uh, I mean “Yes”!

Movie Review: The Wolverine

When is a super hero movie not a super hero movie? Does the inclusion of characters with strange and supernatural powers automatically consign a film to the increasingly dominant sub-genre mixing the most potent aspects of the science fiction and action categories, or is there wiggle room for a film to defy the tropes of the comic book super hero film as popularized by Marvel and DC in recent years?

The Wolverine evokes those questions despite the comic book origins of its characters and their super human abilities, because at its core it is an action film with a theme that questions the nature of mortality and immortality.

Movie Review: Trance

"Young Professor X" is back to scramble our minds in Danny Boyle's Trance. Simon (James McAvoy – X-Men First Class) is struck unconscious during an art auction heist. When he gets out of the hospital, the art thief gang bring him to a hypnotist (Rosario Dawson – Men in Black II, Clerks II, Sin City II) to try and discover where he hid the £27M ($41.5M) Francisco de Goya Flying Witches painting.

Comic Review: Batman #13 and Uncanny Avengers #1

by Terrence St John, Editor-at-Large So I’m a long time comic fan. A year ago I had to drop the habit of hitting my comic shop and picking up my favorite books. I had moved south and had not yet…