“I am Iron Man”

“So Is Jarvis”

Man this is SOOO good. I loved Iron Man 3, but it was definitely full of annoying logical inconsistencies, which the guys behind HISHE thrive on. And I love how Batman and Superman are always showing up in these now.

Of course, I imagine it wouldn’t matter what film it was, if it was the 5th most successful movie of all time, as Iron Man 3 now is, people would be making fun of it. Some people have a problem with videos like this but I love them. I have more of a problem with the Cinema Sins videos, but these HISHE videos have always been great thus…

Alright, one more thing for The Wolverine today:

On November 1st 2012, I visited the set of The Wolverine in Sydney, Australia. To give you an idea of the timeline of my visit, Hurricane Sandy had just wreaked havoc in New York, and I woke up early one morning from the constant noises coming from my computer because I was getting so many notices of the breaking news that Disney had purchased LucasFilm and was making more Star Wars movies.

It is five in the morning and I’m standing in a street lined with Japanese houses covered with snow. The elaborate set was  built in a huge parking…

While on the Sydney set of The Wolverine we got an opportunity to sit down and interview the film’s producer/star Hugh Jackman. After the jump you can read a transcript of our roundtable interview (conducted alongside two other online journalists).

I posted a link to a tiny sliver of this interview yesterday, but I just saw the whole interview and thought it would be worth pointing out to you guys. Stuff like this is always fun to me. So go read the whole Q&A session if you are so inclined.

Director James Mangold isn’t really interested in making a comic book movie. Not in the traditional sense. He’s not really interested in explosions or bombastic action sequences or 3D. He’s not interested in quip-spouting super heroes or nudging his audience in the ribs with a sly wink.

What he is interested in, is character. Mangold, whose previous works include Girl, Interrupted, Walk the Line and 3:10 to Yuma, is an actor’s director. He’s the man responsible for Angelina Jolie’s Lisa Rowe, Joaquin Phoenix’s Johnny Cash and Christian Bale’s Dan Evans. Mangold is unequivocally sincere…

After a few weeks of beta testing, we’re very happy to announce that Instacast for Mac v1.0 is now available to download and purchase! We’d like to thank everyone who has participated in the beta as well all those who generously contributed to Instacast for Mac’s localisation through Twitter.

I mentioned the public beta a couple weeks ago so I thought it only fair to mention that 1.0 is out now for your downloading and podcast listening pleasure. I’ve been using the beta since the day that it has come out and they sure improved the product and got to 1.0 in a hurry. I have not had any…

“These are always incredibly challenging shows to work on,” says Overall VFX Supervisor for the production Chris Townsend from Los Angeles. “Marvel is famous for chasing the very best movie it can right up to the last minute. So, this is one of the hardest shows I’ve ever done, because of that. The crews had a very compressed schedule, a huge amount of work and this is very complex stuff. We had over 40 suits to build. All digital characters within all digital environments.”

In amongst it all, shooting was delayed when Robert Downey Jnr (RDJ) broke his leg during a shoot day and that…

Of course Star Trek Into Darkness includes some big homages and reverences to Star Trek history including Khan, Section 31 and beyond which are key parts of the film. But there are also some more subtle ‘easter egg’ references to Star Trek history and beyond included in the film. Some of which you may have already spoted and maybe some you didn’t.

I actually got most of these. The interesting one to me is Praxis. The first thing I thought to myself when I saw the Klingon home world — no, LITERALLY the very first thing I thought — was, “what the heck, why is Praxis already blown up? Did…

If you’re like me you may be wondering who on earth these crazy new characters that are supposed to be in The Avengers 2 are. Of course, I’m the guy who didn’t know who Iron Man was, or what The Avengers were, and I barely knew who Captain America was before all these movies started coming out. So maybe all you comic book nerds are sitting there staring blankly at this text I have written right now saying, “Why do I read this guy’s stuff, he’s a neophyte, a complete and utter newb. Well, I admit my knowlege of comic books is very limited so I am discovering these characters from a fresh…

Lucas found that the original title of the third film, ‘Revenge of the Jedi,’ was too harsh, so he softened that as well. It was ‘Return of the Jedi’ now. Everything in the “Star Wars” universe became cuter, cuddlier, and less dangerous, with the contemplative philosophical underpinnings of the previous film replaced with flimsy metaphysical hooey. Even the film’s climax faltered. The original film had one large-scale space battle that involved all the principle characters; it was cleanly told and easy to follow. For the sequel, things were stripped away even further – instead of a space…