The Directors Chair

As part of its Wolverine coverage in their new issue, Empire has debuted this first official photo of Taylor Kitsch (“Friday Night Lights”) as Gambit.

Opening May 1st, 2009, the Gavin Hood-directed film stars Hugh Jackman, Liev Schreiber, Ryan Reynolds, Will.i.am, Danny Huston, Dominic Monaghan (yay!), Daniel Henney and Lynn Collins. Leading up to the events of X-Men, Wolverine tells the story of Wolverine’s epically violent and romantic past, his complex relationship with Victor Creed, and the ominous Weapon X program.

Episode 10 – “The Eclipse: Part 1″
It’s gone from “coming” to “here”! The solar eclipse begins and strange things are happening to our Heroes. Matt and Daphne are told by Angela to get Hiro and help him, they wonder where to start when Hiro and Ando turn up on their doorstep! Matt tries to get into Hiros head but can’t understand the Japanese. Daphne asks Matt is he trusts her and he pauses before saying ‘yes’ which causes Daphne to leave him for home. Matt gets Hiro to teleport them to her home and as they arrive in the corn fields of Kansas the eclipse starts.

The eclipse seems to cause our heroes to lose their powers. Mohinder can feel it coming and himself changing. He wraps himself up in a cocoon and later falls naked out of it, back to his normal self. He’s excited to go see Maya now he’s not a monster but Flint and Arthur want him to work on getting their powers back.

In probably the funniest moment in the series so far, Matt, now powerless, tries to force Daphne’s Dad to let him in by using his powers, but because they’re not working her Dad just laughs at him. Brilliant! Later Matt says he isn’t leaving until Daphne lets him in as he loves her, she does and says she didn’t want him to see her like this as she comes out in crutches with leg braces on. Obviously been using them a bit to much methinks.

Hiro and Ando set about to get their powers back and Hiro takes them to a comic book shop run by the guys from Robot Chicken Seth Green and Breckin Mayer. Quality. They all feature on the cover of the next issue of 9th Wonders. I wonder who’s writing this? The last one was written by Issac and had his name in big letters on the back, who is writing this new one?

Claire, the cataylst remember, is told to lay low but she doesn’t want to. Angela reintroduces her to Noah who takes her to the vortex guys house where they can be safe. Claire is angry at not being able to do anything so Noah says he’ll train her. He gets her to swing floorboards at him and tells her how to do it better. Soon she is dripping with sweat and tired and Noah asks her whats on her mind. She tells him she hated it when he left her as she thought she’d never see him again. He apologises to her.

Arthur asks Sylar to go get Claire, Elle goes with him. When they are at the car dealership Elle tells the clerk that Sylar is a psycho killer who has kept her hostage and the clerk comes at Sylar with a gun. Elle asks him what’s he going to be, boyscout or hero? Sylar says he hates heroes. They go to get Claire but the eclipse has taken their powers! This allows Noah to dislocate Sylar’s arm and smacks Elle with a board – it’s brutally awesome. Elle takes a gun and goes to shoot Noah but Claire jumps in front of the bullet but obviously has lost her ability too. Noah carrys Claire home where they patch her up.

Nathan and Peter are in Bolivia or somewhere looking for the Haitian who is looking for his brother Baron Samedi. They meet up with the Haitian after Nathan and Peter have an disagreement but then Nathan is captured by the Baron and Peter and the Haitian escape.

Claire is so happy to be able to feel pain again and Noah says he won’t leave her, but he does. He goes to kill Sylar and the last shot is of him with a sniper rifle with Sylar in his sights. But Sylar is snogging the face off Elle.

Will we finally see some of the cast die? Has Sylar’s day come? I’m sure he’s one of the biggest draws for the show but with Star Trek about to take him to a different level it may be time to move on. Having said that I’d much rather Peter left than Sylar. Plus I don’t know who Sylar is anymore. When he was in the car dealership he said he hated Heroes and he went to get Claire – typical bad guy. But when he discovered he lost his abilities Elle (who got him to be the bad guy) was upset she made him a pyscho. Ridiculous. But still an awesome episode and I look forward to part 2!

Y2Rating: 9/10

Robert Downey Junior has spoken out regarding the upcoming super-hero cross over movie ‘The Avengers’. In an interview with MTV he said:

“If we don’t get it right, it’s really going to suck. It has to be the crowning blow of Marvel’s best and brightest, because it’s the hardest thing to get right. It’s tough to spin all the plates for one of these characters,” Downey tells MTV, later adding: “The danger you run with colliding all these worlds is that Jon was very certain that “Iron Man” should be set in a very realistic way. Nothing that happened in Iron Man is really outside the realm of possibility. Once you start talking about Valhalla and supersized super soldiers and jolly green giants, it warrants much further discussion.”

It’s true that the world Iron Man resides in is much different from that of the Hulk and the other Avengers. How Marvel will work this could make or break the movie, I suggest they get Jon Faveru on board as top executive producer.

The first trailer for the X-Men spin off “Wolverine: Origins” looks set to hit cinemas on December 12th with the studios other title “The Day The Earth Stood Still”.

Directed by Gavin Hood, the May 1, 2009 release stars Hugh Jackman, Liev Schreiber, Ryan Reynolds, Taylor Kitsch, Will.i.am, Danny Huston, Dominic Monaghan, Daniel Henney and Lynn Collins.

Leading up to the events of X-Men, Wolverine tells the story of Wolverine’s epically violent and romantic past, his complex relationship with Victor Creed, and the ominous Weapon X program. Along the way, Wolverine encounters many mutants, both familiar and new, including surprise appearances by several legends of the X-Men universe.

Sony have released a new poster for Terminator: Salvation and I think it is kick-ass! I wasn’t a satisfied customer with Terminator 3 and so this movie has a lot to do in order to make me a believer again but just looking at this poster has me excited. Tell me what you think – you can view the poster in motion by clicking here!

Oh my Gawd!

I hope ABC don’t get the video removed like the last one, this is kickass. The music kinda sucks though doesn’t it? It’s not at all what I think lost to be and how terrible is it “syncing” up the lyrics with the images like “telephone” and “lying”.

Anyway, there are some “hidden” images in the video which are for AjiraAirways.com. There is a password protected field on the site, I’m sure it has something to do with the ARG that’s been going on and I’ve not been keeping up with. If someone cracks it, let me know! Perhaps Ajira Airways are the way they get back to the island?! Thoughts?

Episode 113 – “Hearts and Minds”
Boone is tested by Locke to give him an island experience. When out at the hatch Boone asks Locke if he can tell Shannon about what they’ve found. People at the camps are talking about what they are doing as they keep coming back empty handed. Hurley especially is suffering from the lack of boar in his diet and consults Jack about it.

Locke knocks Boone out and then ties him up. He gives him a knife and tells Boone he can cut himself free when he is ready to. Boone struggles and it isn’t until he hears Shannon crying for help in the jungle and the sounds of the smoke monster that he can strain to reach the knife and save himself and Shannon who has somehow ended up tied to a tree. The pair hide in the thicket until they think the monster has passed, they then leave again and Boone tells Shannon about the hatch. Then the smoke monster makes another appearance but this time takes Shannon. Boone finds her dead in a stream.

Back at camp Boone goes to attack Locke saying he killed his sister and she died in his arms, but Locke questions why he isn’t covered in blood and Boone begins to question his sanity. He puts two and two together and realises that John drugged him. Locke asks him how it felt when Shannon died and Boone says “relieved”.

In flashbacks Boone is called to Sydney by Shannon who has got herself caught up in another dangerous relationship. Boone gets to her only for Shannon to ask him to leave. She slyly shows him the bruise on her head and he goes to the police who are no help. We see Sawyer get pulled in by the cops, wonder what he was doing there! Boone goes to see Brian, Shannon’s abusive boyfriend and pays him $50,000 to dump Shannon. When Boone goes to pick her up the plot unravels and Shannon was conning Boone into giving up a large sum of money. Turns out Boone and Shannon are step-brother/sister and Shannon’s Dad died leaving all his money to Boone’s mother who won’t let Shannon have any. Later Shannon comes to Boone, Brian has left her for the money. Shannon reveals that she knows Boone loves her and the two sleep together, afterwards Boone is wrecked with guilt.

Jack asks Charlie what he thinks of Locke and Charlie says that “if there is one person he would put his faith in the hands of to get them off the island, it would be John Locke”. Kate learns Sun can speak English and Hurley and Jin learn to fish. Hurley steps on an urchin but Jin won’t pee on it. We don’t learn how he was saved.

ABC have revealed their official promo poster for the new season of Lost. Season Five starts up on January 21st only on ABC.

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Episode 112 – “Whatever The Case May Be”
Whilst out picking fruit Kate suspects someone is following her and she’s right, it’s Sawyer. He says he is out there to protect her after what happened to Claire. Kate tells him to shhh as she hears something, they run off to find a glorious lagoon with waterfall. Sawyer jumps in and Kate soon joins him for a swim. After diving in they find some dead bodies trapped in plane seats at the bottom and a silver case. Kate wants the case, it’s hers.

Sawyer gets the case and because they can’t open it Kate lets him have it but tries to steal it back twice and fails. Sawyer says he’ll let her have the case if she tells him what is inside. She refuses and Sawyer continues to try to smash it open. Kate then asks Jack for help and he too wants to know what is inside, he agrees to help but only if he opens it with her. Jack gets the case from Sawyer, blackmailing him for meds for his arm. They open it to find guns, bullets and a small toy plane that Kate says belonged to the man she loved, then is honest and says it belonged to the man she killed.

In flashbacks we see Kate at a bank trying to open a loan when some robbers burst in. They try to get the manager to give them the save key but fail, someone else tries to be a hero and gets a gun off one of the robbers sliding it to Kate but she says she can’t use a gun. The ring leader then takes her into a back office where they laugh and kiss. They eventually get to the vault where the ring leader is about to shoot the bank manager but Kate stops it. The plot is revealed that Kate set the bank manager up, overcome with guilt she grabs a gun and shoots all the robbers, then gets the bank manager to open safe 815.

The tide is coming in, Sayid says “unnaturally fast” and the beach camp are forced to move up the beach somewhat. Sayid asks Shannon for help decoding the French on the maps he took from Danielle. After much nonsense Sayid gives up but later Shannon comes to him and tells him the words are from a song that played at the end of Finding Nemo, they still don’t make much sense.

Episode 111 – “All The Best Cowboys Have Daddy Issues”
Claire and Charlie are missing and so Jack and Locke set about to find them. Locke can follow a trail but Jack is impatient with him and worries about his friends. Locke goes back and grabs some help for a search party in Kate and Boone, Michael forms his own and heads South. Locke, Boone and Kate catch up with Jack who has been going around in circles and then they discover two trails. Kate makes it known she can track and so her and Jack split off and follow one track whilst Boone and Locke follow another.

In flashbacks we learn more about Jacks relationship with his father and one incident that saw a woman enter the OR and Jack have to be called by a nurse because his father was intoxicated during the proceedure. Christian convinces his son to side with him in the report but when the womans husband presses charges and Jack finds out the woman was pregnant, he changes his story and his father could now lose his licence. Way to drive your papa to alcohol Jack.

Locke predicts the weather and it begins to rain, wiping away the trail. Jack is frustrated but then hears a scream in the jungle, Kate asks him where he is going and he asks if she heard the scream, she heard nothing. Jack climbs a sheer cliff face but falls. When he opens his eyes Ethan is there to kick some ass and he threatens that if Jack doesn’t stop following him Ethan is going to kill one of them.

Kate tends to Jack who tells her Ethan beat him up and she doesn’t believe him. Jack says “he’s not getting away with it, not this time” and continues to follow Ethan. When they make it to the top of the rocks Charlie is hanging from a tree. They cut him down and Jack pounds away at Charlie to get him to breathe, he won’t. Kate tells Jack to stop but he won’t and eventually Charlie begins to breathe. They all go back to camp where Shannon is worried about Boone.

Sawyer learns Sayid is back and goes for a chat, he learns about the French woman and the possible others on the island. Walt plays Hurley at backgammon and wins $20,000 that Hurley says he’ll get. Walt says his Dad thinks he is the luckiest kid on the planet, “not Michael, my other Dad Brian”.

Charlie says “all they wanted was Claire” and the others look scared. Boone and Locke are still in the jungle when Boone decides he is going to head back following the red shirt strips they left behind. He mentioned earlier that the red shirts would always die in Star Trek. Locke throws Boone the torch but he drops it on the ground and there is an echoing thud of metal on metal. The pair look underfoot and find a large steel door. They begin to dig to find out what it is.