Mike Haynes posted an article on Panels of Awesome! - Feb 8, 2012, 1:52 pm
Universal Pictures and iTunes Movie Trailers have just revealed the teaser trailer and poster for Tony Gilroy’s The Bourne Legacy starring Jeremy Renner. Here is the official synopsis for the film, The narrative architect behind the Bourne film series, Tony Gilroy, takes the helm in the next cha...
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Mike Haynes posted an article on Panels of Awesome! - Feb 8, 2012, 12:28 am
While it’s always a pleasant sight to see your friendly neighborhood Spider-Man in his usual red and blues, writer Dan Slott will be opting to send the webslinger to the Ends of the Earth in a whole new outfit come this March as he and artist Stefano Caselli begin a new arc in marvel’s Amazing S...
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Mike Haynes posted an article on Panels of Awesome! - Feb 7, 2012, 7:59 pm
We’ve been keeping tabs on the follow-up to X-Men Origins: Wolverine,  The Wolverine for quite some time now. After the loss of Darren Aronofsky as director, a rewrite of Christopher McQuarrie’s script, and other delays to boot, we finally have a release date. 20th Century Fox announced today ...
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Mike Haynes posted an article on Panels of Awesome! - Feb 7, 2012, 2:53 pm
Late last night Columbia Pictures unveiled the latest trailer for their franchise reboot, The Amazing Spider-Man. The trailer, along with additional footage, was screened at Columbia Pictures’ official reveal for the film, “The Untold Story Begins” that took place yesterday.  Directed by Mar...
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Mike Haynes posted an article on Panels of Awesome! - Feb 5, 2012, 8:01 pm
If you’re like me and can’t be bothered to watch the Superbowl but still want to check out Marvel’s latest (and apparently greatest) trailer for their upcoming ‘Avengers’ flick, look no further as the full trailer has now gone live on the publisher’s official YouTube page. More specifica...
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Mike Haynes posted an article on Panels of Awesome! - Feb 3, 2012, 12:47 pm
Our friends at Game Informer have revealed the first in-game screenshots of Naughty Dog’s (the Uncharted series) latest PS3 exclusive (originally unveiled last December) The Last of Us.  Game Informer has the game featured on their March cover and has also revealed some interesting story and game...
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Mike Haynes posted an article on Panels of Awesome! - Feb 3, 2012, 9:52 am
Alright I’m a little behind on the times I admit it, but I feel as though this is an announcement worth discussing.  A few weeks ago MGM and Twentieth Century Fox jointly announced one of the biggest, most robust Blu-ray sets ever, Bond 50.  Containing all 22 currently released films (the box se...
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Mike Haynes posted an article on Panels of Awesome! - Feb 3, 2012, 9:21 am
Well we’re back ladies and gentleman and what better way to kick off 2012 for the POA! crew than to give you guys a first glimpse at Daniel Craig in the upcoming James Bond film Skyfall. Set for release on November 9, 2012, Skyfall is being directed by the great Sam Mendes (Road to Perdition, Rev...
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Mike Haynes posted an article on Panels of Awesome! - Nov 2, 2011, 1:26 pm
Like some sort of magic trick performed by Zatanna, Sony Online Entertainment’s MMO DC Universe Online, you know the one where you get to play as superheroes, has officially made the transition from a fully paid subscription based game to a much more affordable (for some) free-to-play model. If yo...
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Mike Haynes posted an article on Panels of Awesome! - Nov 2, 2011, 12:35 pm
The streets of Vinewood never looked so good in Rockstar’s first official trailer for the upcoming GTA title. The story, based on the events that unfold in the trailer, will follow a currently unnamed family-man character through the now rundown streets of the Los Angeles inspired city that (at le...
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Mike Haynes posted an article on Panels of Awesome! - Oct 31, 2011, 11:09 pm
Some have called Iron Man’s Demon In A Bottle arc to be his best (and most important), and it is undoubtedly one of Tony Stark’s most human and tragic moments in his almost five decade existence. Jon Favreau’s Iron Man 2 touched on Stark’s alcoholism…but in a much lighter tone, really miss...
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Mike Haynes posted an article on Panels of Awesome! - Oct 31, 2011, 5:44 pm
Electronic Arts and DICE have announced today that Battlefield 3 has sold over five-million units worldwide. These numbers are based on internal estimates and include the sales from the PC, PS3, and Xbox 360 versions. Electronic Arts Inc. (NASDAQ: ERTS) today announced that based on internal estima...
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Mike Haynes posted an article on Panels of Awesome! - Oct 31, 2011, 5:29 pm
Warner Home Video has just announced that they will be releasing The Town: Ultimate Collector’s Edition on Blu-ray & DVD Combo Pack with UltraViolet Digital Copy on Feb. 7, 2012.  The film will feature an all new never-before-seen extended cut of the film (the only difference will likely be an al...
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Mike Haynes posted an article on Panels of Awesome! - Oct 31, 2011, 2:03 pm
Fresh out of C4, we’re all set for another week of comics. This time around G4′s Blair Butler takes a shot at writing with Heart, Spider-Island officially comes to a close, a new issue of Invincible arrives from Robert Kirkman, Ryan Ottley and Image plus much, much more. To the top 3! This Week...
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Mike Haynes posted an article on Panels of Awesome! - Oct 31, 2011, 12:50 am
It’s been one heck of weekend but, as they say, all good things must come to an end. To cap-off this weekend’s Central Canada Comic Con, Comics Editor Mike and Video Games Editor Rob share their opinions of the final day of the event, the weekend as a whole and the con’s future. Mike: It’s...
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Mike Haynes posted an article on Panels of Awesome! - Oct 30, 2011, 12:50 am
Being only my second convention, C4 2011′s day two was a blast. It was almost everything that you could have seen yesterday – the wrestling, the cosplay, grown men attacking eachother with foam weapons, video game tournaments, costume contests, and more. Despite the utter confusion regarding wh...
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Mike Haynes posted an article on Panels of Awesome! - Oct 29, 2011, 12:50 am
Due to some technical difficulties we were unable to catch many pictures of the event on this opening day but there’s still plenty to discuss in terms of expectations as well as highlights from this opening day at the Central Canada Comic Con, going on all weekend right here in our hometown of Win...
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Mike Haynes posted an article on Panels of Awesome! - Oct 28, 2011, 2:09 am
Monsters’ Den, one of the greatest flash games I’ve played to date, is a deep dungeon crawling RPG by Daniel Stradwick. Bringing me back to a simpler time, Monsters’ Den reminds me of when I was playing Advanced Dungeons & Dragons games like Eye of the Beholder on the SNES. I had the opportuni...
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Mike Haynes posted an article on Panels of Awesome! - Oct 24, 2011, 3:03 pm
iTunes Movie Trailers has released the second trailer for Martin Scorcese’s 3D film Hugo, an adaptation of Brian Selznick’s 2007 historical-fiction book The Invention of Hugo Cabret.  Selznick’s book is interesting in that it relies equally on imagery and writing (284 pictures between 533 pag...
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Mike Haynes posted an article on Panels of Awesome! - Oct 24, 2011, 12:37 pm
We’ve got another week of reprinted number 1s as well as stack of freshly printed second issues to a number of DC’s New 52 including Flash, All Star Western, Aquaman and more. On the Marvel side of things, the Hickman and Ribic’s Ultimates battle the Future Foundation and Hulk smashes his way ...
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Mike Haynes posted an article on Panels of Awesome! - Oct 21, 2011, 8:16 pm
A bit of a slow weekend coming up for theatrical releases, the most notable of them being Paranormal Activity 3 and The Three Musketeers. Paranormal Activity 3 Director: Henry Joost, Ariel Schulman Screenwriter: Christopher B. Landon Starring: Katie Featherston, Sprague Grayden, Lauren Bittner Th...
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Mike Haynes posted an article on Panels of Awesome! - Oct 20, 2011, 8:01 am
Variety is reporting that Warner Bros. has finally given the green light on the long in development live-action remake of the anime classic Akira. The film has been given the go-ahead with an unconfirmed budget (the budget was 90 million back in July when Warners initially hired Collet-Serra, no wor...
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Mike Haynes posted an article on Panels of Awesome! - Oct 20, 2011, 1:38 am
Ever wondered what you’d get if you crossed the gritty, realistic setting of the newly released Batman: Arkham City game with the campy, cheesy presentation of the old Batman series from back in the 60s that featured Adam West? Yeah, me neither… but it might be kind of funny now that I think ab...
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Mike Haynes posted an article on Panels of Awesome! - Oct 19, 2011, 7:00 pm
Earlier today during Marvel’s latest “Next Big Thing” conference call, writers Rick Remender, Jeff Parker, Rob Williams and artist Tony Moore broke the news that, beginning early next year, a crossover of characters would be appearing in Remender’s current Venom title. The cast, according t...
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Mike Haynes posted an article on Panels of Awesome! - Oct 19, 2011, 12:55 am
Today, Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment announced the Blu-Ray, DVD, and Digital Download release date of Rise of the Planet of the Apes for December 13, 2011. Starring James Franco, Rise was both a critical and commercial success, earning $432 million worldwide. I personally loved the film a...
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Mike Haynes posted an article on Panels of Awesome! - Oct 18, 2011, 11:38 pm
Sony’s official website for the Playstation Vita has just unveiled that the handheld is set for a release in North America, Latin America, Australia, and Europe on February 22, 2012. Although some gamers may be disappointed that the Vita won’t be coming in time for the holidays, I can’t help ...
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Mike Haynes posted an article on Panels of Awesome! - Oct 18, 2011, 10:00 pm
If you’re anything like us, you’re pretty excited to dive head-first into Batman’s latest adventure on a PlayStation 3 or Xbox 360 near you. However, if you’re on the fence about which version of Arkham City to get, we might be able to help you out a bit with our official unboxing of the gam...
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Mike Haynes posted an article on Panels of Awesome! - Oct 18, 2011, 9:45 pm
I’m a pretty big fan of what Jeff Parker’s done with Hulk over the past year. Taking what I felt was one of the biggest blunders following World War Hulk back in 2008 and transforming it into one of the most action-packed, intelligent (and sadly under-appreciated) titles published by Marvel take...
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Mike Haynes posted an article on Panels of Awesome! - Oct 18, 2011, 1:48 pm
If you needed another reason to pick up Marvel’s upcoming Point One comic, which arrives in November, they’ve just given you one: Phoenix. Marvel has teased fans for years of an official return and it seems like that trend will be continuing into the release of the book if Marvel’s latest teas...
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Mike Haynes posted an article on Panels of Awesome! - Oct 18, 2011, 1:20 pm
Fans of Rick Remender’s current run on Venom will be pleased to know that the writer will be teaming up with artist Gabriel Hardman on Secret Avengers early next year. More specifically, according to his recent interview with CBR, the writer says that this title will have connected issues with his...
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Mike Haynes posted an article on Panels of Awesome! - Oct 18, 2011, 12:00 pm
Childhood favorite Tintin is back in director Steven Spielberg’s animated take on the long lasting series.  iTunes Movie Trailers has debuted a brand new trailer for the film due for release on Dec. 21. Set for release in 2D, 3D, and IMAX 3D theaters on Dec. 21, The Adventures of Tintin is being...
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Mike Haynes posted an article on Panels of Awesome! - Oct 17, 2011, 2:49 pm
Another big week as we see another run of number 2s from DC including Batman, Catwoman and Justice League. On the Marvel side of things, we see Fear Itself wrap itself up right in time for the publisher to dive head-first into The Fearless. Here’s a look at all the books hitting your local comic ...
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Mike Haynes posted an article on Panels of Awesome! - Oct 16, 2011, 2:16 pm
“That’s half the magic” This time around, both Rob and Wramil return from their hiatus’, we all fight through exhaustion and talk about some of the New York Comic Con news from this weekend, we seek logic in Barnes and Noble’s decision to pull DC’s books from their shelves, and, as alwa...
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Mike Haynes posted an article on Panels of Awesome! - Oct 15, 2011, 2:14 pm
If the ‘Point One’ teaser a while back wasn’t indication enough of his eventual return, Marvel’s now made it official: Scarlet Spider is back… or at least he will be when writer Chris Yost and artist Ryan Stegman officially relaunch the character early next year. Curious what this new inc...
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Mike Haynes posted an article on Panels of Awesome! - Oct 15, 2011, 1:59 pm
If you’re like me and have waited for a nice healthy sampling of Hitman: Absolution to dig your eyes into, the fine people at IGN have cooked up something you might be interested in. Arriving earlier this week is a video playthrough of one entire level from the upcoming game which features sneakin...
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Mike Haynes posted an article on Panels of Awesome! - Oct 11, 2011, 9:41 pm
Thus ends another Canadian Thanksgiving and yet another case of The Tuesday Blu’s is come. This week I’m going to highlight two of the summers best films, Terrence Malick’s The Tree of Life and Seth Gordon’s Horrible Bosses (Totally Inappropriate Edition). The Tree of Life Terrence Malick...
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Mike Haynes posted an article on Panels of Awesome! - Oct 11, 2011, 7:08 pm
If you haven’t seen it already, Marvel Studios has released the first official trailer for writer/director Joss Whedon’s The Avengers starring Robert Downey Jr., Chris Evans, Mark Ruffalo, Chris Hemsworth, Scarlett Johansson, Jeremy Renner, Tom Hiddleston, Stellan Skarsgård and Samuel L. Jackso...
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Mike Haynes posted an article on Panels of Awesome! - Oct 10, 2011, 1:59 pm
It’s a holiday Monday up here in Canada but that’s certainly not going to stop us from enjoying some great comics this week… is it? We’ve got more second issues of various New 52 titles, Spider-Island continues and a new issue of Nick Spencer’s Morning Glories hits shelves. Here’s a loo...
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Mike Haynes posted an article on Panels of Awesome! - Oct 9, 2011, 12:19 pm
The Hollywood Reporter has mentioned in an analysis of Tom Cruise’s career that Warner Bros. is now in talks with him to star in We Are Mortals, the film formerly (and badassly) titled All You Need Is Kill to be directed by Doug Liman (Mr. and Mrs. Smith, The Bourne Identity). This comes as intere...
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Mike Haynes posted an article on Panels of Awesome! - Oct 8, 2011, 12:05 am
“Hawkman without Hawkgirl is like a pizza without cheese” In this episode, Rob has a prior engagement but we make do with the latest and greatest breakthrough in technology: Virtual Rob. In news, we chat about Dark Knight and Avengers set photos. In comics, we discuss Bendis’ “con-retiremen...
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Mike Haynes posted an article on Panels of Awesome! - Oct 7, 2011, 7:38 pm
In what seems like a new weekly trend, the Marvel marketing machine has fired out a number of new teasers over the past couple of days for many of their upcoming titles and events over the next little while that will take us into 2012 and beyond. We’ve got em’ all and even some running commentar...
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Mike Haynes posted an article on Panels of Awesome! - Oct 7, 2011, 6:22 pm
Some may call it a ‘Pick of the Week’, we call it something else: being undeniably, certifiably awesome. The second month of DC’s ‘New 52′ has officially begun and with that, the second issue of one of my personal favorites from the first week has arrived. I’m talking, of course, about ...
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Mike Haynes posted an article on Panels of Awesome! - Oct 7, 2011, 12:47 pm
There are only two major theatrical releases this weekend, but they are big.  First up we’ll take a look at George Clooney’s The Ides of March and then Hugh Jackman in director Shawn Levy’s Real Steel. The Ides of March Director: George Clooney Screenwriter: George Clooney, Grant Heslov, Be...
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Mike Haynes posted an article on Panels of Awesome! - Oct 6, 2011, 3:07 pm
Marvel has announced on The Avengers Facebook page that the first full-length trailer for the film will be released this Tuesday.  Now we’re not sure whether this means the trailer will be released online Tuesday and in theaters this weekend or what, I guess we’ll just have to wait and see. Ma...
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Mike Haynes posted an article on Panels of Awesome! - Oct 6, 2011, 3:36 am
If, for whatever reason, you don’t have a TV or any friends that share things online, there’s a possibility that you missed out on the latest Sony advertisement for the PlayStation 3 titled ‘Michael’ which showcases a handful of characters from PS3 titles such as Uncharted, Infamous, Call of...
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Mike Haynes posted an article on Panels of Awesome! - Oct 6, 2011, 3:19 am
While you may have played and enjoyed Batman: Arkham Asylum, the first game by developer Rocksteady that features the Dark Knight, and are no doubt excited for the upcoming sequel Batman: Arkham City, which ships later this month, you really have to wonder how long the studio can keep firing out imm...
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Mike Haynes posted an article on Panels of Awesome! - Oct 3, 2011, 8:39 pm
In a brief announcement today, Paramount Pictures and New Regency Productions have jointly stated that Academy Award-nominated director Darren Aronofsky (Black Swan, The Wrestler) will direct Noah, by a screenplay written by Aronofsky and Ari Handel. A rewrite is currently underway by Academy Award-...
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Mike Haynes posted an article on Panels of Awesome! - Oct 3, 2011, 2:47 pm
Yahoo Movies has released a brand new poster for Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol showing Tom Cruise hanging off the Burj Khalifa – the tallest building in the world -  in Dubai.  And yes that really is Cruise. Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol is set for release on IMAX screens on D...
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Mike Haynes posted an article on Panels of Awesome! - Oct 3, 2011, 1:30 pm
In this week’s pull list we’ve got a pile of second printings and issues twos for DC’s ‘New 52′, Marvel wraps Schism and a new issue of Invincible finally sees the light of day. Here’s a look at all the books hitting your local comic book shop Wednesday, October 5th: Dark Horse Comics ...
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Mike Haynes posted an article on Panels of Awesome! - Oct 1, 2011, 2:14 am
This is it! The final stack of DC’s newly relaunched books arrive in stores this week and, while things may not have been quite as busy this time around, there’s still plenty to mention. Don’t forget about Marvel either who continue their Ultimate relaunch with Spider-Man and Ultimates as well...
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