100 POSTS!!!!

Today is a huge milestone for the blog as we reach 100 posts! This blog is a true passion project as I don't really make any money off it and had no real expectations for it. I just wanted a place to write about things that interested me and get a chance to have my creative niche in cyberspace. I am very pleased with the way its shaped up, and believe there is a lot of great content and reviews on here. I hope you have enjoyed it so far and will continue to check back daily. If you can throw up the link in your blog/facebook/myspace/AIM profile or wherever else it would be a great help, tell a friend or two if you could as well. I will be trying to promote the blog more in the future and would eventually like to move it to my own website, but right now I guess I'm just lucky I post regularly.

Again, thank you for your support and viewership and keep checking back as it will only continue to get better. Now, on to some news:

- Stephen Colbert is going to be on the cover of Spider Man. This is one of the first times I can remember a celebrity being incorporated into a comic book story and this should move quite a few issues, if not for collector's sake.


- Zack Snyder, the director of 300 and the upcoming Watchmen has confirmed a sequel to 300 as Frank Miller is currently coming up with a brand new graphic novel for it. Plot-wise, Snyder said the novel will take place between the Battle of Thermopylae (the main focus of the original movie) and the Battle of Plataea right at the end of the film.

The film will explore the year-long period between these battles, with the valour of the 300 Spartans inspiring the Greek kingdoms to unite in the face of the might Persian army.

- Principal photography began on Guy Ritchie's new Sherlock Holmes movie yesterday in England. Robert Downey Jr. plays Holmes, while Jude Law will be playing his sidekick Watson. Rachel McAdams will be Holmes' love interest and Mark Strong (Body of Lies, RocknRolla) will be villain, Blackwood. I was hoping Professor Moriarty would be the villain as in the novels but maybe they are saving that for the sequel.

- The biggest news is that Martin Scorsese and Robert DeNiro are reteaming for a brand new gangster movie called "I Heard You Paint Houses." Anybody that knows me, knows that gangster films are my favorite genre and Scorsese is my favorite director. This is the first time the duo have been together since 1996's "Casino" and it has classic written all over it.

The film, based on a book of the same name, is based on the life of Frank "The Irishman" Sheeran (to be played by De Niro), a notorious mob hitman rumoured to have carried out the assassination of Teamsters' boss Jimmy Hoffa.