It’s hard to think about the words "rape" and "love story" together in a title, but here it is. Samuel L. Jackson has just signed to star in "Rape: A Love Story," an independent drama also starring Abigail Breslin and Maria Bello. Jackson will play a sympathetic c...

Recently, the news cycle has been dominated by Marvel and their salary offers for upcoming films. Terrance Howard is out. Sam Jackson is out. If Mickey Rourke was coherent enough to read his bank statements, he would be out. Plus, the jury’s out on the subject, but the internet fan(boy)base ha...

It's a bad time to be a Marvel movie actor, unless you're Robert Downey Jr. (or Gwyneth Paltrow, who'd be the first to say that it is always a good time to be Gwyneth Paltrow). Mere months after......

These are troubling times for America—unemployment is on the rise, and entire industries face their end—but one thing we geeks have had to look forward to in the next few years is everyone’s favorite bad motherfucker himself, Samuel L. Jackson, as Nick Fury. Now it seems we may eve...

Any list of the all-time worst movies based on comic book heroes will inevitably include the made-for-TV Nick Fury: Agent of SHIELD, first broadcast on Fox in 1998. Written by David S. Goyer and directed by Rod Hardy, the movie starred David Hasselhoff as Fury, Lisa Rinna as Val, and even had a guy ...

Since getting back into comics during university I've always been a fan of Iron Man.  Tony Stark on the face of it seems like a high tech imitation of Batman, a rich man with fancy gadgets fighting crime, but there was always elements that separated the two.  Batman's a much darker charact...

It was a slight concern to me that there was way too much promotion on Iron Man - the latest Marvel hero to get a big screen treatment - with every commercial, trailer and You Tube video everywhere showing just about “everything”. The movie stills were variations of Robert Downey in the ...

Our previous item on the rumor that a scene(s) has been cut from The Dark Knight showing (Spoiler warning…) Heath Ledger’s Joker in a body bag is now up to a sweet 130 comments. The majority of Slashfilm readers feel quite passionately that it’s a slight to Heath Ledger, the film, ...

Jim Steranko (b. 1938). Wiki. Art of Jim Steranko. Cover gallery. If you live to be a million years old, you'll never be as cool as this guy. One of North America's greatest and most influential comic book artists; Jim Steranko's talents as visual innovator are matched only by his gift for self-myth...