The ‘Thor’ Movie Brings a Marvel Epic to the Big Screen [Review]
Last week, I was talking to Chad Bowers, my writing partner, and we got to talking about how excited we were for the Thor movie. I've been looking forward to it for a while, but Chad went so far as to...
View ArticleFake S.H.I.E.L.D. Field Agent Test Kit Mistaken for Bomb (Really)
The confederacy of imbeciles struck another blow in its war against the world's viral marketers last week when discarded press materials were mistaken for a bomb. Designed to promote Marvel Studios'...
View Article‘Thor’ Movie Concept Art Takes You to the Halls of Asgard and Beyond [Art]
If there's one thing that's absolutely essential to Marvel's Avengers movies, it's artists. The films owe their hearts to the comic creations of icons like Jack Kirby, Joe Simon, Don Heck and others...
View ArticleParting Shot: Whosoever Holds This Hammer Might Get Banned From a Movie Theater
While ComicsAlliance DOES NOT RECOMMEND THAT YOU DO THIS, who among us cannot say we have been tempted to gauge our worthiness with these massive, tantalizing Mjolnirs? Continue reading…
View Article‘How It Should Have Ended’ Examines ‘Thor’ Movie Conclusion [Video]
While most Marvel Comic fans are still stoked that an honest-to-Norse-gods decent Thor film actually arrived in theaters in their lifetime, the film wasn't without its problems. Functioning both as an...
View ArticleLink Ink: ‘Green Lantern’ Goes ‘MAD,’ Pokemon Fireworks and ‘Star Wars’ Cakes
Parody: Just in case you need a little more Green Lantern movie parody in your life, MAD's got you covered this month starting June 28. Movies: Tom Spurgeon ponders whether Annie is the most successful...
View ArticleLink Ink: ‘Thor’ Blu-ray Coming in September, ‘The Walking Dead’ Season Two...
Upcoming: The Thor Blu-ray 3D, Blu-ray and DVD will arrive in stores on September 13. TV: AMC will air a first-look video from the upcoming second season of The Walking Dead during the Season 4...
View ArticleAgent Coulson Digs Donuts In ‘A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To Thor’s...
Iron Man, Thor and Captain America are fine and all, but for a lot of Marvel movie fans, Clark Gregg's Agent Coulson is the real star of The Avengers franchise. The persistent S.H.I.E.L.D. agent is...
View ArticleRifftrax Takes on ‘Thor,’ Will Likely Incur the Wrath of Odin
Let's face it, folks: Super-hero movies are pretty ridiculous. Even a smart, complex film like The Dark Knight is, at its core, still about a WASPy ninja who dresses up in a bat costume so that he can...
View ArticleMarvel Reveals New Content For Delayed ‘Phase One’ Box Set
Marvel has worked out a way to make it up to fans upset about the delay in release of the Marvel's Cinemtic Universe: Phase One Blu-ray box set. When the set is finally released next year, it'll...
View ArticleThe First Picture of Chris Hemsworth as ‘Thor’ Strikes the Web
Whosoever holds this hammer, if he be worthy... This morning the very first official photo of Chris Hemsworth, decked out in his `Thor 'Norn finest, hit the inter-sphere, courtesy of Yahoo Movies. Any...
View ArticleNew (Alleged) Images of Chris Hemsworth as Thor
Collider has just posted what it says are new images of Chris Hemsworth as Thor in the upcoming film, sent to them by a reader named "Dan." We're a little skeptical, partly because of Collider's...
View Article‘Thor’ All-Father Anthony Hopkins Shows Everyone His Odin-Face
A brief video clip didn't make a huge deal about outing Sir Anthony Hopkins' look for Kenneth Branagh's "Thor" movie this week. Hopkins appeared front and center during a montage of...
View ArticleNew Marvel Select ‘Thor’ Movie Action Figures Give Fans a Taste of Asgard
If you've been watching Marvel's Thor movie images, trailer and Comic-Con booth displays in 2010, you should already have a coherent idea of the fashion senses that Chris Hemsworth and Tom Hiddleston...
View ArticleRacists Totally Freak Out Over Idris Elba Playing Norse God in ‘Thor’
Did you know that the totally made-up-by-medieval-drunks gods of Norse mythology were all white? Literally none of them were African. We didn't know that, but thanks to the prodigious efforts of the...
View ArticleChris Hemsworth as Thor Will Destroy You in New Character Portrait
It's been a good 24 hours to be a Marvel fan. The Web was invigorated yesterday with the first images of Spider-Man and Captain America as they will appear in new films, and we're excited to begin the...
View ArticleLicensed ‘Captain America: The First Avenger’ and ‘Thor’ Costumes Revealed
Just in time for, well, summer, the good people at Disguise have released photographs of their licensed costumes based on those seen in the Marvel Studios films Thor and Captain America: The First...
View ArticleNew ‘Thor’ Movie Trailer Strikes [Video]
Fans have seen their share of epic Asgardian action in the initial Thor movie trailer and the shorter Super Bowl commercial from a few weeks back, but Yahoo's release of the film's second full-length...
View ArticleLink Ink: Mega Mjolnirs Promote ‘Thor,’ Charlie Sheen’s Bio Comic and The...
Movies: Cinemas can now marvel at a giant Mjolnir promoting the release of Thor. Sales: Green Lantern #62 topped ICv2's chart of the Top 300 comics sold in February with 71, 517 issues sold, which is...
View ArticleInternational ‘Thor’ Movie Posters Hit
With Thor's May 6 movie debut just a few more months away, fans from all corners of the nine realms are growing pretty accustomed to having Chris Hemsworth's golden locks all up in their business....
View ArticleMarvel’s Interactive Hype Machine Reveals New ‘Thor’ Images, Info
Loathe as we (usually) are to throw some straight up marketing in your face, a new Flash-based "interactive guide" to Thor was released this week and it's actually a pretty cool way...
View Article‘The Thor Workout': How Chris Hemsworth Muscled Up to Thunder God Size
Do you want a strong, muscled, he-man body like the god of thunder, mighty Thor? If you can't find an uru hammer to transform yourself into an Asgardian powerhouse, you need the June 2011 issue of...
View ArticleBehold the Mite-iest of Mortals in Marvel’s ‘Little Thor’ [Video]
We can expect an appropriately epic blitz of crazy Thor promotional material as Marvel gears up for the film's May 6 release, but none will be grander than this. Parodying the already brilliant and...
View Article‘Thor’ Supporting Characters Shine in New Images [Gallery]
Marvel Studios and Paramount Pictures released this week more than two dozen new still photographs from Thor, the hotly anticipated Kenneth Brannagh film based on the Marvel Comics superhero created...
View ArticleFeast Your Eyes on Thor and the Gang’s Handheld Pixel Personas
When we first found out about Sega and WayForward's Thor movie tie-in videogame, our expectations were mutated by a weird nostalgia for a simpler era of pixelated action. We love current-gen console...
View ArticleHasbro’s ‘Thor’ Toy Media Kit is Mjolnir-Riffic
Once in awhile a mysterious box of wonderment arrives at your office and before you can tear it open like a raptor a little voice inside stops you and whispers, "Stop! Hammer Time!"...
View ArticleBurger King’s Kids Meals Go Asgardian With New ‘Thor’ Toys
We've been pretty impressed with the licensed Thor movie toys we've seen from Hasbro and other manufacturers so far. How can we not celebrate the fact that kids will have untold options for bludgeoning...
View Article‘Thor’ Behind-the-Scenes Footage Probably Spoilery, Can You Watch it for Us?...
Opening in U.S. cinemas this weekend is Thor, the new Kenneth Branagh film based on the classic Marvel Comics superhero created by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby. As we mentioned before, Paramount Pictures is...
View ArticleSummer’s Superhero Movies Get Blocky With Awesome Lego Minifig Posters
If there's one thing fans learned from Lego Batman (and Lego's brief Spider-Man 2 line), it's that blocky looks beautiful on comic book heroes. The disarming cuteness embodied by Denmark's premiere...
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