Buried centers solely, and I mean solely, upon Paul Conroy. He is a trucker working in Iraq who is overtaken, captured, and buried by locals. He awakens to find himself entombed with a phone, lighter, and writing utensil. The next 90 minutes are his frantic attempt at rescue via phone call, after phone call, after phone call. And therein lays the major problem with any single place film — inevitable boredom.
When somebody says the word “superhero,” you usually don’t picture Wolverine combing through his inventory and agonizing over how high his defense stat could be.
Yet that’s the picture painted by X-Men Legends II: Rise of Apocalypse. You would think the over-the-top antics of comic book superheroes and stat-driven RPG gameplay would be an awkward mash-up, yet X-Men Legends and its successors, the Marvel Ultimate Alliance games, managed to make that series work for the better part of a decade.
Where can you see aliens, ninja’s, sorceresses and cowboys all in one place? No it’s not my action figure collection…I don’t have any cowboys. It’s Trailer Tracker, your one stop shop for all the latest clips hitting the web. A slow frame christens the month of October here on Player Affinity, beginning – perhaps ironically – with I Am Number Four, the clip for director Doug Liman’s sci-fi action blockbuster. East meets west in the martial arts western The Warrior’s Way and then Simon Pegg teams with Andy Serkis for a macabre business plan in Burke & Hare. The last new trailer this week is the Shakespearian adaptation The Tempest from visually-dynamic director Julie Taymor following her “Beatles” musical Across the Universe and finally, just one week after the teaser clip for The Coen Brother’s True Grit debuted, we have the riveting theatrical trailer. So grab your lasers, mount your saddle and giddy-up.
It is a real fright fest this week, with four of this week’s new releases being horror films and another four re-release wanting to deliver scares. But if horror is not your genre there are family films, historical dramas, crime movies and sci-fi offerings to cater for any taste.
Lock up your daughters and put the kids to bed, because Dexter is back on TV and if previous seasons are anything to go by, there will be plenty of body parts flying about. Last season ended with the death of Dexter’s wife, Rita and was perhaps the most poignant moment experienced by television audiences that year. My Bad portrays the aftermath of Rita’s murder and Dexter’s struggle to come to terms with his feelings or more specifically, whether he has any at all.
Check out the very cool trailer from Archaia Press for their new original graphic novel: The Return of the Dappermen
Imagine a land where Time itself has ceased to exist. Where children have played so long it’s almost become work, machines have worked so long they have begun to play and all the clocks have stopped at the same time. A land that’s about to change when 314 identical-looking dapper men rain down from the sky, bringing time back with them.
Ahhh, can you smell that? Smells like gold polish, Chanel and sweat — must be the first whiff of Oscar time here on Player Affinity. We begin off the docket this week with trailers two heavily-tipped contenders: The Coen Brothers’ western remake True Grit and the People’s Choice winner at this year’s Toronto International Film Festival, The King’s Speech starring Colin Firth. Wild Target finds Emily Blunt and Bill Nighy playing a thief and hitman respectively in the action comedy remake of a French film, and then we take an early peak into the holidays with the live-action adaptation of The Nutcracker. Finally, for a lack of new clips this week we shall take a peak back into the wizarding world with the second trailer for Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1. Grab your quaffles and broomsticks, it’s Trailer Tracker.
Jacob Moore (Shia LaBeouf) has “the hunger,” as his boss Louis Zabel (Frank Langella) informs him. Jake’s got it all, a promising job at a nice firm, a healthy 1.5 million dollar bonus, and a pretty fiance in Winnie Gecko (Carey Mulligan). He’s got confidence in spades, and decides to invest the majority of his bonus in his company stock. This is 2008, right before the financial collapse. You see where this might go. Bad things happen, and Zabel, having been forced to sell his company to Bretton James (Josh Brolin) for a pittance, jumps in front of a subway train. Jacob plots revenge against James for inducing his mentor’s suicide.
The kind people over at Lionhead have released a new developer diary. This developer diary is packed full of the voice actors/actresses talking about their experience with the game and giving you a few tidbits of their voice work in game. Some of the actors featured include John Cleese, “Sir” Ben Kingsley, Zoe Wanamaker and quite a bit more.
Not to be content with the announcement of X-23 and Tron Bonne at the Tokyo Game Show, Capcom announced two more characters for the long-awaited Marvel Vs. Capcom 3: Fate of Two Worlds. The characters, Wesker (of Resident Evil fame) and Spiderman, are welcome editions to the roster. Fan-favorite Spiderman and Wesker were announced with a gameplay video that shows how the characters fight.
