I've just got the Bat signal-sorry for the pun- when "Suicide Squad" is set for release on DVD and other DVD's are out Part 1 Of 2

I am soooo excited to get this email through my inbox from Amazon and I just had to put this up on here.

! Warning this article may contain spoilers ! 

As I really enjoyed "Suicide Squad" when I went to see the film at the cinema regardless of its faults as I thought it was very see through right from the start that this story with how Amanda Waller's played by Viola Davies has the idea of putting together the worst of the worst villains that had been caught by Batman played by Ben Affleck as in the case of DeadShot played by Will Smith and Harley Quinn played by Margot Robbie with Killer Croc played by Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje, Captain Boomerang played by Jai Courtney, El Diablo played by Jay Hernandez and a 3,000 year old witch Enchantress played by Cara Delevingne to form task force X and co-operate with the government in the wake of Batman vs Superman's battle and so as to stop as Amanda Waller puts it in the film: "What's to stop Superman flying down and taking the president out of the White House?" that something really bad is bound to happen with the witch that has supernatural powers and can't be controlled...and of course letting her out really does turn out to be a disaster as she turns all who come into contact with her into her alien soldiers and of course there isn't just her there is also her brother that she lets out and the only way to stop him is El Diablo who can manipulate fire and put the fire wherever he wants.

But the film in my opinion is disappointing with like most critics say that Jared Leto who really does in my opinion steal the show as well as Margot Robbie as Harley Quinn, and really does look the part of a deranged psychopath that you really don't want to mess with because you just don't know what he's going to do or what or when he's going to get ticked off with you...that's now I think about it probably down to in part the wardrobe department on the film and partially down to Jared Leto's method acting skills, but you don't see very much of him in the film all you get to see are little snippets of him in the film such as when Batman first tracks him and Harley Quinn down and he escapes but Harley Quinn gets captured and sent to Belle Reve, when the Joker first finds out where Harley Quin is being held and is planning how to get her out along with the microchip that is implanted in her neck, how to get a message to Harley Quinn in the form of getting a phone into Belle Reve with the help of Griggs who is a guard at Belle Reve, how the Joker and Harley Quinn first met, what happened to Harley Quinn after meeting him and how right at the end of the film he finally goes in to Belle Reve himself in order to get her out.

But apart from this, this film is an action packed film with some comic moments such as how Captain Boomerang doesn't like anyone touching his toy unicorn or the most qualified army trained person Rick Flagg that she puts in charge of this task force at one point gets into trouble more than once and has to be helped out by the bad guys, and is in my opinion definitely a film to put in your DVD collection to have readily available for when there is nothing to watch on TV. I do realise though that nowadays people do stream films or download them but this statement I have just written does in my opinion still stand.

Anyhew I digress...as I am a huge fan of Batman (apart from the Christopher Nolan Batman films my favourite Batman films have to be the Tim Burton directed Batman films especially "Batman" with Jack Nicholson playing The Joker) and of Jared Leto's band 30 Seconds to Mars I just had to see this film and like with the new Jason Bourne film I just had to pre-order this film right after I had seen it at the cinema...but until this morning I couldn't find any release date information for when I would receive this DVD through my mailbox and thankfully I do now 5th December...so I just thought that this is definitely a date for the diary and as it's close to Christmas it could in my opinion make a very good gift idea for Christmas.



 

Now these just look too good to share...even if they are just for Halloween!

There's no pun intended here -as it's coming up to Halloween and all- when I say that it feels like as I have spent so long a time not writing anything on here that it feels like I am having to shake off the cobwebs and dust on my computer and I'm sorry about that.

But I have just had this email whisk it's way into my inbox and I just had to put it up on here and let you know about it and make sure you grab these sweet treats for Halloween before they all go.

As I am an avid chocoholic I like most chocoholic's cannot just have one chocolate thing and share it...for example if there's a box of chocolates that enters the house doesn't matter what variety except dark chocolate (I hate dark chocolate) even a Terry's chocolate orange I'll end up eating it and then feel the pain afterwards...I do realise that saying I can't share chocolate sounds bad but that is how much of a chocoholic I am even before people have a chance to taste what the chocolate like it's gone...anyhew this is by the by when I first saw this tantalising email from Hotel Chocolat (my favourite place to get chocolate from) I instantly wanted all of them as they all looked so good...even though there just for Halloween...and now I think about it, why not get all of these amazing chocolates All Hallows Eve only comes around once a year.

Once you have seen all of these coolly designed chocolates just for Halloween you'll want them too, they have designed a chocolate yumkin priced at £5.50 (a milk chocolate with white and dark chocolate decorations that is a hollow designed pumpkin that the website says you could put on your windowsill to charm guests at your Halloween party...but knowing how delicious Hotel Chocolate's chocolate always is I really don't know how you'll be able to resist not wanting to eat it yourself), Oozy eyes white chocolate priced at £3.85 (white chocolate eyes filled with red molten caramel) Oozy eyes milk chocolate priced at £3.85 but if you wanted you could mix and match this product with 3 or more selectors for £3.15 each, Skull Lick Chocolate Lollipop priced at £1.95, Dark Chocolate Vampire's priced at £5.50 and other delicious sweet treats to get you in the mood for Halloween...well if these treats don't take your fancy then surely Hotel Chocolate's "Choose You're Poison" selection of 16 cocktails in  four intoxicating flavours these include: Black Cat Martini, Corpse Reviver, Green Fairy and Zombie...these in case you don't know are chocolate's spiked with vodka, gin, absinthe, white rum, triple sec and vermouth...will get you ready and in the mood for Halloween.

These are just some of the sweet treats that Hotel Chocolate has on offer for Halloween that you can either use for trick or treater's or you can treat yourself with this Halloween...see below for all the Halloween goodies on offer from Hotel Chocolate:

 http://www.hotelchocolat.com/uk/shop/gift-ideas/halloween-treats?utm_source=hcmarketingemail&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=HALLOW01

Please note that when visiting this website this link may only take you to the first page of it's Halloween inspired chocolates but all you need to do is press the "All" button at either the top or the bottom of the page once you've scrolled down the page.

Meatloaf ok after collapsing on stage and much more unbelievable news!

I was just perusing the internet to see if there was any more news on Meatloaf after he was filmed live on stage in Edmonton in Canada whilst on his cross Canada tour was taking place collapsing as he reportedly sang "I Will Do Anything For Love (But I Won't Do That)"...and I found this surprising piece of news.

According to Times Colonist's website MeatLoaf will continue on this tour,-in a "the show must go on attitude" I guess, sorry for the pun I just couldn't keep it to myself I had to do it- and will play his scheduled Saturday night gig that is due to take place at the Save-on-Foods Memorial Centre in Victoria, Canada.

This same website also states that Meatloaf has stated a media blackout for his Canadian dates, so this means no previews and reviews of his shows are available not even any updates or further information have been released via his official Facebook page or his verified Twitter account...so this to me sounds rough because I was thinking if you were a fan of Meatloaf and had bought tickets to any of these Canada gigs or if you just wanted to know if he was alright after he collapsed then because of this media blackout you wouldn't be able to find out if you could still go to these gigs or if these gigs had been cancelled and were going to be rearranged for another time or if you just wanted to find out if he was ok or not.

And I'd think if you were a fan and had bought tickets to anyone of these tour dates I'd think you'd be feeling pretty anxious about the news of him collapsing because according to Times Colonist website this isn't the first time that this cross Canada tour of Meatloaf's has had many a fan sitting on the edge of their seat, not only because you may or may not know that according to several other reports Meatloaf suffers with a syndrome that causes an irregular heartbeat as well as this collapse being attributed to dehydration and asthma, but some of these tour dates have already had to be cancelled such as a tour date that was scheduled to take place on June 18th in Cold Lake, Alta but according to Times Colonist website Meatloaf then returned to play in Lethbridge on Tuesday...and he is also said to be scheduled to play a gig in Penticton on Thursday fingers crossed.

But according to Times Colonist's website these stumbling blocks haven't put a damperner on his plans to reunite with long time songwriting collaborator Jim Steinman to release Meatloaf's new album "Braver Than We Are" which is set to be released later this year on September 16th according to Rollingstone Magazine's website.

The first single from this new album "Going All The Way" is said by RollingStone Magazine's website to be:

"...a multi-movement symphonic-rock epic in the vein of  "Paradise By The DashBoard Light" and "I'd Do Anything For Love (But I Won't Do That)"  with all the attendant melodrama of those hits."

And RollingStone Magazine's website goes on to say that this song:

"The song features additional vocals by Ellen Foley, who sang on "Paradise", Karla Devitto, who appeared in the "Paradise" video and sang Foley's part on the "Bat Out Of Hell" tour."

RollingStone Magazine's says that this album will feature 10 never before released Steinman compositions, and that Jim Steinman got final say on the mix and the composition of these songs before they were deemed finished.

This same article also states that Paul Crook former Anthrax guitarist has helmed this new album of Meatloaf's as well as also playing guitar on this same album.

And if you want to hear a preview of this new song by Meatloaf then why not click on the link below to RollingStone's Magazine's website:

http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/hear-meat-loafs-bombastic-new-track-with-bat-out-of-hell-songwriter-20160622

After hearing just the first few bars of this song it sounds like to me that Meatloaf's voice is more than a bit shaky and maybe time to hang up his coat and probably let "Bat Out Of Hell" die with dignity, I see why he is only touring one country and maybe why now I come to think abut it Meatloaf is not doing any press for this album and just touring it because if his voice isn't up to much then people will probably think it's just because it's live and Meatloaf is probably doing more than just singing so fans are going to be lulled into wanting to listen to what the song's sound like normally after the shows or from YouTube before these shows and therefore there might not be as bigger response from people buying physical copies of this album or from streaming or downloading this album...but I do realise before anybody reading this either on their laptops, androids or Iphone's start screaming at their screens whilst reading this post this is just my opinion.

News just in Idris Elba's new music project!

I was just perusing vevo.com today to listen to some music and this came up on vevo.com's homepage:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RvemQhu9nmA

You may or may not already know that Idris Elba when he isn't busy filming things like "Luther", "The Dark Tower" or "The Jungle Book" he is busy DJing all over the world doing sets at Snowbombing and Creamfields.

And now according to MixMag.com presents a new project "Hiatus", and the first track from this project is called "Spectacle (All Gone Pete Tong Edit)", and according to MixMag.com this track was produced in Idris Elba's own studio and this music video as well as the composition for this song was done by Idris Elba, he also has shot the music video for this with Ian Morgan and composed this with Graeme Cohen.

The producer of this dance track is Warren Ferreira.

According to MixMag.com:

"It's more club-friendly than the original as there's more drive but the festival-feel is still firmly intact."

I would have to agree with this,-but it does make me wonder what the original version of this song of Idris Elba's was, I imagine that it probably sounded more drum and bass, more house or more garage sounding, or probably something not so mainstream sounding or something that sounded like it needed something to get it on radio and heard by all, not just heard because it's a new project by Idris Elba that's been remixed by Pete Tong, ( according to MixMag.com "The radio pioneer was shown the track when the two met in LA and he's flipped the cut on it's head, turning it into a 4/4 house roller") - I can definitely see it being played in the clubs of Ibiza or now that I think about it, it will definitely put you in the party mood and I could probably see it even being played in the height of the party season being played at places like Nikki Beach St. Tropez.

And I've just seen on Amazon UK's website you can now download this mp3 album "Spectacle"...sweeeeet!

And While We're on the Subject of Robert Ludlum...

You may or you may not have seen but I have just read an article on Variety.com's website as I saw a headline about Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson joining the cast of a Robert Ludlum film on IMDb.com's website and it then suddenly disappeared...so naturally I googled this just to see if my eyes weren't deceiving me and I wasn't going crazy and this is apparently true.

According to an article on Variety.com's website Jeffrey Weiner, Captive Entertainment, Brad Fischer, James Vanderbilt, William Sherak and Mythology Entertainment have closed a deal with Universal Studios to produce a collective universe based on the best selling novels of Robert Ludlum, (who you may or may not wrote and created the "Jason Bourne" series) the first film that has been developed for this universe is Robert Ludlum's "The Janson Directive".

Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson will star in this as well as executive produce this along with Danny Garcia and their Seven Bucks Productions company, Tracey Nyberg of Mythology Entertainment, Seven Bucks Productions' Hiram Garcia, Captive Entertainment's Smith and Jeffrey Weiner and Mythology Entertainment's James Vanderbilt along with Brad Fischer and William Sherak and Akiva Goldsman will also produce this first film.

If you like me haven't read these books the story follows a former spook now turned best private security consultant in the world being framed for a horrendous crime and in order to survive he must team up with the protégé sent to kill him.

To tie in with this universe James Vanderbilt will co-author two more stories which will be adapted into screenplays.

Jason Bourne Update!

You may or may not have heard but there is coming to cinemas near you another Jason Bourne film and this time Matt Damon is back to reprise the role of Jason Bourne and Paul Greengrass is also back to direct, produce and according to Collider.com Paul Greengrass along with Christpher Rouse will write this new Jason Bourne film.

The first time I heard the news that Matt Damon was coming back to this film series I was very excited because even though Jeremy Renner was good in this role in my opinion,-and I might just sound a bit like an X Factor judge when I say this,- he wasn't as good as Matt Damon as I think that Matt Damon really made this role his own...an I think he really brought this character of Jason Bourne created by Robert Ludlum to life and this along with the action and the storyline was what was so good about these Matt Damon instalments of the Jason Bourne film franchise.

and I did think when I went to the cinema go to to watch the "Bourne Legacy" film with Jeremy Renner in and Rachel Weisz I left this same cinema feeling really disappointed which was not a feeling I wanted to feel when watching a Jason Bourne film, because I felt like this was a first part of something and that it was going to lead up to something...and thankfully it led to the exciting news that Matt Damon was coming back to this film franchise.

Anyhew...you may or may not have seen the trailer here is a link to it on Youtube.com for this new film here it is below:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7uLVIUuEfFY

From the looks of this first official trailer there's another programme and according to Julia Stiles's character Nicky Parsons "it's even worse than before"...and it looks like after she hacks into this programme (which I can't understand why she would do that has nothing been learnt from the last four movies, the people involved in this shady programme will come at you and anybody you know however they can until your dead), and it looks like she's got Jason Bourne involved to take the bad guys down...but again I don't understand why would she do that because after the events of "The Bourne Ultimatum" where the filmmakers obviously wanted her to be another Marie character with her dying her hair and cutting it short that Jason Bourne put her on a bus and told her no friends no routines just blend in to the crowd so that she could stay hidden from whoever was coming after him, and once again it looks like Jason Bourne has to take down the bad guys and tell them to leave him alone...

but this time there is a difference it does look like Jason Bourne has finally got his memory back....as well as their being newcomers Alicia Vikander, Tommy Lee Jones and Vincent Cassel appearing in this new instalment of "Jason Bourne".

To see how this new addition to the "Jason Bourne" film franchise will stack up to the other films you'll have to wait for and note down in your diaries 27th July 2016.

Frank Marshall will also produce this film along with Paul Greengrass, Matt Damon, Jeffrey Weiner for Captive Entertainment, Gregory Goodman and Ben Smith.

fast and furious 8 update!

Now readers of this blog will already know that I am a massive fan of "The Fast and The Furious" films, and I was just perusing the internet and I came across this news update on Empire Magazine's Facebook page and I just couldn't not blog about it...I had to just tell some one about this.

Start your engines... Vin Diesel has once again got the PR ball rolling for this next instalment with this full cast photo posted to his Instagram account:

 

sorry for the pun but I'm just too excited about this news and the thought that there's going to be an eighth addition to the "Fast and Furious" film series and I'm just excited because it's "Fast and Furious".

According to Empire Magazine's website this is a full cast photo of just some of the stars you're likely to see in this next instalment of "Fast and The Furious", along with original cast members Vin Diesel, Tyrese Gibson, Michelle Rodriguez, Chris "Ludacris" Bridges...with the addition of Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson (you may or may not recognise him from the 5th, 6th and in the most recent film instalments of this film series as he played Hobbs who was head of the elite taskforce that the CIA hired to find Vin Diesel's character Dominic Toretto, his sister Mia Toretto, Paul Walker's character Brian O'Connor after Dominic Toretto had escaped from the escort bus that was taking him to Longpok prison and followed them to Brazil but then helped them complete a heist after his team members were killed, and then in the 6th film Hobbs needed the team's help to catch Owen Shaw and in exchange the whole team were going to get pardons but that all changed when Mia got kidnapped by Owen Shaw and instead the team got the house where Dominic and Mia grew up instead of pardons and then Hobbs broke out of hospital and a full arm cast in the 7th instalment when Owen Shaw's big brother came after Toretto because he and the team put his brother in hospital).

...and of course back for their second runs in this film series is Nathalie Emmanuel who you may or may not recognise from "Fast and Furious 7" she played the character Ramsay who along with some terrorists and Deckard Shaw was working with had created "The God's Eye" which was a hacking system that could see anyone from anywhere provided there was a camera, Jason Statham is returning to play Deckard Shaw and so to is Kurt Russell to play Mr.Nobody...with the new additions of the now confirmed Charlize Theron, Scott Eastwood and Kristofer Hivju.

Charlize Theron is reportedly going to play the new villain of the movie called Cipher with Kristofer Hivju also reportedly going to play the role of her henchman.

Scott Eastwood is reportedly going to be playing in this next film in the series Mr. Nobody's protégé.

"Straight Outta Compton" director F. Gary Grey will be directing this next instalment and will no doubt be seeing what else he can do next after the car flying out of three buildings's stunt from the last film. And he will be using Cleveland, Cuba and Iceland as filming locations for this next instalment that is said to be released in cinemas on April 14th 2017.