First Trailer for THE HOBBIT: THE DESOLATION OF SMAUG

We interrupt Pride Month to bring you, via Tor.com, the first trailer for The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug!  Enjoy!

Superheroes Unite!

My summer is going to be very superheroic!

This is going to be a great summer for super hero, action packed adventure what with The Avengers coming out May 4th, Adam Christopher's Seven Wonders being released by Angry Robot on August 28 and Christopher Nolan's final installment of his Batman saga, The Dark Knight Rises opening July 20.  Superheroes unite!

New Cover Art: The Great Game, No Hero and the new The Dark Knight Rises poster!

Eye candy for the week:

From Angry Robot comes the first look of the cover for Lavie Tidhar's next entry in the Bookman Histories, The Great Game:

from the website: ..."David Frankland outdoes himself with this sterling shot of alien tripod war machines attacking the Middle Eastern city of Aksum in Abyssinia.  The Great Game, the third in Lavie Tidhar's increasingly astounding steampunk series, the Bookman Histories, will be published next February."

This is gorgeous and I can't wait to see where the story goes next; based on the cover, it's going to be another grand adventure!

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And here's the cover art for Jonathan Wood's new book from Nightshade Books, No Hero:



I've never read Wood before but he had me at the tentacles!

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And finally, the first official teaser poster for The Dark Knight Rises!  The movie won't be out til summer 2012 but I'm loving this poster and can't wait to see the trailer that is playing before Harry Potter and the Deathly Hollows Part 2!







Yea boy!

New Movie: SUCKERPUNCH (03/2011)

Two blogs that I faithfully read, Temple Library Reviews and Muzophile, both posted items about SUCKERPUNCH, the upcoming movie from Zack Snyder.  Here is a quote from Snyder, which Harry (TLR) pulled from Wikipedia:

"Set in the 1950s, it tells the story of Baby Doll (Browning), who is trying to hide from the pain caused by her evil stepfather and lobotomy. She ends up in mental institution and while there she starts to imagine alternative reality. She plans to escape from that imaginary world but to do that she needs to steal five objects before she is caught by a vile man. She has 5 days to escape before being lobotomized. In order to cope with the situation, she enters the hyper-real world of her imagination, and the lines between reality and dream begin to blur. She is joined with friends who are inmates from the institution. Lessons learned in the said fantasy world could help the girls escape their real-world fate..."


Sounds good to me!  Now see the trailer:
 


WOW!  I don't know about you but I can't wait to see and hear more about this movie!  Stay tuned...