I kind of want to kick myself for saying it but I really like this Comic Con teaser poster for the next big installation in the monster king himself: Godzilla. As more of a remake of Toho‘s classic – not to be confused with the Roland Emmerich version with Matthew Broderick – than a continuation of any kind, we can all pray that it’ll be better than Pacific Rim.

Directed by Gareth Edwards (Monsters) and stars Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Elizabeth Olsen, Bryan Cranston, Ken Watanabe and Juliette Binoche, it really has an unbelievable stacked cast which gives me faith that they must have some confidence in the vision behind this one.

You may be unfamiliar with the name Edge of Tomorrow, as it has been going by the moniker “All You Need is Kill” until quite recently, but it is the same project entirely. Directed by Doug Liman of The Bourne Identity, Edge of Tomorrow follows officer Bill Cage (Cruise). Suited up in some advanced mecha gear, Cage is killed in alien combat and subsequently reanimated via a time rift to return to fight the same battle and die again…and again…and again.

Essentially Groundhog Day meets Terminator, Edge of Tomorrow stars Tom Cruise, Emily Blunt, Bill Paxton and Charlotte Riley. Personally, the concept works for me and I like this first look. Furthermore, Cruise and Blunt sound like a good combo especially with an intelligent director like Liman standing behind the project. Are you excited to see more of this?

Edge of Tomorrow is directed by Doug Liman andstars Tom Cruise, Emily Blunt, Bill Paxton and Charlotte Riley. It hits theaters next summer, June 6, 2014.

Apparently the little kerfuffle back in The Avengers where Thor leaped through the air and brought his Godly-powered magical hammer down on Captain America’s shield was horseplay compared to the carnage going down in this sequel, Captain America: The Winter Solider, as the All-Americano custom job on Cap’s shield is chipping away like bargain-bin paint. While this teaser hardly gives us much to go on in terms of character or plot, it seems pretty congruous with the dark-horse sophomore picture that superhero films seem to be so fond of nowadays.

If the first films in a planned franchise are now exclusively origin stories, the follow-ups seem to be finding their own pattern where the hero is faced with a breed of “darkness” that they never could have imagined. Since Batman Begins, the whole genre has undergone a categorical shift in tone with everyone and their mother trying to emulate the dark, gritty nature of Nolan’s franchise. But up to this point, Marvel has done a good job at keeping things light (almost too much at times) so we’ll see have deep down the rabbit hole they plan to take us with this second installment.

Captain America: The Winter Solider is based on the popular comic line in which Cap’s old friend and war buddy Sebastian Stan returns as his arch-nemesis; an assassin also frozen in time, the Winter Soldier. So long as he’s not spouting off lines like “Ice to meet you*,” or “You are not sending me to the cooler*” or worst of all, “What killed the dinosaurs? The ice age! (proceed to blast freeze ray)*” then I’ll give this a shot.

*These are all actual lines from Batman and Robin‘s Mr Freeze, as is “Allow my to break the ice,” “Stay cool, bird boy,” “Let’s kick some ice,” “Cool party,” and the classic “Revenge is a dish best served cold.”

Captain America: The Winter Soldier is directed by Anthony Russo, Joe Russo stars Chris Evans, Anthony Mackie, Frank Grillo, Cobie Smulders, Samuel L. Jackson, Sebastian Stan, Scarlett Johansson, Toby Jones, Emily VanCamp and Robert Redford. It hits theaters April 4, 2014.

Ten years after Chan-wook Park’s Korean film Oldboy made waves internationally, American filmmaker Spike Lee‘s remake is closing in on its October release date. Starring Josh Brolin as a man who is kidnapped, held for twenty years and then suddenly released, Oldboy is a bloody story of vengeance. The film co-stars Samuel L. Jackson, Elizabeth Olsen and Michael Imperioli.

This first official poster is rather metaphorical and I like it. Brolin looking cool bustin’ out of a box? I’m sold.

Oldboy is directed by Spike Lee and stars Josh Brolin, Samuel L Jackson, Elizabeth Olsen and Michael Imperioli. It hits theaters on October 25.

After adapting the tomes of J.R.R. Tolkien‘s Lord of the Rings series into three massively scaled films, Peter Jackson made the folly of trying to do the same with the 276-page The Hobbit. Splicing the minor film into three films seemed like a poor choice from the get-go so it was no huge surprise that The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey was a big letdown.

If the sequel, the smugly named Desolation of Smaug, has anything going for it, it’s low expectations- exactly opposite to what An Unexpected Journey had working against it. While I can’t help but admit that my faith level in the franchise as it exists is hardly soaring, there are worse things in the world than hanging out in Middle Earth for a few hours.

This first look at The Hobbit: Desolation of Smaug cues us into the fact that Smaug (voiced by Benedict Cumberbatch), and his layer, will indeed play a large role in the film. Oh and we’ll probably see Legolas chilling somewhere too.

The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug is directed by Peter Jackson and stars Martin Freeman, Benedict Cumberbatch, Ian McKellen, Hugo Weaving, Luke Evans, Cate Blanchette, Evangeline Lilly, Richard Artmitage, Elijah Wood, Christopher Lee, Andy Serkis and Stephen Fry. It hits theaters over this holiday season on December 13.

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