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NewsGush: X-Men: First Class -First Trailer!

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Yet more superheroics on STS today, as Thor and Cap are joined by the less well-regarded (at least, inside the Marvel Universe) mutant heroes The X-Men. Here’s the first trailer for upcoming X-Men: First Class (we covered it before, but frankly got a bit distracted by a certain ex-MadMen star..), and it looks -not nearly as bad as we’d thought.

Sure the uniforms are dorky, but have enough 60s flair that they feel real enough, and Magneto’s younger cape/buckethead combo really does resemble his 60s comic counterpart -as does the storyline. Longtime comic fans will recall that the X-Men first encounter the deadly master of magnetism as he invades a missile base…

Whether or not this will work sans a certain razor-clawed mutton chopped killing machine remains to be seen, but based on this it could be some fun classic era espionage action.

NewsGush: First Look At X-Men:First Class

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Slashing The Seats had it’s editorial trolls whipped long into the night, but even they couldn’t come up with a witty pun based around January Jones’ bosoms and the phrase ‘you can’t make an omelette without breaking some X’. Instead, you’ll just have to settle for this first peek at her in a ridiculously saucy Emma frost outfit, along with the rest of Matthew Vaughn’s super-groovy 1960’s X-Men.

Although Ms.Jones does a fine job on her own, the line up is filled out by Michael Fassbender as ‘no need for Grecian 2000′ Magneto, Rose Byrne as the frankly crap character Moira MacTaggert, Jason Flemyng as Azazel (nope, we don’t know either), Nicholas Hoult as Beast, Lucas Till as Cyclops’ brother Havok, Zoe Kravitz as Angel, Jennifer Lawrence blueing-up as Mystique, and a surprisingly hirsute James McAvoy as Professor X.

Whether or not the slightly off-canon mix of characters will add up to a great movie remains to be seen, but those old-school jumpsuits have got our hopes up for something a little better than The Last Stand.

NewsGush: Wolverine Vs Robots!

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We all know the best part of the X-Men movies was when Wolverine stuck his in-built kebab skewers through some moron in a cape, so the thought of Hugh Jackman becoming a sort of Robocop/Rocky hybrid is pretty alluring.

Jackman has signed up for Dreamworks’ Real Steel, playing a futuristic pugilist who teams up with an unbeatable mystery robot for some iron-on-iron ring action, not to mention – this being Dreamworks – some father/son bonding.

The director (Night at the Museum’s Shawn Levy) unfortunately leads us to believe this will be more cutesy family Rock ‘ em Sock ‘em Robots than Robot Jox, but hey, low tech automated smackdowns are always good for a few yuks so fingers crossed!

Hollywood Do’s and Dont’s: Super Hero Movies!

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Since Iron Man, Spider-Man and The Dark Knight reminded them how succesful comic book movies could be, and with Thor girding his hammer for battle, rubbish-but-marketable X-Man gambit getting a spin-off and Green Lantern about to throw his ring into the…erm…ring.. Hollywood is nutso for capes right now.

Unfortunately they don’t usually get it right, leaving us clutching our popcorn in horror as Catwoman craps all over our fanboy dreams. Luckily, STS is on the case, so here’s a list of characters ripe for the big screen treatment, and a few studios shouldn’t touch with a Kryptonite bargepole!

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FrightFest 2009: Trick R’ Treat

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A fantastical, scary and funny update of 70s and 80s horror anthology flicks that provides laughs and chills aplenty.

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