Hansel and Gretel 2.0

Remember the breadcrumbs? The ginger bread house? And those two little children?
Yeah, well, you can forget about that. There is a new version of Hansel and Gretel on its way.
The title is 'Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters' and it's exactly as (bad and weird as) it sounds. The story line says:

Catching up with Hansel and Gretel 15 years after their incident involving a gingerbread house, the siblings have evolved into bounty hunters who hunt witches.

Excuse me, but, they've evolved into bounty hunters? Seriously, that's what they make of Hansel and Gretel? Is Hollywood really so desperate for ideas that they trie just anything?

The leads of the two adorable children who are now apparantly Boba Fett and Domino Harvey will be played by Gemma Arterton (Tamara Drewe) and Jeremy Renner (The Hurt Locker). On this I don't have much to say because I haven't seen any movies with either of them (I do see Gemma's G-Star Raw posters everywhere).

To not completely make this a complaint-post there is one thing I am excited about, Famke Janssen is going to play the witch. Now I'm not an extremely big fan of her but, she's Dutch, I'm Dutch; you've gotta have each others back, right?

Is It a Bird? Is It a Plane?

...No, it's every possible superhero you can imagine!

Following my last post, the 'Fairy-Tale Trend' now we have the 'Super-Hero Trend'!
This year four movies about guys in tight outfits who think that with 'great power comes great responsibility' are heading our way. It's: Superman, Spiderman, Batman and the X-Men (Go feminism!).
All these movies are part of an serie or of a serie reboot, and what is also a fun little detail is that despite that all these movies are American and based on American comics, all the hero's are played by men from across the ocean.
There is Henry Cavill (The Tudors) an Englishman who plays Superman in 'Superman: Man of Steel', the British Andrew Garfield (The Social Network) who will play Spiderman in 'The Amazing Spiderman'.
 Batman from 'Dark Knight Rises' is Christian Bale (from Batman, duh) from Wales and finally from X-Men: First Class we have the Scottish James McAvoy (Atonement) and the German Michael Fassbender (Inglourious Bastards) who will be playing Professor X and Magneto.

Both Spiderman and X-Men are prequels to the already existing series, and they take place when the main characters are still young and discovering their powers.
I am most looking forward to the X-Men, I've got a secret weakness for that serie, I think it's a very promising cast and I kind of like prequels; it's fun to see how they trie to explain how everything came about.

Check out the latest picture of the cast of the X-Men. At the right we have James McAvoy, the left one is Michael Fassbender and (for a little 'what the hell' moment) behind James, the blue one is Jennifer Lawrence, who's friends (I suspect) are really making fun of her now.