FPcast! The Fruitless Pursuits Podcast for May 26th! Back to the Days of Future Past!

This week review X-Men Days of Future Past, plus Richard Ayoade's The Double, Proclaimers themed musical Sunshine on Leith, and National Theatre Live's Romeo and Juliet! Plus we talk about Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, Star Wars Episode VII and beyond, and Edgar Wright getting the heave ho from Ant Man, plus our weekly instalment of F*ck Yeah Game of Thrones!. Put this into the holes on either side of your head!

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FPcast! The Fruitless Pursuits Podcast for April 14th 2014! Quicksilver Eats a Burger!

This week is an eclectic mix of pop culture goodness as we review Muppets Most Wanted and Divergent, bitch about Quicksilver, talk about Bronies, cosplay and the state of fandom, watch a whole lot of anime, and finish up with a discussion about the first episode of the new Game of Thrones!

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FPcast! The Fruitless Pursuits Podcast for February 24th! Pop Culture Art!

This week we delve into our favourite pop culture art books! We are cultured and sophisticated! We also talk about the Guardians of the Galaxy trailer, Fantastic Four casting, and crappy X-Men photo shoots! And squirrels and elephants that can paint! And probably some other stuff! This thing belongs in your ears! Put it there!

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FPcast! The Fruitless Pursuits Podcast for November 4th! The Thor 2 Review!

This week we painstakingly pull apart Thor 2: Thor The Dark World in both a spoiler-free intro, and a special spoiler-packed discussion at the end of the show! Plus X-Men Days of Future Past, The Lego Movie, Star Wars bloopers, Hearthstone and MORE! This is a long one and someone on the show may have had too much mead, so mentally prepare for this one!

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New X-Men Days of Future Past Posters Mixes Old With New!

“You like my old stuff better than my new stuff? Well how about I get my new stuff all up in my old stuff and mix it all up into an oldy-new-stuff soup!” That’s probably (not) what director Bryan Singer said when his promo team put together these first posters for 2014 X-Men sequel Days of Future Past! But it is a welcome (and admittedly striking) glimpse of what happens when you take the old versions of these iconic movie characters (which ironically are from the future) and mix them with the younger versions of these iconic movie characters (which are confusingly from the past).

Do you remember Conan O’Brien’s classic comedy segment If they Mated which took two celebrities and showed what their hybrid offspring might look like? Well if you locked Ian McKellan and Michael Fassbender in a room until they created a Magneto babby, the result might be this Mikian McFasskellbendan!

Oh, I’m not stopping there! I got another one for you... after the jump!

X-Men Days of Future Past Reveals! Let's Look at a Sentinel and Bishop!

Bryan Singer's 2014 follow up to the awesome swingin' sixties X-Men First Class is X-Men Days of Future Past, inspired by the Claremont/Byrne story of the same name, and set to blend both future and past teams together in the threat of a mutant apocalypse. That means that your elderly Ian McKellan Magneto is going to be able to share time with - and possibly high-five - the dreamy Michael Fassbender younger Magneto. And at the core of all this is a villainous Peter Dinklage who plays Bolivar Trask, the jerk who constructs an army of giant robot Sentinels designed to exterminate mutants. Does any of that make sense?

So at SDCC 2013 they have a Sentinel head out on display, giving us a first look at one of these murderous mechanical pricks. You'll see a ton of similar images appearing all over the Internet as fans and reporters snap pictures of it, but I've chosen to pilfer this one by Bleeding Cool's Brendon Connelly who assures his image credit by being reflected in the Sentinel's head. That might also be his thumb in the bottom, thereby further marking this image with his unique fingerprint...

Now is this a good thing or a bad thing? I'm going to talk about Sentinels PLUS show you the first image of time-travelling mutant Bishop (and some others)... after the jump!