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What you'll talk about after seeing KICK-ASS can be summed up like so: Hit Girl. In the new ensemble superhero film, Chloe Moretz plays Mindy Macready a.k.a. Hit Girl, an eleven year-old trained in the deadly arts by her father...

KICK ASS It's been described as Superbad (2007) meets Mystery Men (1999) and while there's some of both those films here  the description is still misleading. Yeah on the surface this movie is foul mouthed and sexually adolescent and it's...

In Carl Matheson's early aughties piece on the humour of TVs The Simpsons, he talks about something he calls hyper-irony: "The flavor of humor offered by today's comedies is colder, based less on a shared sense of humanity than on...

The Punisher aint got nothin' on Big Daddy. That seems to be the basic message behind the latest clip to appear from Matthew Vaughn's Kick-Ass. Uber-violent, uber-deadly, this one has earned its red-band status wholeheartedly. Check it below....

KICK ASS does. At its most elemental level, it's tremendously exciting to see a superhero flick that embraces unadulterated bloodshed and violence while promoting the idea that deranged destruction can happily co-exist with responsible hero-hood. It's a movie that gleefully...

Most anticipated film of the summer season? No doubt about it, it's Kick-Ass. And so our good friends at Titan Books are doing what they do best in these situations, not only publishing a kick ass book to accompany the...

Title says it all.  It's the new trailer for Kick-Ass. It's a red-bander. And it does, indeed, kick a whole lot of ass....

You know what movie will probably never come with sniffing distance of an Oscar?  Matthew Vaughn's Kick-Ass.  And you know who doesn't care even a tiny little bit?  The guy sitting here typing this article.  Know why? Because I'll wager...

The third trailer for Kick-Ass was released this past weekend!Sure it's not as bloody or vulgar as the previous trailers and will likely lead to more than a few misconceptions about the actual content of the film but at least...

Granted, I didn't much care for the Big Daddy character poster for Mathew Vaughn's Kick Ass - thus it never appeared here - but that one hiccup aside I'm pretty much madly in love with every other scrap I've seen...

Footage from Matthew Vaughn's independently produced adaptation of Mark Millar's Kick-Ass comic created a strong buzz at Comic-Con in 2009. Lionsgate picked up the film a few months ago, but little information has emerged beyond a lackluster trailer and some...

The new poster of Nicolas Cage in his Kick Ass gear?  The fact that I'm still using the Red Mist poster, instead, should tell you what I think of it.  But the video clip that premiered with it?  Man, that's...

The fine lads at Aint It Cool have just gotten hold of a new character poster from Matthew Vaughn's Kick Ass featuring Christopher Mintz-Plasse in his Red Mist get up.  Yes, please....