Suicide Squad - Comic-Con First Look Trailer

Can somebody make sure that Suicide Squad gets rated 18 please?

I haven't got anything against kids, but I'd just like to make sure the bad guys are reeeeally bad in this. No redemption. No corny Will Smith jokes. More Jared Leto hurting people really badly please.


He's got a tough job ahead, trying to get us all to forget about Heath Ledger as the Joker. If anyone can do it, I have faith that Leto might be our guy.


This trailer shows that Batman gets mixed up in the affairs of the Suicide Squad, which is a good sign, both for DC's world building and for the action stakes.

Most of all, I worry that Will Smith might be the key to wrecking this. The character looks cool, but I want to see less world saving, and more villains doing what they do best.

Has anyone who has read the comics got any inside information for me on this? Do all the bad guys turn good? I bloody hope not.

Batfleck, Beorn, Dexter and Walter White

In my writing for Yahoo Movies and TV, I've been tackling a range of issues this week from defending the casting of Ban Affleck as Batman (probably not very convincingly) to the coolest new character to watch out for in The Desolation of Smaug and finally bidding a very fond but sad farewll to TV's greatest anti-heroes: Dexter Morgan and Walter White.

I’m a bit behind on Dexter because the final episode of season 8 and the finale of the whole show is airing on Sunday and I’m just approaching the end of series 7. I’m a bit concerned for the direction it’s taking, suspecting that the writers may have left this one out in the Miami sun for a bit too long.

Breaking Bad on the other hand is going out on a monumental high, especially after the left episode left my jaw continually on the floor and sent me hurtling up and down an emotional roller coaster of sympathy and hatred.

In defence of Batfleck 

As an avid Affleck fan since the start of his career, here’s why haters should hold their tongues before they see Batfleck in action.

Why new character Beorn will become the real hero of The Hobbit trilogy

 

Forget Smaug the Dragon, Bard the Bowman and Bilbo and the dwarves, the most exciting character in Peter Jackson’s 'The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey' sequel will be Beorn, the half man, half bear recluse.

Goodbye Dexter Morgan and Walter White

 

Within two weeks, ‘Breaking Bad’ and ‘Dexter’ fans will be mourning the loss of two of TV’s greatest ever anti-heroes. Here's why fans loved the infamous Dexter Morgan and Walter White.

If all that isn’t enough, I’ve also been weighing in on a bunch of other topics for Yahoo Lifestyle and Yahoo News from proposed British rail networks to the benefits of quitting smoking.

HS2 rail project benefits the few but costs us all dearly

Reports are suggesting that the High Speed 2 rail system could have a bold and brilliant impact on the UK economy. I’m all for planning ahead and trying to get people off the roads but HS2 and all the reports surrounding it, reek of false optimism to me.

How swapping from smoking to jogging changed my life

In quitting smoking and starting running at around the same time, I used jogging as a distraction from wanting a cigarette in the evenings. It worked and soon I found myself craving a jog, rather than a fag after work.

That’s it from me for the week! What you have been writing and watching?