Anthony Hopkins to play Odin in Marvel's Thor

Multiple Oscar nominee and one time winner Anthony Hopkins has been cast as the Norse god Odin on Marvel Studios' big screen adaptation of Thor. Odin is the ruler of Asgard and the father of Thor and his evil brother Loki.

Few months ago, rumour that Brian Blessed was in talks to play this role. Now that Hopkins is onboard, he'll join fellow cast Chris Hemsworth (Thor), Tom Hiddlestone (Loki), Natalie Portman (Jane Foster), Jaimie Alexander (Sif), Stellan Skarsgard Colm Feore for an unnamed role. Kenneth Branagh will direct this movie.

The plot of the movie is Thor, god of thunder, is a powerful but arrogant whose reckless actions re-ignite an ancient war. As punishment, Thor is cast down to Earth and forced to live among humans. Once here, he learns what it takes to be a true hero when the most dangerous villain of his world sends dark forces of Asgard to invade Earth.

Thor will be featured in the live-action Avengers along with Iron Man and Captain America. The film has a scheduled release date of May 4, 2012.

Thor will start shooting in January 2010 for it's May 20, 2011 release date.

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New "Moon" movie is great

Warning: Spoilers ahead but if you want to kill time, then go ahead.

Another great movie from a low budget film. Moon is a sci-fi thriller movie about an isolated astronaut on the far side of the moon who has encountered personal problems.

It starts off with science found a way how to mine rocks of the moon to use it as energy here on Earth. Sam Bell (Sam Rockwell) is the only one who inhabits the moon. He is accompanied by a robot named Gerty (voiced by Kevin Spacey), he is maintaining a lunar facility and some automated machines that harvesting Helium 3, then the harvested energy is sent back to Earth.

Sam's isolation for three years is about to end and he longs to return back to Earth to see his wife and daughter. Then an accident happened while he checked one of the harvesters, and this is where the story really starts. What happens next is for you to find out because I'm telling you no more. I don't want to spoil it anymore for you otherwise you will not watch this movie. I suggest you go watch the trailer to give you an idea for yourself.

Moon is a one man show, I could say that Sam's performance is completely mesmerizing because he's the only actor in the movie. Overall Moon has a plausible story, it'll keep you entertained as mysteries unfold. If you're a sci-fi genre movie fan, you'll definitely like this. Now go and spend some killing quality time by watching this movie.

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