Jeremy Renner

Interview: Scarlett Johansson and Jeremy Renner

Somehow, thanks to what I can only presume was some oversight in the security details for the cast of Avengers Assemble, I was allowed within dry-humping distance of the stars to ask them some questions about the film. I’ll be posting them all over the next few days, but firstly, here’s my interview with Scarlett Johansson and Jeremy Renner. Thank god I remembered to muffle my ankle bracelet that morning.

Six best moments at the Avengers Assemble press conference

JOURNALISTS ASSEMBLE! I had the pleasure of joining half of the media in the UK in attending the biggest press conference ever seen in Britain. Probably. It was pretty big. At one point there was a biscuit shortage.

Review: Avengers Assemble

It's only been four years since Samuel L Jackson teased his way into the end of Tony Stark's movie like a fan-wetting afterthought, but it seems like anticipation for The Avengers has been setting the Internet a-buzz for far longer. Perhaps this is because, since the comic-book genre gained credibility again, we've all been waiting for the ultimate superhero crossover movie. With Avengers Assemble, we get just that - four superhero leads meeting up for one mega-blockbuster movie in a way that has never been seen before. As a result, it is the ultimate summer event movie. It also happens to be Marvel's masterpiece.

The Avengers trailer neatly summarised by SlashFilm commenter

Leave it to the people of SlashFilm.com for the definitive commentary on the new trailer for The Avengers that debuted over the weekend.

Review: Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol

How many straight-up action movies have you seen this year? Remove all the superhero movies, alien invasions and Jason Statham films (which, as we all know, don't play by conventional rules), and there have been precious few pulse-pounders that were rooted in reality. Being grounded is not something typically associated with Tom Cruise – indeed, in Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol he comes closer than ever to his Space God, courtesy of the Burj Khalifa – but the return of Ethan Hunt and his IMF team should be welcomed in a year where far-out fantasy and outlandish action has so far reigned.

New Avengers banners likely to cause aggro in Liverpool

Two brand new character banners for The Avengers have emerged, and don't worry, Scarlett Johansson's arse is featured as prominently as possible. Something tells me, though, that this campaign could be considered aggressive in Merseyside.

Never assemble Avengers individually

Entertainment Weekly have released the first official pictures from the set of The Avengers, which is appropriate, because EW.

Jeremy Renner chooses to accept he's Mission: Impossible

Jeremy Renner has confirmed that he is to replace Tom Cruise as the lead star of all future Mission: Impossible films. And all he had to do to get the gig is sacrifice his first-born to the alien scientology god Xarthu and promise never to speak to his own family ever again.

Review: The Town

Ben Affleck: talented actor whose career undeservingly suffered after the Bennifer affair, or punchably smug media-rapist? Personally, I've always had a soft spot for the lunk-headed grinner - he was, after all, the bomb in Phantoms, yo - but, either way, few can deny that he has managed to recover a lot of credibility post-Gigli. And while Jenny from the Block now languishes in terrible wrong-coms, Affleck continues to 'win the break-up' (let it go, people, it was six years ago) with this well-crafted crime thriller.

Jeremy Renner is Tom Cruise's protege in Mission: Impossible 4

In entirely unrelated news, Jeremy Renner has joined the Church of Scientology. "I pledge to donate all my future wages to the almighty Xenu," droned Renner, his eyeballs as black as night.