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The best steampunk anime such as Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood blend world-building with engaging characters and compelling plots. Steampunk anime like Drifting Dragons and Kabaneri of the Iron Fortress creatively combine fantasy with unique technology themes. Anime like Princess Principal and The Case Study of Vanitas offer unique takes on steampunk with spies and vampires.

The best steampunk anime prove what makes the genre so interesting. Blurring the lines between science fiction and fantasy, the steampunk genre allows for some incredibly creative possibilities in anime. Coupled with the natural creative and imaginative possibilities present in the medium, the best steampunk anime of all time fully embraces the creative possibilities of the genre to create amazingly unique worlds and tell unforgettable stories.

Like other kinds of sci-fi and fantasy, steampunk stories in pop culture can vary in the details of their world-building. However, steampunk worlds do have several elements in common. In general,...

Henry Cavill has been regarded by many DC fans as the best Superman of the franchise. The character who was made iconic on screen by the legendary Christopher Reeve, was subsequently played by various actors until the British star was cast for a more edgy and raw version of the superhero by Zack Snyder in Man Of Steel.

Hollywood star Henry Cavill (image credit: Wikimedia Commons)

While Cavill is unfortunately not in the DC mix anymore after James Gunn took over, it seems that the heroic qualities of Superman have become part of him in real life. The Mission: Impossible actor’s co-star Alex Pettyfer who shared screen space with him in the upcoming Guy Ritchie film The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare, revealed that Cavill actually saved him from death. Fans are now even more in awe of him.

Henry Cavill Donned His Superman Cloak To Save Co-Star

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Jean-Claude Van Damme returns to the action genre in Darkness of Man. The film follows Van Damme protecting an informant's son and battling gangs in LA turf war. Van Damme's Darkness of Man is a passion project for the actor, and stars Shannen Doherty among others.

Action movie legend Jean-Claude Van Damme returns to the genre in the first look at Darkness of Man, the upcoming neo-noir thriller that finds the Bloodsport and Kickboxer star as a former Interpol operative who goes up against all manner of merciless gangs in an all-out turf war. The first images from Darkness of Man have been unveiled by Collider, and find Van Damme doing what he does best in what looks like a dark and gritty thriller akin to the likes of much of the action star’s recent efforts such as Jcvd.

Darkness of Man will follow Van Damme as he once...

It’s another jam-packed week of DVD and Blu-ray releases, here’s the rundown of what’s available to buy from today, May 16th 2011.

Gulliver’s Travels (DVD/Blu-ray)

A fast-paced comedy adventure showing what can happen when you go up in the world….literally! Jack Black stars as Lemur Gulliver, an underachieving mail room worker who finds himself washed ashore the fantasy land of Lilliput, populated by a tiny civilization known as Lilliputians. With the Lilliputians having no idea of the modern world Gulliver is able to reinvent himself as their hero by impressing them with his size, superior knowledge and incredible inventions like the iPod.

The Walking Dead – Season 1 (DVD/Blu-ray)

After waking from a coma in an abandoned hospital, police officer Rick Grimes (Andrew Lincoln) finds the world he knew gone – ravaged by a zombie epidemic of apocalyptic proportions. Nearby, on the outskirts of Atlanta, a small...

Burlesque, according to early word, is a ‘guilty pleasure’. As is Flash Gordon. As is Rocky IV. As is, it seems, most of Simon’s DVD collection. So why should he feel ‘guilty’ about it, exactly?

Hopefully, he'll not mind me badly quoting him, but there's a segment in the last tour by stand-up comedian Dara O Briain where he makes a comment about the notion of guilty pleasures. His argument, and it's a sound one, is why should you feel guilty about liking something that entertains you? (Assuming it's legal, of course.) The example he cites is the band Take That, but you don't have to look far to see many examples in the movie world.

Earlier this week, then, I saw Burlesque. It was a film I had no intention of going to see, until I saw the avalanche of reviews from our American cousins. For many of...