Kids was the kind of movie that rarely comes along. It went for a taboo topic (the seedy lives of teenagers) and refused to pander to conventions and clichés. A warts-and-all exploration of the time, it struck a chord and remains a controversial experience even today, 20 years later. Last Updated: July 1, 2015
The main Harry Potter story may have wrapped up years ago in the books and a few years later in the box-office record setting movies, but author JK Rowling created such an incredible vibrant world that there are still lots of stories that could be told in it. We’ll be seeing one of those new stories playing out on the …
I got thinking about fan-made theories as I watched Inception for something like the fourth time this weekend (as an aside that movie is still excellent, easily in my top ten). I love a good conspiracy theory about plot points and details in a movie or a TV show. Granted, sometimes fan-made theories run more into the realm of “what …
Phase 3 is a’comin’! Once Ant-Man wraps up at the box office, Marvel will be getting ready for their biggest phase of movies to date. Captain America: Civil War, Thor Ragnarok, Doctor Strange and a ton more will all lead up to the planned Avengers 3, a third act in two parts that has Earth’s mightiest heroes chasing after the …
Clubber Lang. Ivan Drago. Tommy Gunn. These were the names of some of the toughest fighters that Rocky Balboa ever stepped into the ring and streets with. But none of them had the tenacity, the sheer charisma of his greatest opponent and best friend, Apollo Creed. That chapter in the Rocky saga was cut short in the fourth film, when …
What’s in a name? Well, a hell of a lot if you’re a Marvel movie! Starting with Thor: The Dark World, Marvel have mostly (the Iron Man franchise excluded) been ditching the practice of appending numbers to their sequels in favour of post-script titles that are more descriptive of the film’s story direction. So when Guardians of the Galaxy writer/director …
The highly-anticipated Terminator: Genisys hits the big screen this Friday, and while out doing the press rounds ahead of the release Skydance Productions’ CEO David Ellison and CCO Dana Goldberg spoke a bit more (via Collider) about another project they’re busy developing – a new Terminator TV series! Whenever talk turns to TV series that were cancelled before their time …
Back in the early 1990s, if you needed a fat guy with charm, charisma and a surprising amount of physical agility, Chris Farley was the man to call. He popped up everywhere on small and big screens, stealing scenes on Saturday Night Live and even kicking ass in Beverly Hills Ninja, which you may have seen repeated three million times …
A spooky European village. Properly scary castle mania. Vampires. Werewolves! The only thing more frightening, is a glimpse at your empty bank account when it comes to deciding whether or not you can grab Resident Evil Village this month. Capcom's successor to its long-running survival-horror franchise is finally out, and if you've read our review then you know the game is a winner on multiple levels.
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