As a gamer I’ve always enjoyed the trials of Agent 47. As smooth an assassin as his bald head, he is cool under pressure, can fight in the shadows like a ninja, and likes to get dressed up about as much as Darryn. So when the first movie came out I cried a little inside, fearing that the game-to-movie curse …
Original movies, are officially dead. These days, the real money-makers are sequels and reboots. Films such as Avengers: Age of Ultron and Furious 7 have crossed on over to an elite club, where only the movies that make a billion dollars or more at the box office are allowed. And now, Jurassic World is joining that club. Albeit at a …
When it comes to the upcoming 5th Bourne movie, we’ve seen a campaign of misinformation and subterfuge the likes of which is normally reserved for keeping super-assassins in the dark about their true identities. Right now, the only thing we know for sure is that star Matt Damon and The Bourne Ultimatum and The Bourne Supremacy director/co-writer Paul Greengrass is …
It’s time…TO FIGHT! MTV’s cult classic TV series Celebrity Deathmatch is making a comeback soon, ready to skewer a whole new generation of famous people in gruesome matches where everybody loses. And that makes me happy. For too long now, actors and other assorted famous people have been free of any chance of seeing a claymation replica of their likeness …
There was a time when a big budget war epic starring Jackie Chan, John Cusack and Adrien Brody would have had me salivating like Darryn eating a Bhut Jolokia. Fast forward several years though, and only one of those three names actually still hold any appeal to me. Spoiler alert: It’s the guy who can still do crazy monkey kung …
After an exhaustive and thorough auditioning process that saw just about every up and coming teenage boy actor rumoured to be on a shortlist, Marvel and Sony have finally found their new Spider-Man. Ladies and gentlemen and whatever Nick is, I give you the Marvel Cinematic Universe’s Peter Parker: Tom Holland. The 19-year old British actor’s biggest role to date …
Not content with cancelling my second favourite show on the network, Constantine, NBC have issued an early cancellation announcement for my favourite – Hannibal. The show recently began airing its third season and is three episodes into its thirteen episode (and now final) season, however the remaining episodes will continue to air on the network at it’s regular Thursday evening …
Fan-fiction has a very iffy reputation for a very good reason: Most of the time, its pretty terrible (at least Nick’s Guardians of the Galaxy fan-fiction is also informative on how to properly remove body fluids from tree bark). And even worse, occasionally terrible fan-fiction goes on to become terrible international bestselling novels and terrible box-office record setting movies. The …
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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