When I was first told by a friend that I should watch the first Magic Mike movie I thought he was kidding because I don’t take anything Trevor says as being anything other than the ramblings of a madman. Nonetheless I went ahead and watched it and – to my surprise – thoroughly enjoyed it. I have always thought Tatum had a …

MOICHENDISN’! Mel Brooks said it best way back in Space Balls, as he cracked the true secret to making a movie profitable. Cereal! Action figures! Keeping Gary Busey company for a night! There’s pretty much nothing that a movie studio won’t task a small Asian company to produce for their flick. And then you get the ten following examples of insanity run …

Avengers 2! It’s done! Dusted, finish en’ klaar as they say in the shadier parts of the industry. A massive film, with a ton of build-up, Avengers: Age of Ultron was a million parts coming together to create on awesome adventure. But you may have missed out on a few visual ideas, elements and story beats as you watched Earth’s …

Machinima recently announced their new release slate with a host of new DC Comics-related shows stemming from their partnership with Warner Bros, some renewals, a show curated by horror master Clive Barker, young-adult sci-fi, a couple of game-related projects, and one nobody saw coming – RoboCop. Machinima’s CEO Chad Gutstein said when announcing the upcoming slate: Fandom and gaming engenders so …

Before yesterday, if you had asked anybody with an ear on the grapevine about who is going to direct Marvel and Sony’s new solo Spider-Man film after the character gets introduced in Captain America: Civil War, they would all answer “Drew Goddard”. Hell, we said the same thing. Turns out we may have all been liars. Deadline is reporting that …

That Vanity Fair Star Wars article is turning out to be the gift that keeps on giving. While VF were chatting with Lucasfilm President Kathleen Kennedy about George Lucas selling off his company to Disney, she also revealed something interesting about Lucasfilm’s other big franchise, the one that swops lightsabers and black helmets for whips and fedoras. “In buying the …

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Stupid public holidays. It looks like I skipped a week or something, because there is a whole range of new faces on the top 10. It’s on one hand a bit jarring – like stepping into your local and just seeing the faces of strangers. On the other hand, wasn’t I complaining not too long ago that there isn’t enough …