Who would ever have thought that Bradley Cooper, the guy who starred in Kitchen Confidential and The Midnight Meat Train, would one day not only be starring in a movie from writer-director Cameron Crowe (Almost Famous, Jerry Maguire), but that he would arguably be a bigger drawcard than the Oscar-winning filmmaker. After 2005’s Elizabethtown, Crowe had seemingly fallen off the map a bit, …
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Good news perverts/romantic couples: You’ve just helped contribute to one of the single biggest paydays in local movie history. Combining Fifty Shades Of Grey, downplaying the bondage and unleashing it on Valentine’s Day was a stroke of good timing. And according to Ster Kinekor, it helped create the biggest box office day ever for the distributor. Clearly, there wasn’t a dry …
Everyone here knows I absolutely loved How to Train Your Dragon 2 and gave the second movie a really great mark, something the Annie Awards completely agreed with me on. So I was very surprised when I had to admit to myself that Big Hero 6 is equally as brilliant, (Kervyn certainly thought so in his review) although not as epic in my opinion. …
It’s pretty clear who the winner at this weekend’s box office was, as Fifty Shades of Grey gagged and whipped all their competition on the way to a gigantic opening weekend. With EL James’ Twilight fan-fiction turned novel trilogy being as popular as it is, that kind of runaway success was always likely for a movie adaptation. But the big question is, is the …
Despite being a specialist in horny camp counsellor extermination, Jason Voorhees has managed to extend his business beyond the usual stomping grounds of Camp Crystal Lake. Which would explain why he’s banned from Times Square in New York. A new Friday The 13th film is indeed on the way, but it seems to be taking a little bit longer than …
Valentines Day. Romance. Ball gags. Yep, it looks like 50 Shades Of Grey cleaned up real good over the weekend, with audiences flocking to cinemas and then later hardware stores for some uh, emergency rope. Yes, the soft kind, behind the rougher rope. That’ll fool them. Opening up to over $81.6 million at the North American box office, Fifty Shades …
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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