In more superhero news (these days it’s a daily thing!) Oscar Isaac – who will appear in the highly anticipated Star Wars: The Force Awakens – has been chosen to play the badass villain in X-Men: Apocalypse, and apparently he is going to bring the hurt, a lot of it. I was delighted when director Bryan Singer brought the franchise …
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When it was announced that Peter Jackson was turning the 300 page The Hobbit into 9-hour long film trilogy, the collective rolling of eyes around the world must surely have jiggled Earth in its orbit. Some simple stories are just that, and really don’t need crazy amounts of embellishment. However, the converse is also true, in that some stories really need …
And it’s the endgame! It’s that time of the year where the finish line is in sight, and some of the bigger blockbusters have been saved for last. Surprising no one, the next chapter in The Hunger Games saga took the number one slot. With the biggest debut of the year, The Hunger Games: Mockinjay Part 1 took an easy …
It would take a remarkably cruel person without any moral compass whatsoever to talk about Sherlock when episodes are far, far away. Fortunately, I happen to be such a ****. The soonest that you’ll see Sherlock and Watson next year will most likely be in the 2015 Christmas special, before the intrepid duo arrive for three more episodes at a …
News about Lucasfilm’s first full animated feature, Strange Magic, dropped just the other day along with the release date – a surprisingly soon 23 January 2015. Well done on keeping the secret for so long, but now it’s out and so is the first trailer; and this may just be the animated movie we were looking for. Hit it! …
I was going to start this article by stating that a cappella comedy Pitch Perfect was one of by guiltiest of movie pleasures from 2012, but then I remembered that there was damn near nothing to feel guilty of because the film was just that aca-awesome, and anybody who watches it and disagrees is clearly a Cylon. The film (along with …
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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