What with it having been Phuza Thursday last night, I know this might be difficult and/or painful, but think back a few months to June, when we were just getting ready for a one-two punch of big budget space opera goodness. While the “two” portion of that sci-fi attack spectacle, Marvel’s Guardians of the Galaxy, delivered beyond reckoning, there was no …
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If there is one thing that always freaks me out in horror movies, it’s the way children are used to spook us. Either they are sitting in wedding dresses, rocking themselves or are just standing creepily next to their twin with blood rushing past. They just tickle that part of my brain that says ‘run for cover!’, so watching this …
One thing that disappointed many fans of the Aliens universe was that they never got to see a full-fledged Xenomorph get some face(hugging)-time in Prometheus – in spite of them being reasonably clear about it before release. That disappointment looks set to continue as in a recent interview with Yahoo UK, director Ridley Scott had this to say about the iconic …
Making a movie is anything but easy. You’ve got millions of dollars invested in cast, crew and equipment and a pressure to perform like a Chinese Olympic athlete least his coach activate the micro-bomb implanted in his neck. But when the end result comes together, the film itself is a combined effort of hard work and months of toil. Unless it’s one …
You may not know it, but there’s a location in Doctor Who that has been around ever since the first show started. And that’s the most terrifying place in the world, a den of despair and misery. I am of course, talking about Coal Hill school, a location which appeared in the very first episode of Doctor Who. Several other …
They took his daughter in Taken. They took his ex-wife in Taken 2. Now, Liam Neeson faces his greatest challenge yet when the letter E is tooken in Tak3n. Last Updated: September 25, 2014
With acclaimed director Chris Nolan’s trademark clandestine ways, receiving any sort of material for any of his upcoming movies is usually a pretty big deal. That goes double for Nolan’s beyond intriguing latest, Interstellar, which not only looks be a magnanimous return to form for the filmmaker after the partially disappointing, plot hole laden The Dark Knight Rises, but with its mix …
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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