Life’s not fair, we know this. Sometimes, really awesome movies deserve a sequel and it just never happens. As Kervyn wrote yesterday, we know this happened with Karl Urban’s Dredd 3D, a damn fine movie with great reviews that failed at the box office, so the chance of getting more out of the franchise was scuppered. Even though it was …
If there’s one guy who knows how to wreck the planet, it has to be Roland Emmerich. No national monument is safe when this filmmaker is around, thanks to movies such as Independence Day and The Day After Tomorrow. But for his next flick, Emmerich is going vrtual. And he’s bringing an expert with him, to New Angeles. Last Updated: …
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I have a bit of a on-again/off-again relationship with The Walking Dead TV series. While it started out really strong as its own beast as well as a good adaptation, changing showrunners and decompressed storylines hurt it, ending with an inconsistent show has had its very highs and very lows (the first half of Season 2, where they stretched out one comic book …
Who Framed Roger Rabbit is one of those classic films that everybody needs to see at least once in their lifetime. Long before CGI took over and made the merger between real and fantasy worlds an easier prospect, traditional animation was king. And the end result, was a film that boasted an insane amount of quality and polish when it …
Man, who would have thought that World War 2 was a terrible war to be caught up in? Unlike those fancier Civil Wars and Seven Year Wars that had all manner of creature comforts, Dubya Dubya Too was a grimy, brutal conflict with death being grisly at best. And tank crews had one hell of a time being caught in …
When a TV show idea gets floated around, it’s usually an ordeal for everyone involved to make it out of the development hell provess alive with at least some of their original idea surviving the process of securing a 13 episode run on the small screen. Well brace yourselves my future criminals, because Minority Report looks to be bypassing most …
We all know the sad story: In 2012 Karl Urban, screenwriter Alex Garland and director Peter Travis finally brought us the Judge Dredd movie fans had been asking for for years, one that washed the taste of Sylvester Stallone and Rob Schneider’s cheesy flatulence out of our mouths… and then, like, 20 of us went to see it. Yes, Dredd …
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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