I’m just going to give you a minute to stop screaming shrilly from excitement at reading that headline… …Okay, you all done now, Darryn? Good. As I was about to say, after seeing a veritable mountain of dollar bills stuffed into the box office g-string of director Steven Soderbergh and star Channing Tatum’s male stripper sorta-biographical dramedy, Magic Mike, there was …
We’re on an ark yo! Noah took top spot this past weekend, beating Divergent into second place with it’s biblical adaptation epic tale of man vs nature. Banking $44 million, Noah may not have made a massive splash, but it did create a strong opening for Russel Crowe after recent flop films failed to ignite the box office. Arnie Scwharzenegger …
The biggest release of the weekend past was undoubtedly the star spangled Avenger’s second cinematic outing. International, critics have been abuzz with great things to say about the film, and I have to agree with them. The film is exciting, smart, gripping, brilliantly choreographed, has major stakes and payoffs and will probably create action movie superstars out of co-directors Joe …
It’s not that we haven’t seen enough Jungle Book movies in the past, but that the majority of them have been rather too happy. Singing bears, goofy snakes and a hapless hero who should be dead by all rights, are trademarks of this approach. And with more than one new Jungle Book film on the way, the bear necessities will …
As dwarf king Thorin Oakenshield, Richard Armitage has had to face down horrors like losing his homeland, giant trolls, a fire breathing dragon and Hobbit foot hygiene, and somehow through it all he remained a strong, fearless leader. But that was over in the make-believe land of Middle Earth. Back in Silverton, Colorado things won’t be that easy, as Armitage …
Love or hate him, but there’s no denying that Mel Gibson knows how to portray an upper-f**ker of people when he’s in front of the camera for a change. Despite being a bit long in the tooth, there’s a certain fad right now in seeing seniors go on a killing spree, as evidenced in Taken and The Expendables. And it …
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Now here’s a horror franchise name that I have not heard about in quite a while. Phantasm, which began life way back in 1979, is back! Introducing the world to the original Tall Man, that classic ghouls and zombies film saw three more sequels release over the decades. The last we saw of the franchise as in 1998, with Phantasm …
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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