Ever since he got cast as the dark knight, Ben Affleck has had to weather an ocean of internet hate squads assembling at his front Twitter door. Personally, I think it’s a great idea and worthy of the Batfleck underwear that I’ll no doubt be wearing in the future. Affleck recently had a chance to talk about the role, and …

It’s a well known fact that most of the flora and fauna in Australia just exists to kill you in creatively painful ways. And according to the work of writer-director David Michôd, the people are pretty deadly too. It’s been 4 years since Michôd brought us the badass Australian crime drama Animal Kingdom, and now he’s back with The Rover, a post-apocalyptic tale that …

If there’s one thing that Joss Whedon proved with The Avengers – well, besides that all us geeks worshipping at his feet all these years were actually right – it’s that a comic book movie could be just that: a movie that plays out like a comic book. But according to the ginger haired writer-director the sequel will be taking its …

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No matter how old you are, you know who the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles are. Whether it be the original comics, the old films that introduced a roided-up Shredder or even the rather superb new animated series on Nickelodeon, there’s a Turtle incarnation for everybody. The heroes in a half-shell hit the big screen next year, and we still have …

It may not have been the greatest return to the big screen by any stretch of the imagination, but you’d be hard pressed to find anyone who doesn’t want to see more of Vin Diesel’s iconic anti-hero, Riddick. And it seems that for a pack of 20 menthol Kools, Universal is actually pretty keen on doing a shine job on …

Video game movies have had it all wrong, something I’ve finally realised. Instead of focusing on big brand games such as Prince of Persia and Double Dragon, they should have been looking at the various products targeted towards kids instead. Games such as Ratchet & Clank, Jak & Daxter and Sly Cooper. Those are perfect brands with established lore and …

Last week’s Sundance Festival produced a lot of buzz around some films, but I hope you didn’t get too buzzed up, as chances are you won’t be seeing those films for a quite some time. That’s unfortunately just how the movie distribution business works. Which is why one such film that got all buzzy at last year’s Sundance, In Fear, is only …