When you watch a lot of movies, particularly bad ones, you eventually develop a stigma – a type of affliction that is impossible to remedy. Once you recommend a movie, your better half will look at you suspiciously, demand more information, threaten to kill you if it’s a repeat viewing of For Y’ur Height Only and ultimately refuse to watch …
One horror film franchise that has always interested me, has been the Hellraiser series. The tale of pinhead and friends, coming to our world from a hell that we could not imagine, has always made for a different kind of horror. Clive Barker created something magically terrifying with that concept, but it’s never been fully explored behind the scenes. One …
As much as I love my comic book movie adaptations, I have to admit that many such films would do far better justice to their source material as TV series rather than big box office blockbusters. While the movie medium has a ton of advantages, from advertising through to new filming technology. But it also has plenty of drawbacks, such …
This weekend past saw the release of Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom, and much like the leader whose story it tells, the biopic rewrote the history books. The film opened on Thursday evening to a whopping R751 000 take, breaking the local record for the biggest non-holiday Thursday box office haul. Was your ticket one of those, and if so, …
Things got a bit chilly at the North American box office this weekend, with new debuts arriving to take on the Hunger Games champ, Catching Fire. But no one could unseat that behemoth of a film, but there was still plenty of cash to be made. Here’s how that weekend went. Last Updated: December 2, 2013
Earlier this year, we saw zombie-actioner World War Z go through it’s own zombification process, where it looked all but dead after a horrendous production period, only to lurch back to life again upon release, devouring a couple hundred million box office dollars like brains. One other film that could give WWZ a run for its money when it comes to troubled productions …
Solemn news to start off this week, as reports came in early yesterday morning that Paul Walker, best known for playing the role of Brian O’Conner in six out of seven Fast & Furious films, has died in a car crash at age 40. Last Updated: December 2, 2013
Welcome to The Extras! A daily dose of all the smaller movie related news, clips and just plain cool stuff that you might have missed! Last Updated: November 29, 2013
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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