You look at the film career of Jean Claude van Damme, and you’ll notice a trend in all of his movies. Not a single one of them were intentionally funny. JCVD made a name for himself as an action star over the last couple of decades. And now for the first time ever, he’s branching out into comedy. And I …
Everyone here? Has everyone picked their jaws up yet, following the Saturday special of Doctor Who, The day of the Doctor? Good, good. That’s the penultimate appearance of current Doctor Matt Smith, who will be leaving the show next month during the Christmas special, making way for Peter Capaldi to take over. Capaldi might also just be the final Doctor …
With all the Gravity’s and Hunger Games and movies that might be pornography lately, it seems that we may have forgotten just a tad about 300: Rise of an Empire, the kinda sequel (parallelquel?) to Zack Snyder’s fan favourite 2006 graphic novel adaptation. Snyder is still co-writing (with Kurt Johnstad) while relative unknown Noam Murro takes over the director’s seat. But …
Aw crap, I’m doing it again. See, I rather enjoyed the first Transformers film. It had some issues but it was surprisingly entertaining. Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen, not so much. I could feel my brain cells transforming into brain farts while watching that sequel. Which is why I was not looking forward to Transformers: Dark of the Moon at all. And …
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When it comes to parody films, nobody has quite matched the prowess of ZAZ, the name for Jim Abrahams, David Zucker and Jerry Zucker. The exception is perhaps Mel Brooks, but we can have a big debate over whether his body of work surpasses the trio who gave us Naked Gun, Airplane! and Hot Shots. And this film, both among …
Contrary to popular belief, there was actually more that happened this weekend past besides celebrating the half century birthday of a time travelling alien. Friday also saw the return to the big screen of Katniss Everdeen and her not so merry band in much anticipated sequel The Hunger Games: Catching Fire. I thought the film was one of those rare franchise …
Looking forward to the Amazing Spider-Man sequel? Want to go in with as little information as possible? Then avoid this post. Avoid it like a clone saga, because your spoiler-senses should be tingling by now. Go on, walk away, nothing to see here… Last Updated: November 25, 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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