Walking in the footsteps of other video game adaptations like Tomb Raider and Hitman, it has been announced that Metal Gear Solid will be having its turn as a feature film. Hold on to your hats, folks, I have a strong suspicion that we are going to see a new wave of video game films in active development soon. Last …

We’re all big fans of time travel and its wibbly wobbly ramifications here at TheMovies, but we also happen to be fans of Bruce Willis and Joseph Gordon Levitt. Toss those three factors into one film, and you’ve got the makings of a rather intriguing project, as JGL has to figure out who’s trying to kill him by sending himself …

Michael Shannon is an incredible actor with amazing screen presence. He can pretty much do anything, but boy oh boy, if there’s one thing he does really well, it’s playing slightly unhinged nutjobs. He’s a master at characters that have a quiet menace about them, that always seems to be bubbling just under the facade of normalcy. You know, until …

Opening wide in South African cinemas from today are the following 3 movies: Total Recall: The classic Arnie and Paul Verhoeven sci-fi actioner receives the 21st Century remake treatment. This time Colin Farrell is the disgruntled blue-collar worker of the future who gets more than he bargained for when he signs up for memory implants. Suddenly our hero is revealed …

Swearing is not cool, kids. Well, except maybe when delivered by Christopher Walken. I don’t think there’s a single line of dialogue, no matter how crude and base, whose cool quotient isn’t exponentially increased when coming from him. And while he  seems to be on top foul-mouthed scene-stealing form in writer-director Martin “In Bruges” McDonagh’s Seven Psychopaths, it looks like he’ll have six …

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When director Stanley Kubrick died several years ago, he left quite a few projects uncompleted, while several of his abused actors from previous projects started taking tap-dancing lessons for when they eventually visited his grave (citation needed). Some of his work survived though, snapped up by Philco Films, a company that his son-in-law, Phillip Hobbs created with Steve Lanning. They’ve …

There’s nothing like a rousing speech to really drive home how great a movie can be. It’s that do or die moment, that period in time where a few chosen words can turn the tide of a battle, and grant you victory. We’re taking a look at ten such speeches today, but with so many to choose from, don’t forget …