First it was Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, then The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn and now it’s the turn of Mockingjay, the final installment in the Hunger Games series, to also get the double feature film treatment. That’s right, it’s going to be double the hunger and double the child-killing for our heroine Katniss Everdeen. More importantly though, double the …
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Plans for Men in Black franchise helmer Barry Sonnenfeld’s collaboration with legendary comic writer Grant Morrison, was first announced more than a year ago. Titled Dominion: Dinosaurs vs Aliens, it would be released as both a graphic novel as well as an animated feature film. Since then we haven’t seen all that much about it, but now a new motion …
If you’ve read my review of The Amazing Spider-Man, you’ll have noticed that I decried the film’s retelling of exactly the same old origin story we’d already seen in Sam Raimi’s trilogy, when every bit of promo material for the movie had promised an “untold story”. But it looks like there actually was an untold story, one with a dramatically …
A while back,we posted some news about the cult classic summer blockbuster, Independence Day, that was returning to destroy the White House once more in an extra dimension, contained within one 3D re-release. The timing was odd though, for such a decision to be made, leaving us to chalk it up to Hollywood just wanting to ring a few more …
Not every video game is ripe for a movie adaptation, as Bob Hoskins would begrudgingly admit after that fiasco that was Super Mario Bros: The Movie. But some are. Some games have all the necessary ingredients ready for a small screen to silver screen transition. One of those games is Assassin’s Creed, a project which not only has some financial …
I’ve always held Guy Pearce in extremely high regard as an actor, but lately he’s just found himself wallowing in some pretty mediocre films. And while he always acquits himself admirably, the effluence around him be damned, he needs to start keeping some better company. John Hillcoat’s Lawless seems to be just that. Pearce looks like he’ll just be chewing …
It’s been quite a bumpy ride so far for The Wolverine, the second solo film starring a certain mutant with hairy healing powers. With director Darren Aronofsky jumping ship and handing over the adamantium-laced responsibility to James Mangold, fans have been left to wonder just how authentic this sequel will keep things, when Logan goes native in Japan. With this …
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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