Robot Wars is coming back!
The BBC has confirmed that it's bringing Robot Wars back to TV screens.
And your 2016 Razzie nominees are…
Yes, we’re right in the middle of the Hollywood awards season, with the Golden Globes taking place this weekend past, and the Oscar nominations being released later today. But while those two biggest awards shows are all about honouring achievements in movies, there’s another that exists for exactly the opposite. I’m of course talking about the Golden Raspberry Awards aka …
This trailer for MONEY MONSTER is looking for answers
Hollywood has a love affair with hostage movies with several coming out every year. There can be many gems among them (Argo and Captain Philips serving as recent examples), but also many rehashing the same formula over and over again. Based on the trailer that Sony Pictures released for their new movie, Money Monster, this looks like it is going …
George Miller "won't do any more MAD MAX films"
It took George Miller nearly 30 years to make Mad Max: Fury Road. And it was totally worth the wait. A thumping, thrilling action movie masterpiece, it was the best reviewed movie of the year on RottenTomatoes for 2015 and as is shoe-in for several nods when the Oscar nominations get released tomorrow. But as with so many pieces of …
Firewatch mixes modern thrillers with meaningful personal experiences
We chat to Sean Vanaman, designer and writer at Campo Santo for Firewatch, about some of the many influences the adventure thriller is drawing on to create such a tense atmosphere.
SA’s Weekend Top 10: Money Talks
The world is not a fair place. It aches me to break this news, but there is no balance and no fate. Good things happen to bad people. Curmudgeons continue to make movies. I have to write curmudgeon as our language policy won’t allow me to really say what I mean. Last Updated: January 13, 2016
WORLD WAR Z sequel loses its director Juan Antonio Bayana
That the first World War Z movie actually released and ended up as an entertaining and successful movie, was a surprise in itself given the difficulties they had with production of the first movie. Now despite having a seemingly stronger direction of where to go as a movie, bigger budget and potential to be a strong franchise, the sequel seems …
Jamie Foxx set to play Little John in ROBIN HOOD: ORIGINS
Sitting here and writing about all of this just feels wrong, for so many reasons – but let me explain. If you missed it from the title there is a Robin Hood: Origins movie in the works. Whats wrong with this? Simply put, do we really need another Robin Hood movie? I don’t think so. You could argue that taking …
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