Yes people, you read that right. Oscar-nominated filmmaker Steven Soderbergh (Traffic, Ocean’s Eleven, Contagion) is getting ready to film a interactive “choose your own adventure” styled movie for HBO entitled Mosaic. Now I have very fond memories of the “Choose your own adventure” books growing up, as I’m sure many of you do as well. Mosaic is not actually based …
We sit down with Jamie Jackson, the Creative Director and co-head of FreeStyleGames. He tells us more about the making of Guitar Hero Live, as well as how it is ready for a modern audience thanks to the likes of GHTV.
[column size=one_half position=first ] Anthology films are great. Not every tale needs to be told in ninety minutes or more, so a movie that combines a number of cinematic short stories can go down well. Three is the most common number of films for a typical anthology, but that’s never set in stone. You can get as many as six …
To describe me as just a bit of a James Bond fanboy, is like saying that South Africa just a had a bit of a poor start to the Rugby World Cup. I’m obsessed with the 007 franchise, and have rewatched every single movie more times than I could count. And when it comes to the iconic theme songs, I’m …
I think we’d all like to forget about X-Men Origins: Wolverine, the one movie in the mutant franchise that made the decision to sew Deadpool’s f***ing mouth shut and sideline a great character for years. The Wolverine however, is a superb sequel to a terrible spin-off. Wolverine at a raw moment in his life, hurting bad and stripped of his …
One show down, several more to go. While Daredevil is getting ready for a second season on Netflix, it’s time for a different kind of hero to take the stage. And by that, I mean a former hero who had one pitifully short career as a public cape and decided to hang it all up and become a detective instead. …
Well here’s one for the books: Hotel Transylvania 2 didn’t just set a September box office record. It also made history as being the only movie of 2015 that starred Adam Sandler and wasn’t crap. Amazing! Taking an easy first place, Hotel Transylvania 2 set a new September opening record with $47.5 million in US ticket sales. That’s $5 million better than …
Classic TV series The A-Team is getting a modern day remake. Again. Created by prolific TV producer Stephen J. Cannell in the 1980’s, the original saw a quartet of disavowed ex-military men – played by Dirk Benedict, George Peppard, Dwight Schultz and Mr. T – who went around helping out random folks as they tried to clear their names of a …
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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