While watching The Flash, there probably wasn’t a week that went by where I was not gobsmacked with the incredibly high level of visual effects and costume design that they were regularly producing on a TV show budget. Some of the stuff they did really rivaled the type of work you would see in a big budget Hollywood blockbuster. But …
Last week, a chorus of grumbles loud enough to burst some Kaiju eardrums were heard around the world as news broke that a sequel to 2013’s fan-favourite mech vs monsters movie Pacific Rim was getting delayed indefinitely as a result of some schedule reshuffling by Universal to accommodate their new shared universe plans for a Godzilla vs King Kong throwdown. …
What do you get when you add Star Lord, a huge ass new Indominus rex and $150 million budget? Well a movie that breaks numerous box office records and makes over $1.65 billion dollars! Indeed Jurassic World was a box office smash hit that many didn’t see coming. I thoroughly enjoyed the movie as did Kervyn, so hearing that it is part …
Neil Gaiman’s Neverwhere is an incredible piece of urban fantasy fiction that has already seen itself adapted to various mediums. Gaiman originally penned the twisted tale for a 1996 BBC TV miniseries which he created with Lenny Henry. While the story ideas were great, some technical issues left much to be desired on the TV production, giving us a bit …
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While James still seems to be getting some jollies from the Resident Evil movies, I gave up on the franchise a long time ago as it diverted from a solid zombie action/horror flick that still had some roots in the survival horror video game it was adapting, to a big scale B-movie shoot ’em up with enough slow-motion shots to …
Things are finally looking up for the weekend box office in the US of A. After a month or two of underwhelming numbers on all but a select few movies, people are once again flocking to cinemas. This week’s number one debut came from The Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials, with a modest take of $30.3 million. While not as …
Taken is getting tooken to TV, Minority report is now a series and Westworld looks like a high budget revival on a smaller screen. Forget about Hollywood’s fascination with shared universes right now, as it looks like taking the big screen to the flatscreen is now the in-thing in TV land. And you can add The Island of Dr Moreau …
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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