There are three things that you can count on in life: Death, taxes and Kervyn buying extended editions of Middle Earth movies. With The Hobbit having wrapped up last year in a massive spectacle that introduced audiences to the horror of a CGI dwarf Billy Connolly, comes news that a super-duper extended cut of that flick is on the way. …
Before we start, I’d like to go ahead and slap a big SPOILER WARNING on the comments section. I won’t be spoiling any plot twists in the article, but enter the discussion at your own risk! From the earlier days of cinema with Psycho, to cult classics like Fight Club or more recent Oscar contenders like Gone Girl, a good …
To paraphrase a famous Notorious BIG song: You’re nobody… until somebody… makes an unofficial sequel to the record breaking, critically acclaimed biopic about your life as a rap pioneer. Well, maybe that “nobody” part is a bit of an understatement as director F. Gary Gray’s hip hop biopic Straight Outta Compton has been cleaning up at the box office, already claiming …
Canadian filmmaker Denis Villeneuve really exploded onto the international scene with the dynamite one-two thriller combination of Prisoners and Enemy. Both those movies, as massively different in tone as they were, were led by Jake Gyllenhaal who used them to transition from “That kid who used to talk to rabbits and was stuck in a bubble” to “Holy crap, give this man …
Don’t count me as a fan of movie news. Some of you may know I spent years covering video games and it’s the same nonsense: Marketing types slowly drip-feed information that has little bearing on if you will watch a movie or not. All it does is get people frothing over nothing. I mean, have any of you decided that …
So far this year we’ve been treated to one of the best science fiction movies ever in the form of Ex Machina, a thought provoking movie that explores identity and the human condition. Superbly acted, brilliantly paced and with enough twists and turns to leave even the hardest roller-coaster veteran green to the stomach. I think only one of those elements is really going …
So I have still not seen more than the first two episodes of Gotham. I know, I know, “It got so much better”, right? At least that’s what I kept being told by friends of mine who had stuck around pass the way too Batman fan service heavy nudge-nudge wink-wink fest that was the opening to ABC’s own take on …
By now, I think we can all agree that Fantastic Four is a terrible, terrible movie. Whatever the reason behind it, 2015’s Fantastic Four will go down in history as the most expensive reason ever to retain comic book rights by a studio. And the thing is, Fantastic Four did not have to be the kind of movie. It could …
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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