While Man of Steel certainly has its fair share of fans, and Batman v Superman: Lawn of Lushness* is looking quite good, there’s no denying that DC Comics still have a way to go to catch up to the rival Marvel on the movies front. On TV things are a lot different though. DC’s TV roster currently boast fan-favourites The …
[column size=one_half position=first ] We might as well address the elephant in the room. The Hunger Games – either you thought of that immediately or you are now wondering what this modern classic of extreme Japanese cinema has to do with Katniss and her rebels. Last Updated: August 17, 2015
I’ve been a gigantic fan of Brit Marling ever since the writer/actor’s award-winning parallel-Earth love story Another Earth and her mindbending time-travel (maybe) follow-up Sound of My Voice. For The Keeping Room she’s going back to the past again, except this time she’s not a quasi-time traveller starting a cult, as director Daniel Barber rather throws her into the middle of …
It’s Monday and that means a lot of blues going around, and I don’t mean the type you get when Trevor is chewing on his Smurf doll collection. So, what better way to make your day awesome than to give stuff away? How about giving way three hampers of stuff!! Yes, we recently ran a competition for the rather awesome Mission …
While Rogue One and Episode IX may have stolen the limelight at Disney’s D23 Expo this weekend, they weren’t the only huge pieces of Star Wars news that dropped in the last few days though. Following on from that huge uncharacteristic info dump from writer/director JJ Abrams for Star Wars: The Force Awakens, Entertainment Weekly managed to get Lucasfilm President …
Way before he became a four-time Oscar nominated Hollywood megastar (also a gun-toting raccoon in outer space), Bradley Cooper was just that funny chef guy from Kitchen Confidential. And for his next movie, it looks like he’s going back to his fake-culinary roots. Burnt sees Cooper as a former bad boy rockstar chef – because yes, we live in a …
Looks like the NWA is having the final laugh, as one the founding corners of rap and hip hop has made not only for a great movie but a runaway success. Straight Outta Compton opened up on 2757 screens around the US, taking first place with a haul of $56 million according to studio estimates. Not only did that make …
Long before Disney started practising their lightsaber skills with their newly acquired Star Wars, was a newfound drive to make animated films which weren’t only box office succeses, but critical hits as well. And the last couple of years have been good to Disney with that plan in mind. Thanks to the likes of Tangled, Frozen, Big Hero 6 and …
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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