[column size=one_half position=first ] Usually the people behind a movie welcome controversy. It’s pretty certain Clint Eastwood lost no sleep over the raging storm around his adaptation of American Sniper, not as it raked in more cash than a terrorist fraud scheme. Fifty Shades of Grey has a lot of people angry for various reasons, but that only boosted its …

It’s been a while since I saw Owen Wilson in a movie that I didn’t get irritated at, so No Escape – a new action thriller set in Southeast Asia – really appeals to me for its serious tone. This is also the first time Wilson has tried his luck with being an action man again since 2001’s middling Behind …

What would you get if you were to put Ghandi’s mind in Green Lantern’s body? Well, we’re about to find out in Self/Less, a new sci-fi thriller that sees Ben Kingsley as a dying rich guy who has his consciousness transferred into the vegetative body of a young Ryan Reynolds. Sounds like a sweet deal, until some shady goings-on rear …

Despite having an arrow aimed at a depowered Thor and having set Loki up for a Hulk ragdolling of note, Jeremy Renner’s Hawkeye has been absent from the current phase of Marvel movies. Sure, he’ll no doubt have a major role in The Avengers: Age Of Ultron, but that’s about it for his phase 2 appearances. Phase 3 however, is …

Chappie may have taken first place at the box office, but considering the overall results for the North American top ten, it was like winning a foot race against a coma patient. Neil Blomkamp’s third movie crashed and burned in terms of cash, taking in a mere $13.3 million on opening in the slowest weekend of 2015 so far. In …

We’re all getting old. Some quicker than others, as Kervyn and Nick now resemble a horribly miscast reboot of Grumpy Old Men when they leave for work in the morning. It can be difficult to keep up with life, and just about everyone here has a family member who has no idea what the hell a FaceBook is. That’s pretty …

As somebody who was raised on a steady diet of 1980’s macho-man testosterone and cheesy one-liners, I’m a huge fan of The Expendables series. Yes, it’s all meathead machismo, and the first movie was far too serious, but I had some fun with the third (mainly thanks to a scenery chomping Mel Gibson) and had a complete riot with the …

I’m kind of looking forward to CBS’ upcoming Supergirl TV series. My enthusiasm stems from mainly two sources: 1) While DC are still playing serious catch-up with Marvel on the movie front, they’re simply owning on TV with The Flash, Arrow and Gotham; and 2), the 1984 Supergirl movie starring Helen Slater was so bad that pretty much anything they …