As much as I enjoy Blade and appreciate it for kickstarting the comic book movie adaptation glut (sorry, X-Men, but it’s true), I’ve always held its sequel in much higher esteem, thanks to just how creatively insane and unexpected some of its ideas were. And most of that (pun intended) batshit crazy vampire action was the result of Guillermo Del Toro, the acclaimed Mexican …
Until August, The Avengers had been my favourite film out of the Marvel Movie gate. That 2012 flick was just the culmination of years of work, paying off handsomely. And then came the Guardians Of The Galaxy last month, a film which in many ways trumped the Avengers for me. I’m not counting Joss Whedon and his crew out yet …
Move over, Arrow. And The Flash. And Constantine. And Gotham. And maybe even Supergirl or whatever it will end up being called (probably something that tries too hard to be hip and clever like “Super. Girl.”). Oh and even Smallville, and Birds of Prey – that show that nobody watched but which Trevor keeps telling us was awesome. Yeah, all of you need to move the hell up. The reason for this mass …
Remember Shooter, the 2007 action thriller starring Mark Wahlberg? I do, I remember watching it… and that’s about it. Well it’s being reported by Deadline that Paramount TV and Wahlberg are teaming up to adapt the movie, which was based on the 1993 novel Point of Impact by Stephen Hunter, into an action-drama television series. For those of you who can’t …
We’ve seen the teaser trailers, the teaser trailers for trailers (groan!), the unending lineup of character posters, hell, we’ve even seen the magazine fashion spread! But finally it’s here: the first full trailer for The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 1. And it’s a whopper. Jennifer Lawrence may have been the talk of the town for all the wrong reasons lately, but …
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[column size=one_half position=first ] Life sucks and sometimes it can become too much. This leads a man called Kim to jump off a bridge. Last Updated: September 15, 2014
For better or for worse, Listen is a fantastic episode. It’s also a terrible episode, that will leave you slamming your head into a table in a manner reminiscent of Danny Pink having yet another bad date. Spoilers ahead… Last Updated: September 15, 2014
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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