Buffy the Vampire Slayer has rightfully earned its place in pop culture fandom, but I dare anybody to go back to the first season of that show and not cringe. Hell, to this day, I have no idea what kind of voodoo Joss Whedon pulled off to get that show renewed, but its a good thing he did as it …
I sometimes wonder what Shakespeare would have to say about all the different iterations of his plays that have made it to the big screen. There was the immensely popular Baz Luhrmann version of Rome and Juliet all the way back in 1996 (eek!) and the more recent Much Ado about Nothing (2012) directed by Lord Joss Whedon, a film …
I quite often find that my favourite Doctor Who episodes, are the ones set in the past. There’s just something cool about the Doctor walking around an ancient city dressed in his threads and being even more of a smartarse than usual, that make for some exciting viewing. This week however, the Doctor is going to be figuring out fact …
Finally! After months of indecisive teasing and back and forth hemming and hawing, Dwayne Johnson has finally made up his mind on just which DC Comics character he is going to play for Warner Bros. And it’s the same character everybody thought he was going to play years ago. Yes, that’s right, “The Rock” is going to take on the Rock of …
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Most kids these days learn that A is for apple, B is for bad decisions made while drunk in Thailand. In other words, that curriculum is rubbish. If you’re going to learn your ABCs the right way, then nothing beats parroting an education that has been dipped in horror. Well grab your bag and lunch, because school is most definitely in, …
Despite Pierce Brosnan’s November Man not exactly shooting up the box office, the “old actor kicking ass” genre still has lots of life in it, if The Equalizer is to be believed. Reteaming Denzel Washington with his Training Day director Antoine Fuqua, the feature film remake of the classic TV series (which I, for the life of me, really cannot recall) has been received …
The massive success of Guardians of the Galaxy may obscure that this is not turning out to be a good year for the U.S. movie business. Now that the summer season there is closing, the figures have been crunched and 2014 has come up wanting by quite a bit. Compared to last year, this summer season has earned nearly 18 …
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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