While it had a rocky start, leaving you more green with barfing than jealousy, The CW’s Arrow has gone on to become a very solid superhero tale, placing the emerald archer in a much more realistic world. Well, realistic until people started exhibiting superpowers. One such person was Grant Gustin’s Barry Allen aka the Flash, who after an energy wave and some random …
While some may disagree, in my opinion Marvel Studios has never made a bad pic. Everyone has their least favourite Marvel movie (In my case, Thor) but even those are generally still decent, while Joss Whedon’s The Avengers is almost universally accepted as the high benchmark. And it would seem that the next entry into the Marvel Universe, Captain America: The Winter Soldier, is …
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In The Great Emmy Snubbery of 2013, Tatiana Maslany inexplicably didn’t get an Emmy nomination for her insanely good work playing 6 – or was it 7? I lost count – distinctly different characters, all clones of each other, on BBC America’s Orphan Black. She did get a Golden Globe nod, but the fact that the Emmy’s just left her out …
Let’s face facts: Every great movie is eventually going to be remade. Hell, even the bad ones are going into reboot territory. Top of that list? Fresh rumours that Titanic will go headfirst into iceberg territory once again. James Cameron’s classic film and the number one reason for bleeding ears thanks to that godawful Celine Dion song will most likely …
When I was a child, I remember some parents declaring Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles as evil and praying for all us kids who watched it. So if a fun cartoon about some pizza-loving amphibious reptiles had them running for the church pews back then, I can’t even imagine what a proper, true to form adaptation of controversial comic Preacher will do. But …
By now, the West Memphis Three story has been thoroughly milked by the movie industry, with four films telling the same story. So what the hell, let’s add a fifth movie to that pile. The Devil’s Knot tells the same tale, but this time, from the perspective of the parents who lost their children in a shocking 1993 murder in …
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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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