Big movies require big sets to film. There’s a ton of places in Hollywood of course, various studio lots in London and the far more economical and ready to be pimped out stages right ehre in Cape Town (Y U NO FILM MORE DREDD SEQUEL HERE?). And then of course, there’s the land of second place rugby winners, Hobbits and …
There wasn’t much on offer at the North American box office this past weekend, but it was quality over quantity. A return to Middle Earth once again headline the festive opening of season, while a certain other cross-dresser made a Christmas return. OH LERD! Last Updated: December 17, 2013
One of the bigger surprises of 2012 had to be 21 Jump Street. Here was a remake that wasn’t only faithful to the original source material, but in many ways, an improvement as well. Jonah Hill was a natural as always, but Channing Tatum stole the show with an otherwise unknown talent for comedy. After making over $200 million at …
It says quite a lot about your skill behind the camera, when arguably the “worst” entry on your filmography is The Dark Knight Rises, but that’s the world Christopher Nolan lives in. Because of this crazy impressive track record, Nolan is given a lot of leeway on projects, specifically the marketing. Even more specifically, the fact that there barely seems to …
The last time we saw a search for Sarah Connor, it involved a heavily muscled Austrian man in biker leathers, going around randomly shooting blonde ladies in the face until somebody had the idea to crush him into a piece of modern art in a factory. And with the new rebooted Terminator: Genesis on the way, the search was on once …
Welcome to The Extras! A daily dose of all the smaller movie related news, clips and just plain cool stuff that you might have missed! Last Updated: December 13, 2013
Here at the movies, we aren’t exactly divided up on our to favourite TV shows. Namely, Sherlock and Doctor Who. We’re of sound mind and judgement that the Matt Smith and Benedict Cumbermatch series are pretty much essential viewing, and we’ve got the fan fiction to prove it. And now someone has clearly been reading those stories of ours, because …
It feels like Oprah is running Hollywood at the moment, because right now it’s a case of “You get a shared movie universe! You get a shared movie universe! EVERYBODY GETS A SHARED MOVIE UNIVERSE!!” And the latest to adopt the game plan that Marvel Studios popularized is Sony, who have now announced that they will be developing movies based on Spider-Man …
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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