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Versus was a make-or-break film. The title apparently refers to the director’s struggles in the movie industry, but it is equally apt at explaining what this film is about. You have the good guy, the damsel in distress, and the bad guy along with his minions. Bad guys want to kill good guy and get the girl. Good guy kills …
Chances are if you started to to enjoy anime at any point in your life, then you’ve seen a Hayao Miyazaki film at least once. The famed director has crafted animated masterpieces alongside his crew at Studio Ghibli for decades now, going from World War Two to all manner of fantasy. He’s got one hell of a filmography under his …
It’s that time again, when we pass the mic over to you guys, not to “sen a derricayshun”, but to let us know what you thought about the weekend past’s biggest release. In this case being Neill Blomkamp’s Elysium, his much anticipated follow-up the absolutely brilliant District 9. [As always, this will be an unfiltered discussion, so if you haven’t seen …
Another day, another dollar. Labour Day, some sort of public holiday about wearing white clothing from what my limited knowledge can ascertain, hit the North American box office over the weekend, opening up the gates for films to make that little bit of extra coin. Well not that much coin, but still, at least it was a direction for …
If there’s one thing that a Thor movie has to have, it’s a touch of sibling rivalry. I dig Chris Hemsworth as the son of Asgard, but it’s clear that Tom Hiddleston is the real acting force behind the throne of Odin in this franchise. Thor: The Dark World will most likely be the last time we see Hiddleston don …
Every night, I have nightmares. Kervyn inviting me to lunch, the more graphically suicidal scenes being put back into It’s a Wonderful Life and never winning that Oscar that I so rightly deserve for being a hack of a writer. But the worst nightmare is that of a cyborg cowboy coming after me with the fury of a forgotten MS …
While we do, quite obviously, love movies around here (the name up top should have been a dead giveaway), we also hold a quite the passion for video games. Unfortunately, when those two loves meet, it mostly results in something usually ejected from a cat’s bottom. Video game adaptations movies are mostly crap, is what I’m saying. But so too …
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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