Could it be that we’re seeing a new trend in British romantic-comedies: the gimmicky rom-com? I Give It a Year was like the “anti-rom-com rom-com”, and now Richard “Love Actually” Curtis is bringing us the “time-travelling rom-com” with About Time. Ok yes, we already had The Time Traveller’s Wife, but that was more rom-drama than rom-com. It also didn’t feature Bill Nighy dropping …
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Growing up, plenty of comic books and cartoons got the big screen treatment. Most of them were crap, because they looked nothing like the source material. Except for He-Man and the Masters of the Universe. Somehow, a studio managed to make that cartoon look as real as possible. Which of course meant that the film bombed at the box …
Our Ginger-Haired Geek Overlord, Joss Whedon, confirmed a while back already that he would using the sibling duo of Wanda and Pietro Maximoff aka Scarlet Witch and Quicksilver (who are totally for real 100% not Magneto’s kids in this film, totally) in The Avengers: Age of Ultron. No sooner had that news broke than the rumour mills started spewing out potential …
I’ve yet to see it myself (C’moooon massive DVD boxset), but apparently Arrow is a pretty darn good series. Or at least a popular one. The CW network obviously has a winning formula on their hands, to the point where not only are they going to to introduce a new hero into the world of Green Arrow, but they’re going …
Nothing beats a good ol’ slice of imagination. Trust me, when you’re neck deep in asylum applications while you’re waiting for your new ID book at home affairs, whatever happens to be going on inside your head at that moment will bring a smile to your face. And imagination is the name of the game for Ben Stiller in The …
Growing up, there’s always that one movie in your life that’ll put hair on your chest and give you a deeper voice, regardless of your gender. For Lourens, that movie was Herbie Goes Bananas. For the rest of us, that was the very first Conan movie starring Arnold Schwarzenegger. The riddle of steel, lamentations of ladies and fantasy action of …
Despite what new mothers may have you believe, babies are creepy. And coming in a close second on the Should-Be-Cute-But-Are-Actually-Terrifying charts would be dolls. Now, I actually have no idea which of those two particular spawns of the devil, babies or dolls, is being featured on this new poster for James Wan’s Insidious: Chapter 2, but let’s face facts: either way, you’re …
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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