Normally, Hugh Jackman can be found in movies that require to run around with hand-stabbers, but the man has range dammit! While the upcoming The Wolverine will see Jackman in ninja-killing form, he’ll also be seen later this year in Prisoners, opposite Loki. No, this isn’t an Avengers crossover, but rather Jake Gyllenhal joining him as detective Loki. Here’s the …
I loved the first Machete film. It was a movie that was blunter than a rock and didn’t give a damn, as Danny Trejo used his blades, guns and face to kill anyone that got in his way. Of course, with director Robert Rodriguez, the sequel was about as inevitable as a new Spy Kids movie for this Mexican vigilante. …
It’s a mix of mindless crowd-pleasers and thinking fare for adults this weekend at the South African box office. Four new films hit local cinemas from today. Last Updated: May 31, 2013
I’ll be honest, I don’t really remember much about the first Percy Jackson film, which is both a good and a bad thing. Good because it means it did nothing to have me memorably spewing my popcorn in disgust down the back of the unfortunate heavy set man sitting in front of me in the cinema, and bad because it …
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While we are often quick to applaud a movie’s musical score alongside it’s other aspects, there is more to a cinematic soundscape than just foreboding cellos and stirring anthems. Quite often it’s a film’s aural tapestry that helps to realize, accentuate and immortalize the worlds we’re seeing up on screen, to the point where if you were blindfolded, you would …
Ah, best friends. There’s nothing quite like that special bond between two people who just get along so completely and perfectly well. There’s apparently also nothing quite like what happens when that bond is broken, and then one of those two people intentionally strands both of them in the middle of the desert in order to repair it, but in …
I love cartoons, but even I have my limits. One such cartoon that I cannot stand? The Flintstones. Lazy, uninspired and obsessed in a crazy way with anything related to granite and puns, the show has never registered high on my radar. Also, f$#! the Great Gazoo. Shark-jumping aside, The Flintstones still makes money through syndication and the random direct …
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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