James Franco is a bit weird. And no, I’m not just talking about that time he hosted the Oscars. He’s made some very unexpected choices in his career, which is why it should have come as a surprise to nobody that someone most famous for being high on recreational drugs, has decided to write and direct an adaptation of Willam …
When scribe Drew Pearce created No Heroics, the acclaimed British sitcom about the off-duty antics of a group of D-list superheroes, little did he know where that cape and cowl gig would lead him. Fast forward a few of years and Pearce is still playing with superheroes, only way more successfully. Global hit Iron Man 3, which Pearce co-wrote with director Shane …
With canned billionaires, pyjamas wearing aliens, AC/DC loving gods and growling Canadians with cutlery in their fists all vying for the top hero spot of 2013, its easy for the smaller guys to get lost in their shadow. But honestly, that’s where Richard B. Riddick does his best work. Back in March we saw our first glimpse at the third …
Before Jamie Foxx got to kill white folk and get paid for it, it was actually Will Smith that was up for the title role in Quentin Tarantino’s Django Unchained. Because clearly Tarantino had forgotten that the last time Smith donned a Stetson and a six-shooter, we ended up with the wild, wild trainwreck, Wild Wild West. But it seems that Smith …
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Time travel is usually a topic reserved either for heavily muscled androids with thick Austrian accents, or bowtied aliens with funny screwdrivers and even funnier shaped heads. But clearly nobody told writer-director Richard Curtis (Love Actually, Four Weddings and a Funeral, Bridget Jones) of this restriction, which is why he’s applied his special brand of whimsy and charm to the …
It’s been all quiet on the rebooted Robocop front for some time now. Last we heard from it, the script was bad, Robocop was dressed in Tony Stark’s hand-me-downs, director Jose Padilha hated making it and then somebody gave Robocop a hand. And now, showing up out of nowhere, we have a new series of set pics showing off Joel Kinnaman in action in …
We haven’t heard all that much about Jupiter Ascending, the next sci-fi epic from the Wachowski Siblings. And while this film may not be as ambitious as their soul-jumping, vast time spanning Cloud Atlas, it does star Mila Kunis as a Russian janitor who may be the Queen of the Universe and Channing Tatum as the outer space super soldier who must …
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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