Hollywood may be running out ideas, but fortunately, there’s a whole world of books and video games out there that are just waiting to be strip-mined for future projects. The Host and Jack Reacher are just a few recent examples of such adaptations, with plenty more on the horizon. Take director Joe Carnahan for instance. He’s hot stuff in Hollywood …

Films these days get a lot of flack for being popcorn munching experiences that distract viewers with pretty explosions. And that’s something that is more than prevalent in video games these days. So what happens when you merge the two? Most likely even more explosions and bro-fisting, but a chance to grab some cash from that hard to please video …

This weekend past saw the successful launch of South Africa’s very first Comic Con. Oh wait, no. I actually mean the complete opposite of that, because nothing happened! Now while having no convention to call our own still sucks, at least there’s now one less convention-related thing that the real conventions can lord over us thanks to this previously WonderCon …

Danish auteur Nicolas Winding-Refn (Drive) certainly has an eye for artistic visuals. And also explosive, shocking, drag you on the floor by your jawbone violence. And those aspects all seem to gelling well in his second collaboration with Ryan Gosling, Only God Forgives, for which we have three new clips, each focusing on one of the film’s 3 main characters: the simmering, …

Yes, 62 images. Needless to say, this post will be about as friendly to internet bandwidth as Telkom. If you can spare the megabits per second though, you’ll get yourself enough super high-res images so that if you added them to all the other images already released for Baz Lurhmann’s sumptuous looking adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s classic novel, The Great …

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Oh, you just got to love that ol’ PR switcheroo of “Oh but I didn’t say that” when you clearly did. The latest culprit? Master Blaster Michael Bay, who is now claiming that it was all just a boo boo that one time when he nearly caused the internet to break in half due to nerd rage. Last Updated: April …

At this point in time, if you’re still not looking forward to Fast & Furious 6 yet, there isn’t much else I can say to convince you. Besides, words has never exactly been the franchise’s strong suit. So here ya go, the film’s final trailer, filled with enough vroom vroom boom boom action to convince even the most ardent anti-action …