Two new films hit the North American charts this past weekend. On the one fast hand, you had the tale of segregation in American baseball, while on the sleazier hand you had yet another Scary Movie arriving to bring the franchise to new lows presumably. But could either them oust current kings of the tickets, GI Joe: Retaliation and …
Romeo, Romeo, wherefore art thou Romeo? Why right here, here and here! Hollywood loves a great romance story, and until Nicholas Sparks decides to rewrite a Shakespeare classic while insisting that his two attractive leads snogging it out in the rain are not in a romance film, we’ll have to settle for the latest telling of the classic love story. …
Back in the early part of 2013, before Tony Stark and friends Hulk smashed it into kindling, the box office had one young Queen: Katniss Everdeen. Gary Ross’s adaptation of the dramatic trials of the arrow-shooting heroine became an almost overnight smash, raking in the praise as much as it did the box office records and dollars (all 686 million …
Welcome to The Extras! A daily dose of all the smaller movie related news, clips and just plain cool stuff that you might have missed! Last Updated: April 12, 2013
Despite the emerald turd that was Green Lantern, Ryan Reynolds is apparently not through with comic book movies yet. This time he’s keeping it a little less colourful (like deathly back), and teaming with up Jeff Bridges for the supernatural thriller, R.I.P.D., based on the Dark Horse Comics series. Thus far we’ve just seen on-set shots of the film, but …
For a pack of wolves, the lads in The Hangover Part 3 sure are noisy. Silent for months, and now louder than a vindaloo fart, we’ve been hit with behind the scenes photos, posters and videos of the alcoholics recently. The first trailer, while funny in some parts, was kind of disapointing. Well, minus that bit at the end with …
You may have noticed that we’re kind of geeky here on The Movies. But in a good way. It’s also a perfectly good excuse to have when Kervyn, Noelle and Lourens don luchadore masks and proceed to clobber each other with flaming steel chairs while shouting out slogans from mid-nineties runs of comic books, Doctor Who and Game of Thrones. …
Welcome back to another edition of Friday Fright Club! While I know I’ve been missed, I bring you a gift today in the form of Hellraiser, one of the most definitive and terrifying films during the 80’s wave of horror. Last Updated: April 12, 2013
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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