You may not know this, but Darryn has a Michael Bay shrine in his bedroom. Well he used to. He had to blow it up as some sign of devotion. It’s apparently a thing Bay-kin (as I have dubbed them) do. The point is that he likes Michael Bay. A lot. Me? Not so much. And yet, I am super …
The trailer for Elysium – ex-local boytjie writer-director Neil Blomkamp’s second film after the amazing District 9 – is finally here. Some lucky folks saw snippets of this at Comic-Con 2012 and promptly lost their minds. The rest of us have had to wait for that honour as despite the fact that the film has been done, sitting on a shelf, for a …
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Back in 2007, with just one swift kick to a Persian sternum by a really angry Gerard Butler, writer-director Zack Snyder kicked off a 1000 memes with his immensely popular, frame for frame, highly stylized adaptation of Frank Miller’s classic graphic novel, 300. Now a sequel, 300: Rise of an Empire, is on the horizon and despite the fact that Snyder …
I’m pretty sure that Gore Verbinski’s new Lone Ranger is supposed to a big budget action blockbuster, right? Hell, lets just call a spade a spade: it’s Pirates of the Caribbean in the desert with horses. And yet, if you were to ignore the trailers released thus far and just look at any of the promo images released, you’d swear this is some …
Iron Man 3 will soon be lighting up our cinemas with snarky (Starky?) one liners and ten-ringed pimp slaps, while Thor: The Dark World is currently busy putting the final touches on the godly smackdown that he’ll be bringing to the table. But there’s one member of Marvel’s vaunted trinity that hasn’t quite shown up to the party yet. He’s a little …
I have been waiting at Neill Blomkamp’s table for any Elysium scraps for a very long time now, and when it was announced that its release would be moving from March to August 2013, it was a heavy blow indeed as the mystery and the quiet hype around the film has been getting to me since Day 1. Well, finally …
Thanks to some marvel-ous godly intervention, walking Pantene ad Chris Hemsworth’s rise to superstardom certainly happened pretty fast. However, he’s about to go faster. Much much faster. This is thanks to Rush, the new film from director Ron Howard (Apollo 13, A Beautiful Mind) and writer Peter Morgan (Frost/Nixon, Hereafter), which takes an in-depth look at one of Formula 1’s greatest …
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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