Look, if you’re going to make a movie that will be recorded in a cinema by a dodgy chap with a camera technique honed by epileptic monks with Parkinson disease, you might as well cut out the pirating middle-man and shove said content straight onto the net. That’s just what Ridley Scott is going to be doing, as he’ll be producing a dozen new …
It’s been quite a while since we last saw Sherlock, Watson and a mind palace. Almost two years, in fact. Since then, stars Benedict Cumbermatch and Martin Freeman have broken further into Hollywood, leaving the cinematic episodes with an empty schedule, and more than a few new imitations on the cards from other studios arriving to fill that gap. The thing is, …
Most people just dream about murdering their boss but back in 2011, Jason Bateman, Jason Sudeikis and Charlie Day actually tried to turn these dreams into reality in the smash hit black comedy Horrible Bosses. The operative word there being “tried” as these were no trained killers, resulting in much hilarity involving peanut allergies, cocaine, motherf@#$ers and the greatest combover …
After five years, five seasons, it looks like it’s finally time to draw the curtain on one of the best spin-offs to appear from a galaxy far, far away. Star Wars: The Clone Wars has been a TV mainstay since 2008, filling in the gaps between Star Wars Episode II and III, as well as being a bridge to why …
It’s seem like every day now a new batch of The Amazing Spider-Man 2 set photos come swinging down the interwebs (we’ve featured a couple of them already). Thus far though, they’ve all just featured our resident wall crawler Peter Parker (Andrew Garfield) and his sorta girlfriend Gwen Stacy (Emma Stone). And that’s because nobody else has actually shown up for …
If you’re not a fan of things that are either “evil” or “dead” or any combination of the two, then I have some bad news for your future. Fede Alvarez’s Evil Dead, a remake of Sam Raimi’s classic horror, is about to tree rape your mind, while last week saw the announcement that Raimi and his brother would soon start …
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Ever since the Harry Potter films wrapped, the main young cast all appear to be on a mission to prove their acting diversity. Well except for Rupert Grint, that is. He’ll always be a ginger no matter what he does. Luckily, the lovely young Emma Watson faces no such handicap and after playing the free spirited, flirtatious Sam in The …
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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