Back before we knew that JJ Abrams would be ascending to the Geek Throne by helming the new Star Wars, there was lots of talk around director Brad Bird (The Incredibles, Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol) and writer Damon Lindelof (Star Trek, Lost, Prometheus). The pair were definitely collaborating on something. As it turns out, it was not the new …
Robert Bartleh Cummings. That’s the name of somebody who uses words like “balderdash” and has a Spanish manservant who brings him tea in the parlour, not a hardcore musician. That’s probably why Robert Bartleh Cummings became Rob Zombie. And a few years ago, Zombie once again transformed himself from rocker to filmmaker when he proved that he knows how to …
Oh Hollywood, you have some brilliant timing these days. Announce one big budget film, and you can be certain that a leeching mockbuster studio such as Asylum films will immediately pounce on the same idea, but twisted enough to avoid getting sued. Most of the time. With two films set in the Oval office on the way, Olympus has fallen …
Sometimes I wonder if Guillermo Del Toro has a secret twin brother, like in that one film I’m not going to ruin right now hopefully. A secret twin that does not need to eat or sleep. Because the Pacific Rim maestro has just added another project to his formidable workload. Yep, it looks like Del Toro is off The Secret …
It seems like lately the small screen is becoming the big screen, as American cable network HBO has been pulling in the A-list movie talent for their own productions. Last year saw Julianne Moore, Woody Harrelson and Ed Harris in Ed Roach’s Sara Palin pic, Game Change, and soon it will be Michael Douglas and Matt Damon glamming it up for …
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Disney hit it big in the late eighties with The Little Mermaid, starting a new age of animated films that saw the likes of Beauty and the Beast, Aladdin, The Lion King, Hercules and Mulan released. The last really great film from that stable was Tarzan back in 1999, and subsequent films have been less critically received since then, as …
Neil Jordan knows about sucking. No, not like that (and definitely not like that, you perverts!). I mean that as the director behind one of the most well known and well loved of the modern tales of the nosferatu, Interview With A Vampire, Jordan has certainly established himself as a man who knows vampires. And while he hasn’t made another vampiric movie …
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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