If there’s a graveyard shift to movie release schedules, January is it. Traditionally, releasing your movie in the first month of the year is studio shorthand for “Meh. We already paid for it, so we might as well put it out there, hoping that you’re still so drunk on Christmas pudding that instead of finishing catching up on the deluge …
Movie 43 looks like a star-studded experiment of bad taste, crude jokes and terrible ideas so far. And hot damn, I want to watch it so badly. It’s got a list of actors in it that includes Halle Berry, Hugh Jackman, Kate Bosworth, Richard Gere and Emma Stone amongst many, many more actors. That’s a lot of actors, enough to …
The name of Ian Fleming should ring a bell to anyone here. After all, the man is responsible for the suavest secret agent to ever hold a Walter PPK pistol. I’m taking about Bond, James Bond of course. The novels that Fleming wrote about the MI6 agent usually had intense fights, dangerous car chases, spectacular confrontations and the world at …
It’s not long to go now, before the second part to the best Batman film of 2012, The Dark Knight Returns, is released. PArt one was a faithful, kinetic adaptation of the graphic novel, but in part 2? That’s when the action really gets underway. A final battle with the Joker, a police force after his head, nuclear war and …
Now, for some of you who, that statement doesn’t come as a surprise. Without knowing about the upcoming film, if I had to walk around town telling people that The Rock is set to play Hercules, the son of Zeus, I would be met with mostly “duh!” reactions as it really is a very obvious casting choice, and it also …
It’s just under 5 months left until Zack Snyder tries to get us to believe that a man can fly. In a shiny costume. The verdict so still be out on whether or not the director’s seemingly more dramatic take on the big blue boyscout is actually going to succeed, so who better to hear some reassurances from than Superman’s …
Matthew McConnaughey had a hell of a 2012. He dressed in strips of leather and not much else in Magic Mike, did weird things to a piece of chicken in Killer Joe and somehow managed to not get overshadowed by Nicole Kidman peeing on Zac Efron for real in The Paperboy. And it looks like he’s going to continue this amazing trend …
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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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