With Marvel Studios working full steam ahead on Phase 2 of their plan for world box office domination, it’s easy to forget that there’s another team of marvelous superhero’s that will also be stretching, scorching, clobbering and uh… invisibling our screens again. Twentieth Century Fox will be rebooting the Fantastic Four in 2015 with Chronicle director Josh Trank at the helm… …
Dear Adrien Brody, dude what the f–k?! You are an Oscar winning actor, surely you can’t be that hard up for some bucks? Is there a raging secret cocaine habit that we’re not aware of? Because mountains of narcotics is the only reason that I can think of why you would want to star in InAPPropriate Comedy, a movie that …
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Awards season is starting to pick up steam now. The Oscar nominations are imminent, the Golden Globes are almost here, and the list for the BAFTA awards have just been released as well. While the Director’s Guild of America doesn’t have nearly as much tea and biscuits in their nominations, what they do have are some legitimate heavyweights that are …
If you’ve ever enjoyed seeing a comedic pairing between Brit actors Simon Pegg and Nick Frost, chances are, this is the film where it all started. A coming of age tale set in the most popular of all the apocalypses (Take that, Mayans!), Shaun of the dead is a slick tale of survival, friendship and grabbing a quick pint when …
Damn, I really thought that we’d be on the receiving end of an adamatium-laced trailer for the latest film starring the Canadian berserker mutant in The Wolverine, but alas, no such footage surfaced during the festive break. While X-Men Origins: Wolverine may have been an underwhelming film that had the cajun mutant Gambit running around ruining everything, director James Mangold is taking …
Ever since the love-it-or-hate-it hit The Blair Witch Project in 1999, found footage films have become a strangely enduring fad, most likely due to the continuing success of the Paranormal Activity films and a few other surprise hits. In 2010, a found footage mockumentary called The Last Exorcism was released and, mostly quite rare for the genre, it was received well …
I love bad movies. Not watching bad movies, mind you. No, I often feel like taking to my eyeballs with a spoon-shiv while doing that. I mean that as somebody who writes about movies, there are very few muses as efficient as an absolutely terrible film. And with all these awards being handed out for the truly great films, it’s …
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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