I loved writer-director Andrew Dominik’s The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford, not just for having a title so long that you need to stop for a smoke break mid-way through while saying it, but because it was a damn fine movie filled with great characters. One of those characters, the eponymous Jesse James, was played to …

As soon as the title for Thor: The Dark World was revealed, most comic book folks immediately assumed that the story would have something to do with the Dark Elves. Well, it looks like they assumed right, as the film’s main bad guy has been revealed as none other than leader of the Dark Elves, Malekith the Accursed. But as …

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It’s a great time to be a fan of comic book films. It’s been a hard and long road for the industry, but the trip along the way has given us several classics, from Batman to Iron Man. Of course, the road was quite bumpy, with several massive potholes along the way, such as Green Lantern, Superman Returns and that …

OK, calm down before you start spewing your coffee all over your keyboard. No, this is not a new Chris Nolan Batman movie. What it is, is the animated adaptation of one of the greatest, if not the greatest, Batman stories of all time: Frank Miller’s Batman: The Dark Knight Returns. It’s a gritty and dark tale that in 1986 reinvented the …

Lst year, audiences got a taste of The Dark Knight Rises’ opening scene, which happened to star the big guy himself, Bane. And visually, it looked pretty damn good. On the audio level however, no one could understand a damn thing that Bane was saying apparently. And seeing as how South Africa isn’t even afforded the privilege of having a LieMax theatre, …

Jason Statham and James Franco have been a busy pair of actors recently, with Statham finishing up work on a second Expendables film, Parker and Hummingbird, while Franco has earned a few paychecks with The Iceman, Lovelace and Spring Breakers. The two of them will be joining forces for a new though, called Homefront, that has a script written by …

Hugh Jackman has just finished stealing bread and singing about it on Les Miserables and is currently busy getting all stabby on The Wolverine, but that doesn’t mean that he doesn’t have time to tackle some serious issues as well. In this case, teaming up with Oscar nominated director and producer Lee Daniels (Precious) to reveal a conspiracy behind the assassination …