Words alone cannot express how much I hate Writer-directors Jason Friedberg and Aaron Seltzer. If you haven’t heard of them, here’s a rundown of some of their “hit” movies: Epic Movie, Date Movie, Meet The Spartans, Disaster Movie and Vampires Suck. Notice a pattern there? Yes, those are the films which have destroyed the once respectable parody genre, as well as …
Up until now, all the images released for Ridley Scott’s highly vaunted return to science-fiction, Prometheus, has been rather dark and gloomy. Which is perfectly understandable as you tend to not want to Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers it up, when you’ve just discovered an alien threat of apocalyptic proportions that has the potential to wipe out our entire species. …
It’s pretty much a given that if you’re a visitor at this site, you’re aware that there’s a film called Prometheus on the horizon. It’s likely that you’re also aware that this film is Ridley Scott’s return to the Sci-Fi genre and, more importantly, his return to the Alien universe. In that, it is rivalled only by The …
Despite the fact that I think that the original Coogan’s Trade was a far better title than it’s current decidedly neutral moniker, Killing Them Softly is still quite high up on my (apparently football field long) list of anticipated movies for 2012. We’ve never really seen Brad Pitt in a straight up action role, which is something that kind of beggars belief. Despite his …
Five new movies open in South Africa today, and they all bring the drama in some form or another – even if it’s tempered by quirky comedy. Last Updated: May 11, 2012
There’s been much ado about Marion Cotillard lately. Uniting with her Inception director, Chris Nolan, on The Dark Knight Rises, it’s been almost universally accepted that the talented French actress will be taking on the role of… Well, I guess this is where I put up that pesky SPOILER WARNING for those of you that want to go into this movie …
Two things. Firstly, after all the, let’s say “documentaries” I’ve seen on this American tradition of drunken debauchery that is Spring Break, a tale of a group of permanently bikini clad girls robbing a store, getting caught and thrown into jail, and then being bailed out by the K-Fed lookalike drug dealer they meet there in exchange for them killing his …
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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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