If there is one advantage to being a man-mountain of muscles that can speak fluently in roid-grunts, it has to be that movies are always looking for a rather large individual in order to oppose their on-screen hero. After finishing up on the RZA directorial debut Man With the Iron Fists opposite Russell Crowe, the massive performer is now scheduled to face off …

  The upcoming film adaptation of the 2 Guns graphic novel has been slowly simmering on the backburner for a while now, and while it does have some star-power in the form of Mark “Why can’t I stop frowning” Wahlberg”, it’s been decidedly lacking when it comes to casting the other lead role. Well that’s all changed, as Denzel Washington …

Variety is reporting that Incredible Hulk and X-Men: Last Stand scribe Zak Penn, has been hired to rewrite the sequel to Jaden Smith and Jackie Chan’s Karate Kid reboot. Just like the original, the 2010 film was a surprise hit with audiences, as most initially regarded it as just the next in a long line of cheap cash-in, mediocre remakes. …

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The more I have seen and heard of Marc Webb’s Amazing Spider-Man reboot, the more I have looked forward to it. As great as the two Sam Raimi movies were (there was never an emofest 3rd film and nothing you say can convince me otherwise), you never quite realized just how tonally different they were to the source material until …

The horror maverick may be more well known for his sadistic Hostel films and his turn at clobbering Nazis with a baseball bat next to Brad Pitt, but it seems that for his next stab at cinema, the actor-director will be taking part in a little seismic activity instead. Last Updated: February 7, 2012

Just a single day after news stories suggested that Harrison Ford would be munching down on futuristic noodles in the rain and gunning down robot srippers in see-through trench coats again, Andrew Kosove – producer on the proposed Blade Runner sequel – has come out and rubbished all those claims. Last Updated: February 7, 2012

I’m generally not a fan of films that are excessively violent just for the sake of being violent. It’s not that I don’t have a strong stomach for it. It just smacks of low-brow filmmaking to me – trying to hide a lack of script or acting behind a barrage of crimson fountains and severed appendages. It’s why I tend …