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 …

The original Machete was a gory, bloody, action-packed film that more than made up for Robert Rodriguez directing numerous Spy Kids films, and while the site of Danny Trejo having his way with Lindsay Lohan and her on-screen mom may be more unsettling than back to back showings of the Human Centipede, it was still a fine film overall, filled …

Truth be told I’m a bit of a boring general man of the street sort of guy when it comes to movies, I love the big explosions, tight outfits and ridiculous over the top action sequences in my movies. While some indie movie makers attempt to copy this formula it’s virtually impossible without a huge amount of money. But I’m …

An argument can easily be made (most probably by me) that Raiders of the Lost Ark is the most perfect adventure film ever made. One of those incredible pieces of cinema that was a smash hit both commercially (highest grossing film in the year of it’s release) and critically (nominated for 8 Oscars, won 4), it has firmly taken it’s rightful …

Well, considering how Disney have produced films that covered everything from jungle kings and books to Judi Dench voicing a cow, it was only a matter of time before they dipped their hands into the world of video games for their next project. Wreck-It Ralph was revealed last year, and the CGI-Not-created-by-Pixar film centers around the life of the titular …

While Javier Bardem may have bowed out to voice the main antagonist in the sequel to the hit 2011 film, Despicable Me 2 may have actually gained a replacement that can bring even more star-power and skill to the vacant role. Al Pacino has signed up to voice El Macho, the main antagonist who mirrors Steve Carrell’s character, Gru, as …

  Many a long running film franchise has hobbled the careers of its stars… particularly when that series made them household names in the first place. Certainly the big question since the credits rolled on the 8th and final Harry Potter film was whether its young leads would continue to find work post-Potter. Or would they forever just be bright-eyed …

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