The Brad Bird directed film, starring Tom Cruise as Impossible Mission Force Ethan Hunt once again, has broken box office records set by previous installments in the series to become the most successful of all the MI films. Last Updated: January 31, 2012
Sometimes it’s the job of media (in this case, me) to churn out walls of hyperbolic prose. These text monoliths standing as signposts so as to either entice or warn off potential cinema-goers about a particular film. Other times though, you can just let the film description speak for itself: “Set in a near post-apocalyptic future, THE FP centers …
Amidst the trickle of superhero films that hit us last year, X-men First Class was to be one of the best comic book movies to debut, not just for 2011, but in recent years as well. Slick, polished and with a capable cast that shined on the silver screen, the tale of Charles Xavier working with the magnetic villain to …
I don’t know about you guys, but if there’s one thing about family vacations that I just can’t stand it’s when you leave your folks on a yacht on the Spanish coastline to just quickly pop into town for some snacks, only to come back and find them missing and the place ransacked, and then to find out that your …
Director David Fincher’s Oscar nominated English language adaptation of The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo is one of the best films on circuit currently. However, like I mentioned in my review, it is remarkably unflinching when it comes to the story’s more graphic scenes. And trust me, they are graphic. India’s Central Board of Film Certification had previously requested that 5 …
Welcome to The Extras! A daily dose of all the smaller movie related news, clips and just plain cool stuff that you might have missed! Last Updated: January 30, 2012
Years of writing about gritty reboots, watching violent genre films and being a rather cynical human being have left me quite jaded. So you can only imagine how nauseatingly sick I feel right now after having watched the latest, whimsical trailer for Mirror Mirror, yet another take on the Snow White fable. Directed by Immortals’ Tarsem Singh, Mirror Mirror is supposed to be a lighter, family friendly version of the classic …
Looks like yet another film franchise is being pulled from beyond the grave. Joe Carnahan is now on board to direct a new version of the original 1974 film that starred Charles Bronson, which also saw four more sequels produced in the following twenty years. Last Updated: January 30, 2012
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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