Last year I was highly excited to get down to my local cinema to watch Clash of the Titans hoping it would be an epic movie experience of gods vs titans with huge action scenes and over the top powers. It wasn’t. It’s not that I didn’t enjoy Clash of the Titans as I really did. Granted it was a …
Earlier this morning, Gavin posted the new Prometheus trailer, the epic return of Ridley Scott to the lands of Science Fiction. That fact alone would have been enough to see it quantum leap it’s way to the top of my list of most anticipated movies of 2012, but there is a mystery around Prometheus that has my geeky mind racing …
With the final chapter in Christopher Nolan’s Batman trilogy hitting our shores later this year, the fans are quite understandably excited for what the respected director has in store for the caped crusader. Those of you lucky enough to have hit an Imax theatre for the rather excellent Mission Impossible:Ghost Protocol film will have been in for a treat then, …
The Aliens trilogy was easily one of the most terrifying things I watched as a child and I still to this day am not sure if I’ll ever be able to watch the series again. But I guess that’s the point of making scary movies and now with the rumoured released of an Alien prequel called Prometheus I guess I’ll …
A French trailer has surfaced (or is that dropped?) for director Juan Diego Solana’s high-concept sci-fi love story situated on two parallel Earths, each facing the other on opposite gravity planes. The world above is one of opulence and decadence, whereas the world below is filled with squalor and poverty. Due to a spate of robberies being committed in the …
You would be forgiven for reading that headline, scrunching up your face in concentration, and then silently muttering “Who?”. But I can almost guarantee, that if you are any sort of film fan, that you’ve seen this man’s work. An English Olympic level fencer in the 1950’s, Bob Anderson was the go-to sword master in Hollywood for many a decade. …
Quick, what’s better than Batman and the Lion King? Stumped? Why, it’s a trailer mash-up of the latest Batman film and scenes from the classic animated Disney film of course. Featuring Simba as the goddamn Batman, Scar as the throaty villain Bane, Zazu as Alfred in a seamless performance and Nala as a larger specied-Catwoman, the trailer does an impeccable …
Piracy is an unfortunate reality in the world of movies and has turned into big business for the gangs that run large parts of the pirated movie world. While we here at home may see pirated movies at every second robot for people living in the UK or US the standard piracy technique is rather to download the titles straight …
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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