Thanks to looks, personality or general demeanour, actors can very easily be typecast in certain roles. Owen Wilson makes the perfect beach bum, Michael Cera is always the awkward indie teen and Christopher Lee can’t be anything but a crazy supervillain. But what about when movies get weirdly specific with their typecasting? Sean Bean is notorious for (almost) always dying …
Expect to see the long-range skills of snipers dialled back in Call Of Duty: Advanced Warfare.
Perhaps sensing that the Playstation 4 launch would steal many a customer away from cinema seats, the North American box office only saw one new notable release. A sequel to an older film, decked in holiday cheer would go head to head with the son of Odin. And it almost toppled the thunder god from his number one position. …
While Ender was able to play his Game without too much competition last week, this weekend past saw Thor: The Dark World finally thundering into US cinemas after it had already done some godly business abroad. But did Thor experience a… Loki… (get it? Low key, Loki?) weekend at home allowing Ender’s Game to play out some more? Last Updated: November …
Five new films open in South Africa today, offering something for everyone, from R-rated action junkies to families with young children. Last Updated: October 25, 2013
Could it be that we’re seeing a new trend in British romantic-comedies: the gimmicky rom-com? I Give It a Year was like the “anti-rom-com rom-com”, and now Richard “Love Actually” Curtis is bringing us the “time-travelling rom-com” with About Time. Ok yes, we already had The Time Traveller’s Wife, but that was more rom-drama than rom-com. It also didn’t feature Bill Nighy dropping …
Time travel is usually a topic reserved either for heavily muscled androids with thick Austrian accents, or bowtied aliens with funny screwdrivers and even funnier shaped heads. But clearly nobody told writer-director Richard Curtis (Love Actually, Four Weddings and a Funeral, Bridget Jones) of this restriction, which is why he’s applied his special brand of whimsy and charm to the …
Film classification in the UK is designed to help audiences understand what content is …
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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