The longer you live on earth, the more humanity disappoints you. Just when you think people couldn’t get any more corrupt or despicable, someone somewhere, most often in a high-powered position, finds a way of proving correct the phrase that power corrupts and you are left feeling sick in your mouth at where we are headed as a species. Thankfully …
A fast-talking lawyer (Antonio Banderas) transforms his body and takes a vow of silence, not to be broken until he finds out who killed his wife and daughter and has his revenge
Some movies deserve sequels and never get them. Some films just keep getting them. Shrek will be back for a fifth time, but perhaps a little different this time around.
Before we start with this week’s new releases, I’d like to take a moment to thank Kervyn for the sacrifices he makes for us. While Craig was getting all high-brow and cultured with this week’s Oscar-bait movie The Danish Girl, and Nick was gleefully (if not a little bit obsessively) salivating over The Hateful Eight, Kervyn had to sit through …
Through circumstances too lengthy to recap here, I once found myself abandoned along with a group of other people in virtual darkness deep in the Kango Caves in Oudtshoorn. Since I was the most familiar with the Caves (this was my 4th time there) I volunteered to traverse the entire cave system in near total darkness to get out and …
Okay, all together now, on the count of three… 1… 2… 3: I TOLD YOU SO! The Expendables 2 was some of the greatest, cheesiest fun I had in 2012, excluding that public indecency incident at the Nik Naks factory (I am forbidden by my lawyers to say more). Besides for being thickly layered in the very best Gouda, it …
The basic concept of the Expendables is simple one: Have a bunch of action hero actors all team up together. But some actors don’t need to team up with anybody, because due to the amount of iconic roles they’ve played in their careers, they’re practically an action hero team unto themselves (not to be confused with Jean Claude Van Damme …
I had mixed feelings about Alex Proyas’ I, Robot. It looked great but gave us a rather simple look into what happens when a robot becomes sentient. I thought it focused too much on the pew pew of a super computer trying to cleanse the virus called humans when it could have been so much more. However, after watching this trailer …
Have you ever double-checked your doors at night because something just didn’t feel secure? …
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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