To paraphrase little orphan Annie: instead of treated, the US box office got tricked this weekend past! With this year’s Halloween falling on Saturday, usually the busiest day for American cinemas, it meant that total revenue for the weekend was way down at just above $70 million – the lowest weekend take for the year thus far. And with cineamgoers …
You just can’t keep a good man down, especially if that man is a genius botanist/astronaut who is willing to eat poop-potatoes to survive! In its fourth week on the charts, Ridley Scott’s brilliant The Martian returned to the top of the US box office this weekend past with an impressive $15.9 million haul. Well, that’s impressive for a fourth …
It’s official: The bumps’ gonna goose ya! Coming off the backs of surprising good reviews, the Jack Black-led live-action action adaptation of R.L. Stine’s classic Goosebumps books has opened strongly in the US, with the horror-for-kids adventure flick scaring away most of the competition as it debuted top of the charts with $23.5 million. The comedy adventure fell short of …
Normally, this is the section of an article where I come up with some witty hook to get you to watch the trailer below for whatever film we happen to be punting today. But at the moment I’m actually busy studying for an exam I’m writing next week, and can’t spare the brain power to come up with the catchy …
The last time director Steven Spielberg and actor/producer Tom Hanks teamed up together we got the two brilliant World War II miniseries Band of Brothers and The Pacific. Now the two Hollywood legends are teaming up again, except this time the war is kind of cold (as in the Cold War, get it Nick?). That doesn’t mean that the result, …
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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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