BAMF! Popping up out of nowhere like, well, like a blue skinned mutant with instant teleportation powers, director Bryan Singer has unveiled our first look at young actor Kodi Smit-McPhee in costume as Nightcrawler in the upcoming 1980’s set X-Men: Apocalypse. And then that Instagram post was removed for some mysterious reason. But not before it was tweeted out by …
The new mutants, they are a-comin’! With X-Men Apocalypse featuring an all-new cast of children of the atom, plenty of new faces are popping up so far for Bryan Singer’s follow-up to X-Men: Days Of Future Past. And add one Olivia Munn to that cast, as she’ll be wielding a psychic knife as the improbably-named Psylocke in that sequel. Which …
It seems classic science fiction is popular in Hollywood at the moment, what with Isaac Asimov’s Foundation recently being given the adaptation treatment. Now X-Men director and producer Bryan Singer has been tapped by Twentieth Century Fox (via THR) to produce an adaption of the classic Robert A. Heinlein sci-fi novel The Moon Is A Harsh Mistress, with Mark Guggenheim …
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Forget Winter, the Phoenix is coming – along with a muddy boy and deceased pop star – and it’s going to get apocalyptic. Yes, after months of casting rumours and short lists that were actually quite long, director Bryan Singer took to Twitter to unveil that Sophie Turner (Game of Thrones), Tye Sheridan (Mud, The Tree of Life) and Alexandra Shipp …
From award winning creator Vince Gilligan, who brought us Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul in February, comes a new cop show called Battle Creek. This time though Gilligan isn’t going it alone and has teamed up with House creator David Shore to bring us a show that looks a lot lighter than what we would expect. Featuring Josh Duhamel (Transformers) and Dean Penn (John Wick) as detectives working the …
If Oscar Isaac isn’t careful, he just might become a geek culture icon. The talented actor spent years working the indie scene too much critical praise in movies like Inside Llewyn Davis and A Most Violent Year, but now he’s really jumped into the pop culture spotlight playing an X-Wing pilot in the new Star Wars as well as tackling the titular …
X-Men: The Last Stand didn’t happen. Sure there’s a lot more that you can take away from Bryan Singer’s incredible X-Men: Days of Future Past, but that movie’s timeline-changing shenanigans resulting in the events of the much maligned Bret Ratner directed third X-Men flick now having been eradicated is a big one. This is not only because The Last Stand sucked hairy …
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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