Weekend box office report 11 - 13 January 2019: Aquaman is finally dethroned in the US as remake The Upside exceeds expectations, but becomes first DCEU film to make $1 billion.
Local weekend box office report 4 - 6 January 2019 - Newcomers Luis the Alien, Dumplin', and Blindspotting all barely made a dent as Aquaman continued to rule local cinemas for a third week.
Weekend box office report 4 - 6 January 2019: Aquaman keeps on swimming its way into the comic book movie record books, while Transformers prequel Bumblebee finally starts transforming all its critical praise into some big money!
2018 has been quite a year for movies. Not only did we once again see Hollywood studios make more money than ever, but it also saw the release of some exceptional movies that could easily become future classics. No year is perfect though and it just wouldn’t be memorable if there weren’t some turds amongst the diamonds on offer. So exactly what were the year’s highlights and lowlights?
Despite kicking off to a relatively enjoyable start, Michael Bay's Transformers film franchise soon devolved into a cacophonous excess of explosions and bad toilet humour. But with a new creative visionary at the helm in the form of Travis Knight, it's time for this franchise to do what Transformers do best: Change.
Bumblebee is shaping up to be the best Transformer movie yet. Ans his idea for a sequel would probably be even better.
If you're a fan of the classic Transformers cartoons and got really tired of the increasingly noisy and incoherent Transformers movies stuff full of grating human characters and not much else, well then it would seem that the Bumblebee movie is here to transform your opinion of this franchise.
It's not just Bumblebee who's getting an old-school redesign in his solo movie, but plenty of other Autobot and Decepticon icons as well!
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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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