Normally we try and inject a witty reference to a trailer in the headline, but I’m at a bit of a loss here since Hot Pursuit has a really unremarkable trailer. But that doesn’t mean it will be a bad movie. Last Updated: April 10, 2015
This week the world said goodbye not only to renowned novelist Terry Pratchett, but also to one of the men who helped create the longest-running TV sitcom in history and the world’s best-known family. Last Updated: March 13, 2015
[column size=one_half position=first ] Hip hop does not get a whole lot of attention in movies. Even with the NWA biopic Straight Outta Compton arriving soon, the list of films that cover hip hop as a topic is a pretty anaemic one. The last movie of real significance about the genre – that wasn’t a documentory – was probably 8 …
After months of speculation the word is finally out on who the new Ghostbusters will be – and it’s not all that surprising. Last Updated: January 28, 2015
Roger Ebert, the famed film critic who passed away in 2013, is the subject of the multi-award winning 2014 documentary Life Itself. However he’s also set to be portrayed in another, more unusual, project – Russ and Roger Go Beyond. It’s billed as a comedy based on the real events surrounding the collaboration between Russ Meyer, writer and director of …
[column size=one_half position=first ] By the mid-Eighties animatronic special effects were good enough to make some impressive monsters. This led to Joe Dante and Steven Spielberg’s Gremlins, a movie that imbued into an entire generation to never feed exotic creatures after midnight. Last Updated: December 15, 2014
[column size=one_half position=first ] Oh Val Kilmer, what has become of you? The notoriously difficult actor has certainly fallen from grace in the last decade or so. Last Updated: October 27, 2014
Whenever I think of Jason Priestley, I’m reminded of the innocent face of his character in the original Beverly Hills 90210, Last Updated: September 23, 2014
Cloud gaming removed hardware barriers, but it replaced them with something less visible and …
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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