A movie about men who drive fast cars around a track over and over… On paper that’s not exactly a concept with universal appeal. Although there are millions of motor racing enthusiasts the world over, the simple fact is that sport racing traditionally doesn’t make for a particularly satisfying movie experience. If you don’t count the acclaimed Senna documentary, the last …
I’ve been eagerly anticipating Ron Howard’s Rush for quite a while now. The film looks solid, the cast is top notch and the attention to swinging seventies detail is remarkeable. Plus fast cars, which makes me giggle on the inside. We’re only going to see the film in the first days of October though, so the wait is becoming a …
The latest season of Formula One has been particularly gripping this year, especially for those drivers who weren’t using Pirelli tyres. But it’s the kind of sport that has some legendary history, of epic races and rivalries that took place on the tracks. Rush chronicles one such battle between drivers. Here’s the latest trailer for it which focuses on that …
When Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, the anti-Bourne of the espionage genre, arrived to much acclaim last year, it seemed to herald in a new phase of slow burn spy thrillers that was all brains with very little brawn. But while Tomas Alfredsson’s take on John Le Carré’s tale was brilliant, Anton Corbijn’s The American was already burning slow a few …
Earlier this week, we brought you the adrenaline fueled UK trailer for Ron Howard’s Rush, the true story of one of Formula 1’s greatest rivalries between James Hunt and Niki Lauda. Of course though, whenever the British do something cool the Americans want to release their own version (e.g. Top Gear, Being Human, colonization of third world countries, etc) so …
Thanks to some marvel-ous godly intervention, walking Pantene ad Chris Hemsworth’s rise to superstardom certainly happened pretty fast. However, he’s about to go faster. Much much faster. This is thanks to Rush, the new film from director Ron Howard (Apollo 13, A Beautiful Mind) and writer Peter Morgan (Frost/Nixon, Hereafter), which takes an in-depth look at one of Formula 1’s greatest …
Sherlock is one of our favourite TV series around these parts and the fact that we might only get new episodes in 2015 has left us howling like the hound of the Baskervilles. But what are you going to do when star Benedict Cumberbatch just keeps on landing big movie gigs? He’s the new Star Trek baddie, he’s the dragon Smaug in The …
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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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