When you think about it, The Fast And The Furious is kind of like the Godfather of modern day movies. Now while the idea of Don Corleone using a rock-bottom slam on a rival Mafia gang sounds like a sequel that will never ever be made, both movie universes do have one thing in common: Family. It’s all about sticking together …
If the NFL Super Bowl is known across the world for anything besides rugby-with-helmets, it’s the adverts. More specifically, movie adverts – or as us folk in the know like to call them… trailers. Well prepare to have your Ferrari of a quarterback sacked by the Mac truck of a linebacker as this terrible American soccer football and vehicular metaphor …
It feels like I’ve been writing about Seventh Son, an adaptation of popular YA fantasy novel “The Spook’s Apprentice”, for years now already. Oh, wait. I actually have been writing about it for years! The Jeff Bridges led flick finished its principal photography in back in 2012 already, but was then shelved when VFX company Rhythm & Hues went bankrupt (famously …
My wife is always saying that I’m prone to hyperbole (I call it creative writing), but I can assure you I’m not overstating anything when I say that outside of the original Iron Man, Guardians of the Galaxy is the most important movie Marvel has ever done. When the comic book film studio decided to bring us Tony Stark’s first …
Four new movies release in South Africa today, and it’s a combination of big name sequels and lesser known art house fare. How to Train Your Dragon 2: Screening in 2D and 3D is this fantasy adventure for the whole family, from DreamWorks Animation. Set several years after the events of the first film – and loosely based on Cressida …
Oh, man. I fear this isn’t really going to be a review at all. More a vomit of love, giddy excitement and my brain turning back the clock some 30 years to a time where I believed in magic and a world where people with passion entertained. How to Train Your Dragon first came out in 2010 and was loosely …
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August 2014 is crunch time for Marvel Studios. As the abs on most of their cinematic heroes can testify, Marvel knows about crunches, but not quite like this. 1 August sees the release of Guardians of the Galaxy, easily the most outlandish – and out-space-ish – offering from the comic book movie studio to date. The film will serve as a big …
Film classification in the UK is designed to help audiences understand what content is …
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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