Back in June, the first trailer for director Ridley Scott’s The Martian popped up, delivering a rather solid and condensed punch of info detailing that Matt Damon would need to science the sh** out of Mars in order to survive being stranded on that planet. But that trailer was missing something. And that something, was Jimi Hendrix. Here’s the latest …
Director Steven Soderbergh and star/producer Channing Tatum’s semi-biographical infectiously shlocky male stripper fest Magic Mike may have been a big hit at the box office (I’m guessing they were paid in a mountain of sodden $1 bills) but there were still lots of people – I’m looking at you, fellow hetero males – who refused to watch a bunch of …
Space! The final frontier! Unless you’re director Ridley Scott that is. I’ll be the first person to admit that the end result of his last cosmic flick, Prometheus, was pretty much a cluster-fudge of incredibly stupid moments in sci-fi. That being said however, Scott still directed a film that looked beautifully stupid. Technically, it was a fantastic piece of cinema. …
Another community evening saw the movie The Lazarus Effect entertain our readers in both Cape Town and Johannesburg, this time with no rolling blackouts and no problems with movie codes and keys. So, after the popcorn was munched and the drinks slurped what was the general consensus of the movie? Was it a hot, or a not? Well let me put my two …
One of the first horror movies that made me dream all kinds of crazy was the 1990 cult classic Flatliners, a story about a group of students who deliberately end their lives to be brought back at the last minute. Only problem is they end up bringing things back with them. Hang on, I think I just gave you the synopsis for …
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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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