Every good action movie needs a chief antagonist or villain to make it really worthwhile. There is no point having all the good guys working to fight a cause when there isn’t someone you are supposed to be rooting against (or in my sadistic way, I often end up rooting for) on the other side. And who better to play …
Fast and Furious is one franchise that has seemingly being going in reverse from the usual trend we are seeing in movie franchises, where the first is the best and then each sequel tries to live up to the original. This is one franchise that has gotten better over time and while the characters may run a little stale – …
If the news that the upcoming Furious 8 (or Fast 8 or, my personal old-school gamer preference, F8al Furious) is actually just the start of a new movie trilogy for producer/star Vin Diesel and his “familia” of crazy car stunt specialists, left you thinking that there are just too many of these damn movies, well then this latest nugget …
If you don’t follow Fast & Furious star/producer Vin Diesel on Facebook, then you may not be aware of the brouhaha around the $4 billion franchise that has been developing over the last few weeks. A short while back, reports started surfacing of production troubles on the 8th Fast & Furious film claiming that Diesel was was the reason why …
The last time director F. Gary Gray and Ice Cube collaborated on a movie was the 1995 cult classic Friday. Now 20 years on we have Straight Outta Compton. A hard hitting biographical drama following the lives of some of hip hop’s biggest players and arguably the most notorious gangster rap group to come out of the states: NWA. Straight outta …
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If you I were a betting man, I’d say the good money would always be on a video game feature film adaptation sucking harder than a vacuum machine manufacturers convention. While there are exceptions (see: Silent Hill), history has taught us that most video game to movie adaptations should rather just be scrapped before the cameras start rolling. One such …
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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