Genres rise and fall in popularity across all art and entertainment forms, from artwork to literature to music to movies; the latter being most relevant to us here at The Movies for obvious reasons. The one movie genre that’s clearly riding that wave of popularity is the superhero, raking in billions of box office dollars not just from comic book …
Despite being quite the bibliophile, I never really read any of R.L. Stine’s classic kids-horror Goosebumps series, although I watched my fair share of it’s TV series adaptation back on good ol’ KTV (yes, I am that old!). Now, as with just about everything I remotely enjoyed watching in my childhood, a rebooted feature film is on the way. This new …
There’s no use in denying it: A big portion of the audience for R-rated comedy Sex Tape will be seeing it simply to ogle a practically naked, sexed up Cameron Diaz frolicking on screen. These people will leave the cinema slightly satisfied. Unfortunately, the same paltry assurance can’t even be made for everybody else. Annie (Diaz) and Jay (Jason Segel) used …
Growing up, I was a voracious reader of Goosebumps books. They were perfect gateway novels into more dangerous horror, with cheesy plots and decent twists. It wasn’t Twin Peaks cerebral material exactly, but for its time, it was great. A film is on the way now, with Jack Black as a fictional version of author R.L Stine. Check him out! …
With Joel Silver/Terry Gilliam and Zack Snyder recently taking turns to throw each other’s adaptation of Alan Moore’s Watchmen under the proverbial bus, there’s been a lot of talk of what could have been in the comic book adaptation. Inspired by that, I thought I’d take a look at 10 other comic book adaptations – some good, some bad and some nuttier …
Double Fine boss Tim Schafer would love to revisit his heavy metal love letter Brutal Legend in a sequel.
Jack Black returning to Double Fine to give a new character his voice.
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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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