Opening wide in South African cinemas from today are the following 3 movies: Total Recall: The classic Arnie and Paul Verhoeven sci-fi actioner receives the 21st Century remake treatment. This time Colin Farrell is the disgruntled blue-collar worker of the future who gets more than he bargained for when he signs up for memory implants. Suddenly our hero is revealed …
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Pascal Laugier certainly made a splash on the horror scene with 2009’s Martyrs. It may have divided audiences on the merit of it’s torture-porn, but there’s no denying that it showed off Laugier’s willingness to push boundaries. You would think that for his follow-up he’d be upping the ante even further (which would have put him in Lars Von Trier territory), but instead …
The Total Recall reboot is getting made no matter how much us fans of Paul Verhoeven’s original bitch about it, so the best we hope for now that this new one is actually good. Casting great actors and going back to the source material of Phillip K. Dick’s book instead of ripping off Verhoeven verbatim was always a good place to …
Back at the beginning of the year we profiled the 25 most interesting and eagerly anticipated movie releases from the first 6 months of 2012. Now it’s time to consider the treats in store for cinemagoers in the second half of the year. The Dictator: The latest no holds barred, politically incorrect comedy from Borat and Ali G star Sacha …
I’m not a fan of Len Wiseman, whose work I feel is the directorial equivalent of an empty Tupperware bowl: it comes in pretty colours but totally vacuous and plastic. I’m even less of a fan of reboots, especially when they’re rebooting a true genre classic. And yet, there is something about the new Total Recall that is somehow appealing …
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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