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John Hillcoat’s The Road was the type of movie that would make you want to pour drain cleaner in your ears, it’s so depressing. But, man I loved it. Beautifully crafted and wonderfully acted, it was one of my highlights of 2009 (You know, when I wasn’t busy contemplating suicide). Which is why I’ve had my eye on his next film Lawless ever since I …
I’ve always held Guy Pearce in extremely high regard as an actor, but lately he’s just found himself wallowing in some pretty mediocre films. And while he always acquits himself admirably, the effluence around him be damned, he needs to start keeping some better company. John Hillcoat’s Lawless seems to be just that. Pearce looks like he’ll just be chewing …
Contrary to popular belief, Jessica Chastain will be not be starring in every single movie in Hollywood for the next 2 years. She came awfully close though, but unfortunately it would seem that those pesky universal rules of time and space has thrown the popular red-haired actress a curve ball. It had been widely reported that Chastain had somehow managed …
Previously titled The Wettest Country In the World, Lawless is the new film from director John Hillcoat – the man who kicked my emotions in the groin with The Road and made me love every single torturous second of it – and it looks like a doozy. Boasting a cast that makes me wet my pants in anticipation, this long-delayed true story of …
Jessica Chastain is a busy, busy woman. Appearing from seemingly out of nowhere, she had a bumper 2011, starring in The Help, The Debt, Tree of Life and Take Shelter. And while four big releases in a year will already be too much for some, she was also working on her own project with Joel Edgerton, as well as about …
To describe Take Shelter as one man’s struggle to (mentally) keep it together in an economically unstable, recessionary environment makes the film sound horribly bleak. It isn’t. But this quiet indie blend of domestic drama and psychological thriller IS horribly ominous. And at the same time, terrifically well acted. In Take Shelter, the future General Zod, Michael Shannon plays Curtis …
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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