Welcome to Critical Hit’s 31 days of horror! It’s the month of spookiness, of frights and jump scares and we’re ready to celebrate! Over the decades, pop culture has managed to create eerie atmospheres, scenes of terror that can’t be contained within a single genre and we’re looking back at the films, video games and the many maniac moments that …
You would be forgiven for thinking that Jackie is a biopic. With yet another Hollywood actress transmogrifying herself to become a beloved world icon on-screen, the film certainly appears to snugly fit the biopic profile. But biopics are generally life stories. Jackie is a life-after-death story.
Jackie is the upcoming biographical drama starring Natalie Portman as former US First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy in the days following the assassination of her husband, US President John F. Kennedy. It’s been getting rave reviews from its screenings at various film festivals, and picked up a number of awards to boot, so let’s take a look. The official plot synopsis …
Natalie Portman could be up for another Oscar if this brief portrayal of her role in the new film Jackie is anything to go by...
Terry Gilliam’s Don Quixote may be shelved again. This is not related to the huge accidental obituary mishap from a few weeks ago but due to his lead actor John Hurt (Don Quixote) battling with pancreatic cancer. The Man Who Killed Don Quixote has been a passion project that Gilliam has been working on since the late ’90s. However some flooding, …
In an attempt to combat climate change and bring down global temperatures in mid-2014 mankind unwittingly destroyed all they sought to protect and caused the extinction of nearly all life on Earth. Seventeen years later the old world is a fading memory and all that remains of humanity is bound together in a strict class system on a single world-spanning …
Hercules, the latest offering from oft internet whipping boy Brett “I nearly killed the X-Men franchise” Ratner, is actually the third film (behind Hercules Reborn and The Legend of Hercules, because Hollywood) about the mythological demigod to hit screens in 2014. And out of the three offerings, by tackling those mythological aspects in a very novel way, it ends up hitting hardest – …
With its release date just a few weeks away, it’s time to ask if YOU… CAN… SMEEEEEEEEELLLLULULHLHLLULULLL… WHAT HERCULES IS COOKING?! And you should, because as we now enter the final straight of Dwayne Johnsons’ new mythological action adventure, Lionsgate has set their marketing campaign to demigod-mode. The studio has unleashed 30 new stills from the film, alongside a brand …
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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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