Let’s be honest: Movies based on video games suck. As a fan of video games, this makes me very angry. Not angry enough to slingshot myself at some green pigs though, which is what the fowl of addictive smash hit video game Angry Birds have been doing for years now. But why? No, not “why do video games suck?”, as …

In what is sure to cost parents an arm and a wing in merchandise once again, the cash in highly anticipated movie adaptation of insanely popular mobile game Angry Birds has just released some more pictures, this time including the green pigs! Yay? I don’t know what I just wrote. I mean, video games have been used as a source for …

One-time funny man Adam Sandler has recently been making headlines for all the wrong reasons as he finds himself embroiled in a nasty racism row surrounding a comedy-western he’s currently shooting. But thanks to Pixels, making grossly offensive jokes about Native Americans won’t be the worst thing Sandler does this year. Based on Patrick Jean’s charmingly retro 2010 short film …

No, you didn’t have a bad dream after eating some bad shrimp; a sequel to the Ivan Reitman directed 1988 comedy Twins is indeed in the works. The original film starred the odd couple pairing of Arnold Schwarzenegger and Danny DeVito as the titular test-tube siblings, and may have have been a middling success critically, but was a gigantic smash …

Roger Ebert, the famed film critic who passed away in 2013, is the subject of the multi-award winning 2014 documentary Life Itself. However he’s also set to be portrayed in another, more unusual, project – Russ and Roger Go Beyond. It’s billed as a comedy based on the real events surrounding the collaboration between Russ Meyer, writer and director of …

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You ever wonder if making games that allow players to massacre extraterrestrial foes may be a bad idea? Well in Pixels, it certainly is. When an alien armada picks up a feed of classic games such as Space Invaders and Centipede, games wherein players have to mow down the alien opposition like a fat kid in a candy store, they …

The diminutive funny man Kevin Hart (Think Like a Man, Grudge Match) may not be a big deal when it comes to physical stature, but he apparently is when it comes to the Hollywood box-office. You may have notices that Hart seems to be popping up in every second movie nowadays, so much so that he has clearly exhausted his …