Remember when your parents told you that playing video games all day wasn’t a real job? Oh how the tables have turned. With the youth culture of today preferring to get their entertainment from a wide range of professional streamers who broadcast their digital antics on various media platforms, you can find success as a professional video game player. Whether …
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Despite it being mentioned right there in the title, there’s very little left in Liongates’ box office smashing dystopian sci-fi series that is a game. The Hunger Games may have started its cinematic adaptation life as a poppy brightly coloured YA spectacle masquerading as thinly veiled social commentary courtesy of Gary Ross’ briskly entertaining first film, but ever since Francis Lawrence …
The highly successful The Hunger Games story will be coming to an end this November. The franchise has certainly been extremely popular among movie goers and has earned its creators plenty of cash along the way. I have enjoyed the journey so far and am really looking forward to The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 2 and with the imminent …
The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 1 was essentially half a good movie. How you take that sentence will depend entirely on what you thought of it – either only half of the movie was good, or it was a good movie but clearly only the first half of a story. I fell into the second camp, which is why …
Stand back, JJ Abrams. There are some new masters of the “Mystery Box” in town. On Monday afternoon some Hollywood press (via Mashable) received emails with a new viral poster for the upcoming final chapter in the Hunger Games saga, telling them that “Tomorrow, 6.9.15, the Mockingjay will be heard. The Capitol must fall so that we may be free”. …
Damn, how about that Spider-Man news from yesterday? Have we all recovered yet? Because, I don’t know about you, but I think it’s a pretty freaking huge deal! Having Spider-man officially form part of the Marvel Cinematic Universe is massive, and speaks volumes about where the MCU is heading and what we can (hopefully) expect from upcoming storylines. Slightly less …
If you enjoyed the The Hunger Games and The Hunger Games: Catching Fire, then I have some potentially bad news for you: You may not find this penultimate chapter in the story of reluctant but incendiary rebel icon Katniss Everdeen (Jennifer Lawrence) agreeable with your palette. That’s not to say that Mockingjay – Part 1 is a bad film – far from it, …
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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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