You don’t often hear this, but there is one film out there that stars a combination of Adam Sandler, Kevin James, Steve Buscemi (guilty by assosciation!) and David Spade that won’t have you running for the exit. That film is Hotel Transylvania, an animated flick that went through several levels of development hell before animation legend Genddy Tartakovsky arrived to …
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Kids today! They don’t know what real video games are! I’m talking classics like Donkey Kong, Pac Man and Space Invaders! Those classic games set up gaming as we know it, and that was despite the fact that some of them were finger-blisteringly difficult as well! So who ya gonna call when old school video game characters attack the planet! Adam Sandler …
The “it” in that headline up top of course being the uncanny ability to remind us of just how painfully and excruciatingly long a two and a half minute trailer can feel. See I have a confession to make: The only two reasons why I’m posting about Paul Blart: Mall Cop 2 is to remind you that we live in a …
You can make as much fun of the first, horrendous Paul Blart: Mall Cop movie as much as you want. It doesn’t change the fact that the people who made it laughed all the way to the bank, because that movie made over $183 million worldwide off of a budget of just $26 million. In fact, $146 million came from …
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 …
In case you somehow didn’t know, we love our videogames around here. And we’ve been loving them for a very long time [insert Vietnamese prostitute’s voice here], which is why we really took to Patrick Jean’s retro-inspired short film Pixels. A lot of Hollywood bigwigs felt the same way, and it’s now being turned into a feature film. And according …
The box office is no stranger to getting bad comedies dumped on it, judging by the fact that Tyler Perry released several Madea films in 2013 alone. But even cinema fans have limits that can be broken, with Paul Blart: Mall Cop easily annihilating any good will to watching movies way back in 2009. And now the most unnecessary film …
Have you ever double-checked your doors at night because something just didn’t feel secure? …
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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