Four new movies open in South Africa today, and the question is whether locals will continue to flock to tried and tested sequel faves like Despicable Me 2 and The Wolverine, or become enamored with the geek-bait that is my movie pick of the week. And that is… Last Updated: August 2, 2013
It wasn’t a particularly memorable weekend for the box office, as the past couple of days saw returns that were underwhelming at best. Clocking in with a total of $73 million, the box office experienced the third lowest grossing weekend of the year. But with The Hobbit right around the corner, business should be picking up again soon. Here’s a …
With the North American box office feeling the sleepy-eyed results of a Thanksgiving weekend from last week, the takings on offer were pretty much just leftovers. Twilight, Skyfall and Lincoln held onto their top three spots for the third week in a row, while new releases Killing them softly and The Collection made less of a splash than a hastily …
In his 2000 directorial debut he choppe(re)d up Eric Bana and then in 2007 had a cowardly Casey Affleck assassinate Brad Pitt, and now writer/director Andrew Dominik is back 5 years later with his third feature film, Killing Them Softly, teaming up with Pitt once again. I’ve been keenly interested in the film ever since I first heard of it, and the first …
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I loved writer-director Andrew Dominik’s The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford, not just for having a title so long that you need to stop for a smoke break mid-way through while saying it, but because it was a damn fine movie filled with great characters. One of those characters, the eponymous Jesse James, was played to …
When it was announced that Coogan’s Trade, director Andrew Dominik’s mob-thriller follow-up to The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (*breathe*), was being renamed to Killing Them Softly, I was a tad bit disappointed. It was a very generic sounding new title that downplayed Brad Pitt’s mob-enforcer character, Coogan, in favour of a not-so-clever pun on a Roberta Flack song. …
Welcome to The Extras! A daily dose of all the smaller movie related news, clips and just plain cool stuff that you might have missed! Last Updated: May 23, 2012
Film classification in the UK is designed to help audiences understand what content is …
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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