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Thanks to the work of Sylvester Stallone and his two Expendables movies, old people shooting guns are now considered cool, and not just menaces to society as my grandma and her M4 Carbine found out (hey, she lives in a rough neighbourhood!). But sooner or later, some young whippersnappers also need a chance to blow stuff up with the geriatrics, and that’s …

Love or hate him, but there’s no denying that Mel Gibson knows how to portray an upper-f**ker of people when he’s in front of the camera for a change. Despite being a bit long in the tooth, there’s a certain fad right now in seeing seniors go on a killing spree, as evidenced in Taken and The Expendables. And it …

Movies have a strong tradition with the crazy side of the military world, be it the deadpan Jarhead, the weird Men Who Stare At Goats, the zany Good Morning Vietnam or the greatest of them all, MASH. In the early nineties two actors teamed up for another such journey, this time the antics of a covert air force operated by …

Whenever a story about Mad Max: Fury Road, it always feel like I need to remind myself that yes, this movie is actually being made. This is because of two reasons: Firstly, it’s been nearly 30 years since the last film, and secondly, this movie feels like it has been in development for just as long. That may be quite the …

Is your Thursday refusing to end? Do you need a dose of Mexican blood, gore and unadulterated violence that has Sofia Vergara firing bullets from her bra and crotch gun while Mel Gibson steals the show?  Then buddy, I have a trailer that you might want to see. Last Updated: September 19, 2013

  Films often take big liberties when it comes to the facts. Some claim ‘based on a true story’, others like to twist the truth a little. But there is a line between fact and fiction, especially when a movie claims it is historical. A few miss this line completely. In fact, they went to entirely the wrong field. Last …

After last week’s final addition of Glen Powell to the cast for The Expendables 3, star/producer Sylvester Stallone and director Patrick Hughes were finally set to get this show on the road. And yesterday, thanks to a handy press release from Lionsgate including the final cast list as well as the first official synopsis for the explodathon threequel, we learned that …