Up until George Miller’s recent “mad” resurgence, I would have said that Guillermo Del Toro is probably the most visually imaginative director working in the Hollywood studio system. The Pan’s Labyrinth and Pacific Rim helmer builds such sumptuously fantastical worlds in his movies, that even if the movies themselves don’t always work holistically, at least they look utterly amazing. With …
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I don’t believe in ghosts at all. But I also never used to believe that I would see a live-action Hollywood blockbuster where a giant robot uses a freight ship as baseball bat to bliksem a giant sea-monster in the face, and writer-director Guillermo Del Toro (Pan’s Labyrinth, Hellboy series, Pacific Rim) sure changed that. Maybe he can do the same for …
BWAAAAAPP!! The Inception foghorn has become a staple in movie trailers ever since Chris Nolan started telling Leonardo DiCaprio to go deeper (not like that, you pervs!). The ear-drum shattering soundbyte has since been used to denote any major action beat in several trailers, much to the ever-increasing annoyance of fans. And for some reason its in the latest trailer for …
Vampires have had a really bad time of it ever since the Twilight series came out. Gone are the days of the decadent, broody, romantic Anne Rice vampires, replaced instead with creepy, sparkly, washed-out wimps from Stephanie Meyer’s wish-fulfilment fantasies. Last Updated: March 10, 2014
The first full length trailer for The Double didn’t reveal much. Besides for the voice-over revealing the plot in metaphor, all we saw were quick scenes from the movie that made it look like a psychological thriller, and not the comedy that it supposedly is. Last Updated: March 3, 2014
It’s a well known fact that the entire continent of Australia – fauna, flora and even every grain of sand – has been specifically designed to try and kill human beings. And yet, people keep going there. And in the case of Robyn Davidson, a travel writer and naturalist, she walked right into the worse parts of it for 9 …
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: November 25, 2013
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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