Yes, we’re right in the middle of the Hollywood awards season, with the Golden Globes taking place this weekend past, and the Oscar nominations being released later today. But while those two biggest awards shows are all about honouring achievements in movies, there’s another that exists for exactly the opposite. I’m of course talking about the Golden Raspberry Awards aka …
One-time funny man Adam Sandler has recently been making headlines for all the wrong reasons as he finds himself embroiled in a nasty racism row surrounding a comedy-western he’s currently shooting. But thanks to Pixels, making grossly offensive jokes about Native Americans won’t be the worst thing Sandler does this year. Based on Patrick Jean’s charmingly retro 2010 short film …
My favourite genre of movie is science-fiction, without a doubt. Better than that is science-fiction time-travel which plays with your mind. One such movie that filled that check-list was the 2011 Duncan “Moon” Jones directed Source Code. That Jake Gyllenhaal starrer earned a very respectable $201 million off just a $30 million budget, so it wasn’t too much of a surprise to …
What you’re about to witness is possibly the most expensive piece of fan fiction since Fifty Shades of Grey turned Edward and Bella from Twilight into sex-fiends. This first trailer for Playing It Cool (formerly titled A Many Splintered Thing) claims to be poking fun at really generic, paint by numbers rom-coms and then turns out to be exactly that. The difference though is that this …
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 …
With Jose Padilha’s Robocop reboot, Alejandro González Iñárritu’s ensemble comedy Birdman and Larry David’s HBO movie Clear History on his horizon, it seems like Michael Keeton is making a comeback. This is great news, because for a man who was once both Batman and Beetlejuice, his career was getting dangerously close to him heading up a new CSI spinoff. But while things are …
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Traci Braxton husband was Kevin Surratt Sr., a longtime partner who stood by her …
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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