It’s now just a week and a half until the next film in the Marvel Cinematic Universe releases on 28 March – so today we want to know how amped you are for Captain America: The Winter Soldier? Especially since initial Twitter word of mouth was so crazy positive. Blown away by the promotional material? Couldn’t care less about Cap? …
With the mammoth critical and commercial success of The Lego Movie – hell, it’s Kervyn’s favourite film of 2014 to date – as well as recent (and upcoming) films inspired by the Transformers and GI Joe action figures, today we want to know what other toys you think would successfully make the leap to the big screen? We’ve had movies …
So this year’s Academy Awards was evidently the best watched in a decade. But today we want to hear what you think about the Oscars in general. Do you think they still matter, if they ever did? Apart from the red carpet watching, do you think the awards ceremony has any impact on the average movie-goer? Does it make you …
Children of the 80s and 90s, you may remember a time when movie special effects weren’t computer generated. They were actually practical; they existed in some tangible form or other (stop-motion models, miniatures, latex make-up effects etc.) in our reality. So today’s question is: do you miss practical special effects? Do you think CGI is ruining the movie experience, creating …
As I’m sure many of you are aware, The Avengers sequel Age of Ultron is currently filming in South Africa (Joburg and Cape Town specifically). You can even read our article on how the filmmakers are Seff Efrikenning up the sequel’s global destruction. Today we want to know if any locals out there have any Avengers behind the scenes stories? Have …
Seeing as it’s Valentine’s Day on Friday, today we want you to list your favourite big screen love stories. And by all means, they don’t have to be the obvious choices… Happy, sad, fairy tale or painfully real – what pierces straight through the crusty outer coating of your heart, and leaves you with a serious case of The Feels? …
With new trailers just unveiled during the Super Bowl for The Amazing Spider-Man 2 and Captain America: The Winter Soldier, plus both Guardians of the Galaxy AND massively ambitious X-Men: Days of Future Past ramping up their promo material, the time has come to debate which superhero flick will be ultimate box office champion and (maybe) critical darling of 2014. …
Right, so last week Forbes Magazine ran an opinion piece predicting that the biggest box office bombs to come out of Hollywood this year will be Godzilla, RoboCop and Guardians of the Galaxy. What do you think? Is this typical “we want it to fail” commentary from cynical Hollywood observers, or does the writer have a point? Do you think …
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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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