In the battle for biggest and best superhero movie cast, 2016 sees two franchises (both based on Marvel comics but only one produced by the comic book company) facing off: X-Men: Apocalypse and Captain America: Civil War. But whereas the latter is seemingly setting things up to come, X-Men: Apocalypse is essentially the final chapter in the current saga that …
The mid to late 1990s were ruled by the British. The Spice Girls, Oasis and some other bands that I’ve forgotten about all took to the charts, and conquered it in a manner that made American groups dump their pants in the Boston harbour. But keeping those pop stars in check, was a tall order. And when you’re in charge …
Hey! It’s that time of the week again! No, not Adventure Time. It is however, time to gloss over some low-resolution scans from the Entertainment Weekly magazine, that are all geared towards the upcoming X-Men: Apocalypse. It’s all here: New mutants, Oscar Isaacs as the titular Apocalypse and Olivia Munn as the psychic ninja Psylocke, in a costume that was ripped …
The X-Men franchise has been a series that truly has understood the idea of evolution. It’s a theory that has allowed the films to be massively successful, while remaining mostly fresh. The original films made the superhero genre a blockbuster concept, the solo films were spin-off licenses to print money and the current First Class and Days of Future Past movies were …
Sigh. It appears that Relativity’s long-gestating remake of cult classic Brandon Lee action thriller The Crow may as well be vapourware at the moment. Just when the production was finally starting to pick up steam with a director in acclaimed music video and short film helmer Corin Hardy and a star in Boardwalk Empire alum Jack Huston, Variety now brings …
You could say that Charlize Theron is on a… furious-a run in Hollywood at the moment, after acting the crap (and most of the dialogue) out of Mad Max: Fury Road. And next up for her is Dark Places, an adaptation of Gone Girl writer Gillian Flynn’s novel that sees Theron teaming once again with her chrome and shiny Mad …
What a day! Oh what a lovely day! This weekend past saw a movie released that has been nearly two decades in the making. As any unfortunate soul who has waited a relative eternity on the sequel of a popular product can tell you — Oh, wait. They actually can’t tell you anything, because they’re still crying over how terrible …
It’s not quite clear what Mad Max: Fury Road is. It could be a sequel to writer/director George Miller’s seminal 1979 Mel Gibson starring original, as it references events in that movie. But it also slightly changes those events (Max has now lost a daughter to bandits, instead of a son), so is this then a remake? Well, not quite …
Cloud gaming removed hardware barriers, but it replaced them with something less visible and …
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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