On paper, The Lone Ranger sounds like a sure thing. For all intents and purposes the character is a Wild West Batman (who’s not Zorro), a masked hero fighting for justice outside a compromised legal system. Although older generations will remember the character more fondly than younger audiences, the Lone Ranger is an American Pop Culture icon. And he’s being …
Four films open in South Africa today. It’s a big week for ensemble casts although the biggie release is very much in the midyear blockbuster mould… for better or worse. Last Updated: July 12, 2013
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Holy crap, Disney still wants to make movies that are guaranteed box office hits? Outrageous! Yep, Disney is going ahead with a fifth film that will no dount star Johnny Depp as the infamous Jack Sparrow, a buccaneer with a devil may care attitude and bad breath that could kill a donkey on the poop deck. Of course, they’re going …
Here’s a fun fact: out of all of the LEGO play set genres, Pirate LEGO is absolutely and unequivocally the best of the bunch. When I was younger my family would often have to go weeks without the use of the dining room table because I’d spread my vast collection of Pirate LEGO play sets all over it. True story. Traveller’s …
Do you like the LEGO games? I think gamers either love them for their quirky take on movie franchises and the bucket-loads of nostalgia they induce, or they hate them because those gamers have no souls and were probably forced to play with used syringes and toilet rolls when they were kids. Anyway! There have been quite a few LEGO …
It’s true, you can probably count the number of good film-to-game titles on one hand, but the Pirates of the Caribbean game was looking really, really cool. Now it’s dead; it’s deader than Barbossa and his entire crew combined. For those of you who didn’t know, the POTC game was being developed by Propaganda Games and published by Disney Interactive …
Film classification in the UK is designed to help audiences understand what content is …
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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