Get ready for a 24-Hour Halloween Movie Marathon on TCM
Classic horror movie fans, get ready for a treat this Halloween, no tricks! There's a 24-hour Halloween Movie Marathon coming up, courtesy of TCM and DSTV.
Monday Box Office Report – I Spy
Starving for new movies? Well the box office is about to get a little bit busy ahead of the US summer season. With Jurassic World looking set to devour audiences within a few weeks, studios decided that it’d be safer to open up before that flick came stomping in. Which is how the box office debuted not one, not two …
Monday Box Office Report – San Andreas gets Rocked
Normally, the only box office disasters that we hear about involve films that fail to break a certain margin when it comes to numbers, not landscapes. But at least one disaster flick has managed to not only pull in the crowds, but prove that Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson can still lead a tentpole USA summer movie. After last year’s disappointing …
We review POLTERGEIST 3D – This remake should have stayed dead
Remakes get a bum rap. The oft-maligned “R” word often gets thrown around as the most toxic symptom of a creatively bankrupt modern Hollywood, but the truth is that people have been remaking movies for nearly as long as they’ve been making movies. And some of these remakes have in fact not just been superior to the original but are …
Movies out Today: 29 May 2015
In the wake of Kervyn’s announcement yesterday regarding The Extras posts, I’ve also decided to make a little change on the Movies Out Today posts. Instead of struggling to come up with headlines on a weekly basis (which is something that the other guys know I am seriously bad at), I’ve decided to just add a date to the headline. The …
Monday Box Office Report – Tomorrowland never dies
It was a sleepy weekend for the US box office, due to it being Memorial Day. A weekend that normally guarantees some blockbuster returns, didn’t exactly ignite as Brad Bird’s Tomorrowland fizzled into first place with an estimated take of just over $40 million. That ranks for the 22nd biggest Memorial Day weekend, of all time.. Still, it’s got time …
Competition: Win a HORROR DVD hamper!
It’s that time again when we dish out free heart palpitations prizes to our wonderful readers, and this time it’s quite a bundle of fear you could win! With the upcoming re-imagining of the classic 1982 horror flick Poltergeist just around the corner, the folks at Times Media Films have been gracious enough to offer three bundles of horror DVD’s to whet …
Extras! 02 April 2015
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