I’m an adventurous, outdoorsy guy, often in possession of more grit than grey matter, which is why during the sweeping opening 15 minutes or so of Everest, director Baltasar Kormakur’s retelling of the real life events surrounding a calamitous 1996 expedition to summit the titular mountain, I thought to myself that one day if I should have the financial independence, …
I’ve kind of got a soft spot for mountaineering films. Alive, Cliffhanger and Vertical Limit all hold spots in my DVD shelf, all part of a genre that is about as dangerous to touch as an ascent up the K2 mountains of the Himalayas. That all seems to be changing with Everest however, as that flick won’t only boast one …
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“Every good man has a little bit of bad,” remarks Robin Wright’s character to a German accented Philip Seymour Hoffman in this trailer for A Most Wanted Man. She’s talking about a potential terrorist, but she may as well have been talking about Hoffman himself. The insanely talented, Oscar winning thesp was found dead in his apartment earlier this year, …
It has been confirmed that Sam Worthington and Robin Wright are joining the rather stellar cast of the upcoming 2015 Movie Everest. The film, which is set to release in September of 2015 tracks the true story of the doomed mission to the summit of the world’s highest mountain Everest. Worthington will play Guy Potter and Wright his wife Peach. …
There is many a porno that owes their “script” to the assumption that all young men want to jump the bones of their friends’ hot mothers. Hell, there is even a term for it: MILF. This expression is usually followed by somebody, drinking beer out of a red plastic cup, fist bumping with his bro. Unfortunately, outside of porno’s and …
When Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, the anti-Bourne of the espionage genre, arrived to much acclaim last year, it seemed to herald in a new phase of slow burn spy thrillers that was all brains with very little brawn. But while Tomas Alfredsson’s take on John Le Carré’s tale was brilliant, Anton Corbijn’s The American was already burning slow a few …
While I certainly have a taste for the mindless antics of manly men packing hand-cannons that spew out bullets faster than they can deliver one-liners, I do also like movies that engage the brain and get you thinking. And then there movies that get you thinking about what it is that you may have possibly ingested by accident to suddenly …
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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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