This summer, visionary filmmaker M. Night Shyamalan unveils a chilling, mysterious new thriller about a family on a tropical holiday who discover that the secluded beach where they are relaxing for a few hours is somehow causing them to age rapidly … reducing their entire lives into a single day.
There’s a story behind A Knight’s Tale that’s well worth experiencing, and now that it’s almost old enough to legally drink in the US of A, it’s time to celebrate one of the best movies of a terrific year in cinema.
Anthony (Anthony Hopkins) is 80, mischievous, living defiantly alone and rejecting the carers that his daughter, Anne (Olivia Colman), encouragingly introduces. Yet help is also becoming a necessity for Anne; she can’t make daily visits anymore and Anthony's grip on reality is unravelling. As we experience the ebb and flow of his memory, how much of his own identity and past can Anthony cling to? How does Anne cope as she grieves the loss of her father, while he still lives and breathes before her?
Rise, an incredible 2016 sci-fi short film starring the late Anton Yelching, is being adapted as a full length feature film. Watch the original here!
The last time Alex Proyas got behind the camera to dabble in the fantasy genre, we got both The Crow and Dark City, two cult classics that are still pretty damn cool today. Hell, even I, Robot was rather entertaining despite its bastardization of Isaac Aasimov’s original texts. So of course you can be damn sure that I was always …
We’re currently in the US Fall TV season, which means that we’re up to our necks in brand new TV series. We’ve already had a couple breakouts (Blindspot, Quantico) and a few that looked doomed to an early death (Minority Report, Scream Queens), but there’s one that’s yet to arrive that I’m probably more excited about than all the rest …
The acclaimed literary works of science-fiction visionary Phillip K. Dick has been inspiring Hollywood for decades. Blade Runner, Total Recall, Minority Report, Paycheck, A Scanner Darkly, Next, The Adjustment Bureau and more have all come from stories he penned. Due to Dick’s layered storytelling and big ideas though, several of his works have often been thought of as unfilmable and …
Hercules, the latest offering from oft internet whipping boy Brett “I nearly killed the X-Men franchise” Ratner, is actually the third film (behind Hercules Reborn and The Legend of Hercules, because Hollywood) about the mythological demigod to hit screens in 2014. And out of the three offerings, by tackling those mythological aspects in a very novel way, it ends up hitting hardest – …
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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