To paraphrase little orphan Annie: instead of treated, the US box office got tricked this weekend past! With this year’s Halloween falling on Saturday, usually the busiest day for American cinemas, it meant that total revenue for the weekend was way down at just above $70 million – the lowest weekend take for the year thus far. And with cineamgoers …
You just can’t keep a good man down, especially if that man is a genius botanist/astronaut who is willing to eat poop-potatoes to survive! In its fourth week on the charts, Ridley Scott’s brilliant The Martian returned to the top of the US box office this weekend past with an impressive $15.9 million haul. Well, that’s impressive for a fourth …
“Ladies and gentlemen, we have our first Oscar frontrunners… Steve Jobs and Michael Fassbender.” Those aren’t my prognosticating words, but that rather of David Poland, one of the film critics who was in attendance at Telluride Film Festival for the premiere of Steve Jobs, the upcoming biopic starring Fassbender as the controversial late Apple boss, directed by Danny Boyle (Trainspotting, …
The teaser trailer for Steve Jobs was much like the products created by its eponymous late tech guru – flashy and got lots of people talking, but honestly didn’t have many features, and the ones it did have, we’ve all seen before. I believe this is where I drop the obligatory “Bazinga!”, right? Jokes aside though, just like so many …
Whether you consider him a visionary or a copy-cat tyrant, there’s very little doubt that late Apple boss Steve Jobs had a significant impact on modern society and its technology. Which is certainly a lot more than can said of jObs, the rather lacklustre 2013 movie that tried to tell the controversial figure’s life story but ended up quite ho-hum, …
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Before we continue, I would just like to point out that yes I am fully aware of how that headline might read, but we run a family friendly business here and I’ll have none of your dirty thoughts sullying the place, thank you very much! Now onto the most important business: How Ashton Kutcher is better than Michael Fassbender. The …
Welcome to The Extras! A daily dose of all the smaller movie related news, clips and just plain cool stuff that you might have missed! Last Updated: January 28, 2015
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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