You know the old saying: You only get one chance to make a first impression. And in movies, that saying takes plenty of precedence. When you’ve got millions of dollars behind you and a small army of film crew recording your every move, you better make damn well sure that your first appearance in a movie is memorable. Here’s ten …
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles We all know what this is about, so I’m not going to bother with a full synopsis. They’re mutant turtle teenagers trained by a mutant rat to be ninjas, to fight the evil Shredder and The Foot clan, that about covers it. So, let’s talk about the controversy surrounding this movie’s existence instead! Nothing is more …
With global box office revenue already over $350 million on a budget of $125 million and releasing locally on Friday, a sequel to the TMNT reboot (which we reviewed here) was pretty much guaranteed; and has now been confirmed for 3 June 2016. But where will it take us? Well, newly revealed concept art may shed some light on the …
When Kervyn handed me what he insisted was the highly-coveted yet impractical-length Straw of Reviewing and pushed me out the door, giggling, to review Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, all I could think about was the negative cloud floating over the internet regarding this movie – the Turtles look terrible, we hate Megan Fox for some reason, the casting of William …
Denzel Washington, director Antoine Fuqua and a high concept action flick taking advantage of that burgeoning film genre wherein older men kick spectacular amounts of ass. How could it possibly fail? Well it most certainly didn’t, as The Equalizer took the top spot this weekend at the North American box office. Last Updated: September 29, 2014
The young adult market is notoriously hard to breach. For every Hunger Games and Twilight movie made, there’s a dozen Divergents waiting in the wings to fail. The Maze Runner on the other hand, might just be the start of a brand new YA franchise. Last Updated: September 22, 2014
It’s pretty much been one of the slowest box office summers in recent memory, with Guardians Of The Galaxy sitting at the top for several weeks now. Still, despite some massive success, that film was going to have to yield the throne to a new movie sooner or later. And it looks like one good deed of a film is …
The US of A box office summer hasn’t exactly been on fire lately. Some films have done well, but overall, it’s been a week movie-going period, one of the worst in history. And this weekend was the slowest one in two years, with Guardians making use of the lull in cinema receipts to once again emerge as the top dog. …
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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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