Maybe there is a god, because it looked like Pixels was a massive flop at the North American box office over the weekend. Opening in second place with an estimated $24 million haul, Marvel’s Ant-Man narrowly beat Pixels to the top spot this weekend with $24.7 million taken. Opening on 3723 screens, the Adam Sandler flick failed to capitlise on …
Damn ants! First they were in my sugar! Then they started raiding the cat food! Now they’re in my cinema? IS THERE NO END TO MY SUFFERING? Ant-Man kicked the Phase 2 weekend off for Marvel, with an opening US weekend of just over $58 million. Disney projected around $60-$65 million on opening weekend for their smallest hero, so this …
Guys, there’s no easy way to break the news to you. If you wish that Despicable Me’s overexposed minions would die a horrible death after being shot into the cold, dark vacuum of space, then buckle: After this weekend, you can bet that more Minion movies are on the way. That’s because the predictably first movie starring the little yellow …
So it’s a Friday and what better way to start the weekend than by winning something? One could say that’s a win-win situation! No? Okay… Thanks to our good friends at Times Media Films we have 5 pairs of pull-string Terminator ammo bags up for grabs and all you bot-heads had to do was come up with a funny caption for the …
Even though we’re only half way through the year, 2015 has been a very good year for movies. We’ve had the incredible Jurassic World and even more incredible Mad Max: Fury Road, Pixar’s return to greatness with Inside Out, heavy drama with Fury, Nightcrawler and all the other Oscar nominees, plus sequels aplenty with Pitch Perfect 2, Fast and Furious …
The revival of Arnold Schwarzenegger’s career has not been going all that well. So far his return to the big screen has been lining up a steady stream of flops and under-performers. But things look far rosier when casting a view beyond the U.S…. Last Updated: July 7, 2015
I don’t know whether it was my years of watching a certain Galifreyan timelord in a blue Police box flip-flopping through time with reckless abandon in Doctor Who or that my favourite sub-genre of sci-fi is time travel, but barring one small intentionally obscured detail, I really was not at all confused by the temporal gymnastics that went on in …
Arnold Schwarzenegger’s been promising to be back since 1991’s Terminator 2: Judgement day, and now, more than two decades later, he’s finally done it. Well sort of. Terminator Genisys may suffer from some bland casting (seriously, Hollywood, just stop with this Jai Courtney experiment!), a coupled forced moments of nostalgia and one or two dodgy action beats, but it also …
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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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