New on Netflix: June 2018
As we head into winter, Netflix is giving us some great excuses to stay inside, curled up in front of the TV with a blanket, some hot chocolate, and new episodes of our favourite shows.
As we head into winter, Netflix is giving us some great excuses to stay inside, curled up in front of the TV with a blanket, some hot chocolate, and new episodes of our favourite shows.
With Star Wars‘ force-grip on the US box office now finally having been completely loosened by a combination of Kevin Hart and Ice Cube taking a ride and Leonardo DiCaprio wrestling bears in the snow, some new box office contenders can finally enter the fight. And Kung Fu Panda 3 certainly came out fighting… kung fu fighting, to be exact! …
Before we start with this week’s new releases, I’d like to take a moment to thank Kervyn for the sacrifices he makes for us. While Craig was getting all high-brow and cultured with this week’s Oscar-bait movie The Danish Girl, and Nick was gleefully (if not a little bit obsessively) salivating over The Hateful Eight, Kervyn had to sit through …
Ever since Katniss Eversden arrowed her way into pop culture stardom and right to the top of the box office charts, film studios have been clambering over each other in a madcap attempt to find the Next Big Thing in the YA genre. But despite the fact that no new challengers have come even remotely close to emulating either the …
It was a battle of titans this weekend past as DiCaprio faced down and inevitably beat Jonas. No, this wasn’t another celeb meltdown with Leonardo DiCaprio engaging in a brawl with one of the Jonas brothers (although I would pay good money to see that) but rather that DiCaprio’s Oscar-nominated The Revenant came out tops at the US box office …
Would it be wrong if I admitted that I secretly longed for an alien invasion of Earth? No, this isn’t some nihilist “The whole world is rotten and deserves to burn” wish. It’s just that a lifetime of playing video games and reading sci-fi books have prepared me for this! I just know that not only am I going to …
Humans want connection and the internet is so far the best connection machine. A …
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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