It’s (almost) all about Halloween this weekend! We have a surprisingly good meta-adaptation of the famously spooky R.L. Stine book series Goosebumps, a disturbing but beautiful horror love story from Guillermo del Toro, a sadly not-so-scary home invasion thriller, a movie about the dark allure of violent gangsters, and one Russian produced and Afrikaans dubbed animated movie about The Snow …
With 2015 coming to an end we are in store for an impressive line up of movies to look forward, with some of the bigger of these scheduled for a December release – which is perfect for studios to cash when attendance numbers naturally start to increase. Two of these movies that are expected to top the box office ranking …
Mad Max: Fury Road has easily made it into my top 5 favorite movies for 2015 and I have no doubt it will be in my favorite list for years to come. It was action packed, visually stunning, full of exciting characters, inventive landscapes, big loud vehicles and quite a few memorable scenes – spawning many a DIY of home …
The whole running gag of Leonardo DiCaprio never winning an Oscar is well publicized, but Leo may just be getting the last laugh after all. This change of fortune may just be thanks to The Revenant, the latest movie from Alejandro G. Iñárritu, the Oscar-winning filmmaker behind last year’s Birdman. I mean he got Michael Keaton to an Oscar nomination in …
Remember how I mentioned in my Ant-Man review that there’s more to comics than just the same big splashpage superheroics? No? Oh you didn’t read my Ant-Man review? Well, gee whiz, thanks for ruining that opening line. But basically what I’m saying is that despite the over-abundance of superhero comic books, the medium actually covers just about any genre. And …
Alejandro G. Iñárritu won about big as you can get last year with Birdman, a movie that didn’t just net him 4 Oscars, but also effectively relaunched Michael Keaton’s career (sorry, Need for Speed, you tried). Leonardo DiCaprio’s career is certainly in no need of relaunching. He’s been hovering up in the stratosphere for some time now on the backs …
Many actors get brushed with the distinction of being great, something I feel is thrown around a bit too easily. Most of our so-called greats today can’t act themselves out of a wet character-role bag. Last Updated: July 17, 2015
Britain may be the land of royalty, horrible food and Monty Python, but it’s also the curb-stomping ground of some of the most notorious criminals in history. And when it came to underworld figures that you absolutely did not want to tick off back in the 1960s, the Kray Twins were at the top of that bloody list. The notorious …
Have you ever double-checked your doors at night because something just didn’t feel secure? …
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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