It’s been a few months since the teaser trailer for XXX: The Return of Xander Cage dropped and word on the street is (because we’re tuned into the street yo, we’re hip like that!) that the official trailer will be unleashed on an unsuspecting world later tonight – and I’m quite keen to see just how absolutely bonkers it’ll be. In …
Can you believe it’s been nearly fifteen years since xXx has graced the big screen? The real xXx, Xander Cage, that is – I think we all like to pretend Ice Cube’s Darius Stone doesn’t exist. Well he’s back, baby! The first teaser trailer for xXx: The Return of Xander Cage is here for your viewing pleasure. There’s not much …
My love affair with people punching and kicking each other in violently creative ways is well documented on this site. And if you love kung fu movies as much as I do, then chances you also know SPL. No, that’s not a new soccer league, but rather the acronym for Sha Po Lang, the badass 2005 Hong Kong action film directed by Wilson …
It barely takes fifteen minutes into Furious 7 before Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson and Jason Statham go head to shaven head in a landscape-rearranging dust-up that ends in broken bodies and a smoldering building. In any other film franchise, a clash of such titanic action hero proportions would indubitably be the headline act, but here it’s merely the warmup, with …
If you’re a connoisseur of the fine art of moering people really hard with all your limbs, then you’ve probably heard of Saat Po Long aka SPL aka Kill Zone, the acclaimed martial arts film that saw kung fu legends Donny Yen, Sammo Hung and Wu Jing go crazy punching, kicking, kneeing and [INSERT PREFERRED ACT OF BLOODY VIOLENCE HERE] their …
I’m a man of diverse movie tastes. Sometimes I want to inspired by the power of the indomitable human spirit, or delve into the inner workings of a brilliant mind. And other times, I just want to watch cheap rent-a-thugs beaten black and blue by Dolph Lundgren (Rocky 4, The Expendables) and Tony Jaa (Ong Bak, The Protector) while they …
When you think about it, The Fast And The Furious is kind of like the Godfather of modern day movies. Now while the idea of Don Corleone using a rock-bottom slam on a rival Mafia gang sounds like a sequel that will never ever be made, both movie universes do have one thing in common: Family. It’s all about sticking together …
If the NFL Super Bowl is known across the world for anything besides rugby-with-helmets, it’s the adverts. More specifically, movie adverts – or as us folk in the know like to call them… trailers. Well prepare to have your Ferrari of a quarterback sacked by the Mac truck of a linebacker as this terrible American soccer football and vehicular metaphor …
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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