While we are often quick to applaud a movie’s musical score alongside it’s other aspects, there is more to a cinematic soundscape than just foreboding cellos and stirring anthems. Quite often it’s a film’s aural tapestry that helps to realize, accentuate and immortalize the worlds we’re seeing up on screen, to the point where if you were blindfolded, you would …
Every now and then, you get a film that showcases a stunning performance from an actor. Think Heath Ledger in The Dark Knight, Jennifer Lawrence in Silver Linings Playbook or Daniel Day Lewis in everything ever made. And then you get that one performance that is so mental, so insane, that it’s genius. Here’s ten such performances where the actors …
It’s Oscar season! Next week is the big event, as someone is walking away with a naked gold man in their purse. Probably Kervyn, because he’s trying to infiltrate his way in with a different disguise this year. This year has seen the usual nominations announced with quite a few surprising snubs as well, right Ben Affleck? But the Oscars …
Since next week this time we’ll be up to our bushy eyebrows in girly hearts, teddy bears and criminally overpriced roses, I figured it’s time for us to man it up around here while we still can. And really, there are few things as manly as a one-liner uttered by an action hero, especially as it’s usually either preceded or …
Have you ever come out of a movie and thought to yourself, “Gee whizz, I wish that movie starring Mark Wahlberg as a porn star was a TV show!”? Well I can’t help you with that, I’m afraid. What I can do however, is point you in the direction of several other TV shows that jumped from the big screen …
With the 2012 cinema season basically over and nursing one hell of a hangover, we thought that we’d gather the gang together for one final Thursday feature, looking back at the best, the worst and the special that the year had to offer. Last Updated: December 20, 2012
It’s not easy filming a comic book movie. You’ve got high expectations, rabid fans and decades of history to live up to, and of course, trying to find a way to make those spandex outfits look believable on the big screen. Here’s ten films that managed to make men in tights look manly. Last Updated: November 15, 2012
Bad films don’t make money, amirite? WRONG! All too often, films which are clearly terrible, somehow manage to make a fat stack of cash, bucking trends and leaving other, better cinema experiences to eat dog food for supper that night. Here’s a look at seven abysmal critical failures, which rode off in a purple Cadillac with gold rims once their stint at the box office …
Film classification in the UK is designed to help audiences understand what content is …
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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