It’s a well known fact that most of the flora and fauna in Australia just exists to kill you in creatively painful ways. And according to the work of writer-director David Michôd, the people are pretty deadly too. It’s been 4 years since Michôd brought us the badass Australian crime drama Animal Kingdom, and now he’s back with The Rover, a post-apocalyptic tale that …
New cinematic trailer for the Elder Scrolls Online is huge and beautiful. You can even get in on the action early.
Video game movies have had it all wrong, something I’ve finally realised. Instead of focusing on big brand games such as Prince of Persia and Double Dragon, they should have been looking at the various products targeted towards kids instead. Games such as Ratchet & Clank, Jak & Daxter and Sly Cooper. Those are perfect brands with established lore and …
Last week’s Sundance Festival produced a lot of buzz around some films, but I hope you didn’t get too buzzed up, as chances are you won’t be seeing those films for a quite some time. That’s unfortunately just how the movie distribution business works. Which is why one such film that got all buzzy at last year’s Sundance, In Fear, is only …
When you think of songstress Lana Del Rey, “creepy” is probably not a word you’d think of next. That may all change after you see this new trailer for Disney’s Maleficent though. Whereas the previous trailer was a hodge-podge of tones – thanks to footage of Disney’s classic Sleeping Beauty animated feature film spliced into scenes from the new movie – this …
Every director in Hollywood has a signature style when it comes to making movies. For George Lucas, that would be midgets and plot holes, while Michael Bay has baysplosions and tight camera angles. For Terry Gilliam, that style happens to be creating a world that borders on visual LSD. And buddy, prepare to trip the light fantastic with this trailer …
As anybody who’s worked with Darryn for any extended period of time can attest, sometimes you just want to throw yourself off a building. Or throw him off a building. Either way, somebody’s going over the edge of this metaphorical rooftop. But I digress… The point is that there are many people that battle with suicidal tendencies, and all for …
Jason Bateman has always been known as a funny guy, but it’s probably not since we first met him back in the 1980’s as a bad boy teen in Silver Spoons that we’ve seen him playing anything other than just the nice guy next door, just trying to do the right thing. For his feature film directorial debut, Bad Words, Bateman finally gets to …
Cooking for your family is one of the most important responsibilities in daily life, …
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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