2012’s The Raid: Redemption was arguably the best action movie of the last decade, with its insane and brutal fight choreography and sphincter destroying tension. The only bad thing that could be said about it, was that due to its limited release, this Indonesian gem was only seen by the hardcore action aficionados and all the people they kept ragging to watch …
What if you could travel back in time? Hell, if it was me, I’d be cashing Powerball cheques and living the high life. I’d leave this site to rot in hell and laught at Kervyn and everyone else and I just typed this out loud, didn’t I? Stilll, time travel has always been an interesting movie idea. And that genre …
Cameron Diaz has been receiving a lot of buzz for her uncharacteristically twisted turn in Ridley Scott and Cormac McCarthy’s The Counsellor, but I guess you can only stop being a loveably ditzy blonde on screen for so long. With The Other Woman, Diaz is seemingly back in rom-com mode… or maybe that should be rev-com? As in “revenge”? Either way, she, …
When it comes to CGI animated films, Pixar has a firm grip on the market. Recently though, that grip has been loosening up, thanks to DreamWorks Animation releasing several movies that relied less on star power and more on telling an actual story. How to Train Your Dragon is one such film, and despite not enjoying it the first time …
Jesse Eisenberg, as talented an actor as he is, has a habit of almost always playing the same character. So it must have been with a great big grin on his face that he first checked out the script for The Double, the directorial debut of British jokester Richard Ayoade, in which he gets to play a man who has his …
Whether you’ve realised it or not, you’ve probably seen at least one Journey to the West adaptation in your life. That age-old Chinese tale is older than the bible and a ton more exciting as well. Now combine that story with director Steven Chow and what looks like an unlimited special effects budget, and you’ve got something that looks even …
There were very few things that surprised me as much as 2011’s Rise of the Planet Apes. It was a sort-of prequel/reboot (pre-boot?) to a decades old film franchise that had already tried and failed to reboot itself, and starred a wishy-washy James Franco. It really should not have worked. But by Caesar’s ghost, did it ever! It was excitingly directed, …
The Thief reboot is a game filled with interesting characters, including the mysterious Queen of Beggars.
In today’s digital world, a website is often the first impression a business makes. …
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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