If you live in Cape Town and happened to travel along the N2 heading to Somerset West, you may have spotted a giant ship seemingly docked right on the side on the road, at least a good couple of km’s away from any ocean. No, you didn’t suddenly find yourself transported to the island on Lost, nor has some tik-kop decided …
I don’t know about you guys, but I just feel a certain sense of rightness in the world when Sylvester Stallone and Arnold Schwarzenegger are being framed for crimes they didn’t commit while wielding big guns. No, I’m not talking about Arnie impregnating his housekeeper. The two Hollywood heavyweights have been trying to give us back that old school styled …
Much like recent Hollywood throwdowns, we’ll soon be witnessing the battle of the Herculeses – Herculii? – between the Brett Ratner directed Hercules and the Renny Harlin helmed Hercules: The Legend Begins. The former boasts the charisma, muscles and eyebrow of Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson in the title role, while Harlin’s flick could only score Twilight alum Kellan Lutz, famous for being one of the …
Some people will do anything to get their name on a list. Just ask George Clooney. The very first trailer for WWII true story The Monuments Men, which Clooney directed, co-wrote and stars in, showed a happy go-lucky, Ocean’s Eleven spliced with The Dirty Dozen and filled with Bill Murray jokes. But now we’re getting close to awards season, and Mr Clooney would really like his name …
Director David O. Russell has developed a reputation over the years of not exactly being the nicest person on a movie set. He’s a superb filmmaker though, so he often attracts some of the most talented actors around. They just need to be prepared to undergo some stressful experiences. That doesn’t seem to be the case on his latest film, …
Ah, Shia LaBeouf, he of the frantic running and screaming and talkingreallyfastwithouttakinganybreathsinbetweenthewords. Way before he became a walking meme-generator with the Transformers movies, LaBeouf was actually a bright young talent with a lot of potential. And since putting his days of Baysplosions and toe-thumbs behind him, the young actor has been trying his best to live up to that early potential, …
Just yesterday I was watching the first Naked Gun film. It was funny, clever, filled with visual gags and somehow still relevant despite being a 25 year old movie. And as far as parody films go, The Starving Games is none of that. Last Updated: October 9, 2013
When it comes to genre hopping, there are few people that do it as successfully as the Coen Bros. In fact, I’d say that they are a genre unto themselves. That genre containing just about every other genre, only kind offbeat versions of them. And the latest entrant in the Coen Bros genre is Inside Llewyn Davis, which boast all the …
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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