Yes, we’re right in the middle of the Hollywood awards season, with the Golden Globes taking place this weekend past, and the Oscar nominations being released later today. But while those two biggest awards shows are all about honouring achievements in movies, there’s another that exists for exactly the opposite. I’m of course talking about the Golden Raspberry Awards aka …
This week we’re taking a trip across across America via the highways of Nostalgia and Gross-ness, M. Night Shyamalan returns with – PLOT TWIST! – a good movie, Charlize goes dark, and a couple of musos have a very long chat. Vacation The next generation of Griswolds is at it again. Ed Helms stars as Rusty Griswold, the son of …
Let it never be said that I’m too highfalutin to laugh at a good poop joke. The problem with Vacation is that to get to the good ones, you also have to go swimming through all the bad. Literally. As in there is literally a scene in this movie which features a family swimming in poop. And the sloppy torrent …
Looks like the NWA is having the final laugh, as one the founding corners of rap and hip hop has made not only for a great movie but a runaway success. Straight Outta Compton opened up on 2757 screens around the US, taking first place with a haul of $56 million according to studio estimates. Not only did that make …
IT’S CLOBBERIN’ TIME! The famous battlecry of Aunt Petunia favourite blue-eyed nephew was applied and then some to the latest big screen incarnation of The Fantastic Four. Opening up in a pitiful second place, Fantastic Four took home just $26.2 million in North American ticket sales. Compared to director Tim Story’s original duo of flicks from the mid-2000s, that was …
Welcome to our Weekly Round-Up for the The Extras! A collection of the 15 most popular movie related clips, posters, pics and just plain cool stuff posted on our Twitter profile and Facebook page using the hashtag #TheMoviesExtras in the last week. Remember, these are only the contributions that received the most likes and views since last Thursday, so if …
Agent Cruise, your mission should you choose to accept it, is to hit the box office and reach the number one spot. Oh, you’ve already done that? Good job Tom Cruise! Unlike several other summer tentpole movies with big, aging names attached to them, Mission Impossible 5: Rogue Nation did gangbuster numbers at the box office. With an opening weekend …
The other day when we mentioned the names of directors on the shortlist to direct the new Spider-Man movie, two of the names belonged to the writers-also-turned-first-time-directors duo of John Francis Daley and Jonathan Goldstein (Horrible Bosses, The Incredible Burt Wonderstone). Whether or not they’re right for a Spider-Man is still totally debateable, but when it comes to a reboot/sequel …
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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