Four new films open in South Africa today, and half of them seem to be Halloween leftovers. Paranorman: If Hotel Transylvania and Frankenweenie didn’t satisfy your craving for macabre animated comedy, well here’s one more for you! From the animation studio behind Coraline, Paranorman is the stop-motion tale of a young loner whose ability to communicate with the dead comes …
Looks like it’s Undead Friday, and no I’m not just referring to you Phuza Thursday practitioners. While we saw hordes of zombies do their best Katamari Damacy impersonation to kill Brad Pitt and the rest of the global population in this morning’s trailer for World War Z, now it’s time to look at a whole different kind of zombie story. …
There’s going to be two stories up today, dealing with zombie movie trailers. One of them is laughably bad, but in a good way. One of them is decent popcorn filler entertainment that stars Brad Pitt. Actually, wait this is one is the latter. It’s World War Z, where lead actor Brad Pitt somehow manages to have silky smooth hair …
The World’s End, the final “chapter” in Edgar Wright, Nick Frost and Simon Pegg’s “Blood and Ice Cream Trilogy” is busy filming right now. Now all those quotation marks in that previous sentence are there because despite it being called a trilogy, the previous two collaborations between the English trio, Shaun of the Dead and Hot Fuzz, have had nothing to do with …
In a strange little bit of irony, things were looking rather apocalyptic on the set of World War Z earlier in the year. Reshoots, even more reshoots, studio mandated plot changes and on-set conflicts abounded. It was not a happy place. But with the first trailer for the film dropping this coming Thursday, it looks like Paramount and star/producer Brad Pitt …
As many of you already know, the great Cape Town Zombie Walk of 2012 went down on 27 October. Many of our local gaming community attended. There have been a lot of photos floating around since yesterday and many of the walking dead had incredible costumes.
In the spirit of Halloween, Left for Dead 2 will be free to play this weekend starting today. Valve is unleashing the entire game on the world for the whole weekend.
Superheroes, epic high fantasy, magical high schools, zombies, supernatural romance, fairy tales, board games… What do you think is the next pop culture bandwagon that Hollywood will leap onto? In the aftermath of Fifty Shades of Grey, should we brace ourselves for a flurry of R-rated erotic tales? Alternatively, what trend (past, present, future) would you like to see done …
Cloud gaming removed hardware barriers, but it replaced them with something less visible and …
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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