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Movie Review – Sightseers (2012)

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Sightseers, 2012. Directed by Ben Wheatley.Written By and starring Steve Oram and Alice Lowe. SYNOPSIS: A dark comedy about Chris and Tina’s murderous trip around the English countryside. “He’s not a person, Tina; he’s a Daily Mail reader.” If only blind murder was so simple. In the beginning of Sightseers, it is. Chris’ (Steve Oram) […]

Street Fighter: Assassin’s Fist Review

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Jessie Robertson reviews Street Fighter: Assassin’s Fist… I want to start this review by saying I have always been a Street Fighter guy over a Mortal Kombat guy. I play both and like both but it was those hours of constant play with my cousins, uncle and friends that cemented my love for the series. […]

Bond 24 production to be delayed for script rewrites

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Word from The Daily Mail today is that rewrites are needed on the script for Bond 24, which could cause a small delay on the start of production, but not necessarily affect the film’s release date. The site says that is likely the film will now start in December of this year, having originally been […]

Watch a preview of the Doctor Who Christmas Special

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Last night during Children in Need, the BBC released a special preview of the upcoming Doctor Who Christmas Special, which features Peter Capaldi’s Doctor and Jenna Coleman’s Clara Oswald along Nick Frost’s Father Christmas. If you missed it, then you’re in luck as we have it for you right here… https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=MsxEenCBRG0 The Doctor Who Christmas […]

The Callow Way – Cinema Rage

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Neil Calloway outlines how cinemas should deal with etiquette rule breakers… 2014 seems to be the year of cinema rage. Earlier this week, a US film festival screening of Mike Leigh’s Mr Turner was interrupted when one viewer asked another to turn off her mobile phone. She responded by giving him a faceful of pepper […]

Djimon Hounsou joins the cast of Tarzan

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Edgar Rice Burroughs’ Tarzan is set to have yet another live-action film adaptation, with Warner Bros. having a release date penned in for July 2016. Alexander Skarsgard (True Blood) is set to take the role of the eponymous Tarzan, with Margot Robbie (The Wolf of Wall Street) as his love interest Jane, and David Yates […]

Christopher McQuarrie on exploring Ethan Hunt’s character in Mission: Impossible 6

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This spring sees Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation director Christopher McQuarrie becoming the first filmmaker to return to the franchise as he reunites with Tom Cruise and Rogue Nation’s Rebecca Ferguson for M:I 6 Mission Impossible. During an interview with Empire, McQuarrie revealed that production is set to get underway in Paris on April 10th, while […]

Legally Blonde and 10 Things I Hate About You screenwriter brings Misfit City to Boom! Studios

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Boom! Studios has announced that screenwriter Kirsten ‘Kiwi’ Smith (Legally Blonde, 10 Things I Hate About You) is teaming up with Kurt Lustgarten and artist Naomi Franquiz for the all-new monthly comic book series Misfit City. “Much like our heroines, I grew up in a small town in the Pacific Northwest, yearning to have a […]

Sam Mendes talks Bond 24

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During an interview with Charlie Rose (via MI6-HQ), Oscar-winning British filmmaker Sam Mendes has spoken about his decision to reunite with Daniel Craig for a second 007 movie after 2012’s record-breaking Skyfall. During the discussion Mendes revealed that he opted to return for Bond 24 having initially turned it down due to time constraints, and […]