The late, great Tony Todd became synonymous with villains; we look at the incredible legacy he leaves behind… Cinema was dealt a blow with the news that Tony Todd has passed away. A prolific veteran of predominantly genre films (with over 250 credits), Todd was never less than memorable. For one, he just dominated a […]
Michael Bay and the Finer Points of Bayhem
Tom Jolliffe on Michael Bay’s unique approach to cinematic destruction… In the mid-1990s a young upstart director burst out of the music video scene and blazed into the action genre with the kind of blustering gusto very few helmers have managed before or since. When I was growing up as a young teen, the cinema […]
Welcome to The Rock’s 25th Anniversary
Ricky Church revisits The Rock on its 25th anniversary… The Rock contains so many hallmarks of 1990s movie-making: rogue army operatives, a deadly MacGuffin, a buddy cop story of two completely different personalities and, of course, Nicolas Cage acting his zany, goofy yet somehow still serious self. And when you have Nic Cage starring opposite […]
Broken Arrow at 25
Tom Jolliffe takes a look back at John Woo’s somewhat forgotten sophomore Hollywood effort, Broken Arrow, which turns 25… Remember Broken Arrow? Memory a bit hazy? Well John Woo’s second Hollywood film, a box office hit at the time, turns 25. In 1996 we were seeing a decided shift away from the kind of heroics […]
The Magnetic Brilliance of Sean Connery
Tom Jolliffe looks at the career and lasting legacy of the late Sean Connery, one of the most charismatic screen presences in cinema history… Cinema mourns the passing of another icon. For many this one will pack a weighty punch. Sean Connery was the man who became the first major face of a franchise we’re […]
Michael Bay’s Crowning Glory: The Rock
Tom Jolliffe looks back at Michael Bay’s greatest film… Michael Bay. Just how does one sum up the man’s cinematic legacy? Cast your mind back to the mid-90’s. He hurls himself onto the world stage and with ruthless aplomb figuratively unzips and plonks Bay Jnr down on the table and announces a new form of […]
Comic Book Review – WWE: Attitude Era 2018 Special #1
Liam Hoofe reviews WWE: Attitude Era 2018 Special #1… This week, Boom! Studios released their latest WWE anthology edition, focusing on several key stories from the brand’s iconic Attitude Era. The Attitude Era is the most beloved period in the WWE’s history, and there are plenty of iconic and memorable moments for the writers to […]
Exclusive Interview with Jason Liles, a.k.a. George from Rampage
Tai Freligh interviews Jason Liles from Rampage… At 6′ 9″, Jason Liles is in a perfect place to take the motion capture world by storm. After working with Rick Baker on Men in Black III as several aliens, he was later recruited to play the supernatural entity Ryuk in Deathnote. But perhaps his biggest role […]
Ranking Every WrestleMania Main Event from Worst to Best
Liam Hoofe ranks every WrestleMania main event from worst to best… The main event of Wrestlemania is or at least should be, the biggest WWE match in a calendar year. We hear wrestlers talk over and over again in video packages about how they watched Hogan slam Andre the Giant and have dreamt of being the […]
Rampage video game movie director promises scary monsters
With The Angry Birds Movie and Warcraft pulling in successful box office numbers this year (and Assassin’s Creed looking to do alright too), there has been a lot of announcements of other video game movie adaptations. One of those is Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson and Brad Peyton’s adaptation of classic arcade game Rampage. Speaking with […]
