Those goblins at Gringotts (read: Warner Bros) responsible for rolling out the now complete collection of Harry Potter DVDs have taken a leaf from the House of Mouse and issued a recall on all Harry Potter DVDs and boxsets from the end of December 2011.
In another grand display of state the obvious, a brainy police spokesperson pointed out that a collection of loaded assault rifles found on the set of World War Z, were a “disaster waiting to happen”. A SWAT team recently raided the set, which was located in a warehouse in Budapest.
Pop-culture rumour news is dangerous to talk about, but Arrested Development was one of those shows that won a religious sort of fervour from its fans, with FOX playing the role of Judas or something. So when creator, Mitchell Hurwitz announced the show’s return over this weekend’s New Yorker Festival, the internet got its preach on.
Disney and James Cameron are teaming up to transform a corner of the Magic Kingdom into a theme park based on Cameron’s multi-billion dollar grossing sci-fi 3D cinema-clogger, Avatar.
This week we take a look at another cult classic dragged from the mists of time, rebooted with some big effects and bigger chests (as many D-cup pecs as D-list names) and presented in a cinema near you, in glorious 3D. Conan The Barbarian.
Who here can remember the first film that scared them sh*tless? I can. It was 1990, and Mnet were screening the 1985 camp horror classic, Fright Night, early one Saturday morning. Let’s compare the original with this year’s remake.
2 December sees the South African release of Real Steel, featuring Hugh Jackman. It is about boxing, but instead of humans we are talking robots in the fighting ring! We can bring you the very first South African look at images from this “gritty, white-knuckle, action ride set in the near-future.” You are welcome.
Well, I’m told Cars 2 was a little awful, breaking Pixar’s long-running streak of critical acclaim – but I’m willing to write that off as a fluke, because the Brave trailer looks pretty great. Please. Click through. Watch Pixar’s first female protagonist fight a bear at Stone Henge.
The nice thing about Pixar is that all of its movies make you feel warm and fuzzy inside. Charity helps people AND makes you feel all warm and fuzzy inside. With this in mind, Lee Unkrich, Pixar director, is letting you enjoy the indulgence of both, by auctioning off Pixar stuff for Japan aid.
20 May sees the worldwide release of the fourth film in the Pirates of the Caribbean franchise. We can bring you the very first South African look at Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides’ official film posters. You’re welcome.
Let’s get this straight; 3D is just another means of resurrecting a spluttering film industry by charging you double the price for films with half the plot. Hollywood’s done it before, and they’ll keep doing it. But, just in case you needed another reason to hate 3D, turns out that Nazis were watching 3D propaganda films long before Avatar.
It seems that if you’re blue, you’re in vogue… well that’s if pop culture in 2010 is anything to go by with James Cameron’s Na’vi tribesmen in Avatar, The Smurfs feature film and now our giant blue-headed villain in Megamind. Perhaps Andy Warhol was really onto something with his colour transition duplications of Marilyn Monroe and John Wayne’s heads when he coloured […]
John Van De Ruit’s character, John Spud Milton has become the South African equivalent of Sue Townsend’s Adrian Mole. Both characters are at that age when puberty is starting to kick in, physical changes are bound to create some form of clumsy embarrassment and life is only really beginning…
It’s old news, but “the magical kid with glasses” has become an international phenomenon. Remember when HP used to be a sauce and Indiana Jones was the only character worthy of a “character name and adventure” movie title?
The Switch is not what you’re expecting. Whenever someone starts sloshing a cup of sperm around, everyone immediately flashes back to There’s Something About Mary with Ben Stiller’s vanishing sperm act and Cameron Diaz’s extra strength “hair gel”. Yes, there is a masturbation scene… and no, you don’t get to see Jason Bateman yanking the […]
Looks like a regular sci-fi action/adventure with tough guys, hot chicks, glocks and carnivorous and impossibly clever dinosaurs, right? WRONG!