Remember this scene from spooky Hammer Horror flick The Woman In Black ? Well, this is an exclusive behind the scenes shot showing that, yes, Daniel Radcliffe really did submerge himself in a soupy bog for his art. It’s just one of the exclusive behind the scenes shots that we’ve …
Read More »Patema Inverted review
Kirsten Dunst’s 2012 mirror-world movie Upside Down was slammed in the US, but Yasuhiro Yoshiura’s anime fable makes nifty work of a similar world-inverted motif. At heart it’s a coming-of-ager about two teens and their oppressive elders, with the clever spin that youngsters Age and Patema occupy alternaworlds with opposing …
Read More »9 indie games shamelessly inspired by retro ancestors
Party like it’s 1989 Blah blah indie games. Blah blah, cheap NES game rip-offs. Weve all heard the tedious battlecry of the anti-indie backlash by now. Its usually a load of old rot; an uninformed nonsense-rant that takes the pixelart aesthetic as a jumping off point and then looks no …
Read More »The visual evolution of Wolfenstein – From sprites to polygons
Mein shooter Wolfenstein 3D was released in 1992–meaning that the Wolfenstein franchises is over 20 years old. Gaming was in a much different place back then. The SNES has only just launched, and the first-person shooter genre wasn’t really a thing. Back then, the idea of walking around and shooting …
Read More »Roberto Orci hoping to replace J.J. Abrams as Star Trek 3 director
Roberto Orci and Alex Kurtzman have been Hollywood’s go-to writing partnership for a raft of major blockbuster pictures over the past decade or so, but the pair are now parting ways to pursue directorial careers. With Kurtzman already having directed 2012’s People Like Us , Orci is now keen to …
Read More »Jessica Chastain to play Marilyn Monroe in new biopic
Jessica Chastain could be about to step into the shoes of a silver screen icon, with The Wrap reporting that she is in discussions to play Marilyn Monroe in a new biopic. According to the report, Chastain is nearing a deal to star in Blonde , Andrew Dominik’s adaptation of …
Read More »30 Most Evil Movie Computers
SID 6.7 – Virtuosity (1995) The Evil Computer : A virtual reality serial killer, SID 6.7 (Russell Crowe) is being targeted by Lt Parner Barners (Denzel Washington). Later, of course, he transforms into a regenerating android, which means he has even more power than before. But that also makes him …
Read More »Richard Donner says Steven Spielberg has a story for Goonies 2
Richard Donner has reconfirmed that a sequel to The Goonies is in the pipeline, and has revealed that Steven Spielberg has an idea in place for the new plot. “Hopefully we’re gonna get this done,” said Donner in an interview with TMZ . “Steven [ Spielberg ] came up with …
Read More »The most badass video game mottos and speeches
Let me begin Back in my college days, I was forced to take a speech class in order to complete my degree. Being that I didnt have any great fear of public speaking, I figured this would be a simple class I could easily breeze through. The professor I ended …
Read More »INTERVIEW The Robots Are Taking Over!
Robopocalypse author Daniel H Wilson discusses the rise of our robot overlords (and gives his advice to new writers)… When Steven Spielberg is committed to directing a novel based on one of your books, you’ve made it. That’s the case with Daniel H Wilson’s Robopocalypse , which also made fans …
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