The lady is a vamp… Destined to become known as ‘The skateboarding Iranian vampire movie’, Ana Lily Amirpour’s debut is not-quite horror that combines moody monochrome style, an eclectic soundtrack and hipster attitude to giddily inventive effect. This isn’t Iranian cinema as you’ve ever seen it. In fact, despite being …
Read More »Pitch Perfect 2 review
The Bellas are back for an encore… Right from the opening number – which unceremoniously ends in a cringey, gross-out on-stage fail – it’s clear Pitch Perfect 2 is singing from exactly the same song sheet as the original. Sticking to the formula like a well-rehearsed dance routine, the sequel …
Read More »Ratchet & Clank PS4 remake delayed to spring 2016
The new Ratchet & Clank for PS4 is retreating to its burrow (or wherever lombaxes live in the wild) for about a year. Insomniac Games announced that the reimagined take on the adventuresome duo’s origin story is now planned for release in spring 2016, back from its initial release window …
Read More »Josh Boone to direct X-Men spinoff The New Mutants
The X-Men cinematic universe continues to mutate! Deadline reports that The Fault In Our Stars director Josh Boone is on board to write and direct The New Mutants for Fox. Dubbed a ‘standalone spinoff’ the movie will be an adaptation of the Marvel comic book series, which follows a splintered …
Read More »The X-Files revival to debut January 2016
Fox has unveiled details of its 2015-2016 TV line-up that makes mention of a certain conspiracy-themed cult revival due to hit screens next year. A brand new limited season of The X-Files is now set to premiere in the US on Sunday January 24, 2016 as part of a two-night …
Read More »Total Film rolls out red carpet for NFTS 2015 Gala
The National Film and Television School is the gift that keeps on giving. Past NFTS graduates have brought us James Bond, Sherlock Holmes, Harry Potter, Doctor Who, and all sorts of iconic characters filling up your DVD shelves. And with an exciting batch of young graduates each year, the NFTS …
Read More »Guitar Hero Live fills its stadiums using 400 actors and a two ton robot camera from The Hobbit
When it wasn’t filming hobbits, wizards and dwarves in questionably fragmented fantasy prequels, a certain two-ton camera was used to capture the live-action concerts of Guitar Hero Live. The giant robot was previously used to film two shots at once, thus helping The Hobbit director Peter Jackson seamlessly combine them …
Read More »The COD studios check out each others games but dont share ideas
With three separate studios working on three different Call of Duty entries simultaneously, do the devs involved ever get together to share ideas? Or is everything super hush hush until it’s revealed to the world?According to Mark Lamia, the studio head at Treyarch, the team behind Call of Duty: Black …
Read More »Orion: Prelude makers want devs to stand by their (possibly awful) games
If I started selling a product I’d been dreaming about making for years and everybody absolutely hated it, I’d probably flee to Tibet and join a monastery. Somehow the creators of Orion: Dino Beatdown/Prelude overcame that instinct, overhauling their tragedy into a surprising success story through three years of work. …
Read More »Love Towerfall? Heres what the creator did next…
Now, I know there’s been a lot of pixels lately. It’s like the indie world has decided en masse to pretend the last twenty years of gaming didn’t happen. And, if it means it’ll erase Kane and Lynch 2, maybe that’s not such a bad thing… However, if you only …
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