It was five years ago when Nintendo stated if Fire Emblem Awakening didn’t sell well, it’d be the end of the franchise. Fast forward to today, and we recently had a Fire Emblem-themed Nintendo Direct talking about four upcoming Fire Emblem games. It’s so important to Nintendo now, they made a Fire Emblem mobile game […]
Rings, the long-delayed third entry in The Ring horror franchise, is directed by F. Javier Gutierrez, stars Johnny Galecki and a brand new cast. Although Rings has been advertised as sequel its’ really more of a soft reboot aimed directly towards the young adult demographic, as opposed to the die-hard horror lovers who most likely own […]
T2 Trainspotting was a film that was over 20 years in the making, a sequel to one of the Great British films of the ’90s, reuniting its director, screenwriter and cast to loosely adapt the Irvine Welsh follow-up novel Porno. Mark Renton (Ewan McGregor) had been living in Amsterdam after stealing £16,000 from his friends […]
Resident Evil: The Final Chapter is a fitting end for the franchise, in that it’s a terrible movie that indulges in everything that made all the other ones awful as well – no internal plot logic, non-existent characters, no regard for series continuity and ridiculously overblown action scenes. The Resident Evil movie series has consistently […]
The issues surrounding racism in the 1960’s has been the subject matter of films for decades. Jasper Jones offers a unique view of racism in Australia. Similar to the Harper Lee classic, To Kill a Mockingbird, this is told through the eyes of a adolescent. How will it fare amongst all of the dramas with […]
Set to the backdrop of the 2011 England Riots, Urban Hymn is a coming-of-age film that had its world premier at the 2015 Toronto International Film Festival and is now coming out onto DVD in the UK. Jamie Harrison (Letitia Wright) is a young woman who has had a tough childhood, losing her mother to a drug overdose at […]
Truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is not gold. – Leo Tolstoy When you think of mining prospectors, the vision of an old toothless madman panning for gold in the 1800s is what may come to mind. This Hollywood vision of a long […]
While flawed in many respects, Split marks a welcome return to form for writer and director M. Night Shyamalan. Three teenage girls are kidnapped by one of the 23 personalities inhabiting the body of Kevin (James McAvoy), a man with severe dissociative identity disorder, and are held captive in a cellar for some unknown, sinister […]
“The return of who?!” I hear you cry. It’s been a long time since Vin Diesel kickstarted the xXx franchise way back in 2002, but this is the era of sequels and reboots: what better time to bring it back? For those of you unfamiliar with the concept, in the first film Agent Gibbons (Samuel […]
Patriots’ Day is the newest film by Deepwater Horizon director and star Mark Wahlberg about the terrorist bombing that took place at the Boston Marathon in 2013. It’s the day of the annual Boston City Marathon and Sergeant Tommy Saunders (Wahlberg) is assigned to work his regular schedule when the event comes to tragic halt […]
