The Best and Worst Movies of 2011
The Player Affinity Movie Staff presents our combined best films of the year, worst films of the year, most disappointing films of the year and best offerings from 2011’s most successful genres.
The Player Affinity Movie Staff presents our combined best films of the year, worst films of the year, most disappointing films of the year and best offerings from 2011’s most successful genres.
It’s time to put the lid on the film canister for 2011, so to kick things off with our Year in Review we have the Player Affinity Movie Awards, a few handfuls of honors celebrating the many bests of 2011.
Coinciding with the Winter Solstice, Atlus and Cyanide Studios have released a trailer for the latest video game adaptation of George R. R. Martin’s A Song Of Fire And Ice book series, A Game Of Thrones the RPG. This should not be confused with Cyanide’s other adaptation that came out earlier this year, AGame Of Thrones: Genesis, the strategy game.
Ahh, wrath, rising darkness and giant killers, not exactly trailers conforming to the holiday spirit, are they? Thankfully, there is this little trailer for a rather no-name film called The Hobbit if you’re interested …
Next to chocolate and waffles, Tintin is one of Belgium’s greatest exports, a character beloved by millions all over the world. Now, Steven Spielberg and Peter Jackson have taken on the challenge of bringing the young reporter to motion-captured life.
This was one emotionally charged episode of American Horror Story. I was absolutely exhausted by the time the credits rolled, and that was mostly down to Connie Britton’s relentless performance during Vivien’s extremely traumatic birthing scenes. The woman could scream for her country! ”Birth” was the penultimate episode to a completely bonkers first season and managed to round out quite a few paranormal arcs, as well as raising one zinger of a question: where do we go from here?
Picking up from the heels of the last episode, the hour immediately addresses Violet still trying to come to terms with being six feet under (her own house). This was actually a really strong episode for Violet and made leaps and bounds in redeeming her as a character. When she wasn’t summoning Billie Dean to help her rid the house of Chad and Pat, who have their sights set on Vivien’s twins, she was banishing her own murderous rapist boyfriend from her life…er, death. And to cap it all off, Violet shares an extremely tender, underplayed scene with her recently deceased mother come episode’s end.
The first trailer for Bryan Singer’s Jack the Giant Killer is here. It won’t be hard to best the 1962 original, but how will audiences react to the darker tone? Making $100-plus million on a fable that skews to the 15-30-year-old crowd is going to require a fair bit of “grim-ifying” the source material, and that case in point is the dour and guitar riff-heavy first trailer.
There’s no stinger shot of Nicolas Cage pissing fire in this second trailer, but it does develop the pathos of why we should care about Nic Cage pissing fire. Our hero-in-hiding is tasked by Idris Elba with protecting a child targeted by the devil for possession
When Jason Reitman and Diablo Cody struck gold with Juno in 2007, they did so with a rare combination of contemporary wit, quirkiness and heart. Their four-year reunion in Young Adult won’t be nearly as heralded, but it might arguably be a better film.
“If Santa were a ninja – and we all know he really is – this is how he’d keep his skills sharp in the slow summer months,” said Phil Larsen, the chief marketing officer of Halfbrick, the studio behind Fruit Ninja Kinect. Ne’er a truer word has been spoken, as Halfbrick announced today the release of a completely free piece of Christmas-themed DLC for the title, featuring holiday-themed content such as a ‘Candy Cane Blade’ and a ‘Santa’s Workshop’level to slice fruit in. It’s certainly festive of them, and the accompanying trailer supports that, with a heart-warming‘thanks for a great year’ message at the end.
