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Legion: Preview

By Karl Benecke on Jan 26, 10 01:06 AM

When God loses faith in humanity and decides it is time for the apocalypse, he sends angels to destroy us.

Tron Legacy: Preview

By Karl Benecke on Jan 26, 10 12:03 AM

There is huge excitement for what promises to be a fantastic sequel to Stephen Lisbergers Tron.

The Book of Eli: Review

By Karl Benecke on Jan 25, 10 11:38 PM

Thirty years after the flash, Eli (Denzel Washington) tirelessly walks through the barren wasteland, travelling west with a mysterious book in his possession.

'A Prophet' Film Review

By Brogan Morris on Jan 24, 10 10:17 PM

19-year old Malik El Djebena (Tahar Rahim), a naïve French Arab, is sentenced to serve six years in the cut-throat criminal arena of a run-down French prison. He sets out to survive his journey alone, but soon discovers that the jail is run by a group of brutal Corsican gangsters that aim to use Malik for their own devices, setting the young prisoner on the path towards a power struggle between gangs...

'Sherlock Holmes' Movie Review

By Brogan Morris on Jan 18, 10 05:08 PM

In cock-er-nay gangster flick director and Madonna-fan Guy Ritchie's Hollywood debut, brilliant detective Sherlock Holmes (Robert Downey Jr) and his crime-solving partner, Doctor Watson (Jude Law), apprehend the infamous Lord Blackwood (Mark Strong) for practising the dark arts. Blackwood is hanged, only to later rise from the grave, prompting an investigation by Holmes that takes in corrupt politicians, shoehorned-in-Hollywood-love-interest Irene Adler (Rachel McAdams) and a mysterious underground society...

Kathryn Bigelow's 2009 war film The Hurt Locker was one of the best surprises of last year - following Sgt. Will James (Jeremy Renner), the newly appointed team leader of a bomb disposal unit in post-invasion Iraq, the film explores the nature of war and the adrenaline rush that comes with facing death on an almost daily basis.

Living a quiet existence in a respectable suburb of Liverpool with his adoptive parents aunt Mimi and uncle George, a teenage John Lennon's life is turned upside down when George dies, his estranged mother, the care-free Julia, re-enters his life and unsettling secrets regarding the future Beatle's childhood are dug up.

'Avatar' Movie Review

By Brogan Morris on Dec 22, 09 10:14 PM

In the distant future, paraplegic ex-Marine Jake Sully (Sam Worthington) travels with a team of scientists to Earth's outpost on faraway alien planet Pandora. There, Sully is given the chance to walk again via the use of an 'avatar', a body created via a mixture of human DNA and that of the Na'vi, Pandora's indigenous race of blue humanoids.

Max (Max Records), an adolescent boy with a restless imagination, runs away from home after his mother, a stressed single parent, snaps at him when he disrupts her evening with her new boyfriend. Eager to leave the real world behind, Max sails to a faraway land of giant furry monsters that immediately take him in and accept him as their fun-loving King.


Earlier in the year David Twohy, who directed Pitch Black and The Chronicles of Riddick said that there were some ideas floating around for a third instalment of the Riddick series.

Recently the Riddick camp seem to be going through the motions of pre-production , with the official Facebook page saying: "The Riddick team is in New Zealand location scouting already... that's exciting".

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