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85th Academy Awards Results
by Josh on February 25th 2013 at 4:48 pm
The 85th annual Academy Awards took place last night and the stars flocked to the event, presented by Family Guy and American Dad creator Seth MacFarlane. Life of Pi was the biggest winner, taking home four gongs, closely followed by Argo and Les Misérables with three. Did your favorites win? Find out below. Best Picture - Winner: Argo (Grant Heslov, Ben Affleck, and George Clooney) Amour (Margaret Menegoz, Stefan Arndt, Veit Heiduschka, and Michael Katz) Beasts of the Southern Wild (Dan Janvey, Josh Penn, and Michael Gottwald) Django Unchained (Stacey Sher, Reginald Hudlin, and Pilar Savone) Les Misérables(Tim Bevan,… read more »
Avengers Assemble!
by Josh on April 27th 2012 at 11:58 am
It's taken over four years and five films in order for us to get here but at long last the Avengers have assembled! In what is perhaps the most audacious gambit in cinematic history, Marvel Studios have taken four different film series with four different continuities and brought them all into one shared universe, the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Returning to their previous roles are Robert Downey Jr. as Iron Man, Chris Evans as Captain America, Chris Hemsworth as Thor, Scarlett Johansson as Black Widow, Jeremy Renner as Hawkeye, Tom Hiddleston as Loki, Samuel L. Jackson as Nick Fury and reintroducing… read more »
Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance Review
by Josh on March 5th 2012 at 9:26 am
Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance is a 2012 American action/horror film based on the Marvel comic book character of the same name and serves as a sequel/reboot to 2007's Ghost Rider. Nicolas Cage reprises his role as Johnny Blaze, the titular anti-hero, and the duo of Mark Neveldine and Brian Taylor (Crank) take over directing duties. Idris Elba (The Wire), Johnny Whitworth (3:10 to Yuma), Christopher Lambert (Highlander) and Ciarán Hinds (HBO’s Rome) round off the cast with a script by David S. Goyer (Batman Begins). Being placed under the 'Marvel Knights' banner seems to be a bad luck omen… read more »
The Darkest Hour Review
by Josh on January 31st 2012 at 2:02 pm
The Darkest Hour is a 2012 American Sci-Fi horror film directed by former Art Director Chris Gorak (Right At Your Door) and follows two software developers as they try to survive an alien invasion. Emile Hirsch (Into the Wild) and Max Minghella (The Social Network) star as the software developers with Olivia Thirlby (Juno) and Rachael Taylor (Transformers) starring as two young love interests and Joel Kinnaman (The Killing) as a crafty antagonistic Swedish businessman. It's hard to know where to start with The Darkest Hour as even the film itself does not know where to start. We are… read more »
Putting The 'Resent' In Present
by Josh on December 21st 2011 at 4:30 pm
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Disappointed after a lackluster Halloween? Finding the Christmas season to be lacking in screams and scares? Wishing you could hibernate until next Halloween? Well, fear not horror fans because this Christmas I will provide you with a wonderful selection of horror based Christmas treats to ensure your survival through these harsh winter nights, all of which feature one very important man: Santa. Before we dive in though, let's start with a little history lesson about the origin of the name 'Santa' and his fictional groundings; who said horror couldn't be educational? He has been known by many names over the… read more »
