Blowtorch to the head, electrocution, deadly tarantulas, flying paint cans – that Kevin McAllister really put those burglars through it in the Home Alone films. When you look back, it’s a wonder they were kids’ films at all. Generations of children watched those poor Wet Bandits get slowly, painfully tortured in their quest to nick
Month: December 2022
Console wars are nothing new. Back in the Sega Genesis and SNES days, Sega tried to convince audiences that their console did what Nintendon’t (and vice versa). But with the advent of cross-play and cross-progression in more recent console generations, companies like Sony and Microsoft have largely been content to play nice with each other.
Major finale spoilers! This is for UK viewers who have already streamed the entire THIRD season on bbc iplayer. Some family TV shows exist to sell toys. Or to fill gaps between pocket money-targeting ads, and to profit from cross-promotional product placement. Not this one – and not only because it’s shown on the BBC,
This article contains spoilers for season 6 of Rick and Morty. The season 6 finale of Rick and Morty “Ricktional Mortpoon’s Rickmas Mortcation” was another festive episode that saw Morty (Justin Roiland) get to live out his dreams of being a Jedi for a brief moment before his functional lightsaber threatens the planet and almost
An overwhelmingly vast number of psychic claims should be taken with a healthy dose of salt, and Call Me Miss Cleo aims to be sodium-free. HBO Max’s original documentary does, however, throw a little bit of corn syrup into the mix. It promises viewers an in-depth study on a complicated con game, Psychic Readers Network
If you watched David Tennant’s captivating portrayal of Alexander Litvinenko as he lay dying and thought ‘You know what this needs? More arias’, then guess what? You’re in luck. The bold, furious, highly effective ITVX drama Litvinenko might have left you wondering where you can find out more about what happened, or where else you
We’re getting another dose of Scream action in 2023 as Scream 6 heads to the cinema screens after getting its very own requal earlier this year. Check out the official poster above and watch the first teaser trailer here, which sees Ghostface stalk our Scream 5 survivors on the subway… <span data-mce-type=”bookmark” style=”display: inline-block; width:
It’s a bird, it’s a plane, no, it’s Henry Cavill’s blink-and-you’ll-miss-it return to the DC Extended Universe as Superman. Despite James Gunn confirming he and DC Studios co-president Peter Safran have completed their master plan to turn the struggling DCEU around, there are casualties across the board. On top of Patty Jenkins confirming she’s no
The Sega Dreamcast made its Japanese debut just in time for Christmas 1998. It would take until September of 1999 for the console to reach North America, where fans welcomed it after roughly three years with the weakening PlayStation and the chunky Nintendo 64. Its fate would be a modern retelling of the myth of
Scalextric add to their recent run of nostalgic 1/32 scale movie replicas, releasing a complete kit just in time for Christmas, enabling you to have your own battle for the ages (or at least of the 1980s). As the title suggests, Scalextric have bundled together the iconic Back to the Future Delorean with everyone’s favourite
Released: 18 December 2022 Creator: Philip Pullman, Jane Tranter, Jack Thorne Cast: Dafne Keen, Amir Wilson, Ruth Wilson, James McAvoy Distributor: BBC/HBO Running Time: 8 episodes There’s been a two-year hiatus since His Dark Materials last graced the Christmas TV schedules, and now it’s back for its third and final series, adapting Philip Pullman’s The
The long journey of Black Adam to the big screen finally completed this year. Originally intended as the villain of Shazam! in earlier scripts for that DC movie, star and executive producer Dwayne Johnson asked WB to separate the two characters and grant them their own individual films. It’s a choice that over the years
The highly anticipated prequel series, 1923 debuts Sunday, Dec. 18, giving the insatiable Yellowstone audience a new generation of the first family of Montana to meet. Set 40 years after the events of the smash hit limited series, 1883, we join the growing Dutton clan struggling to survive drought, lawlessness, and a clash between those
The dark nights are drawing in, fairy lights adorn our streets and families are coming together around the TV. That can only mean one thing: Time for a war against Heaven and a trip to the Land of the Dead! Or, in other words, time for the return of His Dark Materials for its third
Now available on Disney+, If These Walls Could Sing is a loving documentary on one of the greatest musical achievements in modern history. Initially known as EMI studios, the world’s first custom-built recording studio was rechristened Abbey Road only after The Beatles named an album after what all the musicians who played there called it.
Released: 16 December Certificate: 15 Director: Nikyatu Jusu Cast: Anna Diop, Michelle Monaghan, Sinqua Walls Distributor: Prime Video Running Time: 97 mins Nanny, Nikyatu Jusu’s impressive feature debut blends horror and satire to tell a story about entitlement and cultural and societal oppression in the West. It has some things in common with Ousmane Sembene’s
From the writers of A Quiet Place and producer Sam Raimi comes 65, which sees the future versus the past when a pilot (Adam Driver) from the future crash land on prehistoric Earth. Watch the trailer… <span data-mce-type=”bookmark” style=”display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;” class=”mce_SELRES_start”></span> After a catastrophic crash on an unknown planet,
Gangs of London is an explosive crime drama that blew up the streets of the capital when season one landed in 2020. Now the whole of season two is with us, available to stream in full on Sky Atlantic, Now and AMC+, and no expense is spared on the violence and the visuals as well
This article is sponsored by Crunchyroll The holidays are a wonderful time to kick back, relax, and show some appreciation for the very special people in your life–even if that includes yourself. Crunchyroll has become one of the premier anime streaming services, but their talents have expanded far beyond this and they also have a
An unknown entity is causing people to kill themselves while wearing a great big smile in creepy horror movie Smile, and now you can take the horror home as it lands on Blu-ray, 4K and DVD later this month. Not only that but we have a copy to give away on Blu-ray with our latest
WARNING: This review contains spoilers for all four episodes of Litvinenko Truth is stranger than fiction, they say – and Litvinenko shows why this is a gift to crime dramas. So often fictional crime dramas try to be too slick, too perfectly believable, but real life is messier, more mundane, more ridiculous than what most
Studiocanal has released a brand new 4K restoration of John Guillermin’s (Blazing Inferno, Death on the Nile) Academy Award-winning remake of iconic Hollywood classic, King Kong (1976) and we have two copies to give away on 4k UHD! Fred Wilson (Charles Grodin), an employee of a large American oil company, has been charged with a
Thirteen years after the original Avatar was released, James Cameron doubles down on pressing environmental and social issues with a visually impressive ocean-set sequel on the planet of Pandora. At times it plays out like a trippy episode of The Blue Planet. One of the major themes that really struck a chord with two returning
It’s the most wonderful time of the year – not least because it’s the time of year where people the world over get to enjoy Martine McCutcheon’s star turn in the ultimate Christmas movie Love Actually. Her portrayal of Natalie – the sweary, lovable assistant to Prime Minister David (aka Hugh Grant) – is one
2022 is almost finished, and boy was it an exciting year for gaming. While we’ll be talking about the year’s many video game highlights, we couldn’t end the year without also sharing a healthy dose of “WTF?” Surprise developments are nothing new in the game industry (some of us are still recovering from the sudden
Released: 16 December (in cinemas) Director: James Cameron Cast: Sam Worthington, Zoe Saldana, Sigourney Weaver Thirteen years is a long time. In 2009, James Cameron’s off-Earth sci-fi epic Avatar was busting blocks all over the globe, had everyone briefly imagining that 3D was the next new (old) thing, and built the all-encompassing lunar world of
‘Never work with children or animals’, the old showbiz phrase goes, but when filming Nativity! in 2009 not only did Martin Freeman and Marc Wootton have both children and animals to contend with, they were doing it all without a script. Like Debbie Isitt’s 2006 mockumentary romcom Confetti also starring Freeman and Wootton, Nativity! was
Miles Morales is back and so are a bunch of other members of the Spider-fam (including Oscar Isaac returning as Miguel O’Hara as Spider-Man 2099!) in the first trailer for Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse. Watch it here… <span data-mce-type=”bookmark” style=”display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;” class=”mce_SELRES_start”></span> After reuniting with Gwen Stacy, Miles Morales
It seems like no HBO Max series is safe from the wrath of Warner Bros. Discovery CEO David Zaslav. Last week it was announced by series showrunner Brig Muñoz-Liebowitz via Twitter that the recently canceled The Gordita Chronicles would be the next original series removed from HBO Max. Not long after, it was revealed that
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