Final cut tussles between directors and studios

In some instances, the films that emerged from the editing room were considered to be influential triumphs. Others were commercial failures, while one or two were later reassessed as cult classics… Lynch appeared to be unaware that Dunes producers had entirely other ideas. The resulting film was widely panned by critics, andDuneunderperformed at the box-office. That ad served as the first shot in an unpleasant battle. Well take a loss on it....

February 4, 2014 · 2 min · 367 words · Larry Hansen

Loadout (PC) Review

Loadout gives us loads of guns, loads of gore, and loads of grotesque twerking! Now if that doesnt do it for you, then I dont know what will! As a third-person multiplayer shooter, both the gameplay and controls inLoadoutare incredibly slick and precise. Along these lines, it also wouldnt hurt to have a few more characters thrown into the mix. Graphics 10/10 Gameplay 9/10 Music 9/10 Multiplayer 8/10 Replayability 9/10

February 4, 2014 · 1 min · 70 words · Chad Myers

Batman vs. Superman: 5 Reasons Why Jeremy Irons Will Be A New Kind of Alfred

Jeremy Irons is Alfred in the Batman vs. Superman movie. All should rejoice, because this provides an opportunity for a new kind of butler.

February 3, 2014 · 1 min · 24 words · Bryan Mason

Grimm’s most legendary Wesen

If you answered not a great deal, youd be right. If you answered theyre all secretly liminal creatures from the world of NBCsGrimm, youd also be right. Grimm takes inspiration for its monster-of-the-week Wesen from all over the world. The lesson of that episode? Dont deny your true nature. These guys are bad news if you happen to be a little pig, or Bauerschwein. These creatures are tricky to kill, what with bullets causing their vaporised lipid breath to explode....

February 3, 2014 · 2 min · 218 words · Rita Bartlett

Alfred: The Many Faces of Batman’s Butler

Jeremy Irons may be the next Alfred Pennyworth, but he’s not the first. Let’s look back on the other men who have played the role.

February 1, 2014 · 1 min · 25 words · William Johnson

Looking back at the work of David Greenwalt and Jim Kouf

First, that poker game. It took a different combination of genres before critics and audiences really warmed up to their work. Combining crime with comedy, sci-fi with crime… Jim Koufs name was soon indissociable from the cop genre. The parallels betweenBuffyandGrimmare many. Like Buffy, Nicks supernatural responsibility interferes with his professional and personal life. GrimmtranslatedBuffys premise of a slayer falling for the creature its destined to hunt into a different context....

January 31, 2014 · 1 min · 185 words · Jonathan White

Roy Conli interview: Disney, Big Hero 6, robots

Heres what he had to say… Lets start with someBack To The Future Part IIIparlance. Theres a bit in that film where Doc Brown gets the train to absolutely the point of no return. Where was the eureka moment? We do a series of screenings every 12 weeks. There was a point, and quite frankly relatively recently. February [this year] I knew we had a film. And then in April, I went ooh, we have a good film....

January 31, 2014 · 5 min · 886 words · Benjamin Williams

The James Clayton Column: Why, Frankenstein?

The masses definitely disagree with the Monster. Time has proved that Frankensteins Monster (a.k.a. Hes easy to revive. A few zaps of electricity and some dramatic lighting and, oh God! Those are just few of the riffs onThe Modern Prometheuson the slab right now. Nevertheless, people have gone far flogging this dead (erm, alive! corpse, and Frankensteins Creation is rarely absent from the public eye. Universal Studios dragged the lumbering Monster out over and over for sequel after sequel through the 1930s and 40s....

January 31, 2014 · 2 min · 267 words · Marcus Simmons

Revisiting Indiana Jones And The Last Crusade

The lightest, funniest Indiana Jones movie generally ranks second, behind Raiders of the Lost Ark. Simon takes a look back… This article contains spoilers for Indiana Jones And The Last Crusade and The Untouchables. After that, we poppedThe Last Crusadeon. And it left me wondering: isLast Crusades stranglehold on second place fair? Certainly by the time my ten-year old sat through it hed have said so. He guffawed, was excited, and enjoyed the hell out of it....

January 30, 2014 · 4 min · 645 words · Kirsten Malone

Top 25 underappreciated comic book movies

Not bad when you consider that only recently, the medium was considered the preserve of dateless man-children alone. But as it happens, its a lot better than the numbers suggest. Give it a try now and itll make far more sense. See also:rethinking Mystery Men. Considering it was released almost 30 years ago, thats a pretty damning state of affairs. The Punisher Few characters defy a nuanced portrayal quite as completely as the Punisher....

January 30, 2014 · 3 min · 564 words · Michelle Martinez

Remembering Anton Walbrook

He was the actor of choice for some truly great directors. Homosexual, and classified as half-Jewish, Walbrook left Austria in 1936. After a time working in the US he moved to Britain and settled there as Anton Walbrook. Ad content continues below Five of his best performances 1. Gaslight (1940) Thorold Dickinson was a director who knew how to extract psychological horror from a script. Then she slowly starts to lose her mind....

January 29, 2014 · 2 min · 259 words · Jamie Jones

Exclusive: Director Ronald Krauss Talks Gimme Shelter

Gimme Shelter’s Ron Krauss speaks with us about what draws him to such human interest stories and his research of living in a shelter.

January 28, 2014 · 1 min · 24 words · Jeff Lowe

Revisiting Indiana Jones And The Temple Of Doom

For some time, hes been asking aboutIndiana Jones And The Temple Of Doom. But I couldnt put out of my head how I felt when I first watchedTemple Of Doom. Still, he persisted, and over the weekend, we settled down to watch the film. Hes had an early schooling inDoctor Who, which helped. He liked the film, he consequently reported. It just scared him. I half expected him to ring Childline....

January 28, 2014 · 3 min · 570 words · Katie Torres