Red Faction: Armageddon Xbox 360 review

Battling for survival, the colonists havent done too badly for themselves, building undergrounds towns and settlements. Ad content continues below Narrow closed spaces Unlike the previousRed Faction: Guerrilla,Armageddonisnt an open world title. This time the game has been developed as a more focused and linear action adventure. Of course, battles inRed Faction: Armageddonare more than simple firefights. Here combat is one part bullet-slinging and two parts total destruction. In fact, thanks to some additional weapons and features, this integration is made all the more essential....

June 24, 2011 · 2 min · 263 words · Michael Valentine

Cinema’s 10 greatest disembodied brains and heads

Fortunately for the people of Earth, another big brain arrives from planet Arous. Seizing a conveniently located axe, he hacks the evil cerebrum into oblivion. In spite of its superior intelligence, the evil brain loses. You women and your imaginations, he says. When they begin digging anyway, she screams, Youre all horrible! I hope you all die! I hope a tree falls on you! Remarkably, a tree does fall on someone straight afterwards....

June 23, 2011 · 2 min · 278 words · Kathryn Smith

Doctor Who: a celebration of William Hartnell

Im here to say that this is simply wrong. Heisa cantankerous old gitandthe energetic hero. Okay, so he doesnt do much running around, but he still commands the screen. And Hartnell is full of good acting. Hartnells Doctor felt like he could genuinely do something magical at any given moment. Hartnell defined it first. Everything a Doctor has ever done is somewhere in a Hartnell performance. His range is staggeringly good....

June 23, 2011 · 2 min · 397 words · Carrie Mcdonald

8 warning signs that a movie will be terrible

Can you tell whether a movies going to be awful without even watching it? Not even Michael Bay. Forget the horrors ofA Serbian Film. This is one sequence that, once seen, can never be forgotten. See also:Robot Monster 2. Those movies are immediately balanced out by two Martian efforts from 2000,Red PlanetandMission To Mars. The reviews were bad, but the receipts were worse. The lesson, therefore, is not to set your movie on Mars....

June 22, 2011 · 2 min · 277 words · Karen Hall

Paul Feig interview: Bridesmaids, Freaks And Geeks, Bridesmaids 2, Rose Byrne and more

And we ask him lots about Bridesmaids, too. No, definitely not! Im not used to it at all! Ad content continues below Is it an odd feeling now, and is that commercial success important to you? Or is it a case of this is the nice bit at the end? Its definitely a nice feeling, because its been very hard for me to get things made. More often than not, I seem to do well critically, which is fantastic....

June 22, 2011 · 5 min · 879 words · Jennifer Peters

10 greatest flying movies

This is a personal list, and as such, wont like everyone. Ive also excluded helicopters in exchange for a festival of fixed wings. The need for speed… The Dam Busters (1955) Ad content continues below Gosh, what a place to start. For the most part, the films an historically accurate retelling of the ultimate daring-do of WWII. It has the line Blue Leader to all sections. Keep your eyes open....

June 21, 2011 · 1 min · 185 words · Justin Zamora

Doctor Who episodes and spin-offs that never happened

Here are fifteenDoctor Whoepisodes and spin-offs that never happened… One of these attempts was a script for aDoctor Whospin-off titledThe Destroyers. The principal characters were agent Jack Corey, David and Sara Kingdom, and an android named Mark Seven. Aspects of the script were adapted for the twelve partDoctor Whoserial,The Daleks Masterplan. The storys ending was supposed to imply that the Master died trying to save the Doctor. Eventually, the production was abandoned....

June 19, 2011 · 2 min · 407 words · Trevor Johnson

Looking back at John Carpenter’s Dark Star

John Carpenter and Dan OBannon kicked off their careers in 1974 with the sci-fi comedy, Dark Star. Lawrence looks back at a low-budget classic… pril 1974. Richard Nixon is in the last days of his presidency. The bloody war in South East Asia rages on. Abba win the Eurovision song contest withWaterloo. AndDark Star, a low budget sci-fi comedy, hits the screen. The film also proved the basis as a dry run forAlien, for which OBannon wrote the script....

June 19, 2011 · 2 min · 227 words · Jacob Lawrence

Alice: Madness Returns Xbox 360 review

Once more through the looking glass, Aaron revisits a twisted Wonderland in Alice: Madness Returns… And it was a damn fine platformer too, packed with excellent artistic design and enjoyable gameplay. It even ran well on my ageing 3DFX Voodoo 2, which was nice. Its far more than that. What we have here is a real upping of the ante, and a largely revamped and redesigned experience. Here you might explore the world, examine various objects and delve into Alices dark and foreboding existence....

June 17, 2011 · 2 min · 364 words · Natasha Floyd

The Complete Superman Collection Blu-ray review

The big screen adventures of Superman arrive in a collected, high definition anthology. Thus far,Supermanin high definition hasnt done too badly. Weve had one cut ofSuperman II, the extendedSuperman, and Bryan SingersSuperman Returnsall released. What weve been missing areSupermansIII and IV, along with the originalSuperman IIcut. Throw in a disc of bonus features, and thats just what thisSupermancollection boxset gives you. The gold, as you might expect, is with the first two films....

June 16, 2011 · 2 min · 306 words · Valerie Padilla

Top 10 comic book characters that should make their screen debuts soon

Superheroes are packing audiences into cinemas this summer. As such, the archives are being raided for other propertys characters and ideas to translate to film. But is this the best way of getting fan favourite characters onto cinema screens? So, then, how do you get your favourite character on screen? With that in mind, how would you get your favourite character on screen, realistically? Ad content continues below Who: Dazzler Where: X-Men Second Class...

June 16, 2011 · 2 min · 236 words · Brianna Smith

Cécile de France interview: Hereafter, and working with Clint Eastwood

Do you enjoy watching your films back? Also, because the film is very close to the script from Peter Morgan. Three characters converging towards each other. And when I saw the film, it was very close to the script. It was not a big surprise, of course. And I was very, very impressed by the English parts. I dont remember, whats the name of the actress who played the mother?...

June 15, 2011 · 4 min · 831 words · Travis Anderson

10 deadly comets, asteroids and meteorites in the movies

And thanks to cinema, we now know that, in a roundabout way, the latter is true. This results in a procession of disasters and terrible special effects. High ranking characters (among them, Morgan Freeman as the president) agonise over what to do next. Underground shelters can be hurriedly built, but can only house a tiny percentage of Earths population. Armageddonis so loud and macho, in fact, that its script was probably printed entirely in uppercase....

June 14, 2011 · 1 min · 206 words · Annette Marshall