Although Skyfall has been lauded as the best Bond film in a long, long time, a few fans were somewhat disheartened to find that the iconic gun barrel sequence - which usually precedes the opening stunts and credits sequence - was missing again.
If there's one thing that Superman megavillian General Zod is renowened for, it's his super-breath ability. Oh, and his iconic catchphrase, of course: "Kneel before Zod." When you're a proper bad guy and you take your duties seriously, having people kneel before you is absolutely the ultimate way to prove your worth. It's so bloody degrading.
Do you like adorable things that run at a convenient length of precisely 6 minutes and 57 seconds? You do? Then check out the brilliant Pixar short La Luna, which has been made available to watch online for your viewing pleasure (and can be seen below).
White House Down a title that fires up the imagination in a very specific way: explosions, one-liners, bullet holes ripping through the Oval Office. And, then, of course, that key moment when the protagonist (trapped inside the building, of course) deadpans over the radio: "White House Down."
If you're an aspring screenwriter, Max Landis is the kind of guy you hate. Not because he's a hack and he's getting work and you're still at home living with your parents and working at Burger King, but because Landis is young and talented and has a ton of projects coming up.
For those who don't know, World War Z is a book by Max Brooks (Mel Brooks, son, yes) that chronicles a future zombie apocalypse through the oral accounts of its survivors. The main character is Max Brooks himself, because when you're an author you can do that sort of thing, and also because it makes it all the more realistic. He's a journalist, see, going around the planet and recording conversations with some key survivors.
There are those sceptics out there that'll say, no, you can't make a good movie out of a fighting game. And sure, they've got the examples to back it up - Street Fighter and Dead Or Alive were two of the shittiest movies ever made: all who gazed upon them were gifted with 90 minutes of burning eyes. But Warner Bros. don't care about that. They're gonna make a movie out of the Mortal Kombat video game, and nobody or nothin' can stop 'em.
"Slavery, sir. It's done." Those are the defining words uttered by Daniel Day-Lewis's Abraham Lincoln in the final trailer for Steven Spielberg's upcoming Lincoln, which looks to be getting even more epic with every glimpse of footage we see.
Despite the fact that Disney have made a movie about an 8-bit game character for children who have never played an 8-bit game, this previous weekend's box office receipts prove that, you know, bright colors and the promise of Sonic the Hedgehog are enough to bring in the big crowds as Wreck-It Ralph scored an impressive $49.1 million in North America alone.
Do you like hamburger phones and cute phrases like "honest to blog"? No? Oh. Well, maybe stop reading this article, then, home-skillet. If you do happen to like super-quirky things like that, though, you'll be thrilled to hear that indie queen Diablo Cody is developing a new TV show about similarly quirky quirks. Want to know what it's about? No? You're making this job really hard for me, buddy.
