A final trip to Middle Earth, complete with death, destruction and Billy Boyd's dulcet and mournful tones over the soundtrack. For people who sat in the cinemas during the Christmas holidays of 2003, this might seem like familiar territory... Indeed, The Hobbit trilogy bows out over the holidays … [Read more...]
Benedict Cumberbatch has developed a reputation for playing both literary characters and real-life people on the silver screen. He's already tackled the likes of William Pitt the Younger, author Alexander Masters and Van Gogh, not to mention his - rather terrifying - transformation into Julian … [Read more...]
A little over a year after he was first announced as the new Doctor, the time has nearly come for Peter Capaldi to take up reins of the TARDIS. Doctor Who returns to BBC One on Saturday August 23rd, with a full length opening episode directed by Brit horror luminary Ben … [Read more...]
It's turning out to be a vintage year for thriller adaptations, with Gone Girl hitting cinemas this autumn and this adaptation of S.J. Watson's debut novel coming out just before it. Before I Go to Sleep, released in 2011, told the story of a woman suffering from anterograde amnesia. Which means she … [Read more...]
It's officially blockbuster season at your local cinema (and other cinemas as well, obviously), so hurrah! Film fans rejoice! Last year, the summer movie schedules were filled to the brim with apocalypses of various degrees (and Alan Partridge trying to be a hostage negotiator). This year, the … [Read more...]
And so, after another ten weeks of fictional sadism and very real suffering, we reach the end of Game of Thrones season four. Unlike all the other years of this show, this time the final episode of the run is the climactic point, bringing a kitchen of pots to a cloud of boils. And we’ve reached … [Read more...]
In previous seasons, the penultimate Game of Thrones episode of the year has been The One. The big week where something huge happens, leaving the “finale” as an epilogue for characters to react. Here we are in the second-to-last Westeros visit of season four, then, and pre-conditioned to … [Read more...]
X-Men past and future collide to save mutantkind from a horrible fate! A cast of so many people, you'll have trouble keeping up! James McAvoy wears flared jeans! Hugh Jackman wears not much at all! Peter Dinklage! Let's have a look and see if X-Men: Days of Future Past lives up to the massive … [Read more...]
After a short interlude for Americans to remember something, back to Game of Thrones. Following the last couple of weeks, not to mention the title of this episode (The Mountain and the Viper), we’re clearly all here for Tyrion’s trial by combat fight between Oberyn Martell and The … [Read more...]
Ever heard of shipping? Unless you're a YouTube or Tumblr addict, chances are this trend has passed you by. Shipping is where a community 'ships' together two together as a couple (shipping = relationshipping). Essentially, they post about how they'd love for those individuals to be together as a … [Read more...]
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