What is it? Announced just days ago on Twitter, the League of Legends New Zealand Champions 2020 is pretty self-explanatory. It’s a League of Legends esports tournament hosted by NZ Esports next year, which will decide out of 96 teams who is the best team in New Zealand. Yes, 96 …
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DC has finally given up on its shared cinematic universe building with Joker. Presenting it as a stand alone story unconnected with the recent DC films marks an opportunity to produce films unencumbered by the other films failings. Joker is also the most controversial DC film before it was even …
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I took some time to catch Ad Astra the latest Brad Pitt film while in Northern Greece at an open air outdoor cinema for some added novelty. Hard Sci Fi movies since 2001: A space Odyssey onwards try to find answers to lofty questions. They try to ground themselves …
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Hey Team Nick here stepping in for Aryan as he’s globe trotting so I’ll attempt to stick to his format for this. We’re getting to that sort of age now where our favourite movie stars are getting on a bit, The Expendables series was a great middle finger to the …
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At a time saturated with reboots which are usually miss rather than hit. IT Chapter One left a big impression on both critics and audiences. IT brought scares and a decent adaptation of Stephen King’s book. At the end the movie slam cuts the title “IT Chapter One” letting you know …
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Put this on your best Audio system right now loud as you can!
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Annabelle Comes Home is the third Annabelle installment in The Conjuring Cinematic Universe. How wild is it that a shared horror cinematic universe even exists! It’s a bit like a successful version of what Universal was trying way too hard to do with it’s Dark Universe with Dracula Untold and …
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Full disclosure, I haven’t seen the original Child’s Play movies. On the upside I have no expectations or preconceptions coming into this reboot of Child’s Play either. I was vaguely aware of the character growing up and it seemed like a standard slasher franchise like Friday the 13th or Nightmare on …
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Godzilla is the definitive big monster movie, with a long and interesting history that I can’t get into here without a review with a word-count the size of of a kaiju. We have had some shit adaptations over the years when Hollywood tries to get involved that not even the …
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When I first heard the premise for a Ryan Reynolds voiced live action Detective Pikachu movie I thought “WTF that sounds really dumb!” Then the trailer dropped and it pika’d my curiosity. Lets see if the movie got my attention. The Cast Ryan Reynolds as Detective Pikachu (voice and …
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