Next to chocolate and waffles, Tintin is one of Belgium’s greatest exports, a character beloved by millions all over the world. Now, Steven Spielberg and Peter Jackson have taken on the challenge of bringing the young reporter to motion-captured life.
This was one emotionally charged episode of American Horror Story. I was absolutely exhausted by the time the credits rolled, and that was mostly down to Connie Britton’s relentless performance during Vivien’s extremely traumatic birthing scenes. The woman could scream for her country! ”Birth” was the penultimate episode to a completely bonkers first season and managed to round out quite a few paranormal arcs, as well as raising one zinger of a question: where do we go from here?
Picking up from the heels of the last episode, the hour immediately addresses Violet still trying to come to terms with being six feet under (her own house). This was actually a really strong episode for Violet and made leaps and bounds in redeeming her as a character. When she wasn’t summoning Billie Dean to help her rid the house of Chad and Pat, who have their sights set on Vivien’s twins, she was banishing her own murderous rapist boyfriend from her life…er, death. And to cap it all off, Violet shares an extremely tender, underplayed scene with her recently deceased mother come episode’s end.
The first trailer for Bryan Singer’s Jack the Giant Killer is here. It won’t be hard to best the 1962 original, but how will audiences react to the darker tone? Making $100-plus million on a fable that skews to the 15-30-year-old crowd is going to require a fair bit of “grim-ifying” the source material, and that case in point is the dour and guitar riff-heavy first trailer.
There’s no stinger shot of Nicolas Cage pissing fire in this second trailer, but it does develop the pathos of why we should care about Nic Cage pissing fire. Our hero-in-hiding is tasked by Idris Elba with protecting a child targeted by the devil for possession
When Jason Reitman and Diablo Cody struck gold with Juno in 2007, they did so with a rare combination of contemporary wit, quirkiness and heart. Their four-year reunion in Young Adult won’t be nearly as heralded, but it might arguably be a better film.
“If Santa were a ninja – and we all know he really is – this is how he’d keep his skills sharp in the slow summer months,” said Phil Larsen, the chief marketing officer of Halfbrick, the studio behind Fruit Ninja Kinect. Ne’er a truer word has been spoken, as Halfbrick announced today the release of a completely free piece of Christmas-themed DLC for the title, featuring holiday-themed content such as a ‘Candy Cane Blade’ and a ‘Santa’s Workshop’level to slice fruit in. It’s certainly festive of them, and the accompanying trailer supports that, with a heart-warming‘thanks for a great year’ message at the end.
The opening monologue suggests that Bruce Willis’ CIA operative from the first film will have a personal stake in the next mission for Barney Ross and his band of merry mercs. That’s as much context as you get, and honestly, probably want: The rest of the trailer is a surprisingly reserved roll-call of all the film’s stars doing little more than brandishing obscenely large weapons while grimacing.
Previously on Player Affinity we had named Alan Wake as one of the console exclusives we most wanted to see on PC, and now that wild pipe dream has come true. Yesterday, Remedy Entertainment confirmed that Alan Wake will complete its long journey to the PC in early 2012.
The holiday season has become very fruitful very fast for this trailer hunter as after weeks of ho-hum debuts and second trailer rehashes, we’re got six high-profile peaks into films worthy of teeth-sinking.
For those looking to laugh come May, Sacha Baron Cohen‘s latest character looks to do the trick. The Dictator was written in part by Cohen and directed by Borat and Bruno director Larry Charles, but the film doesn’t involve real people getting made stupid for audiences worldwide and instead follows a traditional comedic structure
