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25 October 2010 ~ 6 Comments

Van Damme “100% healthy” despite heart attack rumours

Despite recent online reports that suggested he’d suffered a heart attack, action movie star Jean Claude Van Damme has claimed that he is “100% healthy” in a Facebook update. Reports had surfaced claiming that the 50-year-old suffered a minor heart attack before filming a scene for his new movie Weapon in New York, and that [...]

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25 October 2010 ~ 10 Comments

The Hobbit movie finally gets the green light

After years of legal wrangling, Tolkien’s The Hobbit finally gets the go ahead to start filming with Peter Jackson at the helm as director.

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25 October 2010 ~ 2 Comments

Simon Pegg to put a comedy spin on classic Burke and Hare tale

Simon Pegg and Andy Serkis take on the roles of bodysnatchers Burke and Hare in upcoming comedy flick.

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13 October 2010 ~ 107 Comments

Facebook: The Movie

The Social Network is to be released in UK cinemas on October 15th 2010. It tells a version on the story of how Mark Zuckerberg achieved billionaire status at 26 by creating Facebook. The film has proved itself as both a critical and box office hit. Since its release in the US it has been [...]

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08 October 2010 ~ 33 Comments

Paranormal Activity 2 really tries to pull in the audience

Paranormal Activity step up their viral efforts in an attempt to beat Saw 3D in the cinema.

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05 October 2010 ~ 112 Comments

Video nasties get a modern twist

Remakes of classic video nasties are hitting the cinema and the DVD shelves.

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21 September 2010 ~ 74 Comments

A Brief History of Zombies

Zombie horror has finally broken into the mainstream after years of cult obscurity.Follow the history of the modern zombie, all the way from George A. Romero’s Night of the Living Dead to Valve Software’s Left 4 Dead.

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01 March 2010 ~ 97 Comments

Avatar wins more awards

Image via Wikipedia James Cameron’s Avatar has been collecting awards by the bucketful, and the film landed yet another six trophies over the weekend when it dominated the Visual Effects Society‘s eighth annual VES Awards. The Oscar-nominated film scored nominations in 11 categories and won six of them, including the prize for Best Single Visual [...]

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09 February 2010 ~ 27 Comments

24 The Movie gets a writer

Image via Wikipedia 24: The Movie has moved a step closer to reality after 20th Century Fox drafted in Billy Ray (Flightplan, State of Play) to write the script. With the latest day in Jack Bauer’s life currently being played out on TV screens around the world it isn’t yet known whether Day 8 will [...]

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01 February 2010 ~ 100 Comments

Drew Barrymore engaged?

According to Mashable (and Facebook), the actress Drew Barrymore is engaged. A recent Mashable post by columnist Stan Schroeder showed a Facebook status update in which the actress showed her relationship status as ‘engaged’. However, other sources online claim the actress is not ready to tie the knot, so who is right? As Stan points [...]

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