Having convinced America aliens were invading in 1938, Orson Welles mused on art-as-deception in this 1974 pic considered his last classic. Jumping off from a BBC commission about art forger Elmyr De Hory, Welles uses blink/ miss editing to stitch up a mischievous mash of mock-doc, magic show, lecture and …
Read More »The Bourne Legacy review
28 Weeks Later. Predator 2. xXx: State Of The Union . Just a few of the pictures that have tried to perpetuate a franchise without their original stars on board. To their number we can now add The Bourne Legacy , a continuation of the Robert Ludlum-inspired spy series without …
Read More »5 Things Sci-Fi Shows Should Learn From Eureka
BLOG The last episode of Eureka airs in the UK tonight after five successful years. SFX Editor-in-chief Dave Bradley explains what surviving shows should learn from it The series finale of (A Town Called) Eureka airs tonight in the UK. It was broadcast in the US on 16 July so …
Read More »Black Ops 2 multiplayer reveal trailer arrives
The multiplayer reveal trailer for Call of Duty: Black Ops 2 introduces a ton of new gadgets and toys to play with during the endless hours of deathmatch. Practically every moment of this trailer is packed with awesome footage of stuff we desperately want to get our hands on. The …
Read More »Worst To Best: Christian Bale
Captain Corelli’s Mandolin (2001) The Film: John Madden’s often infuriatingly saccharine period romp in which an engaged woman falls for an Italian commander while her beau is off fighting the war. Bale Intensity: Bale clearly wasn’t happy with the material here, seeming to regret signing on by delivering a stilted, …
Read More »PlayStation Collections announced by Sony, God of War and Infamous coming first
Sony announced today that they will be bringing God of War and Infamous back to market in the form of giant collections of every game in the series including some unannounced extra content. The new program is called PlayStation Collections and will feature God of War, Ratchet and Clank, and …
Read More »New banner for The Expendables 2
[brightcove]1627314831001[/brightcove] The Expendables 2 is flexing its well-oiled muscles for an all-out assault on the summer box office, and in order to whet our appetites further, has released a cool new banner poster posing its key players in a mock-up of the Last Supper. And so, we have Stallone in …
Read More »Supertrailer – The best trailers from the week recut into one massive video
Song: Wings of Glory by Non-Stop Music This week was a little slow trailer-wise, but there were still some good ones out there. With a few games coming out this week like the dark, post-apocalyptic Deadlight (opens in new tab) and upcoming movie-based Expendables 2: The Video Game (opens in …
Read More »Spurious Awards Of The Week
PIROUETTE OF THE WEEK [VAMS] The USA should have entered Teen Wolf’ s Derek for the Olympic gymnastics if this graceful tumble is anything to go by; his pirouette is so fast, the camera couldn’t even catch it. (The officials don’t do blood tests for lycanthropy do they?) CAREER CHANGE …
Read More »Mass Effect 3 will be Wii U launch title, features full multiplayer
EA probably could have just plopped the Mass Effect 3 single-player campaign onto the Wii U and picked up more than a fair few sales, as that’s the main draw for most players. However, today at the EA Summer Showcase they announced that they’re going all-out with the upcoming port. …
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