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13 Of The Worst Video Game Movies Ever Made
8.8.2024
Video game adaptations are enjoying a bit of a renaissance right now. A video game getting made into a movie used to have fans bracing for embarrassment, expecting some cheap, unwatchable slop to be dragged out and projected onto a big screen bearing the name of their favorite games. While there...
The Borderlands Movie: The Kotaku Review
8.8.2024
An hour after leaving a screening of the new Borderlands movie, directed by Eli Roth (Hostel) and starring Cate Blanchett, Kevin Hart, Jamie Lee Curtis, and Ariana Greenblatt, I’m staring at a blinking cursor in a blank Google Doc, urging inspiration to strike. Read more
Borderlands Movie First Impressions Call It 'Lifeless' And 'Really Bad'
7.8.2024
After a very long wait, the live-action Borderlands movie finally arrives in theaters this weekend. But before that, the movie was screened for fans and critics in Los Angeles. And, based on the first impressions being posted online, the Borderlands movie sounds like a complete mess.Read more
Beetlejuice 2 Joins Popcorn Bucket Wars With Ghostly Monstrosity
7.8.2024
The bizarro world of epic popcorn buckets didn’t begin with Dune: Part Two’s wonderful worm monstrosity, but it certainly propelled the concept into the mainstream. It even merited one of SNL’s best sketches of the year. And if anything, it’s caused every other studio and movie theater chain...
Tales From The Borderlands Convinced Gearbox A Movie Was A Good Idea
6.8.2024
The upcoming Borderlands movie might not have happened if it wasn’t for the spin-off narrative game Tales from the Borderlands, which gave Gearbox confidence that the universe could be more than just a looter shooter playground.Read more
Sad News, Roblox Has Come For Beetlejuice
5.8.2024
After 30 years, we’re finally getting a sequel to 1988's creepy comedy Beetlejuice. Do we need one? I don’t know. But because everyone involved waited so long to make Beetlejuice, Beetlejuice we now have to watch Michael Keaton’s “Ghost with the Most” get shoved into Roblox in another desperate...
Deadpool & Wolverine: 8 Great Comics To Read After Seeing The Movie
5.8.2024
With Deadpool & Wolverine, Ryan Reynolds’ merc has finally joined the MCU. The team-up with Hugh Jackman’s iconic X-Men character also serves as a fond farewell to the Fox era of Marvel movies, and is filled with cameos from top to bottom. But once you get out of the theater you might find yourself...
The New Quiet Place Movie Deleted One One Of Its Best Scenes
1.8.2024
A Quiet Place: Day One, the prequel to the John Krasinski-directed post-apocalyptic series about blind aliens with superpowered hearing, premiered in theaters in June. It was fine. The film takes place on the first day of the invasion, documenting the early days in New York City as humanity...
The BioShock Movie Is Still In The Works, But Will Be ‘Much Smaller’ Than Originally Planned
26.7.2024
It’s been a while since we got news of Netflix’s BioShock adaptation, but we finally have an update thanks to San Diego Comic-Con. During a panel at the convection, producer Roy Lee revealed that, yes the movie is still happening, but it won’t be exactly as it was originally intended due to recent...
Lego's Super Mario World Build Is The 16-Bit Perfection We Need
25.7.2024
You know what Lego’s are made of, right? Blocks! And you know what the original Mario was made of! Also blocks! So, if we just put those two ideas together...crossfade the undersplines...carry the seven... No, sorry, I’ve got nothing.Read more
Michael Bay Is Working On A Skibidi Toilet Cinematic Universe
24.7.2024
Skibidi Toilet, the massively popular YouTube series featuring singing heads popping out of toilet bowls, is being developed into a TV and film franchise by Transformers director Michael Bay, and former Paramount president Adam Goodman. Read more
Twisters Is Already The Movie Of The Summer And It’s Not Even Out Yet
12.7.2024
Twisters, the sequel to the 1996 iconic action flick Twister, is out next week on July 19. Until recently, you might not have even heard of the upcoming film, starring Top Gun: Maverick’s Glen Powell and Normal People’s Daisy Edgar-Jones. As a huge fan of the original movie, and an unabashed...
Angry Birds Seemingly Confirms Gay Bird Is Just An Ally
11.7.2024
I’ve written about a lot of gay characters in video games over the years, but I didn’t know until yesterday that Angry Birds has what seems to be a pretty explicitly queer bird in its ranks. Well, at least that’s what fans thought until an official post through the game’s social channels labeled...
Okay, I Watched Miami Vice And It Rules
8.7.2024
On July 4, 2024, film critic Brandon Streuessnig posted a movie clip on X (formerly Twitter) with the caption, “gf asked me to show her my favorite movie tonight. Probably the most important step in the relationship. No goin back now.” The clip in question shows the opening moments of Michael...
Your First Look At Shadow In The Sonic 3 Movie Is Via A Leaked Popcorn Bucket
5.7.2024
We are just about five months away from Sonic the Hedgehog 3’s theatrical release on December 20. It’s been three months since Paramount gave fans a private premiere of footage from the film in April, but after months of waiting and theorizing about when a public trailer might drop, most fans...
One Of The Worst Movies Ever Made Almost Had A PS2 Tie-In Game
5.7.2024
Foodfight!, an infamously horrible CG animated comedy starring product mascots, almost got a tie-in PS2-era video game. And while the tie-in game was never finished, largely because the movie lingered in development hell, we now have access to assets from the Foodfight! game and have a more...
The Watch Dogs Movie Is Actually Happening, Over A Decade After It Was Announced
3.7.2024
Production on a live-action Watch Dogs film has finally started over a decade after Ubisoft first announced the adaptation was in the works. Read more
Cate Blanchett Explains Why She's In The Borderlands Movie
2.7.2024
It always seemed a bit weird that famed, Oscar-winning actress Cate Blanchett decided to be a part of the Borderlands live-action movie. Now we know the story of how this odd casting happened and it seems we can blame covid-19. Read more
Hideo Kojima Really Loves The Chainsaw Man Creator’s New Movie
2.7.2024
Look Back, the adaptation of Chainsaw Man creator Tastsuki Fujimoto’s 2021 manga of the same name, is a hit in Japan after a strong opening weekend. One person who is particularly in love with the film is none other than everyone’s favorite full-time cinephile and part-time game developer, Hideo...
A New, Definitely Not Bad Street Fighter Movie Gets A Release Date
27.6.2024
We are certainly living through the Era of the Remake. When future archeologists dig through our remains, they will be fascinated by the thick layer of Resident Evil remasters and Spider-Man movie franchises. But if there’s one film that shouldn’t repeatedly appear, that no one has the right...