A bounty hunter returns to her home planet to find a special girl in Borderlands. Lilith (Cate Blanchett) is a disgruntled bounty hunter who is hired by powerful tech CEO Atlas (Edgar Ramírez) to recover his daughter Tiny Tina (Ariana Greenblatt), kidnapped by Crimson Raiders turncoat Roland (Kevin Hart). Lilith returns to her home planet …
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The popular series of survival horror video games hit the big screen with Five Nights at Freddy’s. Mike (Josh Hutcherson) is a troubled man who desperately needs a job, or else he will lose the guardianship of his ten-year-old sister Abby (Piper Rubio) to his cruel aunt Jane (Mary Stuart Masterson). Career counsellor Steve Raglan …
The Nintendo stars hit the big screen in a new animated adventure in The Super Mario Bros. Movie. Mario (Chris Pratt) and Luigi (Charlie Day) are two Italian brothers running a plumbing business in Brooklyn. While trying to fix a broken water main, the Mario Bros. gets sucked into an old pipe in the sewers. …
Sonic teams with a new ally to face foes old and new in Sonic the Hedgehog 2. Left on his own while Tom Wachowski (James Marsden) and his wife Maddie (Tika Sumpter) travel to Hawaii for the wedding of Maddie’s sister Rachel (Natasha Rothwell) to Randall (Shemar Moore), Sonic the Hedgehog (Ben Schwartz) is shocked …
The popular Naughty Dog video game series hits the big screen with Uncharted. Nathan Drake (Tom Holland) is a bartender and petty thief, who is recruited by Victor “Sully” Sullivan (Mark Wahlberg), a treasure hunter who once worked with Nathan’s long-lost brother Sam (Rudy Pankow). Sully wants Nathan’s help to locate a stash of gold …
The popular video game series receives a rebooted adaptation with Resident Evil: Welcome to Raccoon City. Claire Redfield (Kaya Scodelario) has returned to the near-isolated town of Raccoon City to try to get help from her brother Chris (Robbie Amell) exposing the experiments of the Umbrella Corporation, headed by William Birkin (Neal McDonough). Chris shrugs …
The popular fighting video games receive a new film adaptation in Mortal Kombat. Cole Young (Lewis Tan) is a past-his-prime MMA fighter, who learns from Major Jax Briggs (Mehcad Brooks) that the dragon-shaped birthmark on his chest makes him chosen to participate in an ancient tournament called Mortal Kombat. Pursued by Sub-Zero (Joe Taslim), sent …
The Sega mascot heads to the big screen with Sonic the Hedgehog. Sonic (Ben Schwartz) is a blue alien hedgehog, who is forced to leave his home planet since his superhuman ability to run at supersonic speeds makes him the target of those who want to take his power. Sonic has spent the last decade hiding …
A young man enlists the help of a talking Pikachu to find out what happened to his father in Pokemon Detective Pikachu. Tim Goodman (Justice Smith) is an insurance salesman, with former dreams of being a Pokemon trainer, who learns that his estranged father Harry has apparently died in a car crash. Returning to his …
The popular arcade game hits the big screen with Rampage. The genetics company Energyne headed by Claire Wyden (Malin Akerman) has developed a pathogen called CRISPR that edits the DNA of all animals that come in contact with it. After the explosion of Energyne’s outer space laboratory, three samples of the pathogen crash land to Earth, infecting a …
Alicia Vikander stars as Lara Croft in this new adaptation of the long-running video game series in Tomb Raider. It has been seven years since Lord Richard Croft (Dominic West) disappeared without a trace. His daughter Lara (Vikander) discovers that her father had a secret hobby as an archaeologist and that he disappeared while searching for …
The orchish Horde goes to war against the human Alliance in Warcraft. With their homeworld Draenor dying, the many orc clans, including the Frostwolves lead by Durotan (Toby Kebbell), seek the help of the shaman Gul’dan (Daniel Wu), who uses the dark magic fel to open the Dark Portal and travel to the world of Azeroth. …
Last night, I attended a special screening of Takashi Miike’s adaptation of the popular Capcom video game Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney (you can read my overview of the games over on my Tumblr blog). The film has been described as the best video game adaption ever and I have to be compelled to agree with …
About four years ago, I bought the original Max Payne PC game from a bargain bin. I played through the entire game within a week and I was totally engrossed with its film noir-inspired story and its John Woo-inspired action. I wish I could say the same for the movie. I really hate it when …