Review: Split
M. Night Shymalan started to pull himself partly out of the hole he dug himself into in the mid-2000’s in 2015 with The Visit and he pulls himself completely out this year with the fantastic thriller Split, where James McAvoy plays a man with 23 personalities who has kidnapped three girls to awaken a powerful 24th personality nicknamed “The Beast”.
Gambox 2.0: Hostess Bar Edition
Gamebox 2.0 is back for the first edition of 2017 as we checked out some Japanese craziness in Yakuza 0 and Let it Die, the latest from Adult Swim Games, the start of the new season of The Walking Dead and more.
Review: XXX: Return of Xander Cage
Xander Cage comes out of hiding to track down a device called Pandora’s Box, which can weaponize any satellite in orbit, which has fallen into the hands of xtreme criminals led by Xiang (Donnie Yen) in XXX: Return of Xander Cage.
Review: Arsenal
Nicolas Cage reprises his role from 1993’s Deadfall, Eddie King, in the new crime thriller Arsenal, where he kidnaps Adrian Grenier’s brother (Johnathon Schaech) and forces him to try and raise an exorbitant ransom.
Review: The OA
Netflix’s new supernatural sci-fi drama may seem like a binge-worthy lark, but thin plot, characters and lame ending ruin anything positive.
Review: Assassin’s Creed
The Ubisoft series of games makes the jump to the big screen with an insanely talented cast, including Michael Fassbender starring as Callum Lynch and his Assassin ancestor Aguilar as the Abstergo Corporation tries use both to find the location of the powerful artifact, the Apple of Eden.
Review: Rogue One
The first Star Wars Story, Rogue One tells the tale of the band of rebels that stole the Death Star plans shortly before the start of Episode IV.
Review: Contract to Kill
The first Steven Seagal movie to hit theaters since Half Past Dead in 2002, Contract to Kill finds Seagal playing John Harmon, a CIA/DEA enforcer who must stop the Mexican cartels from entering into an alliance with Islamic extremists in Istanbul.
Gamebox 2.0: Infinite Shooters Edition
The gigantic holiday shooters are here and we checked out at least the campaign in Infinite Warfare, Titanfall 2 and Battlefield 1 along with a few other, non-shooter, games.
Review: Doctor Strange
The MCU gets magical as the Sorcerer Supreme arrives in an origin film that shows how arrogant surgeon Dr. Stephen Strange (Benedict Cumberbatch) learns the mystical arts to defend Earth from threats from other dimensions.
EA at MondoCon 2016
We experienced both MondCon 3 and Austin, TX a little over a week ago and here’s what we saw and did, including visiting movie nerd meccas like the Alamo Drafthouse and I Luv Video as well as all incredible art at the convention itself.