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It’s been a while since we’ve posted an update on Skyfall, but now seems like a good time to take stock of what we know so far about the 23rd Bond film, due for release in October 2012. Skyfall is directed by Sam Mendes (American Beauty, Jarhead, Revolutionary Road). On the face of it, he’s [...]

Controversy magnet, Mr. Snoop Doggy Dogg, has made the papers recently. And we don’t mean the newspapers. The rap artist/actor/author/mischievous rascal’s latest venture is a Smokable Songbook, featuring lyrics from some of his biggest hits, all printed on king-sized rolling papers. The book will be aptly titled Rolling Words. Not content with just an autobiography [...]

Simon Pegg will be starring in a low-budget British ‘semicomedy’ called A Fantastic Fear of Everything, due for release in June 2012, and he posted the trailer for this film on Twitter this weekend. Here it is… Pegg plays “a paranoid children’s author-turned-crime-novelist who finds he’s being stalked by a real serial killer,” and will [...]

We’re big fans of Kevin Smith here at 8Ball. He writes comics, makes films… he’s created an entire fictional universe – the View Askewniverse – and now he plans to develop a third instalment of cult classic Clerks as a Broadway show. Talking to Entertainment Weekly, Smith said: “Jeff [Anderson] was the first person I [...]

One trick pony, Mr Adam Sandler, stole the show at a ‘prestigious’ awards ceremony last night. The actor, famous for playing intellectually challenged, socially awkward and speech-impeded characters, took home 10 awards from the 2012 Golden Raspberry Awards, making it an all time record. Although he made Razzies history, we doubt that Sandler will be [...]

Nostalgia really seems to be flavour of the moment at the cinema. Remakes, re-releases, sequels and prequels are hitting us from every angle, and quite frankly we love it. Well, the latest sequel to make onto our radar is one that we never thought would ever happen in a million years. Yes 8Baller’s, it’s an [...]

Is there any purer form of entertainment than witnessing the misfortune of others? Aristotle called taking pleasure in the pain of others ‘epikhairekakos’. The Germans call it Schadenfreude. Basically, it’s casual sadism. With so much rubbish on TV, the chance to see people faceplanting various obstacles for our amusement every Saturday night has been a [...]