If you’ve never seen The Raid: Redemption, then you’ve missed out one of the purest action movies ever made. It’s a movie that’s bursting with so much violence, that being shot by a thug in it is considered a checkpoint for ancillary characters. Naturally, it’s getting a remake in the US of A, that will be handled by Patrick “Expendables …

It’s a four-day Easter long weekend in South Africa starting from tomorrow. As a result, all the new movie releases are hitting cinemas from today, and there are six of them – ranging from action-packed escapism to feel-good fare and horror. The Legend of Hercules: Screening in 2D and actually-shot-for-3D is this (supposedly) mythological fantasy adventure centred on Greek hero …

Yesterday we learnt of cable network WGN America’s plans to start producing their own original content, with an adaptation of DC Comics’ gritty, grounded and very realistic “undercover agent on a Native American reservation” series, Scalped. All adjectives that will probably never be used to describe their other entrant, Salem. As the name implies, the series has to do with the infamous …

We’ve all been there, right? Had a bad day at work, so you go out to just blow off some steam, but what starts as just some innocent R&R soon turns into too much alcohol, some questionable life choices, and you waking up halfway across town, forced to have to cause mayhem and destruction in Los Angeles in your attempt …

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As someone who has walked down Hollywood boulevard, I can honestly tell you that Tinsel Town is pretty damn weird place. That, and there are around 10 Celebrity home tour buses per tourist on that strip of road. That’s where David Cronenberg comes in, as his latest film looks at the stars of Hollywood. And they’re plenty disturbing. Last Updated: …

Just the other day we saw the trailer for A Most Wanted Man, one of the final films finished by Philip Seymour Hoffman before his unexpected death earlier in the year. He had also been working on the final two chapters in Hunger Games saga, which which are, admittedly, the type of blockbuster spectacle that Hoffman didn’t usually go for in his career. …

If you’ve ever been a fan of orchestral movie soundtracks, then chances are, at least some of them have been composed by Hans Zimmer. The man has been churning out soundtrack after soundtrack for years now, from the Lion King through to the more recent Man of Steel. Having finished with that score, Zimmer explained that he wouldn’t be back …