Hollywood does a lot of dumb stuff when it comes to movie sequels, but occasionally they get something right. Case in point: Snow White and the Huntsman was a decent enough popcorn blockbuster, with great visual effects, a fantastic villainous turn from a scenery chewing Charlize Theron and Chris Hemsworth being a badass action hero with an axe, but it …

The last few days I’ve had friends constantly boasting about how absolutely amazing “Rise of the Tomb Raider” is. This latest chapter, along with 2013’s simply titled “Tomb Raider”, has been one hell of a successful reboot for the long-running acclaimed action adventure video game franchise. Of course things haven’t been looking anywhere near as good for a planned reboot …

I know that it doesn’t matter what I say up here, as you are all probably still going to click on this newly released trailer for Zoolander 2. I can point out that 14 years may have been too long to wait to make a sequel, or that the jokes – while pretty hysterical at times – are admittedly rather …

The Dark Tower is an epic work of fiction that took decades to realize. For a while there, it looked like that second part was also going to apply to its feature film adaptation. Stephen King’s fantasy book series is a daunting sprawling meta-story that incorporates characters and events from several of his other literary works, so it’s no wonder …

The internet was abuzz last night with what many thought was confirmation that Val Kilmer would reprise his role as Ice Man, baby! Yes, the steely and ‘almost as cocky as Tom Cruise’ character who was in the first Top Gun and who pulled more G’s than Ali ‘Aiit’ G will return! Awesome, right? Well there are things in the world you should know …

The last time Alex Proyas got behind the camera to dabble in the fantasy genre, we got both The Crow and Dark City, two cult classics that are still pretty damn cool today. Hell, even I, Robot was rather entertaining despite its bastardization of Isaac Aasimov’s original texts. So of course you can be damn sure that I was always …

Last week we had some crazy heat here in Joburg, and thank goodness that’s broken. Now, the weather’s all about thunderstorms, hail and cold rain. I’m not complaining, we seriously needed a break from the heatwave, but that kind of weather does make it difficult to go out in the evenings. Never mind socialising, I just want to curl up on …

The sailors are still staring at the flat seas, nary a wind or even a gale in sight. Okay, enough sea talk. But this gives me a neat if lazy gap to my column last week, so full sails ahead. Last Updated: November 18, 2015