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

  If the news that the upcoming Furious 8 (or Fast 8 or, my personal old-school gamer preference, F8al Furious) is actually just the start of a new movie trilogy for producer/star Vin Diesel and his “familia” of crazy car stunt specialists, left you thinking that there are just too many of these damn movies, well then this latest nugget …

Talk about doing a double take. Memento, one of the best films of this century, has been optioned for a remake. Chances are you now already have an opinion about this and if you don’t… well, you’ve obviously never seen Memento. Last Updated: November 17, 2015

It would seem that Ridley Scott is in fact not losing his marbles. After it was reported yesterday that the veteran director used a new title to refer to his long awaited Prometheus sequel, some thought that maybe Scott had maybe got it confused with another project he was working on. After all, it was just the other day that Prometheus 2 was …

Firstly: No, this is not a sequel or remake of Michael Jackson’s 1988 cinematic blunder. Secondly: The moon landing really happened. I’m more than happy to entertain a debate regarding my negative opinion of Wacko Jacko’s movie-musical mish-mash, but I’ve wasted enough on my life on arguing against crackpot theories about how the US government perpetrated this stupidly elaborate hoax …

Superheroes are kind of a big deal on TV right now. Genre fans are currently truly spoiled for choice, with the likes of The Flash, Arrow, Legends of Tomorrow, Heroes Reborn, Supergirl, Agents of SHIELD, Agent Carter, Daredevil, Jessica Jones and more giving us our weekly jollies. But those are of course all American productions (well, Canadian for some of …

Ant-Man was a really fun movie and stands out from the rest of the action packed, slightly more serious tones laid out in the rest of Marvels movies released over the last couple of years, well that and Guardians Of The Galaxy. The one person that didn’t get to have that much fun in Ant Man however was Michael Douglas, …