One of the big stories of yesterday was the fact that Neill Blomkamp and star Sigourney Weaver alluded heavily to the fact that the South African born director’s planned Alien film will be a direct sequel (the “genetic sibling”, as Blomkamp put it) to Aliens, ignoring the events of Alien 3 and Alien: Resurrection. This of course promptly broke the …

If you’re one of the folks that – like me – are worried that the inclusion of Die Antwoord will ruin Neill Blomkamp’s upcoming Chappie, then I’m here to tell you that it did. At least when it came to making the movie. Speaking to News24, veteran actor Brandon Auret, who has appeared in all of Blomkamp’s movies thus far …

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Sylvester Stallone’s Robert “Rocky” Balboa is an iconic character who has faced and overcome all kinds of odds, like frozen meat, mountainous stairs, learning to skip and mastering the art of running on beach sand. Oh and of course there’s the murderer’s row of boxers – some of them powered by Russian science and others by the blood of sucker …

Sure, some films have massive body counts. But those are deaths from various good-looking actors as they move a plot forward with an axe to the face. But what about those killers in Hollywood who rack up double and triple-digit body counts? Where’s their article highlighting their gruesome records? Right here in fact, as we count down the top ten …

It has taken a great deal of time to get here but finally South Africans are able to watch director James Marsh’s The Theory of Everything, a movie adapted by Anthony McCarten from the memoir Travelling to Infinity: My Life with Stephen by Jane Wilde Hawking. Of course by now most know that Eddie Redmayne, who plays Stephen Hawking, picked …

If I learned anything from Steven Spielberg’s Jaws it’s that you should never trust the beach holiday advice of a small town mayor, and you can never have a big enough boat. Also, self-contained thrillers where our heroes set out to hunt a vicious killer animal but end up being hunted themselves makes for some gripping viewing. Whether that’s the …

Life is like a hurricane, here in, Duckberg! Race cars lasers aeroplanes! It’s a, duck blur! If you could read the first line of this story and know exactly what I’m talking about, then chances are that you were also raised on a steady diet of Disney cartoons. Much like the famed animator had a renaissance of talent that resulted …