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[column size=one_half position=first ] By the mid-Eighties animatronic special effects were good enough to make some impressive monsters. This led to Joe Dante and Steven Spielberg’s Gremlins, a movie that imbued into an entire generation to never feed exotic creatures after midnight. Last Updated: December 15, 2014

Exodus: Gods and Kings may have finally toppled Mockingjay this past weekend, but it did so barely. Opening at 3503 locations, Exodus barely raked in $24.5 million across North America. Compared to other biblical epics, that’s far less than Darren Aronofsky’s Noah ($43.7 million) on opening weekend, and about on par with Son Of God ($25.6 million), a film that …

Mark Hamill has been out doing press interviews for NBC’s upcoming Christmas special Elf: Buddy’s Musical Christmas, a stop-motion animated musical based on the original Broadway play and the 2003 movie. So of course the press (in this case Yahoo! Movies) were enthusiastically asking questions all about that; of course NOT! Obviously people were asking him about a potential reboot …

Oh Hollywood. You never cease to amaze me when it comes to making a film based off of a fad that faded out years ago. The 1980s gave us such gems such as The Karate Kid, Point Break and probably something about roller-blading. Now, Hollywood is rebooting the eighties, as they pull Tracers out of their ass. As well their …

Last week Wednesday, 10 December, Ster-Kinekor launched the IMAX screen at CapeGate Mall in Brackenfell – the third such super-sized screen opened by the film distributor in the country, and the first time in more than a decade that the premium cinema format has returned to Cape Town – and I was in attendance to check it all out. I …

Jason Statham hasn’t had a great run at the box office lately. Over the last couple of years, he’s starred in a ton of crap that was worthy of a direct-to-DVD release. Which is a shame, because Statham is a plenty competent actor and one of the finest action stars in Hollywood. He’s like Steven Seagal, minus the daily diet …

The lifecycle of an actor is a very finite, and well known process: You start on either theatre or TV and end your career on a new CSI/NCIS spinoff. But now thanks to Liam Neeson, a new “Badass Old Man” stage has been slotted into that cycle, and based on this trailer for The Gunman, the latest actor to reach this …