After years of fans calling for it, Marvel finally announced recently that a Black Panther movie was indeed on the way when they unveiled their full Phase 3 plans. Several different insiders – most notably comic book legend and Black Panther co-creator Stan Lee – had let slip over the years that the studio was working on bringing Prince T’Challa’s …

Ladies and gentlemen, the Force has awakened. Or will awaken. Is awakening. Whatever the semantics, Episode VII finally has an official title in Star Wars: The Force Awakens! The announcement was made in the most low-key of manners as the official Star Wars twitter account just slipped it in like no big deal when reporting on the fact that the …

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I’ve been a fan of Tony Curran (Underworld: Evolution, Gladiator) since his role in the brilliant Doctor Who episode Vincent and the Doctor way back in 2010, and I’ve been following his work since. I really enjoy him as Datak, the rather unhinged head of the Tarr family in Defiance, so I am very keen to see him up his game as a lunatic. Enter the upcoming …

I like beer, quite a lot actually, so when someone mentioned the movie Kidnapping Freddy Heineken I immediately had images of crates of beer in my head. Instead though, it seems crates of cash is the order of the day. The movie is based on the real life events leading up to and after the kidnapping of famous beer baron …

Once upon a time (1987 to be exact), in a magical land far, far away (Hey, Broadway is quite the distance from Cape Town, and there are lots of people on fairy dust!) there was a very successful stage play by Stephen Sondheim that threw all the famous and not-s0-famous characters from your favourite fairy tales all into one singing …

Last week we gave you guys Part 1 of our list of actors who should have some of their most famous characters team up. Why? Well, because we have way too much time on our hands and come on, who wouldn’t want to see Rambo and Rocky team up? So without further ado, here’s the final 10 entries on our …

Don Quixote. It’s the movie that has had more restarts and facelifts than Joan River’s corpse, a project that director Terry Gilliam has been chasing at much like his literary hero has been chasing down windmills in the classic Miguel De Cervantes novel. But now, the film is finally, finally being made. This time. For realsies. And it’ll star Jack …