“Eleanor Rigby”, the Beatles’ haunting song about missed connections in life is one of my favourite and most frequently played songs from the Fab Four. Then one day, when I wanted to play it, I found that I had somehow deleted it by accident when I was doing some hard drive cleanups. I was able to recover it from my …

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Captain’s Log, stardate 26062014: Ensign Skervyn has uncovered a pod containing relics from a bygone era. An age wherein man relied on blue-rayed discs for their visual entertainment, shortly before the great 2D/3D war that saw the titan cinema houses of the past fall in a glorious battle to preserve sanity and get rid of a stupid gimmick. One of…these …

James Franco is a busy, busy man. When he’s not busy writing poetry, making art, or defending his sexual virtue against the claims of Lindsay Lohan, he’s off provoking “strong and merciless” responses from North Korean dictators for his “undisguised terrorism”. And somehow in all of that, he still finds time to make movies. One such movie is Child of God, …

The upcoming movie The Interview, produced by Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg, may just start the next world war. Yes the ‘ronery’ North Korea has lashed out at the comedy (staring Seth Rogen and James Franco as two celebrities recruited by the CIA to assassinate Kim Jong-un) and threatened that “we will take a decisive and merciless countermeasure” if the movie is …

There have been many famous filmmakers – like Michael Bay, David Fincher, Antoine Fuqua, etc – who made the transition from music videos to feature films. Usually though, they were behind the camera for those music videos, not the ones making music in front it. But that’s what Joe Hahn, mix-master DJ for Grammy Award winning rock band Linkin Park, …

Three new films hit South African cinemas today, although it’s clear that two won’t be threatening the third in terms of box office earnings. Transformers: Age of Extinction: Screening in 2D, 3D and 3D IMAX is this fourth entry in, and pseudo-reboot of, the big screen series centred on the Transformers toy line and offshoot media. Set four years after …

It may have some detractors, but for the most part, I can easily drift with just about anyone when it comes to agreeing that Pacific Rim may be the finest example of giant robot on even bigger kaiju action that the big screen has seen in recent years. Despite the fact that it became a cult favourite, Pacific Rim didn’t …