With The Maze Runner, Divergent and The Hunger Games dominating all the buzz right now, it looks like we’re far from finished with the current craze of Young Adult novel-to-movie adaptations. Standing slightly out of this crowd is The Giver, an adaptation of the Lois Lowry novel penned in 1993. Directed by Phillip Noyce and partially shot in Cape Town, …
Hollywood, you can suck it. By now, I’ve seen the entire Amazing Spider-Man 2 movie, and I dn’t even need to worry about burly Hollywood goons breaking my kneecaps over another broken non-disclosure agreement. Thanks to a plethora of trailers, clips and TV spots, the film has already shown off a ton of footage. But believe it or not, there’s …
Thanks to Human Rights Day falling on a Friday this year, it’s a 3-day weekend in South Africa. This means all the new cinema releases are out from today, not tomorrow. And this week you have a choice of 6 new movies. Need for Speed: Screening in 2D, 3D and 3D IMAX is this action film based on the Need …
With the recent wrap-up of True Detective‘s spectacular first season, I’m left with one gigantic itch that needs some scratching (No, not that kind of itch). Yes, we’ll soon see the return of major TV players like Game of Thrones and Orphan Black, but I’m looking for that weird, slightly off-kilter little something with the Hollywood A-list acting/directing and producing to replace my Marty …
What we’ve known about Disney’s Maleficent thus far, is that it would be telling us an untold story of just why the titular evil witch in the classic Sleeping Beauty was so evil. But until now, the marketing has provided zero clue as to what this reason could be, other than she perhaps accidentally sliced her whole family to ribbons with her razor …
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Dinosaurs are cool. This is an unassailable fact. They’re even cooler when chasing down humans on a tropical island theme park where they’ve been brought back to life. This a scenario we haven’t seen played out on our screens in a while, but writer-director Colin Treverrow (Safety Not Guaranteed) is set to change that with Jurassic World, the latest addition to …
A spooky European village. Properly scary castle mania. Vampires. Werewolves! The only thing more frightening, is a glimpse at your empty bank account when it comes to deciding whether or not you can grab Resident Evil Village this month. Capcom's successor to its long-running survival-horror franchise is finally out, and if you've read our review then you know the game is a winner on multiple levels.
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