Jake Gyllenhaal and director David Villeneuve are currently scoring huge praise with their gripping thriller, Prisoners, with some Oscar buzz already attached to Gyllenhaal and Hugh Jackman’s performances in the film. That’s actually the second film that Gyllenhaal and Villeneuve have made together, but through the wonders of strange Hollywood production schedules, the first – Enemy – is being released second. Based on …

Jennifer Lawrence’s Katniss Everdeen is still sitting pretty atop her throne, with all challengers to her YA adaptation crown – like The Host, Beautiful Creatures and The Mortal Instruments – crashing and burning like they were crash test dummies made of napalm. A big component of The Hunger Games‘ success was writer/director Gary Ross, but he’s no longer at the helm, with Francis …

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We’ve always been fascinated with Jack the Ripper. There are countless theories regarding the identity of the butcher of Whitechapel and while we might never know his real identity he has become an iconic, terrifying villain in modern media, considering the amount of films and series he  is featured in, including the Hughes brothers’ adaptation of Alan “Watchmen” Moore’s graphic …

I’ll be honest: I was never a fan of Sunday School when I was a kid. I’d much rather have been at home, watching Transformers: Beast Machines and Spongebob Squarepants instead. But man, if I had religious figures like the cast of Hellbenders in my life, I might have taken a very different path in life. Red band trailer after …

While the idea of Spike Lee remaking Park Chan-Wook’s Oldboy initially sounded about as appetizing as eating a live squid, I have to admit that I’ve slowly but surely started drinking their kool-aid. Mixed metaphors aside, what I’ve seen thus far looks really intriguing. Josh Brolin, Elizabeth Olsen and Sharlto Copley are all solid draws here. Not to mention, you get Samuel …

Five new film hit South African cinemas today, and the full spectrum of audiences is being catered for… The Conjuring: My pick of the week is this haunted house horror film based on a true story. From the director of creepy sleeper hit Insidious, The Conjuring stars Patrick Wilson and Vera Farmiga as a couple of paranormal investigators summoned to …

Now I don’t mean to brag, but back in my younger, library prefect days, we threw some mean parties. This one time, we turned the volume on the hi-fi up to like 7 and we didn’t even care. Hell, once, we let the party rage to like 23:05, and somebody even played a rap song. Now that’s a party, not …