It’s been a good year for animated films. Despicable Me 2 has cleaned up nicely at the box office, while Monsters University provided a prequel film that put the rest of Hollywood to shame. One other big hit this year was The Croods, a prehistoric look at the first modern family. That film made over $583 million worldwide, and it’ll …

It’s been a while since we heard about Avatar. No, not that Avatar. I’m talking about James Cameron’s 2009 sci-fi Pocahontas/Smurfs mashup that made all the other box-office contenders turn blue with envy. Cameron has indicated that he’ll be making nothing but movies based in this world for the rest of his career, with two Avatar films already set. Seems that those are …

Family movies. They’re kind of predictable and towards the end, everyone resolves their differences. But the thing is, the family in We’re The Millers ain’t a family at all. Not in the conventional sense, as Jason Sudeikis leads a gang of paid for fake family members over the Mexican border in order to smuggle some drugs out of the country. …

We may be a few months away from seeing either Thor or Captain America return to the big screen, and a couple of years away from that Avengers sequel, but in the interim we can expect to see television pick up the cinematic slack. The Agents of Shield series debuts in two months, and is customary in those parts, the …

When it comes to gangsters, bad accents, bathroom chainsaws, mountains of cocaine and sister-lust, no film did it better than Scarface. The Brian De Palma classic still holds up well to this day, which is why it just has to have a remake. Still, if you’re going to remake Scarface, you should at least get a director who happens to have a done …

Four new movies open in South Africa today, and the question is whether locals will continue to flock to tried and tested sequel faves like Despicable Me 2 and The Wolverine, or become enamored with the geek-bait that is my movie pick of the week. And that is… Last Updated: August 2, 2013

Abigail Breslin is turning into quite the chameleon. No, this is not some spinoff from Darryn’s belief in our Lizard Overlords, but rather just an observation that ever since she first appeared on the scene with her Oscar nominated turn in the coming of age dramedy, Little Miss Sunshine, little miss Breslin has been genre hopping like a schizophrenic chameleon. And …

Peter Berg hasn’t had a good time at the cinema lately. Battleship was… well about as good as a movie based on boardgame could be. So for his next gig, Berg has decided to ditch the Fong Kong Iron-Man ripoffs and leapfrogging space/aqua/whatever-the-frak-ships, and keep things a whole lot more realistic. True story realistic even, as he’s written and directed …