It’s a mix of mindless crowd-pleasers and thinking fare for adults this weekend at the South African box office. Four new films hit local cinemas from today. Last Updated: May 31, 2013

I’ll be honest, I don’t really remember much about the first Percy Jackson film, which is both a good and a bad thing. Good because it means it did nothing to have me memorably spewing my popcorn in disgust down the back of the unfortunate heavy set man sitting in front of me in the cinema, and bad because it …

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While we are often quick to applaud a movie’s musical score alongside it’s other aspects, there is more to a cinematic soundscape than just foreboding cellos and stirring anthems. Quite often it’s a film’s aural tapestry that helps to realize, accentuate and immortalize the worlds we’re seeing up on screen, to the point where if you were blindfolded, you would …

Ah, best friends. There’s nothing quite like that special bond between two people who just get along so completely and perfectly well. There’s apparently also nothing quite like what happens when that bond is broken, and then one of those two people intentionally strands both of them in the middle of the desert in order to repair it, but in …

I love cartoons, but even I have my limits. One such cartoon that I cannot stand? The Flintstones. Lazy, uninspired and obsessed in a crazy way with anything related to granite and puns, the show has never registered high on my radar. Also, f$#! the Great Gazoo. Shark-jumping aside, The Flintstones still makes money through syndication and the random direct …

Holy crap, Disney still wants to make movies that are guaranteed box office hits? Outrageous! Yep, Disney is going ahead with a fifth film that will no dount star Johnny Depp as the infamous Jack Sparrow, a buccaneer with a devil may care attitude and bad breath that could kill a donkey on the poop deck. Of course, they’re going …

I honestly don’t care if you’re Muhammed I’m ‘ard Bruce Lee, because no one can watch The Human Centipede films and not walk away from them mentally scarred. Haven’t seen ’em? Well here’s a brief synopsis: A mad scientist creates a human centipede  that consists of people being sewed butt to mouth to each other. The first film had a human …