Four new movies open in South Africa today, and while the majority of the fare is geared towards adults, there’s some amusement for the kiddies as well. Last Updated: February 8, 2013

So for the past few months we’ve been playing the “Is he or isn’t he?” game as we try to figure out the identity of Benedict Cumberbatch’s villain in JJ Abrams’ upcoming Star Trek sequel. Initial reports were all emphatic that he would be playing classic villain and Male Chest Waxing champion 1962 – 1969, Khan Noonien Singh. But then …

Now we often mock Nicolas Cage around these parts, calling him whatever creative synonymous slur we can come up with for “batsh-t crazy”. But there’s a very good reason we pick on Cage: He really is batsh-t crazy. There was a great 2-part documentary made recently, focusing on just how unhinged he is. I believe they were called Ghost Rider and Ghost …

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We all know that the latter half of Pierce Brosnan’s tenure as James Bond essentially devolved into extended episodes of Archer, only with worse special effects, but that was mostly down to cartoonish scripts and bad direction. Halle Berry didn’t help either. But very few people would truly deride the performance of Bronsan himself as the world’s greatest spy. Since …

Some movies, sucker you in with a misleading title. After all, I’d have never watched the King’s Speech had I known that they had cast some stuttering fool for the lead role. And then you’ve got Big Ass Spider. It’s about a spider. A really, really big spider. So big in fact, that it derserves to have a song written …

Over at the Design Innovate Communicate Entertain summit, people are talking. Mostly about video games, but that’s also kind of good. And JJ Abrams was there as well. So what does the man behind a fresh take on Star Trek and an upcoming gig on Star Wars 7 have on his mind at DICE? Well apparently, something that has him …

By now, everyone has something to say about Marvel’s phase 3 film, Ant-Man. Starring a more diminutive hero, the project would have never even been considered had it not been for Hot Fuzz director Edgar Wright pledging himself to bringing the little guy to the big screen. But it’s a lot of faith in a product that most haven’t seen …