Pretty much every South African happens to be quite clued up on politics. It’s played a big part in our lives, history and culture, but man, can it be boring some days. Our politicians, while always up to make promises that they can’t keep, have no real sense of showmanship, no pizzaz or charm when it comes to making those impossible …

If you are on South Africa’s east coast for the next week or so, there are dozens of movie screenings to choose from as part of the 2012 Durban International Film Festival. For everyone else across the nation, you have 4 new cinema releases to check out from today. The Woman in Black: Daniel Radcliffe’s first role post-Harry Potter sees …

Bond is back later this year, in Skyfall, the 23rd 007 film that almost never was. There’ve been only a few teases so far, a quick trailer here or there, a photo escaping into the wilderness every once in a while. Well, MI6 has slacked off once more, as these new images paint a clearer picture of one of the …

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If there’s one movie that completely sideswiped me this year, it has to be rapper turned first time director The RZA’s The Man With the Iron Fists. Having known for years how much he and his fellow Wu Tang Clan members love Kung Fu, I expected a much smaller more traditional martial arts film. What the first trailer showed us though, …

There’s something in us, that just thrills at watching a movie wherein the lead characters have to survive against the most unlikeliest of threats, fending off creatures and monsters that make no sense whatsoever. Monster movies have been a part of the industry since it began, keeping up with the times by inventing new and horrible threats for every generation. …

If there was one sure fire winner from last week’s Comic Con, it was Dredd 3D. The film held a special screening for a lucky few, and nearly everybody who walked out of it had good things to say. Even the most critical reviews, while deriding the simplistic plot, all agree that it looks great and there’s a veritable tsunami …

In about 5 hours time I’ll be watching The Dark Knight Rises; the final chapter in director Christopher Nolan’s Batman magnum opus, a sprawling epic that began blowing our minds all the way back in 2005. And what a journey it has been. I didn’t choose the word “chapter” earlier by accident, as what Nolan has appeared to do is really craft …