This is the one part of my job that I really, really loathe. I hate spoilers. On my personal Hate-Scale, spoilers occupy a spot somewhere between Nazi pedophile lawyers and brussel sprouts drenched in the blood of babies. Unfortunately though, there are people out that crave these things, and so I am obligated to report them. Obviously, if you don’t want to …

Ah space, the final frontier. Humanity has done a lot to the cold, dark void of space already, from landing on the moon to filling the vacuum up with junk, but we’ve never actually made a movie in actual space. British game developer Richard Garriott did just that in 2008 though,  making a short film that he called Apogee of Fear which starred him, …

It’s hard nowadays to get anyone to take your documentary seriously. That labour of love, that you spent so many years working on, will sadly struggle to see the light of day, or will most likely result in an OPEC death-squad being sent to your house for that rugged expose you made about the oil industry. The easy way however, …

Ever since watching  Tron Legacy, I’ve been eagerly anticipating director Joseph Kosinski’s next project. Legacy was far from perfect, but most of it’s shortcomings were script related, while the direction was spot on. So when I first heard of  Oblivion, and read the almost Alastair Reynolds-like sci-fi premise, it definitely intrigued me: In a future where the Earth’s surface has been irradiated beyond recognition, …

Four new releases bring the action, drama and trauma this week to South African cinemas. Machine Gun Preacher: My pick of today’s new movies is this action drama based on a true story. Gerard “This is Sparta” Butler plays Sam Childers, a biker and drug addict turned preacher and relief worker. Childers’s work in Uganda and the Sudan culminates with …

As a married man it’s often hard to find movies that you can watch with the wife and that you’ll both enjoy. Which is why these action / comedy / love stories work so well as you both enjoy the comedy and then I get to watch the love story while the wife enjoys the action sequences.. or the other …

I rather enjoyed the first Resident Evil movie. Despite being more action-driven than it’s source material, it was shlocky fun. But since then the films have each got progressively worse, culminating in the last stinker, RE:Afterlife, which placed more emphasis on (admittedly impressive) 3D effects over everything else. Now this new teaser trailer is out and honestly, it looks like once …

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