Six new movies open in South Africa today… although I’m sure the geek and comic-loving crowd have eyes for one film only. Last Updated: September 28, 2012

This week at South African cinemas, new entries in hit movie franchises are evenly matched with art house fare. Take your pick… The Bourne Legacy: Matt Damon is out and Jeremy Renner is in for this fourth film in the action-espionage Bourne film series, stemming from Robert Ludlum’s spy thriller books. A rogue black ops agent – who isn’t Jason …

From hyper-stylised zombie slaying to quirky arthouse fare, there’s a trio of new movies releasing at South African cinemas from today. Resident Evil: Retribution: Shot for, and screening in, 3D is this fifth Resident Evil film, moving further and further away from the video game franchise that kicked off the movie series. Under the direction of Paul W. S. Anderson, …

Time travel seems to once again be creeping back into Hollywood. Or it may have already. Or it will. Bah, chrono-travelling is a wibbly wobbly mess of confusion sometimes, Anyway, with Looper around the corner, the time to strike the time-travelling iron has never been better, and Joe Carnahan has that hammer in his hand, as he’s looking to make …

Opening wide in South African cinemas from today are the following 3 movies: Total Recall: The classic Arnie and Paul Verhoeven sci-fi actioner receives the 21st Century remake treatment. This time Colin Farrell is the disgruntled blue-collar worker of the future who gets more than he bargained for when he signs up for memory implants. Suddenly our hero is revealed …

Jet Li crossing dimensions to murder himself while an underpowered Jason Statham tracks him down in order to prevent him becoming a god and ruling all of time and space. No, it’s not an awesome dream, it’s a film, that actually happened, and it friggin’ rocked! Last Updated: August 22, 2012

There was something “off” about the first Expendables film – something unnecessarily mean-spirited and unlikeable. Perhaps it was the racist treatment of Jet Li’s character? Maybe it was the relentless and increasingly tedious, grim-faced brutality? Or it could have been the general unsportsmanlike nature of it all – with our heroes frequently double- and triple-teaming to beat the stuffing out …

Grizzly action heroes and lithe young dancers are duking it out at the South African box office from today. It’ll be interesting to see who emerges victorious (I suspect the Step Uppers), but either way  it’s all about energy and adrenaline this week. Last Updated: August 17, 2012