Forget about that other president, what with his emancipation powers and axe-fu, the real deal is apparently the first head of state himself, George Washington! Darren “Noah is actually a real life biopic of Russel Crowe” Aronofsky is currently shopping around a treatment for a George Washington film, only this one is going to be less “Steve Jobs cheesy inspiring”, …

Some people call them theatrical films showcasing the aging, yet somehow still awesome Liam Neeson, while I firmly believe that these masterpieces just happen to actually be home movies that have been slightly re-edited to include other actors, titles and less car chases. After kicking all kinds of titanic ass in Wrath of the Titans, killing several sex ring traffikers, …

Just what does director Roland Emmerich have against the White House anyway? The oval office HQ has been destroyed by the director twice already, first in that iconic sequence in Independence day, and again in his other disaster film, 2012. And now Emmerich is going for a hat trick, as he gets ready to direct the action drama film White …

The Hunger Games, that teen novel adaptation it’s actually “acceptable” to be squee about, opened to record-breaking box office numbers in the United States this past Friday. South Africans however have to wait until 13 April to watch this sci-fi actioner – based on Suzanne Collins’s best-seller about a dystopian future America where teens are selected by lottery to fight to …

Six new movies open in South Africa today. Whether you’re in the mood for Oscar-winning Art House fare, big budget special effects extravaganzas or just some mindless, undemanding genre fare, you’ll find it in cinemas as of right now. The Artist: Definitely my pick of the week is The Artist, which won 5 Oscars at this year’s Academy Awards… including …

It’s a weekend of serious stuff (well, for the most part) at South African moviehouses, with manly men doing stuff like picking up guns, and flaming chains, and going to war… against everyone from drug dealers to Germans to, uh, the Devil himself. Can’t you just smell the testosterone? Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance – Of today’s 4 major releases, …

For those of you who haven’t noticed, 2012 is a leap year. Traditionally that means that with all matters of a romantic persuasion, the tables have been turned. Men are supposed to be on the receiving end for a change. Screw criminally overpriced roses and Lindt. It’s all cacti and beer flavoured chocolates now. Pandering to this sensibility is This Means War, …

When it comes to depicting other countries, Hollywood tends to adopt a kind of “stereotype shorthand” – a highlights package approach as it were. So, if the action takes place in Rio, for example, there are typically shots of Christ the Redeemer, Copacabana Beach, and the film’s hero inevitably encounters street kids or finds himself in a labyrinthine favela. If …