Instead of using lame educational sketches and buoyant students who scream “Get high on life!” to bored school hall assemblies, drug educators should look at movies to do the heavy lifting. And while they are at it, they might as well give a broad representation of the whole culture. This can be accomplished in three steps: the good, bad and …

While Shailene Woodley may not be getting any Spider-Man money in 2014 (or possibly ever!), you sure as hell won’t be seeing her on the unemployment line any time soon. Losing out on a big franchise ain’t no thang when you’ve got an upcoming tentpole franchise of your own, with a loyal fanbase already built in. No assembly required. The …

Ah Knight Rider. I remember as a wee child, roughly two years ago when SABC started airing reruns, of the TV show of a man and his talking car. What I don’t remember so fondly though, is Knight Rider 2000, Team Knight Rider and the rebooted Knight Rider which starred a version of KITT that was voiced by Val “I …

Hollywood may be running out ideas, but fortunately, there’s a whole world of books and video games out there that are just waiting to be strip-mined for future projects. The Host and Jack Reacher are just a few recent examples of such adaptations, with plenty more on the horizon. Take director Joe Carnahan for instance. He’s hot stuff in Hollywood …

Put your philosophical cap on because today we expect some deeper contemplation from you… If we love a book, game, comic, TV series etc. etc. why then are we so excited about a movie version? Why do we care so much about a big screen adaptation when we’ve consumed the original? When we already know the characters and story, why …

Poor Hugh Jackman. The guy just can’t get a break. First he had his brain rewired while molten metal got pumped into his bones (not cool), then he got locked up just for being a hungry French dude and was then even forced to sing about it, and now it turns out that his whole married life was just one …

It has been 3 years since we’ve last heard the whisper-shout of Jack Bauer, and since then no other TV series has come close to capturing the nerve jangling intensity and over the top technical gibberish of the exploits of the greatest counter terrorism agent that’s ever lived. And then sorta died. And lived again. 24fans, myself included, have been …

Simmer down, all you jetpack enthusiasts. That’s Racketeer, with an “a”. Just a couple weeks ago, it was announced that Safe House director Daniel Espinosa was lining up Child 44, the Stalinist Russia based serial killer thriller with Tom Hardy and Noomi Rapace, as his next project. But it looks like Espinosa is a multitasking sort of fellow as he’s apparently got time …