[Drew Carey voice] Welcome to the Monday Box Office Report, where the numbers are made up and the reviews don’t matter! Okay, so maybe we don’t make up the numbers, but that last part certainly holds true for this past weekend’s box office. Despite getting a harsh to middling reception from most critics (myself included), X-Men: Apocalypse still went on to rule the …

Mad hatters, mad cap comedy and mad action take centre stage with this week’s new releases. Pity none of it is very good… Alice Through the Looking Glass Alice returns to Wonderland to find she’s the only one who can save the Mad Hatter and prevent the whimsical kingdom from being transformed into a barren wasteland. Turning to Time himself, …

Since IMAX was brought back to the country, in just two and a half years Ster Kinekor have rolled out seven new theatres, which is one of the fastest IMAX rollouts ever done. On Wednesday night, I had the privilege of attending the launch of South Africa’s newest IMAX theatre, which has just opened at the brand new Mall of …

It isn’t often that I have to think a bit before deciding whether a movie is good or not because I enjoyed it; enjoyment often overriding the logic of a situation by saturating the mind with dopamine, something Lewis Carol knew all too much about. I can safely say that this Alice Through the Looking Glass isn’t one of those times, …

We don’t really need to have screenshots (see them at the bottom) to imagine what the sequel to the Tim Burton rendition of Alice in Wonderland will look like, but we are getting some anyway, which just goes to reaffirm the continuity that we will have of the crazy and peculiar version that Tim Burton created. And we have a new …

In case you missed all the hullabaloo, it was the Grammys on Monday night. So what does the biggest night of the year for American musicians and Kanye West’s favourite stage for embarrassing himself have to do with movies? Well, usually not much. But thanks to a new theme song sung by multiple award winner Pink, this year’s Grammys broadcast …

I was not a fan of Tim Burton’s Alice In Wonderland. Don’t get me wrong, I didn’t hate it; but that would probably have been a more favourable response because then I would have felt something instead of the overwhelming meh-ness I actually left the cinema with. Clearly though, my opinion about movies is about as important as Alwynne’s opinions …