It’s been two weeks since our last look at the local box office, thanks to a combination of technical and time problems. Back then times were simpler and more innocent. The charts were just beginning to wake up: Fifty Shades Of Grey continued its run at the top, Spongebob was holding onto second and the smash hit American Sniper arrived …

Sure Cinderella did well at the box office over the weekend. Really, really well in fact. So well it seems, that its opening weekend was better than the rest of the top 9 movies combined. DAMN. With a $70 million opening weekend, director Kenneth Branagh’s helped grow the live action Disney universe a little bit more. That debut is slightly …

Will Smith usually equals an easy box office. But not always, as his latest flick Focus didn’t exactly make a ton of bank at the North American box office on a slow weekend. Focus ranks on the lower spectrum of Will Smith movies, barely ahead of Seven Pounds $14.9 million opening, although that film still made over $70 million. And …

Is this the week? Has Tak3n finally left the building? Nope, not yet. But at least the box office of 2015 is starting to look interesting. Last Updated: February 25, 2015

Fifty Shades of Grey had a massive weekend last week, thanks to Valentines Day and bad taste. The latest weekend however? Numbers plummeted for that film, but it still wasn’t enough to knock it off the top spot. Despite taking a 73% drop – the biggest 2nd week drop in history! – Fifty Shades somehow still led the box office …

Righto, ladies and gentlemen! It’s time for all the shouts of snubbery to die down, all the screams about how “everything is not awesome” to subside. As in the early hours of this morning (local time), the 87th Annual Academy Awards aka the 2015 Oscars was held at the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood, Los Angeles, led by host extraordinaire and …

Awards season craziness is almost over! With the release of American Sniper and Whiplash, six of the eight nominees for Best Picture have now come to South African cinema. Unfortunately you’ll still have to wait a bit for The Theory of Everything and The Grand Budapest Hotel – but they will be out in the next month so I’m sure …

There is a third act climax in the six-time Oscar nominated American Sniper where an explosive firefight takes place in the midst of a raging sandstorm. The buffeting winds and blanketing sand obscure nearly all vision like a very literal fog of war until it’s almost impossible to tell friend from foe, hero from villain, as they noisily and messily inflict death …