Back in 1998, Dougray Scott was busy playing the baddie in Mission: Impossible 2, when the production ran behind schedule, forcing Scott to pull out of this other little project he was working on and giving up his role to a relatively unknown Australian stage actor and soap star. The movie was X-Men, the actor was Hugh Jackman, and the rest is history.  …

From the sound of it, the upcoming reboot/sequel Terminator: Genesis will be employing some wibbly wobbly timey wimey logic to give the once vaunted franchise the swift kick in the pants it needs, and if there’s one person who knows all about wibbly wobbly timey wimey, it’s ex Doctor Who timelord Matt Smith. Clearly the folks at Paramount Pictures and Skydance Pictures have …

The border between badass and just bad is a sketchy piece of geography, and one that writer-director David Ayer unfortunately crosses so many times in Sabotage that he’s probably eligible for a greencard. This surprisingly disappointing follow-up to Ayer’s superb End of Watch may boast one of Arnold Schwarzenegger’s finest dramatic performances since he began fulfilling his promise of being back, but …

It’s a four-day Easter long weekend in South Africa starting from tomorrow. As a result, all the new movie releases are hitting cinemas from today, and there are six of them – ranging from action-packed escapism to feel-good fare and horror. The Legend of Hercules: Screening in 2D and actually-shot-for-3D is this (supposedly) mythological fantasy adventure centred on Greek hero …

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Thanks to the work of Sylvester Stallone and his two Expendables movies, old people shooting guns are now considered cool, and not just menaces to society as my grandma and her M4 Carbine found out (hey, she lives in a rough neighbourhood!). But sooner or later, some young whippersnappers also need a chance to blow stuff up with the geriatrics, and that’s …

  I’m pretty keen on the next Arnie film, Terminator: Genesis. Despite Kervyn fervently insisting that this movie will be about a robotic Phil Collins hunting down the Connor family, the actual film will deal with the entire legacy of the franchise, and will bring back Arnie as the iconic hunter. The thing is, Arnie happens to have gotten a …

We’ve already seen a couple trailers and clips – a few of them Red Band – for David Ayer’s Sabotage, but they have mainly focused on the film’s explosive violence, usually perpetrated by Arnold Schwarzenegger. That’s because he has a thing for explosive violence (see major movie releases 1982 to present). But the guy is also (mostly) human, and so we …