Six new movies open in South Africa today, with a bias towards coming of age tales, where young people are forced to navigate the complexities of an unforgiving adult world as they shape their own identities. Last Updated: August 29, 2017
“This is basic rocket science, people” one adult trainer tells a class of prepubescent commanders-to-be in one scene of Ender’s Game, writer/director Gavin Hood’s feature film adaptation of Orson Scott Card’s critically acclaimed, classic sci-fi novel. That oxymoronic sentence is used in the film to demonstrate this particular young class’ advanced intellect, but it also serves as quite the allegory for …
I’m starting to think that I may have been born in the wrong century. Because in the future, kids get to relive the best bits from Starship Troopers, only with even better technology. Children are the future, a thought that I’ve always feared (Look at the healthy young buggers, strutting on my lawn), but they’re all that stands between mankind …
With all the brouhaha surrounding Orson Scott Card’s anti-gay position, it’s easy for those issues to drown out the promo campaign for Ender’s Game, Gavin Hood’s feature film adaption of Card’s most famous novel. So what’s a film studio to do in a case like this? Well to paraphrase Gary Oldman, GET EEEEEVERYTHIIIIIIING!!! of course. So check out some new posters, …
I think we can all agree that Orson Scott Card is a really talented writer. Unfortunately, we can also agree that he is a vitriol-spewing bigot. Card has made a number of increasingly inflammatory statements over the years regarding his controversial stances against everything from Muslims to Mexicans, and recently his diatribes against same-sex marriage got him removed from a highly …
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When the fhe first trailer for the trailer for writer-director Gavin Hood’s adaptation of Orson Scott Card’s Ender’s Game was released it was prefaced by an intro from a rather bored looking pair of stars, namely Asa Butterfield and Harrison Ford, who looked like they were providing commentary on the World Grass Growing championships. Now the first full trailer is here, …
On the rather lengthy List of Things That Kervyn Hates, somewhere between “lawyers who are pedophiles” and “telemarketers who chew with their mouths open”, you’ll find “trailers for movie trailers”. They, along with the mystifying popularity of the Kardashians, are possibly the biggest pieces of evidence that we are indeed living in the end times. Unfortunately, they (the trailers not …
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A spooky European village. Properly scary castle mania. Vampires. Werewolves! The only thing more frightening, is a glimpse at your empty bank account when it comes to deciding whether or not you can grab Resident Evil Village this month. Capcom's successor to its long-running survival-horror franchise is finally out, and if you've read our review then you know the game is a winner on multiple levels.
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