It’s that time of the year when many of our favourite shows are wrapping up their seasons and going on a well-deserved break, which means we’re only a few weeks away from the premieres of new shows. And one of those new shows is Showtime’s Roadies – the Cameron Crowe-created comedy-drama that follows a group of roadies touring the US …

Roadies is the upcoming comedy-drama series set to air on premium cable channel Showtime from writer-director Cameron Crowe – the man behind such hits as Almost Famous and Jerry Maguire – that follows the road crew of a touring rock band. Crowe has a wealth of experience when it comes to the behind-the-scenes happenings of famous bands as, in addition …

Who would ever have thought that Bradley Cooper, the guy who starred in Kitchen Confidential and The Midnight Meat Train, would one day not only be starring in a movie from writer-director Cameron Crowe (Almost Famous, Jerry Maguire), but that he would arguably be a bigger drawcard than the Oscar-winning filmmaker. After 2005’s Elizabethtown, Crowe had seemingly fallen off the map a bit, …

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Four new releases bring the action, drama and trauma this week to South African cinemas. Machine Gun Preacher: My pick of today’s new movies is this action drama based on a true story. Gerard “This is Sparta” Butler plays Sam Childers, a biker and drug addict turned preacher and relief worker. Childers’s work in Uganda and the Sudan culminates with …