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When it comes to the highly anticipated Mad Max: Fury Road, I don’t know what’s crazier : The fact that we’re finally getting to see the movie after it was stuck in production for what felt like the length an African dictator’s Presidential term, or the fact that a studio actually gave writer/director George Miller $150 million to make this movie. Because, boys …

2012’s Snow White and the Huntsman made just shy of $400 million on a $170 million budget, so even when you factor in the reported 8 figure marketing costs, that’s still a decent bit of profit. So naturally, Hollywood wanted a sequel. Just one small, tabloid headline grabbing problem: Director Rupert Sanders was caught cheating on his wife with titular Snow …

It’s a bit of a quieter week at the movies with just four new releases hitting cinemas in addition to local Marikana-centred documentary Miners Shot Down. Transcendence: This sci-fi drama is the directorial debut of Oscar-winning cinematographer – and frequent Christopher Nolan collaborator – Wally Pfister. Johnny Depp plays a controversial artificial intelligence researcher who finds his consciousness separated from …

There are those movies out there that cross lines for certain reasons. Tarantino crosses the blood line in an effort to recapture gore of days past, Bay enjoys recapturing the first few instances of the universe in most of his movies. With A Million Ways to Die in the West Seth MacFarlane seems to want to recapture the elements that make …

This may be a tad hyperbolic, but I’m pretty sure that Mad Max: Fury Road  has been in production since before my people were legally allowed to vote. After numerous reshoots and budget over-runs etc, George Miller’s fourth Mad Max tale – with Tom Hardy now stepping into Mel Gibson’s post apocalyptic shoes – wrapped principal photography last year already, and still we have nothing …

While the genre has received a bit of jump lately with movies like Django Unchained and True Grit, I still feel that we see far too little westerns these days. Especially westerns where people constantly die in excessively violent – but utterly hilarious – ways. Luckily, this is where writer-director-actor Seth MacFarlane’s damn funny looking A Million Ways to Die in the West comes …

Funny man Seth MacFarlane has tackled a diverse set of characters in his career, from a genius, megalomaniacal baby, to a talking, anthropomorphic dog, to the most foul mouthed teddy bear the world has ever seen/heard. And for his next project, MacFarlane will be taking on the Wild West as he writes, directs and stars in action-comedy western A Million Ways …