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It hasn’t been an easy ride, finding an OCP executive to make life hell for Alex Murphy. Hugh Laurie was in the running at one point to take on that role, before he decided to give it a skip, leaving Clive Owen to possibly step up and take over. But with Owen also out of the running, it looks like …

So remember how excited everybody got about the fact that Hugh Laurie had been cast as the villain in director Jose Padilha’s Robocop reboot? Well firstly, those were still the halcyon days before the film’s script details were revealed and we lost all hope, and secondly, that actually never happened. Turns out that while the celebrated actor was looking at …

This Thursday marks the start of the 33rd annual Durban International Film Festival (DIFF) – South Africa’s largest and longest-running film festival. From 19 – 29 July, festival attendees will be able to choose from nearly 300 screenings of feature-length movies, documentaries and short films from around the world. These showings take place at various venues around the city, including …

If there’s one thing that films have taught me, it’s that when it comes to all things that go bump in the night, children are always correct. If I should have a child one day and he tells me that there is a monster in his room trying to steal his face, I won’t try to calm him down and …