I was going to start this article by stating that a cappella comedy Pitch Perfect was one of by guiltiest of movie pleasures from 2012, but then I remembered that there was damn near nothing to feel guilty of because the film was just that aca-awesome, and anybody who watches it and disagrees is clearly a Cylon. The film (along with …

If you enjoyed the The Hunger Games and The Hunger Games: Catching Fire, then I have some potentially bad news for you: You may not find this penultimate chapter in the story of reluctant but incendiary rebel icon Katniss Everdeen (Jennifer Lawrence) agreeable with your palette. That’s not to say that Mockingjay – Part 1 is a bad film – far from  it, …

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We’ve seen the teaser trailers, the teaser trailers for trailers (groan!), the unending lineup of character posters, hell, we’ve even seen the magazine fashion spread! But finally it’s here: the first full trailer for The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 1. And it’s a whopper. Jennifer Lawrence may have been the talk of the town for all the wrong reasons lately, but …

Five new movies release today. Four of those five, unusually, have female leads. The fifth, however, will be the hands-down box office winner of the weekend. X-Men: Days of Future Past: Back in 2000, Bryan Singer’s X-Men ushered in the new Golden Age of superhero films. Fourteen years later, Singer brings us arguably the most ambitious comic book adaptation ever …

We’ve all been there, right? Had a bad day at work, so you go out to just blow off some steam, but what starts as just some innocent R&R soon turns into too much alcohol, some questionable life choices, and you waking up halfway across town, forced to have to cause mayhem and destruction in Los Angeles in your attempt …

Five new films hit South African cinemas today, and they seem to be split between silly action-packed escapism and more astute examinations of dysfunctional human relationships. The LEGO Movie: The biggie release of the weekend is this animated action comedy for the whole family. Screening in 2D and 3D, the film uses a CGI-replication of stop-motion to convey the real-world …

As excited as you may be for The LEGO Movie, as good as you may hope it to be, I’m here to tell you that it’s actually better. A for-certain future classic of a film, I cannot recall when last I had this much fun in a cinema where copious amounts of alcohol wasn’t involved. The only chink in the blocky, …