Just four new movies hit South African screens today, although it’s pretty easy to guess who the box office winner of the bunch will be. Maleficent: Screening in 2D, 3D and 3D IMAX is this fantasy adventure from Walt Disney Pictures, clearly trying to recapture the success of their other recent live-action fairy tale reimaginings, Oz the Great and Powerful, …
“Yet another retelling of a story we have all heard a million times”. That’s what I was thinking when I sat down to watch the screening of Maleficent. I was also thinking that if this is anything like Snow White and the Huntsman I’d walk out and pretend I was involved in some accident to get out of writing a …
What we’ve known about Disney’s Maleficent thus far, is that it would be telling us an untold story of just why the titular evil witch in the classic Sleeping Beauty was so evil. But until now, the marketing has provided zero clue as to what this reason could be, other than she perhaps accidentally sliced her whole family to ribbons with her razor …
Laika may not be a name as well known as Pixar/Disney or Dreamworks, but over the last couple years, they produced Coraline and Paranorman, two of my favourite animated movies. And by animated, I mean by by hand, as they prefer to use stop-motion instead of CGI because that’s just how they roll. Their latest effort, The Boxtrolls, seems to be following their previous trend …
It’s all good and well being the hero/heroine in a story, but as everybody knows, the villain always has more fun. Sometimes at the expense of a few innocent people’s organs, yes, but fun nonetheless. So it comes as no surprise that Disney’s next big movie focuses on of their most famous villains. The first trailer introduced us to Angelina …
For all the sweetness and happy endings in the classic Disney movies, the Disney villains have never pulled punches when it comes to being scary. They’re dark, they’re evil, and they tend to carry their own personal thunderstorms around with them, just so they can have the appropriate lightning flashes behind them for dramatic entrances. But, as they not the …
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Like I mentioned yesterday, Hollywood loves comics. One of the main reasons why we’re suddenly seeing such a boom of comic book adaptations is because of the advances in CGI that’s been made over the last few years. We can finally reproduce true reflections of comic book images on-screen, no matter how fantastical. The downside to all of this though, …
Cloud gaming removed hardware barriers, but it replaced them with something less visible and …
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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