This week’s new releases are between a slacker-turned-super-agent, dizzyingly death defying stunts in the best use of IMAX to date, a brutally good movie about the war on drugs between the US and Mexico, a disappointing retelling/prequel of a classic movie, and four movies on limited release, all wildly different but all highly praised. The Walk The Walk is the …

Canadian filmmaker Denis Villeneuve really exploded onto the international scene with the dynamite one-two thriller combination of Prisoners and Enemy. Both those movies, as massively different in tone as they were, were led by Jake Gyllenhaal who used them to transition from “That kid who used to talk to rabbits and was stuck in a bubble” to “Holy crap, give this man …

Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation is a fantastic film, boasting some of the best action the franchise has ever seen. More importantly than that though, it boasts probably the best female character the franchise has ever seen in Rebecca Ferguson’s complex secret agent Ilsa Faust. This being 2015 though, we really should not have to make that distinction as good …

Emily Blunt showed a decided knack for action in Edge of Tomorrow and she’s putting it all on, and across, the line again in this trailer for Sicario; an upcoming crime thriller around the US’ War on Drugs also starring Josh Brolin and Benicio Del Toro, and directed by Denis Villeneuve (Prisoners). The official plot synopsis is as follows: In …

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Once upon a time (1987 to be exact), in a magical land far, far away (Hey, Broadway is quite the distance from Cape Town, and there are lots of people on fairy dust!) there was a very successful stage play by Stephen Sondheim that threw all the famous and not-s0-famous characters from your favourite fairy tales all into one singing …

A picture may be worth a thousand words, but clearly a nearly two-minute long trailer is even better (and actually worth about 26664000 words, if my frame-rate maths* is correct). Following on from Friday’s reveal of 7 new pics, Disney have unveiled the first trailer for their feature film adaptation of the hit Broadway musical Into the Woods, which sees …

I must say everywhere I look these days is something Disney. From epic earth battles to battles in the stars they are sweeping up genres like an ill-treated stepdaughter. Their last movie dealing with fairy tales was the rather good Maleficent that sought for a far darker re-telling of the ever popular Sleeping Beauty. This time round though it looks like they’ll …