Actually, 2 of the weekend’s 3 new releases have been screening in South African cinemas since Wednesday. However, if you’ve been saving up your movie viewing for the long weekend, or, even better, the start of your Christmas holidays, here are the latest additions to the local cinema circuit. The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey: Load up that backpack with supplies. …
There’s not a single other genre of film that I have more of a love/hate relationship with than time-travel stories. I’m a sciencey kind of guy, so the concept of time travel greatly appeals to me. But also because I’m a sciencey kind of guy, my natural inclination is to try and figure out the engineering and logic behind how …
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Four new films open in South Africa today, and the majority tend to be of the action thriller breed… with one romcom thrown in for good measure. Last Updated: October 5, 2012
Tom Cruise is a busy man. He’s just done working fans of the source material into a raging frenzy with Jack Reacher, wrapped up filming on Joseph Kosinski’s new sci-fi epic, Oblivion, and is currently learning the very expensive lesson that trying to get your wife to join a kooky cult based on some science fiction of their own, is a …
Back at the beginning of the year we profiled the 25 most interesting and eagerly anticipated movie releases from the first 6 months of 2012. Now it’s time to consider the treats in store for cinemagoers in the second half of the year. The Dictator: The latest no holds barred, politically incorrect comedy from Borat and Ali G star Sacha …
Seeing as it’s a long weekend in South Africa – and an even longer weekend for some lucky folk with Monday off ! – Friday’s new movie releases actually come out today. Three films make their big screen debut… but no guessing as to what’s going to be the big box office winner. The Avengers: An early contender for the …
As funny as Jason Segel is, I don’t think I’ll ever forgive him for the totally unnecessary dudity in Forgetting Sarah Marshall. (I still wake up screaming sometimes.) So I was understandably filled with a silent dread when I realized that Segel was once again teaming up with FSM director Nicholas Stoller for his next comedy, The Five Year Engagement …
Music creators often need clean instrumentals for edits, reels, and practice sessions. However, manual …
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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