Disney have released a new trailer for the sea rescue drama – The Finest Hours, and it looks epic! The movie is based on the true story of a massive rescue attempt from 1952 after an oil tanker is split in half during a massive storm, leaving more than 30 of the ship’s crew on-board and fearing for there lives. …
Time for some true story love! Or at least a rockin’ movie inspired by those events. And what could be more harrowing than the tale of a US Coast Guard mission to rescue more than 30 sailors trapped on the sinking half of a tanker ship in the deep sea? Having to attempt that rescue in an ocean that happens …
If you’re on the East Coast for the next 9 days you have dozens of movies to choose from as part of the Durban International Film Festival, South Africa’s biggest film fest. For everyone else around the country, there are four new releases from which to take your pick. Deliver Us from Evil: Crime and horror collide in this supposed …
Contrary to that oft spoken bit of illogical mathematics, one plus one doesn’t always equal three. Thus is the case for Deliver Us From Evil, the latest bit of scary celluloid from Sinister (that’s a title not an adjective) writer-director Scott Derrickson, which attempts to mash together the exorcism horror and police procedural genres but gets tripped up by the aforementioned arithmetic. …
I was once caught for crimes by the church police. It was a tough case, as the bishop in charge had to pray all day and night in order to get God to point out where I was hiding with his massive divine finger. Still, it was a fair cop and I was read my sacraments in a timely and …
Six films open in South Africa today, with two of the week’s biggest releases centred on dysfunctional, destructive families. Last Updated: November 1, 2013
Peter Berg hasn’t had a good time at the cinema lately. Battleship was… well about as good as a movie based on boardgame could be. So for his next gig, Berg has decided to ditch the Fong Kong Iron-Man ripoffs and leapfrogging space/aqua/whatever-the-frak-ships, and keep things a whole lot more realistic. True story realistic even, as he’s written and directed …
Hey, look! It’s the comic book team-up you least expected! Hulk, in his not so angry form, teaming up with that lady from Iron Man 3 whose invention turned everybody into hotheads, trying to get to the bottom of some nefarious terrorist plot. It’s just like The Avengers, but only with more courtroom drama and sexual tension and less punching and people …
Have you ever double-checked your doors at night because something just didn’t feel secure? …
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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