There’s a well known rule of escalation when it comes to blockbuster sequels, and based on that chilling post-credits scene in X-Men:Days of Future Past, things are going to escalate to *ahem* apocalyptic proportions in our mutant friends’ next cinematic adventure, 2016’s X-Men: Apocalypse. Simon Kinberg, who will once again be pulling writer-producer duties, knows though that just sticking in …

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Following in the footsteps of the critically mauled X-Men Origins: Wolverine was never going to be a tall order. You would have to put in a concerted effort to make an even worse film featuring the X-universe’s most famous elder statesman. The true challenge was in healing the damage done to the character by his shambling first solo outing, and luckily for …

This is it. The moment that you’ve all been waiting for. You’ve been physically preparing yourself by doing funny things to your hair with styling gel, taping your mothers cutlery to your knuckles and waking up naked and amnesiac in a snowy forest (although that last part may just have been the fault of some Jager bombs). All of this …

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This week at South African cinemas, film-goers have a choice between supernatural fantasy and grown-up drama. There’s an exact even split between these 2 types of movies today with 4 new releases hitting our screens. Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters: This fantasy actioner was supposed to be one of the first big fairy tale ‘reimaginings” of 2012 – before being …

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Only three new movies open in South African cinemas today, and they offer a mix of revenge and redemption. Taken 2: Sure to be the new box office champion is this (unnecessary) sequel to the 2008 hit that established Liam Neeson as an action badass. This time a family vacation in Turkey goes wrong for retired operative Bryan Mills as he tries …