Four new films open in South Africa today, and half of them seem to be Halloween leftovers. Paranorman: If Hotel Transylvania and Frankenweenie didn’t satisfy your craving for macabre animated comedy, well here’s one more for you! From the animation studio behind Coraline, Paranorman is the stop-motion tale of a young loner whose ability to communicate with the dead comes …

What’s more appealing? Liam Neeson using his holiday license to curb the population of Europe, or yet another Tim Burton film that veers to close to past successes, hoping to capitalise on that nostalgia? Taken 2 and Frankenweenie debuted this past weekend, but as usual, only one of them could claim the top spot. And that was a match that was over …

One of these new films is going to suck…your blood! There was an influx of new movies this past weekend at the American box office, from Adam Sandler in a family friendly, non-sparkly vampire film, through to Bruce Willis and Joseph Gordon Levitt in Looper. Only one of them could be king of the box office though, and between CGI …

It may be a day late, but that just means that more moolah circulated through Hollywood, this past American non-public holiday long weekend! Four new films debuted, including cop drama End of Watch, the future lawman Dredd arrived on scene and was joined by Trouble with the curve and a House at the end of the street. Who came out …

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If there’s one young star that has definitely taken Hollywood by storm, it’s Jennifer Lawrence. The Oscar nominated actress has already shown that she can do smaller indie drama with Winter’s Bone and until Tony Stark and his Band of Merry Men showed up, she was the queen of the 2012 blockbuster box office with The Hunger Games. So what’s up next …