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. …
If there’s one comic book writer who hates having his work adapted for the big screen, it’s got to be Alan Moore. Comics such as From Hell and Watchmen have all been transferred to the big screen, and you know what? They were excellent! But out of most of his work that made it onto the silver screen, I’ve got …
Basically consisting of six genre-jumping films in one, the three-hour Cloud Atlas is real bang for your movie-going buck. This adaptation of David Mitchell’s “unfilmable” fantasy/sci-fi novel is a fascinating experiment in storytelling that offers major rewards for thinking film fans. Unfortunately though, while the movie excels in many areas, particularly the technical, it does come up short in terms …
Four new movies open in South Africa today, and for the most part they focus on powerful interpersonal bonds… with a touch of escapist flavour. Cloud Atlas: The pick of the new releases is definitely this ambitious sci-fi epic and novel adaptation – helmed by The Matrix’s Wachowskis, and Tom Tykwer. Tom Hanks, Halle Berry, Jim Broadbent and Hugo Weaving …
Michael Bay has been called a lot of things in his career. A lot of them by me. But if there’s one adjective I don’t think I’ve ever thrown his way, it’s subtle. He’s the Master of Bayhem for a reason. So when Hugo Weaving came out earlier in the week and told Collider that he probably wasn’t going to …
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Despite being hit or miss with audiences, I rather enjoyed Captain America: The first Avenger last year. Chris Evans may have had the personality of a parliamentary debate within it, but all the other factors gelled nicely, with Hugo Weaving putting in a great performance as the Red Skull. Bad things happened to the Skull at the end of that …
Cloud gaming removed hardware barriers, but it replaced them with something less visible and …
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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