With The Maze Runner, Divergent and The Hunger Games dominating all the buzz right now, it looks like we’re far from finished with the current craze of Young Adult novel-to-movie adaptations. Standing slightly out of this crowd is The Giver, an adaptation of the Lois Lowry novel penned in 1993. Directed by Phillip Noyce and partially shot in Cape Town, …
With the Hunger Games earning a license to print money, pretty much every studio wants a piece of that young adult book adaptation pie. It’s like comic book movies in the early 2000s all over again. The downside however, is that most of these adaptations are truly crap, on a monumental scale. There’s still some hope however. There are some …
Five new films open in South Africa today, offering a full spectrum of genre fare to choose from. Last Updated: October 4, 2013
Ryan Reynolds has not been having a great year. As one after the other of his high profile films belly-flopped at the box office, I imagine he spent most nights getting blindly drunk on embarrassingly pink drinks with last year’s cinematic whipping boy, Taylor Kitsch. And unfortunately for Reynolds, despite the fact that his latest film, the supernatural romp R.I.P.D., is …
Welcome to The Extras! A daily dose of all the smaller movie related news, clips and just plain cool stuff that you might have missed! Last Updated: July 25, 2013
Welcome to The Extras! A daily dose of all the smaller movie related news, clips and just plain cool stuff that you might have missed! Last Updated: July 22, 2013
According to Iron Maiden, the seventh son of the seventh son is kind of a big deal. Even more so when this seven-squared progeny happens to be a handsome young lad in a sword and magic fantasy story like Seventh Son. And just like so many fantasy stories, we need a wise wizard, in this case brought to life through …
Well here’s one movie which came out of nowhere to dispense some ghostly justice and slap an afterlife sentence on offenders. RIPD has been cooking for a while now, attracting some top notch talent in the apparitions of Mary-Louise Parker, Jeff Bridges and Ryan Reynolds. It’s MIB but with a supernatural twist and a lot more colour. Here’s that first …
Film classification in the UK is designed to help audiences understand what content is …
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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