Mathematics, my old foe – we meet again. While anything beyond the basics tends to make my brain shut down much like Nick’s when confronted by a childproof cap, movies about maths and its practitioners are a different story – Good Will Hunting, A Beautiful Mind and Proof for example were all rather interesting and engaging to watch. So I was …

We won’t see Tom Hiddleston in action in any of the Marvel movies coming out this year, but he has been using the opportunity to do something different and more creative in director Ben Wheatley’s upcoming film, High Rise. Hiddleston plays a doctor named Robert Laing who moves into a high-end apartment building and starts to get seduced by the luxurious life …

Assassin’s Creed is a popular franchise to all of the video-gamers out there and has an incredible following with over 73 million copies (as of 2014) of the different versions of the game sold worldwide. So, it is a franchise with a huge fanbase and a film that many are hoping can buck the trend of terrible video-game to movie adaptations …

Race is a sports biopic movie centered around American athlete Jesse Owens (Stephen James) and focuses on a time in his career leading up to and including his participation at the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin, Germany. It was at this historic event that Owens cemented his place in history as the most successful athlete at the games and as …

If there are two characters that every incarnation of a Batman/Superman movie should have, it’s trusty butler Alfred and eternal humanist enemy Lex Luthor. With Batman vs Superman still scheduled for 2016, director Zack Snyder just got those two iconic characters cast. Folks, say hello to Jesse Eisenberg as your new Lex Luthor, and Jeremy Irons as Alfred Pennyworth. Last …

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Every now and then, you get a film that showcases a stunning performance from an actor. Think Heath Ledger in The Dark Knight, Jennifer Lawrence in Silver Linings Playbook or Daniel Day Lewis in everything ever made. And then you get that one performance that is so mental, so insane, that it’s genius. Here’s ten such performances where the actors …

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 …