Before I even say anything about this first trailer for The Prince aka Talented Actors Need Paychecks Too, I would like to draw your attention to the film’s poster and its crimes. The transgression that immediately jumps to the fore is that level of photoshoppery on it, is just TOO DAMN HIGH! Everybody looks like their wax-museum counterparts, only not as …
This year’s Oscars take place on Sunday night (early Monday morning, South African time). So, naturally, local film distributors are getting in on the action, with the release of two of the biggest names of the 2013 awards season. It’s also, incidentally, a notable week for true stories hitting the silver screen. Last Updated: February 28, 2014
Ah, the ol’ “don’t look in the bag” trick. Nothing will get people to look into a bag faster than telling them that. The big problem with people looking into the bag arises though when said bag belongs to an infamous mobster played by Robert De Niro, as a mopy John Cusack (what is it about him playing an all-black …
Only three new movies hit South African cinemas today, clearly giving the following pick of the week space to flex its box office muscles. Last Updated: November 8, 2013
Five new film hit South African cinemas today, and the full spectrum of audiences is being catered for… The Conjuring: My pick of the week is this haunted house horror film based on a true story. From the director of creepy sleeper hit Insidious, The Conjuring stars Patrick Wilson and Vera Farmiga as a couple of paranormal investigators summoned to …
John Cusack has never quite been synonymous with the horror genre, but he definitely nails it in the 2007 Mikael Håfström adaptation of the Stephen King short story, 1408. This particular film caught me by surprise, most specifically because I don’t expect a film with John Cusack to be frightening, but 1408 manages to scare while still being surprisingly easily accessible …
Once upon a time, there was a movie called Hard Drive, which surprisingly had absolutely nothing to do with computers, but a lot to do with making a not-so-clever pun in the film’s synopsis. Unfortunately, there was another movie with the same name, which meant Hard Drive had to become Drive Hard. And while it lost it’s synopsis punniness in the process, it still retained …
For those of you not familiar with numbers stations, they are mysterious broadcasts that can be heard around the world that broadcast strings of numbers, with nobody really sure what they are for or why they are used. Most likely of military origin, they remain a modern mystery but it seems like John Cusack may have an answer for us …
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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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