Just like so many of our other favourite movies from when we’re kids, we’ve (unfortunately) been hearing about a remake of John Carpenter’s cult classic Escape From New York for some time now. Luckily for our constantly attacked nostalgia (that’s right we’re looking at you, Michael Bay), there hasn’t been much momentum from this Joel Silver produced effort. But according to a new …
Though he had a great solid run culminating in the Oscar winning Training Day and superb 2012 standout End of Watch, writer/director David Ayer had real misstep with his last outing, Sabotage. Did I say “misstep”? I meant drunkenly falling face first into cow dung. But Ayer appears to be back in winning form with Fury, a WWII tank movie that sees Brad Pitt leading a …
There’s no denying that “Rocky vs Raging Bull” is certainly a movie concept with legs, even if said legs are a bit rickety and arthritic. And in execution, while the pairing of a past their prime Sylvester Stallone and Robert De Niro may not exactly be a completely knockout, there’s definitely still a lot of fight left in these two …
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It’s a bumper week of new cinema releases in South Africa today. Five new movies open, each offering something different for moviegoers. Last Updated: March 8, 2013
There’s no denying it, Snitch is a bit of a weird film. Not so much in content but definitely in approach and execution as writer/director Ric Roman Waugh casts Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson, a man who’s built like a leather-bound fire hydrant and who has made a career of putting rather large boots to asses, in a role where he …
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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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