Back at the beginning of the year we profiled the 25 most interesting and eagerly anticipated movie releases from the first 6 months of 2012. Now it’s time to consider the treats in store for cinemagoers in the second half of the year. The Dictator: The latest no holds barred, politically incorrect comedy from Borat and Ali G star Sacha …

I’m not a fan of Len Wiseman, whose work I feel is the directorial equivalent of an empty Tupperware bowl: it comes in pretty colours but totally vacuous and plastic. I’m even less of a fan of reboots, especially when they’re rebooting a true genre classic. And yet, there is something about the new Total Recall that is somehow appealing …

Last week we reported on the new teaser trailer for the first trailer (damn, that’s a stupid phrase) for the Len Wiseman Total Recall reboot, and while that teaser certainly had its visually striking moments, not much else could be seen beyond, you know, all the freaking words telling you to watch the real trailer later that week. Well last …

Six new movies open in South Africa today. Whether you’re in the mood for Oscar-winning Art House fare, big budget special effects extravaganzas or just some mindless, undemanding genre fare, you’ll find it in cinemas as of right now. The Artist: Definitely my pick of the week is The Artist, which won 5 Oscars at this year’s Academy Awards… including …

Four new releases bring the action, drama and trauma this week to South African cinemas. Machine Gun Preacher: My pick of today’s new movies is this action drama based on a true story. Gerard “This is Sparta” Butler plays Sam Childers, a biker and drug addict turned preacher and relief worker. Childers’s work in Uganda and the Sudan culminates with …

Today is the 67th birthday of Sir Mick Jagger – the rubber-lipped frontman of the hardest working rock ‘n roll band, who seems to be made almost entirely out of wrinkles. It’s also the 37th birthday of Kate Beckinsale – the leather-clad vampire Death Dealer who seems to be made almost entirely out of sexy. Here’s the news we didn’t …

Rumour has it that the film adaptation of Epic Games’ Gears of War is in quite a pickle. according to the LA times, if the film ever makes it to the big screen it may bear only a passing resemblance to the games we know and love. Not only has the film’s budget, scale and story been scaled back considerably, …

Len Wiseman, Creator of the Underworld films, gets to wake up every morning next to Kate Beckinsale. I hate him. As we’ve reported, he will also be helming the Gears of War movie, which depending on the outcome, may make me hate him even more. In a recent interview with Bloody Disgusting, Kate Beckinsale’s husband revealed that his scope for …