A picture may be worth a thousand words, but clearly a nearly two-minute long trailer is even better (and actually worth about 26664000 words, if my frame-rate maths* is correct). Following on from Friday’s reveal of 7 new pics, Disney have unveiled the first trailer for their feature film adaptation of the hit Broadway musical Into the Woods, which sees …

I must say everywhere I look these days is something Disney. From epic earth battles to battles in the stars they are sweeping up genres like an ill-treated stepdaughter. Their last movie dealing with fairy tales was the rather good Maleficent that sought for a far darker re-telling of the ever popular Sleeping Beauty. This time round though it looks like they’ll …

Way, way before Katniss Everdeen and friends started running around, and YA was merely another way of saying “Yes”, Lois Lowry wrote “The Giver”. Her tale told about a colourless (literally) dystopian future in which humanity’s feelings are suppressed in a totalitarian – but misguided – means of keeping the peace, and in which a teenager has to uncover the …

I may have suffered from bad sinus problems my entire life, leaving me with a seriously lame sense of smell, but if there’s one thing I can sniff out from a mile away, it’s potential Oscar bait. And ladies and gentlemen, I think my schnoz just hit gold. The Homesman, a new drama written, directed and starred in by Tommy Lee …

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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, …

Five new films hit South African cinemas today, and they seem to be split between silly action-packed escapism and more astute examinations of dysfunctional human relationships. The LEGO Movie: The biggie release of the weekend is this animated action comedy for the whole family. Screening in 2D and 3D, the film uses a CGI-replication of stop-motion to convey the real-world …

While every single explosion possible is being purchased for the third Expendables film, there’s a spin-off on the horizon. The Expendabelles is that film, an all-ladies action extravanganza that will star the best ass-kickers without a Y chromosome from history. And right now, the following ladies are in talks to star in that movie. Last Updated: October 28, 2013