If last year’s Interstellar was director Chris Nolan’s philosophical call-to-arms about achieving impossible dreams out in space through the power of unbridled imagination, then Ridley Scott’s The Martian stands as both it’s thematic opposite and cinematic brother-in-arms: a wildly thrilling testament to how nothing but hard science braininess can overcome the most improbable odds in our celestial quest (Provided you …

Stop-motion movies may not be everywhere, but there definitely is a market out there for them. Stop–motion animation movies that focus on more adult humour though? That’s about as rare as they come, and you’re more likely to see the Green Jelly Three Little Pigs music video get a CGI upgrade before you see plenty of those flicks unveiled. But …

Back in June, the first trailer for director Ridley Scott’s The Martian popped up, delivering a rather solid and condensed punch of info detailing that Matt Damon would need to science the sh** out of Mars in order to survive being stranded on that planet. But that trailer was missing something. And that something, was Jimi Hendrix. Here’s the latest …

This past Wednesday we held another community movie evening (sponsored by the ever awesome TimesMediaFilms) in both Cape Town and Johannesburg. Not only did people drown in soda and popcorn but they were also treated to some real-life ghouls in the actual cinema (thanks to the ladies, all covered in makeup, who were on hand to scare the audience!). This …

  It’s community evening time again and this time we have The Vatican Tapes to screen! Starring Michael Peña – who I just saw in Ant-Man – as Father Lozano, a man with a mission to not only save the soul of a possessed woman, but ultimately that of the world too. Here’s the official synopsis and trailer: THE VATICAN TAPES follows the …

Superhero comic books are a spandexed smorgasbord of different tones, themes and art directions, so it only makes sense that superhero comic book movies should follow suit. Except that they really haven’t though. Despite telling stories ranging from snarky techno-thrillers to pulpy WWII adventures to kooky space operas, Marvel Studios has developed a bit of a reputation for producing homogenous …

When you think of CHiPs – that’s the 1980’s TV show, not the stuff you eat with fish – you probably immediately think of Eric Estrada’s toothy grin, khaki uniforms, Ray Ban sunglasses, and a whole big ol’ helping of cheese. The popular TV series about two officers in the California Highway Patrol may have been classified as a drama, …

Space! The final frontier! Unless you’re director Ridley Scott that is. I’ll be the first person to admit that the end result of his last cosmic flick, Prometheus, was pretty much a cluster-fudge of incredibly stupid moments in sci-fi. That being said however, Scott still directed a film that looked beautifully stupid. Technically, it was a fantastic piece of cinema. …