There is a lot to be said about ambition. And in Hollywood over the last decade or so, quite often it was being said by Andy and Lana Wachowski, the writer-director siblings of The Matrix, Speed Racer and Cloud Atlas fame. Irrespective of whether their films were comprehensively successful or not, they were always still willing to push the envelope, to go for those big ideas. …

I have to say that the duo formerly known as the Wachowski brothers, now as just the Wachowskis, did a damn good job of creating one of my favourite movies, that being The Matrix. I’ll even put my neck on the line and say I enjoyed the other two, just not as much as the first though. So I am tentatively excited that Jupiter …

What with it having been Phuza Thursday last night, I know this might be difficult and/or painful, but think back a few months to June, when we were just getting ready for a one-two punch of big budget space opera goodness. While the “two” portion of that sci-fi attack spectacle, Marvel’s Guardians of the Galaxy, delivered beyond reckoning, there was no …

If you aren’t gearing up for this year’s Durban International Film Festival – I suppose, even if you are – you have four new releases to catch at South African cinemas as of today. Dawn of the Planet of the Apes: Screening in 2D and 3D is this sequel to the 2011 reboot – a hit with critics and audiences …

If you’re a fan of crazy colourful, completely out-there, nuttier than squirrel poop sci-fi space operas, then 2014 is a very good year. In August we’ll have Marvel’s insanely cool – emphasis on insane – looking Guardians of the Galaxy blowing up their corner of the universe in technicolour explosions. But before we get to that, to sort of ease our cerebellums …

Here’s an interesting prospect for a film. Robin Williams stars as one of the angriest people in New York, which is really saying something. All that stress eventually lands him in hospital, where after a session of badering Doctor Mila Kunis, he ends up being tricked into believing that he only has 90 minutes to live. Cue one desperate scramble …

There’s a lot of buzz around the upcoming Wachowski Starship flick Jupiter Ascending, but truth be told, the first trailer didn’t do the scope of the film any justice. Fortunately, this second trailer does. And then some. Last Updated: March 27, 2014

Oh man I have been trying to crow-bar something out of my brain as a preamble for this trailer, but I got nothing. I can’t talk about the Wachowski siblings, because my experience with their movies starts and ends with the Matrix trilogy. I don’t think I’ve watched a single Channing Tatum movie (his ears don’t normally look like that, do …