The good news is: if you missed our screening of The Lazarus Effect, now’s your chance to catch it in cinemas! The bad news is: you probably don’t want to… The Lazarus Effect From masters of horror Blumhouse Productions- producer of THE PURGE, INSIDIOUS and SINISTER franchises- THE LAZARUS EFFECT follows a group of researchers led by Frank (Mark Duplass) …
What is it with Young Adult Sci-Fi Action Movies having overly long titles that have to use a colon? The Divergent Series: Insurgent. The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones. The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 2. All we need now is a movie based on Rebels: City of Indra: The Story of Lex and Livia. That’s right everyone, TWO colons. …
While the rest of the world gets to see Chappie, alas us lowly plebs have to wait another week. Oh well! Here’s what’s in cinemas to tide us over… Nightcrawler NIGHTCRAWLER is a pulse-pounding thriller set in the nocturnal underbelly of contemporary Los Angeles. Jake Gyllenhaal stars as Lou Bloom, a driven young man desperate for work who discovers the …
The last of the Oscar-bait movies are coming to our cinemas in drips and drabs, but other, less serious movies are starting to come back as well. Thank goodness we can get a chance to turn our brains off and indulge in some mindless entertainment again! The Theory of Everything This is the extraordinary story of one of the world’s greatest living minds, the …
Awards season craziness is almost over! With the release of American Sniper and Whiplash, six of the eight nominees for Best Picture have now come to South African cinema. Unfortunately you’ll still have to wait a bit for The Theory of Everything and The Grand Budapest Hotel – but they will be out in the next month so I’m sure …
It’s Friday the 13th and boys, you are unlucky today. See, we have Kingsman: The Secret Service – which you have to see – releasing at the same time as Fifty Shades of Grey – which you’ve probably been told you are going to see. Here’s my solution: go for a barter deal, you’ll take her to Fifty Shades (and you’ll …
Today we’re running the gamut of movie types. We’ve got an Oscar worthy film, a sci-fi epic, a goofy kid’s movie, two comedies and an Afrikaans ensemble romcom. Here are your choices: Selma SELMA chronicles the tumultuous three-month period in 1965, when Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. led a dangerous campaign to secure equal voting rights in the face of …
Well, at least now the Joburg peeps that didn’t get to see Fury on Tuesday thanks to our delightfully irregular load-shedding schedule can see it now! Fury April, 1945. As the Allies make their final push in the European Theatre, a battle-hardened army sergeant named Wardaddy (Brad Pitt) commands a Sherman tank and her five-man crew on a deadly mission …
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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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