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Mr. Reeves has been a busy man of late, and he seems to be continuing his previously successful strategy of starring in films of a fantastic nature. His latest venture is a sci-film called Passengers, and it seems like the beautiful Rachel McAdams is in talks to co-star. Last Updated: October 28, 2013

Five new films open in South Africa today, offering something for everyone, from R-rated action junkies to families with young children. Last Updated: October 25, 2013

Could it be that we’re seeing a new trend in British romantic-comedies: the gimmicky rom-com? I Give It a Year was like the “anti-rom-com rom-com”, and now Richard “Love Actually” Curtis is bringing us the “time-travelling rom-com” with About Time. Ok yes, we already had The Time Traveller’s Wife, but that was more rom-drama than rom-com. It also didn’t feature Bill Nighy dropping …

It’s been quite some time since we’ve seen or heard anything from Brian De Palma’s Passion. So long, in fact, that I had actually forgotten that it was coming out. You would think that a movie heavily featuring Noomi Rapace playing tonsil hockey with Rachel McAdams would be immune to being forgotten, but alas. Never fear for your early onset Alzheimer’s …

Three films open in South Africa today, and two of the three are sequels/prequels set in academic environments. Time to head back to school at the cinema… Last Updated: June 21, 2013

When Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, the anti-Bourne of the espionage genre, arrived to much acclaim last year, it seemed to herald in a new phase of slow burn spy thrillers that was all brains with very little brawn. But while Tomas Alfredsson’s take on John Le Carré’s tale was brilliant, Anton Corbijn’s The American was already burning slow a few …

Time travel is usually a topic reserved either for heavily muscled androids with thick Austrian accents, or bowtied aliens with funny screwdrivers and even funnier shaped heads. But clearly nobody told writer-director Richard Curtis (Love Actually, Four Weddings and a Funeral, Bridget Jones) of this restriction, which is why he’s applied his special brand of whimsy and charm to the …