The last of the Academy Awards Best Picture nominees to grace South African cinemas opens this week, and it comes highly recommended by Craig. The same can’t be said about the rest of this week’s releases unfortunately, but they can’t all be winners. Room Both highly suspenseful and deeply emotional, ROOM is a unique and touching exploration of the boundless …
Yes, we’re right in the middle of the Hollywood awards season, with the Golden Globes taking place this weekend past, and the Oscar nominations being released later today. But while those two biggest awards shows are all about honouring achievements in movies, there’s another that exists for exactly the opposite. I’m of course talking about the Golden Raspberry Awards aka …
The year of 2015 is the worst performer in recent memory for box office releases – and we’re only in JUNE. Or we are ONLY in June. This is a strange business… Last Updated: June 12, 2015
Valentines Day. Romance. Ball gags. Yep, it looks like 50 Shades Of Grey cleaned up real good over the weekend, with audiences flocking to cinemas and then later hardware stores for some uh, emergency rope. Yes, the soft kind, behind the rougher rope. That’ll fool them. Opening up to over $81.6 million at the North American box office, Fifty Shades …
More than a decade ago, the most popular inverterbrate on television hit cinemas in a classic film that was haf family-fun, half trippy horror that involved David Hasslehoff, bubble parties and a mercenary fish who had a penchant for ripping the lips off of smartass petrol attendants. Now, there’s a new SpongeBob in town. And he just dethroned the current …
I’ve reviewed a few movies in my time that I really looked forward to. The first degree burn I received was for 47 Ronin, a samurai movie that looked promising but ultimately was let down by the numerous production hurdles, issues with directors and decisions on what language it should be released in (I mean come on?!) So I went into Seventh Son with …
Please tell me someone got the Batman pun in the title? *Ahem* anyway, here’s what’s opening this week… Birdman Birdman is a black comedy that tells the story of an actor – famous for portraying an iconic superhero – as he struggles to mount a Broadway play. In the days leading up to opening night, he battles his ego and …
Last week Wednesday, 10 December, Ster-Kinekor launched the IMAX screen at CapeGate Mall in Brackenfell – the third such super-sized screen opened by the film distributor in the country, and the first time in more than a decade that the premium cinema format has returned to Cape Town – and I was in attendance to check it all out. I …
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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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