I feel sorry for goats. Really, they have a bad time of it, what with being associated with the devil and all. And in this freaky first-time, feature-length movie from Robert Eggers I don’t see anything changing. It’s no secret that I enjoy horrors – the good ones mind you, not the Jessebelle‘s out there – so I am happy …

Yet another public holiday in South Africa means the vast majority of the week’s new film releases are out from today – Workers’ Day. And there are seven of them. 3 Days to Kill: Kevin Costner plays a terminally ill CIA agent in this action espionage thriller, written by Luc Besson and directed by McG. Costner’s character wants to reconnect …

Thanks to Human Rights Day falling on a Friday this year, it’s a 3-day weekend in South Africa. This means all the new cinema releases are out from today, not tomorrow. And this week you have a choice of 6 new movies. Need for Speed: Screening in 2D, 3D and 3D IMAX is this action film based on the Need …

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Over the last few weeks I’ve said a lot about The Raid 2: Berandal, my most highly anticipated movie for 2014. Hell, I even spoke about it just a few hours ago. But now it’s time for me to shut up, and have some other people talk about it. People who were lucky enough to experience it this morning, when writer-director …

This year’s Sundance Festival has already produced a large number of critical darlings, with these fest faves being mostly touching comedies and dramas. And today there’s going to be whole lot of “touching” once again, only this time it will be fists, feet, knees, elbows and whatever makeshift weapons come to hand brutally touching some poor sods’ face, as Gareth …

Michael B. Jordan (no, not the NBA legend/wannabe baseball player/Looney Toons co-star) is a name you need to get used to hearing quite a bit. The Chronicle star has been popping up on just about every single shortlist in Hollywood lately that asks for somebody possessed of a Y-chromosome. Most recently (and infamously depending on your level of racial prejudice) he was …

This week at South African cinemas, film-goers have a choice between supernatural fantasy and grown-up drama. There’s an exact even split between these 2 types of movies today with 4 new releases hitting our screens. Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters: This fantasy actioner was supposed to be one of the first big fairy tale ‘reimaginings” of 2012 – before being …