Hail Ceasar! is a rare and fun tribute to the days of 1950 Hollywood cinema and a real treasure to behold if you don’t mind putting up with its ludicrous plot and typical Coen brothers humour at times. This is a true Coen production, with all the usual flair you will expect to find from brothers Ethan and Joel Coen …
And it seems that those prolific, off-beat and multiple Oscar winning Coen brothers are at it again. Not a year goes by where there is not a movie with their touch to it (most recently the screenplay for last year’s Bridge of Spies) and their next effort is the upcoming Hail, Caesar!. It seems to follow the familiar off-beat comedy …
I find myself up to my eyeballs in work today (and if you’ve ever seen my towering frame in real life, you will know that that’s pretty damn high), so much so that I barely have time to write about this first trailer for Hail, Caesar!, the new movie from the four-time Oscar-winning filmmakers Coen Bros., they of No Country …
With both Avengers: Age of Ultron and Ant-Man now in the bag, we’re basically in the final stretch of Marvel Studio’s first grand plan for their universe. Their Phase 3 will kick off next year with the massive Captain America: Civil War, before seeing new faces in the likes of Black Panther, Doctor Strange, Captain Marvel and more introduced into …
In an attempt to combat climate change and bring down global temperatures in mid-2014 mankind unwittingly destroyed all they sought to protect and caused the extinction of nearly all life on Earth. Seventeen years later the old world is a fading memory and all that remains of humanity is bound together in a strict class system on a single world-spanning …
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 …
Vampires have had a really bad time of it ever since the Twilight series came out. Gone are the days of the decadent, broody, romantic Anne Rice vampires, replaced instead with creepy, sparkly, washed-out wimps from Stephanie Meyer’s wish-fulfilment fantasies. Last Updated: March 10, 2014
We’ve seen certainly seen our fair share of dystopian futures before, but I think that Snowpiercer – acclaimed Korean director, Bong Joon-Ho’s English language debut – has to be a first: A post-apocalyptic future based on what it’s like to use the Metrorail train services in South Africa. They’ve got cold weather, everybody’s dirty, a lot of shady looking characters and …
Nashville is a city powered by raw emotion, relentless ambition, and the constant hum …
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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