Judging by the fact that you’re currently visiting a site title TheMovies.co.za, I’m hazarding a guess that you tend to follow any big hub-bub that breaks out in the industry. And even if you were just paying the most cursory attention to this year’s Sundance Film Festival, you more than likely heard all the noise surrounding The Birth of a Nation. …
Godzilla! King of the monsters, and rightly so. The big atomic kaiju has been stomping around Japan for decades now, going through numerous phases and an identity crisis or two. Like that time the franchise was struck with what scientists call “the Scrappy-Doo effect” and introduced that f***ing Godzooky bastard to audiences. Times change thankfully, and so did Godzilla, with …
Nicolas Winding Refn doesn’t make easy movies. They’re always artistically gorgeous and take interesting thematic angles, but they’re not exactly your typical 8pm Sunday night eTV movie. Even his most mainstream commercially successful film, Drive, is not for everybody (cue shocking memories of elevator scene). So no, they’re not easy. And they’re also not always good, as his last effort, the …
Bustin' makes me feel good! Here's your first look at the new Ghostbusters game, which kind of needs a touch more Bill Murray added to it.
It’s going to be a while before you see the US Godzilla return. But that doesn’t mean that we won’t see him on the big screen this year. You just need to be in Japan for his next debut.
In all the hub-hub with trailers for Suicide Squad and Doctor Strange, Spider-Man finally coming home, and even sad ol’ Ben Affleck getting some news to be happy batty about, we appear to have overlooked the fact that a brand new full trailer for Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2: Out of the Shadows also dropped during Sunday’s MTV Movie Awards. And you know …
I’ll be honest, as creative a guy as I am, I’m all out of “Winter Is Coming” jokes and puns. Sorry, Internet, but I got nothing left. And I simply don’t have the energy to conjure up a few more laughs at the expense of Ned Stark’s meme-worthy line from Game of Thrones. No, all that energy is being sapped by my ever-increasing excitement levels …
Doctor Strange is the next big film for Marvel, as they swap space, Stark technology and super soldier serums for some good ol’ magic. Let's analyse that trailer then.
Managing a fleet comes down to doing the little things well – i.e., controlling …
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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