Gavin Hood, Neil Blomkamp, Sharlto Copley, Charlize Theron, Arnold Vosloo… When it comes to things of the cinematic variety, us South Africans have quite a few to be proud of. This is not one of them. Meet 24 year old George native, De Wet Du Toit -an ex-bodybuilder and security guard, now full-time unemployment line occupier – who has dreams …

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He may have been a Green Lantern and a merc with a mouth, but the latest comic book role that actor Ryan Reynolds is busy with happens to be one that centers around the actor portraying the dead cop Nick Walker, who teams up with other deceased lawmen that work for the Rest In Peace Department, tracking down errant spirits …

The latest Muppets movie is considered by most to be pretty great all-around family fun. Well, except if you’re FOX News, that is. The ultra-conservative American news network recently did an in-depth expose on how the film was being used as a vehicle to influence the highly susceptible youth of America to adopt anti-capitalistic views. Yes, a “so called” respectable …

Producer Joel Silver must be a happy man. He’s finally got himself a writer for the film adaptation of Ben Ten, a film that is rich in merchandising potential. Albert Torres has been tapped to pen the script for the film, which Silver describes as a “big-budget, tentpole, action driven adventure”, presumably with the weight to kick off a new arm …

The Brad Bird directed film, starring Tom Cruise as Impossible Mission Force Ethan Hunt once again, has broken box office records set by previous installments in the series to become the most successful of all the MI films.

  Sometimes it’s the job of media (in this case, me) to churn out walls of hyperbolic prose. These text monoliths standing as signposts so as to either entice or warn off potential cinema-goers about a particular film. Other times though, you can just let the film description speak for itself: “Set in a near post-apocalyptic future, THE FP centers …

Amidst the trickle of superhero films that hit us last year, X-men First Class was to be one of the best comic book movies to debut, not just for 2011, but in recent years as well. Slick, polished and with a capable cast that shined on the silver screen, the tale of Charles Xavier working with the magnetic villain to …

I don’t know about you guys, but if there’s one thing about family vacations that I just can’t stand it’s when you leave your folks on a yacht on the Spanish coastline to just quickly pop into town for some snacks, only to come back and find them missing and the place ransacked, and then to find out that your …

Director David Fincher’s Oscar nominated English language adaptation of The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo is one of the best films on circuit currently. However, like I mentioned in my review, it is remarkably unflinching when it comes to the story’s more graphic scenes. And trust me, they are graphic. India’s Central Board of Film Certification had previously requested that 5 …

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Years of writing about gritty reboots, watching violent genre films and being a rather cynical human being have left me quite jaded. So you can only imagine how nauseatingly sick I feel right now after having watched the latest, whimsical trailer for Mirror Mirror, yet another take on the Snow White fable. Directed by Immortals’ Tarsem Singh, Mirror Mirror is supposed to be a lighter, family friendly version of the classic …