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Midweek Mouth-off: Your cinematic guilty pleasures

By Noelle Adams
April 23, 2014
in :  Opinion
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Quickly, while people are still in holiday mode, and not really paying attention… it’s time to reveal your biggest movie guilty pleasure – those films you secretly love which either cinephiles or the rest of the world loathes. So, yeah, you know how you own a copy of The Twilight Saga, or watch The Smurfs at least once a month …

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Midweek Mouth-off: Movie plans for the long weekend

By Noelle Adams
April 16, 2014
in :  Opinion
21

With the Easter long weekend just around the corner, as well as a handful of other public holidays and triple-day weekends, today we want to know what movies and TV series you plan on catching during the break?

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Midweek Mouth-off: The best superhero costume

By Noelle Adams
April 9, 2014
in :  Opinion
13

The question today is simple: because the first thing that fans always react to is the costume, which superhero – or villain – has had the best designed duds on the big screen to date?

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Midweek Mouth-off: Noah you're talking!

By Noelle Adams
April 2, 2014
in :  Opinion
7

This Friday Noah opens in South Africa with a blockbuster 3D (and 3D IMAX) treatment… and surprisingly little fanfare and/or controversy despite it being a Hollywood reinterpretation of a Bible story – giving it an unusual “timeless” spin. More importantly for cinephiles, Noah is the latest from writer-director Darren Aronofsky, who never fails to wow with his striking, frequently surreal …

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Midweek Mouth-off: Bigger and better… or buying into the hype?

By Noelle Adams
March 26, 2014
in :  Opinion
3

You should be used to the drill by now. Just before the release of a new, for example, James Bond film, the latest franchise entry is heralded as the best ever made! Time and time again, sequels are hyped like this, and right now, Captain America: The Winter Soldier is getting the same treatment. If early reviews and word of …

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Midweek Mouth-off: Now is the Winter Soldier of our…

By Noelle Adams
March 19, 2014
in :  Opinion
9

It’s now just a week and a half until the next film in the Marvel Cinematic Universe releases on 28 March – so today we want to know how amped you are for Captain America: The Winter Soldier? Especially since initial Twitter word of mouth was so crazy positive. Blown away by the promotional material? Couldn’t care less about Cap? …

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Midweek Mouth-off: Turning child's play to profit

By Noelle Adams
March 12, 2014
in :  Opinion
16

With the mammoth critical and commercial success of The Lego Movie – hell, it’s Kervyn’s favourite film of 2014 to date – as well as recent (and upcoming) films inspired by the Transformers and GI Joe action figures, today we want to know what other toys you think would successfully make the leap to the big screen? We’ve had movies …

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Midweek Mouth-off: Do the Oscars matter?

By Noelle Adams
March 5, 2014
in :  Opinion
4

So this year’s Academy Awards was evidently the best watched in a decade. But today we want to hear what you think about the Oscars in general. Do you think they still matter, if they ever did? Apart from the red carpet watching, do you think the awards ceremony has any impact on the average movie-goer? Does it make you …

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Midweek Mouth-off: Sick of CGI?

By Noelle Adams
February 26, 2014
in :  Opinion
5

Children of the 80s and 90s, you may remember a time when movie special effects weren’t computer generated. They were actually practical; they existed in some tangible form or other (stop-motion models, miniatures, latex make-up effects etc.) in our reality. So today’s question is: do you miss practical special effects? Do you think CGI is ruining the movie experience, creating …

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Midweek Mouth-off: Avengers in Africa – your stories

By Noelle Adams
February 19, 2014
in :  Opinion
3

As I’m sure many of you are aware, The Avengers sequel Age of Ultron is currently filming in South Africa (Joburg and Cape Town specifically). You can even read our article on how the filmmakers are Seff Efrikenning up the sequel’s global destruction. Today we want to know if any locals out there have any Avengers behind the scenes stories? Have …

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Midweek Mouth-off: The greatest love stories on the silver screen

By Noelle Adams
February 12, 2014
in :  Opinion
8

Seeing as it’s Valentine’s Day on Friday, today we want you to list your favourite big screen love stories. And by all means, they don’t have to be the obvious choices… Happy, sad, fairy tale or painfully real – what pierces straight through the crusty outer coating of your heart, and leaves you with a serious case of The Feels?

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Midweek Mouth-off: The superhero of all superhero movies in 2014

By Noelle Adams
February 5, 2014
in :  Opinion
9

With new trailers just unveiled during the Super Bowl for The Amazing Spider-Man 2 and Captain America: The Winter Soldier, plus both Guardians of the Galaxy AND massively ambitious X-Men: Days of Future Past ramping up their promo material, the time has come to debate which superhero flick will be ultimate box office champion and (maybe) critical darling of 2014. …

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