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Midweek Mouth-off: Your Halloween horror picks

By Noelle Adams
October 30, 2013
in :  Opinion
8

Seeing as tomorrow is Halloween, today we want to know if you have any scary movie viewings planned for the evening? Alternatively, if you’re not celebrating with a horror flick, what are your favourite genre entries in general – whether they be well-crafted creepfests, slashers heavy-handed with the gore or exhilarating frighteners designed to have you jumping from your seat …

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Midweek Mouth-off: Hungry for The Hunger Games Part 2?

By Noelle Adams
October 23, 2013
in :  Opinion
7

It’s now just less than one month until The Hunger Games: Catching Fire opens in North America AND South Africa on 22 November. With scenes shot specifically for the format, the film will also be the second to screen at Ster Kinekor’s new IMAX set-up at Gateway, Durban. So today we want to know how you feel about the upcoming …

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Midweek Mouth-off: TV vs. Movies as the superior entertainment medium

By Noelle Adams
October 16, 2013
in :  Opinion
8

Well, you’re on this site, so you obviously love movies. But today we want to know which you prefer more as an entertainment medium? Film or television? Now that may be Sophie’s Choice for you, or as impossible a comparison as apples and bricks… This said, traditionally Film has been considered the “superior” medium, with (typically) bigger budgets that are …

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Midweek Mouth-off: Awesome or awful Agents of SHIELD?

By Noelle Adams
October 9, 2013
in :  Opinion
24

The Avengers TV spin-off, Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., is now three episodes in, and for those of you who have been watching, we want to know what you think of Joss Whedon’s latest small screen effort. Hit? Miss? Or too early to tell? Actually, while we’re on the subject of fan favourite Joss, what do you think of the man? Do …

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Midweek Mouth-off: Small screen obsessions

By Noelle Adams
October 2, 2013
in :  Opinion
19

With the midyear movie blockbuster season behind us, and the glut of awards-bait movies yet to really hit, let’s turn our attention to the small screen today… As many television series kick off their new season at the moment (or have just ended their most recent run), what are you watching at the moment? What will you miss? And what …

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Midweek Mouth-off: 2013's Midyear Most Awful

By Noelle Adams
September 18, 2013
in :  Opinion
9

As we enter the US Fall film season, where releases are generally considered to be of a more adult, cerebral and award-worthy nature, today we want to hear your thoughts on the worst of the worst. What’s your most hated movie of the past few months – more easily identifiable as the American Summer blockbuster period? Would you name obvious …

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Midweek Mouth-off: Sci-fi reboot time

By Noelle Adams
September 11, 2013
in :  Opinion
33

Given that Hollywood seems to have ploughed through most of the hit (and not so hit) horror franchises, science fiction seems to be the new genre of choice when it comes to greenlighting reboots and remakes. Today we want to know what you think of the upcoming RoboCop – given that we’ve now finally seen the first trailer for the …

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Midweek Mouth-off: From big screen to small screen

By Noelle Adams
September 4, 2013
in :  Opinion
2

Following the news last week that time-travel tale 12 Monkeys has been greenlit for a TV series pilot, today we want to know what other movies you think would work on the small screen? What film is thematically/narratively rich enough to sustain an adaptation that the original story from a couple of hours’ running time to a full 10+ episode …

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Midweek Mouth-off: The Man who would be Bat

By Noelle Adams
August 28, 2013
in :  Opinion
9

We’re sure by this point everyone has got over their knee-jerk reaction to the surprising news that Ben Affleck will be playing an older, established Dark Knight alongside Henry Cavill’s freshman Supes in Zack Snyder’s upcoming Superman-Batman movie. Now that you’d had a chance to digest the casting news for almost a week, we want to hear your thoughts. Are you …

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Midweek Mouth-off: The best buddy cop pairings

By Noelle Adams
August 21, 2013
in :  Opinion
13

With action comedy The Heat opening this Friday in South Africa – which stars Sandra Bullock and Melissa McCarthy as mismatched law enforcement officers – today we want to know who your favourite buddy cop pairings are in the long American cinematic tradition? Riggs and Murtaugh? Burnett and Lowrey? Angel and Butterman? Let us know below.

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Midweek Mouth-off: On the casting couch

By Noelle Adams
August 14, 2013
in :  Opinion
5

No, we’re not talking about “that” typical casting couch activity… Given the apparently great lengths Fox is going to in order to keep Hugh Jackman all clawed and mutton-chopped for several more movies, today we want to know if there are any film characters you wish were recast? If you had the power to replace any actor or actress in …

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Midweek Mouth-off: Dumbing down and declawed

By Noelle Adams
August 7, 2013
in :  Opinion
24

We’ve just seen it with The Wolverine, it’s happened notably before with Daredevil and now the highly anticipated Snow Piercer is getting a similar treatment. In short, these movies are being heavily edited,  dumbed down and declawed for Western audiences – typically going from R-rated to a much more “accessible” PG-13. Although we’re sure we can predict your reaction, today …

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