It’s been a big week for directorial announcements. JJ Abrams bounces from the Star Trek reboot to helm the geek catnip that is Star Wars: Episode VII. Meanwhile, in surprise news, Duncan “My name’s not Zowie Bowie” Jones swaps sci-fi (Moon, Source Code) for fantasy, accepting the task of bringing the long-discussed World of WarCraft movie to the big screen. …

Given the number of superhero, sci-fi and skop, skiet en donder films that receive news coverage (and fanboy love) at TheMovies.co.za, I think it’s a safe to say that musicals aren’t a popular genre in these here parts. Or are they…? With Les Miserables currently filling seats in local cinemas, today we want to hear about your feelings towards song-and-dance …

With the release last Friday of Django Unchained – an unusual Blaxploitation-Spaghetti Western hybrid – today we’re discussing acclaimed writer-director Quentin Tarantino. What are your thoughts about the filmmaker responsible for the likes of Reservoir Dogs, Pulp Fiction, Kill Bill, Jackie Brown, Death Proof and, most recently, Inglourious Basterds? Is he a genius, hit-and-miss or consistently overrated? What is your …

Given the announcement of this year’s Oscar nominations last Thursday, and the Golden Globe winners on Sunday,  today we want to know what you think of the 2013 award season? Do you have a favourite nominee who (you think) deserves the accolades? Do you even care? Are the various awards bodies on target this year, or are they on a …

So it’s a new year and most of us are back at the office with our noses to the grindstone (or, more likely, PC screen)… Today we want to know what movies you watched over the festive break, as well as your thoughts on them. Did anything especially impress or disappoint you?

By this time next week you’ll probably be suffering from the post-Christmas come-down – flaked out on the couch with a belly bloated by that godly combo of turkey and trifle. However, in this last Midweek Mouth-Off of 2012, we want to know what are your favourite festive season films? Do you have any Christmas-set movies that have become tradition …

The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey – the first of *cough* 3 wallet-milking Hobbit films – opens today, and we want to know how you feel about it? ill you be watching it in 2D, 3D, or, if you have the opportunity, the brand new HFR 3D format? Do you plan to watch it multiple times on the big screen? Or, …

With Rise of the Guardians opening in South Africa this Friday, today we want to know about your animation tastes. Do you continue to watch animated movies at the cinema, even if you don’t have children in tow? Do you generally dismiss animated films as saccharine kids’ stuff, or is it more case-by-case? Also, what are your favourite animated films …

The highly anticipated Skyfall opens this Friday as the 23rd official James Bond film, so it’s time for one of the most contentious debates of movie fandom… Of the 6 actors who have played Ian Fleming’s smooth, martini-sipping spy, who is the best Bond, and what is the best Bond film? Likewise, who’s the worst 007 and which movie is …

We’re just a couple of weeks away from the start of the festive season movie glut. And today we want to know what you are most looking forward to? Starting next week, these are just some of the movies out for/in December: Skyfall Looper The Hobbit End of Watch Life of Pi Rise of the Guardians Adventures in Zambezia Jack …

Yeah, we know we tend to have a bias towards English-language cinema. Today though we want to know about your favourite foreign language films and filmmakers? What impressed you so much that you’ll happily recommend it/them to others despite the subtitling that so many people hate?

After last week’s massive Disney-Lucasfilm news triggered a tsunami of movie geek reaction (some good, some bad), today we want to know all about your feelings towards the Star Wars franchise. Are you a lifelong fan with “New Hope” for the future? Did the lacklustre prequels and George Lucas’s milking of the series completely turn you off? Or have you …