Believe it or not, Clash of the Titans is a remake and not a spoof of… no – not Remember the Titans, that was American football… rewind a bit further back to 1981’s Clash of the Titans starring People Magazine’s Sexiest Man Alive in 1987, Harry Hamlin. You haven’t watched it? Neither have I, although […]

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Outrageous! boasts a who’s who heavyweight comedy team of stand-ups including: John Vlismas, Barry Hilton, Joey Rasdien, Krijay Govender, Loyiso Gola, Mark Banks and Riaad Moosa. Imagine the scene from Tombstone as the sharp-shooters wander into town, ready to do the Riverdance, armed with guns and handlebar moustaches… they mean business! Now the cast from […]

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‘Scuse my French, but quite frankly The Bounty Hunter is a polished turd. This is the kind of movie you’d expect Mel Gibson to star in about 20 years ago… oh wait it was, and he did in Bird on a Wire co-starring alongside his butt and Kate Hudson’s mom, Goldie Hawn. Now before you […]

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This year, the big Oscar show down was like a divorce settlement between James Cameron (Avatar) and ex-wife, Kathryn Bigelow (The Hurt Locker). Needless to say, The Hurt Locker pulled Best Picture (the house), with Bigelow (no relation to Deuce) making history as the first female recipient of Best Director (the car), leaving Cameron in […]

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(500) Days of Summer is not about surfing… and no surfers were harmed in the making of this film. The Endless Summer was a quest for the perfect wave, while (500) Days of Summer is the quest for the perfect girl. That is unless you equate the game of love with the ocean, in which […]

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I love a good mystery/thriller… that’s why I just had to catch Shutter Island, a new Scorsese film starring Leonardo DiCaprio and based on the novel of the same title by crime/mystery writer, Dennis Lehane (Gone Baby Gone, Mystic River). DiCaprio and Scorsese are quickly becoming a Hollywood staple as Shutter Island marks the fourth […]

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Lewis Carroll wrote what some conspiracy theorists believe was a tale about the effects of hallucinogenic drugs. Perhaps the whole who ha started with Go Ask Alice about a teenage girl’s spiral into drugs in the ’60s, coupled with a song called White Rabbit and William Shatner. Whatever… Disney adapted it and they do Alice […]

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I know I’m stating the obvious here, but Denzel Washington is not Mr. T. They act, dress and talk differently… Mr. T carries that Mad Max era cool like someone before their time and while he’s been off the Hollywood scene beating Cancer and endorsing cooking gadgets in an apron, this could have been his […]

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I’m a big fan of ‘The Dude’… you know, Jeff Bridges in The Big Lebowski. What, you haven’t seen it?! It’s a cornerstone of modern cinema, one of the top scoring f-bombers with ‘cult classic’ written all over it – available at all old school video stores! Anyways… ‘The Dude’ is now more like ‘The […]

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If you’ve ever gone camping without a razor, you’ll know exactly how scary you start to look after a few days without shaving. From 5 ‘o clock shadow it’s only a few hours before midnight and if you add a full moon to the picture… your friends will start wishing they’d bought the more expensive […]

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A traveling carnival sideshow “family” and their supernatural mirror gateway to one’s own imagination is put in jeopardy after they rescue a wanted criminal and go head-to-head in a soul-grabbing game with the Devil incarnate.  The Imaginarium of Dr. Parnassus… intriguing ‘yes’, based on a true story ‘no’! In fact, what Terry Gilliam film isn’t […]

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Have you ever been fired or had to fire someone? Unless you’re Donald “You’re Fired!” Trump it’s never nice. In fact, the only time it’s considered to have gone well by American standards is if no one died. We think we’re defined by our jobs. These days, it’s the first bland thing anyone ever asks […]

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Unlike most city parking meters, Expired hasn’t… The film is about parking enforcement officers (to some “boetabessies”)… you know, the people that stick pretty pink tickets on your windscreen. It may look all sweet and innocent like Jodie Foster in Taxi Driver, but don’t be fooled… it’s an indie film in the league of Punch […]

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With such memorable quotes as “I’m gonna f**k you till you love me”, I can’t think of anyone in their right minds who’d want to trade places with Mike Tyson. The man has carved a little piece of Hell for himself over the last four decades… from his childhood days of petty crime in Brownsville […]

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I watch pretty much anything with Milla Jovovich (there I said it!) and I had high hopes for A Perfect Getaway. After first watching her as Lilli in Return to Blue Lagoon, she went on to star in cult trip, Dazed and Confused and then The Fifth Element as Leeloo – I was hooked – […]

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Waltz with Bashir is extraordinary in terms of its originality and representation of war… An animated biographical war documentary drama takes an Israeli director on a journey to reconstruct and clarify the events of the 1982 invasion of Lebanon from the accounts of fellow veterans. And no, it’s nothing like Team America: World Police. The […]

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What comes to mind when you hear the name Sherlock Holmes? The character has been around since the late 1800s when Sir Arthur Conan-Doyle conjured up a gentleman, who could draw big conclusions from small details. A London-based detective, whose sharp intellect and keen eye could keep him in-the-know, without having to rely on any […]

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Avatar is the space between dreams and reality, fantasy and science fiction, “Cowboys and Indians”… I think you get the picture. Simply put… James Cameron’s latest film since Titanic is a dazzling spectacle of computer-generated photographic imagery and vivid contrasting themes. It’s basically like G.I. Joe vs. Thundercats (with a touch of Smurfs)… I mean […]

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Invictus attempts to capture the Zeitgeist of the New South Africa in its infancy and watching this film gives us some idea of just how far we’ve come as a nation… I mean, we’ve got a new flag and cop cars aren’t yellow anymore!? Invictus is based on the real-life glory story that has made […]

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Just when you thought 2010 was the year, undisputed “Master of Disaster”, Roland Emmerich (Independence Day) brings us 2012, a doomsday, apocalypse, cataclysm, “it’s the end of the world as we know it”, catastrophe of a film to rival The Day After Tomorrow… another “SimEarth” Emmerich blockbuster. Earthquakes, tsunamis, floods, volcanoes, parking tickets, 2012 is […]

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The Twilight Saga: New Moon by Stephenie Meyer is the latest victim to have been put through the Hollywood sausage machine like that magical kid with John Lennon style glasses and a jet-powered broomstick. I used to associate ‘twilight’ with that time of day when the light diffuses in the sky just before dawn or […]

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Zombieland is a rough place to grow old in alright – especially if you don’t know the fundamental rules of survival. Sure, you know how to do CPR, but in the event of a zombie apocalypse, you’d be wise to at least skim through the most important ones… that is, if don’t want to lose […]

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Hardwired was the working title for I, Robot… a man-on-the-run Sci-Fi about the evolution of robot-kind starring Will Smith. It also happens to be the title for a man-on-the-run Sci-Fi about the evolution of corporate advertising starring Cuba Gooding Jr, but “Hairbrained” seems more fitting in retrospect as the film is plagued by a number […]

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This Is It is a special tribute to Michael Jackson, the undisputed King of Pop, which was originally intended to be screened for 2 weeks after its world premiere last week. However, the This Is It “show” has been extended by another two weeks in countries like South Africa to give everyone (like you) a […]

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It’s Halloween again, which means you’ll either be scaring up a tacky fancy dress costume for a party or guarding your front door against a small militant wing of kids, who think they’re entitled to some of your hard-earned candy. I thought they were supposed to avoid strangers with candy!? Well, if it’s the one […]

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Quentin Tarantino’s latest film, Inglourious Basterds (yes, that’s how you spell it) is about to hit South African shores like D-Day this Friday. Brad Pitt appears to be the star and headlines a cast including: Christoph Waltz, Diane Kruger, Julie Dreyfuss, Melanie Laurent, Eli Roth, Til Schweiger with a siff cameo from Mike Myers (think […]

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Every now and then a movie comes along that blows our minds… Jennifer’s Body is not that movie. It blows alright… but not in a good way. The creators of Juno must have been high on Oscar fever (or cocaine) when they decided to make Jennifer’s Body. Imagine the setting in the creator’s board room or […]

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Ah The Ugly Truth… women fall head over heels and men fall for women that wear nothing but heels. The whole intergalactic “Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus” game of cat-and-mouse has been discussed at length and there just doesn’t seem to be a light (or even a candle-lit dinner) at the end of […]

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Austin Powers and Dr. Evil are the same person, Mike Myers. No, not the psychotic serial killer from Halloween that just won’t die, the guy from Wayne’s World… Wayne. (GET ON WITH IT!) Yes… quite, well The Boat That Rocked is British – you may think it’s American, but it’s not – it hasn’t even been released there […]

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Remember how our parentals tried to force-feed us as children… “Here comes the aeroplane”, “If you eat the crust you’ll get a deep voice” and “Don’t make me come down there!”.  Okay, maybe the last one was only for special occasions, but that’s what watching The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3 is like, except […]

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