The thin line between love and hate isn’t as thin as we once thought… and it’s blue, thanks to middling mall cop movies like Paul Blart: Mall Cop with Kevin James and more recently Observe and Report with Seth Rogen. The film has generated some mixed responses with one rendition of this movie poster’s subtitle […]

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UP is possibly the shortest name for a film since X, but we’re not talking about Spike Lee’s film on Malcolm X, the first X-Men movie, the X-Files or even the similarity of illiterate people’s signatures. We’re talking about UP, Pixar’s latest Best Animated Film Oscar in the wake of “WAAAALLLLL-E” (pretty irritating after a […]

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Public Enemy was one of the films that cemented Jimmy Cagney in the old Hollywood. No, they didn’t erect a statue and he didn’t get dropped off at the docks. It was his extraordinary career performance as Tom Powers that gave rise to the gangster picture and set Cagney up as the ultimate tough guy. […]

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Right, so you saw Crank and enjoyed it… well done. To say Crank had a lot of heart is an understatement. The public display of affection, the pulsating action, the heart-stopping moments and the heartbeat bass were incredible and Jason Statham wasn’t too bad either. The original had the action reflex of a kung-fu squirrel […]

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Watching District 9 was a new film experience, which could only be described as Hotel Rwanda, Fido and Lars and the Real Girl… in a blender. In retrospect, it’s all of that and more. Neill Blomkamp burst onto the movie scene in 2005 with Alive in Joburg, a fascinating Sci-Fi/Documentary short film about aliens in […]

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At this moment in time, it’s sad but true… Stephen Sommers is a poor man’s Michael Bay. He directed two fun-filled fantasy adventures in the shadow of Spielberg’s Indiana Jones saga with The Mummy and The Mummy Returns and then gave us a whirlwind tour of horror classics with Van Helsing. What made these adventures […]

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What would you think if you heard a film had been submitted to the MPAA 18 times to obtain a PG-13 rating, was written by four writers collectively credited as “Freedom Jones” and contained no nudity whatsoever, after marketing a poster with a giant F.U. for Fired Up? Well the F.U. part certainly rings a […]

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Friday the 13th is a staple in horror movie history. The slasher film franchise has come a long way and has struggled to break the vicious (yet popular) cycle of blood, boobs and boozing. Jason Voorhees, the masked psychopath is to slasher films what James Bond is to espionage and they both share one irritating […]

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Management is an oddball romantic comedy starring Jennifer Aniston, Steve Zahn and Woody Harrelson. The cast have had their fair share of ups and downs in Hollywood, but that’s enough about their private lives… Aniston revisits her role from The Good Girl to produce another decent performance in this off-kilter “romcom”. She’s the main draw […]

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Harry Potter and The Half-Blood Prince is the best Harry Potter adaptation yet (despite sitting next to someone with a super-size popcorn and slurpy and no sense of volume control!). The franchise has slowly evolved from an adorable, theme park-friendly fantasy adventure for kids into a swirling, dark mass of might and magic for older […]

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Brüno is Sacha Baron Cohen’s third incarnation after the much-quoted Ali G and the controversial culture shock that is Borat Sagdiyev. From his days on The 11 O’Clock Show to hosting his own show… the man has sent shock waves of comedy: ranging from downright witty to upright horrific. Some have called him “a comic […]

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Next Day Air is a Benny Boom film with boom in terms of gunfire and ‘boom’ in the Afrikaans sense of the word. Boom’s MTV video direction must have raised some eyebrows, because the man’s made a name for himself at MTV and now at the movies. His feature film debut is an uneasy mix […]

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Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen is the second live-action Transformers movie from Michael Bay, starring rising talents Shia LeBeouf and Megan Fox. Now LaBeouf’s name may evoke images of croissants, French maids and Paris (not Hilton), but the kid’s the real deal. His second-in-command, a Ms Megan Fox, had a breakthrough performance in Transformers and […]

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Obsessed is obsessed with Fatal Attraction in a Lifetime movie kind of way. It aims to be sleek, sexy and enticing, yet ends up like a Tween-friendly tongue-in-cheek office comedy with Idris Elba, Ali Larter, Beyonce Knowles and a leaner Jerry O’Connell. Come on, Jerry O’Connell’s in it… this must be a comedy! Elba can’t […]

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The Hangover is the ultimate bachelor party, wedding jitters, road trip splurge on Las Vegas. This is a guy’s movie that toes the line with raunchy humour from screenwriters Jon Lucas and Scott Moore and Todd Phillips, director of Old School. You’ve got the comedy and camaraderie of City Slickers shared between Doug, the groom-to-be […]

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