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Movie Reviews
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SPL!NG Movie Review: Downsizing
14 Mar 2018 by SPLING / No Comments
Big and small have a wonderful relationship in cinema, allowing film-makers to transport the viewer to another dimension through eye-popping visual contrasts and trick photography.
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SPL!NG Movie Review: Death Wish (2018)
07 Mar 2018 by SPLING / No Comments
Bruce Willis revived the Die Hard franchise quite convincingly and based on his body count, seemed like the perfect candidate to headline the Death Wish remake almost 50 years later.
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SPL!NG Movie Review: Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
21 Feb 2018 by Seth Rotherham / No Comments
Three Billboards outside Ebbing, Missouri is a crime mystery drama directed by Martin McDonagh, starring Frances McDormand, Woody Harrelson and Sam Rockwell.
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SPL!NG Movie Review: I, Tonya
14 Feb 2018 by SPLING / No Comments
I, Tonya is a gritty and trashy account of Tonya Harding’s career as an ice skater, from her earliest days to the U.S. Figure Skating Championships.
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SPL!NG Movie Review: The Commuter
31 Jan 2018 by SPLING / No Comments
The Commuter is a crime mystery thriller from Jaume Collet-Serra, starring Liam Neeson in a leading role that has become quite typical for the pairing
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SPL!NG Movie Review: Breathe
24 Jan 2018 by SPLING / No Comments
“Good shot old chap”, is the type of era we find ourselves in with Breathe, a coming-of-age romance drama starring Andrew Garfield and Claire Foy. It could’ve been called “Keep Calm and Carry On”, mustering up the best of British fortitude against the tide of bureaucracy and prejudice. Cricket, tennis… a spot of tea and […]
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SPL!NG Movie Review: The Shape of Water
17 Jan 2018 by Seth Rotherham / No Comments
Hollywood is going through something of a monster movie revival, which probably pre-empted Guillermo del Toro’s fantasy drama, The Shape of Water. The film takes place at a top secret research facility in the 1960s as a lonely janitor forms a special relationship with an amphibious creature. Loosely modeled on Creature from Black Lagoon, the Pan’s […]
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SPL!NG Movie Review: Brad’s Status
10 Jan 2018 by SPLING / No Comments
The title Brad’s Status is a clever play on words that references today’s social media-driven society and the notion of keeping up with the Jones’s. The story follows, Brad, a father who feels inferior about his life’s choices after reconnecting with some old friends on a college tour with his son. This is a self-reflective […]
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SPL!NG Movie Review: Star Wars – The Last Jedi
14 Dec 2017 by SPLING / No Comments
Star Wars: The Last Jedi is Carrie Fisher’s last film and the eighth Star Wars episode in the long-running and popular series. Director Rian Johnson, best known for Looper, is a sci-fi fanatic and makes a good argument for why he should be given the reins for another episode. Johnson manages to keep it in-line […]
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SPL!NG Movie Review: Wonder
06 Dec 2017 by SPLING / No Comments
Wonder is based on the New York Times bestseller of the same name and tells the story of August Pullman.
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SPL!NG Movie Review: Daddy’s Home 2
29 Nov 2017 by SPLING / No Comments
The Other Guys co-stars have great chemistry and have turned their star power into a double team to rival Dennis Rodman and Jean-Claude Van Damme.
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SPL!NG Movie Review: Murder On The Orient Express
22 Nov 2017 by SPLING / No Comments
Agatha Christie’s literary classic, Murder on the Orient Express, about a famous detective who is called to investigate a grisly murder aboard a train he is a passenger on, has been adapted to film several times. The best known adaptation is that of Sidney Lumet in 1974, who assembled a stellar cast to deliver an […]
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SPL!NG Movie Review: The Man With The Iron Heart
15 Nov 2017 by SPLING / No Comments
The Man with the Iron Heart is a biographical war drama thriller directed by Cedric Jimenez and starring Jason Clarke, Rosamund Pike, Jack Reynor, Jack O’Connell and Mia Wasikowska. Reinhard Heydrich has been the subject of many novels and now ten films centring on Operation Anthropoid in the 1940s. This was a critical event in […]
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SPL!NG Movie Review: Only the Brave
08 Nov 2017 by SPLING / No Comments
Only the Brave is based on the true story of the Granite Mountain Hotshots, a group of elite firefighters, who risked their lives to protect a town. Their heroic actions were encapsulated in a GQ article, which served as the inspiration for this powerful and moving drama thriller.
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SPL!NG Movie Review: Thor – Ragnarok
01 Nov 2017 by SPLING / No Comments
Taika Waititi is the director who brought us Hunt for the Wilderpeople, a charming and spirited comedy adventure from New Zealand. Hilarious, enjoyable and even touching, the independent film demonstrated Waititi’s knack for high-spirited, entertaining and funny filmmaking. Drawing experience from Flight of the Conchords and What We Do in the Shadows, he was well […]
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SPL!NG Movie Review: The Last Word
25 Oct 2017 by SPLING / No Comments
Shirley MacLaine is a plucky and fiery actor, who tends to play the sort of obnoxious and wilful characters you love to hate. She’s led an illustrious film career with several Oscar nominations and a Best Actress win for Terms of Endearment. MacLaine’s mother enrolled her for ballet at the age of 3 in a […]
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SPL!NG Movie Review: The Mountain Between Us
18 Oct 2017 by SPLING / No Comments
The Mountain Between Us is a survival action adventure and romance drama starring Idris Elba and Kate Winslet. Directed by Hany Abu-Assad, and based on the novel by Charles Martin, we journey with two strangers who form a connection after a tragic light aircraft crash leaves them stranded in a snowy mountainous region. The Mountain […]
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SPL!NG Movie Review: Blade Runner 2049
11 Oct 2017 by SPLING / No Comments
Blade Runner 2049 is a sequel to Blade Runner, based on the Philip K. Dick science fiction novel, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? The original film, starring Harrison Ford, was a box office failure, which redeemed itself over time as the slow-burning dark horse sci-fi saga recovered as a rental and developed a cult […]
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SPL!NG Movie Review: An Inconvenient Sequel – Truth to Power
05 Oct 2017 by SPLING / No Comments
An Inconvenient Truth brought climate change into the public arena when Davis Guggenheim made a documentary about former presidential candidate, Al Gore’s campaigning around environmental issues such as global warming. While the film won two Oscars, it also garnered much criticism from an already divided camp with some jokingly referring to it as “An Irritating […]
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SPL!NG Movie Review: American Assassin
27 Sep 2017 by SPLING / No Comments
American Assassin – it’s one of those generic, star-spangled movie titles that attracts and repels in equal measure… probably as much as any nationality inspired movie title would. American Made, American Pie, American Beauty, American Psycho, American History X, American Hustle, American Sniper, American Honey, American Gangster, American Ultra, American Pastoral, American Gigolo, American Ninja… the […]
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SPL!NG Movie Review: Stronger
20 Sep 2017 by SPLING / No Comments
The 2013 Boston Marathon bombing was a devastating blow to the city and its close-knit community when an insidious terrorist attack left three people dead and hundreds injured, sixteen of whom lost a limb. While the two home-made bombs that detonated near the finish line of the Boston Marathon disrupted the race and caused widespread panic […]
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SPL!NG Movie Review: It
13 Sep 2017 by SPLING / No Comments
Coulrophobia is the fear of clowns and one of the biggest influences of this condition among children and adults over the last four decades must be Stephen King’s It. Stephen King’s bestselling horror novel has been described as a landmark in American literature. Published in the ’80s and clocking in at over 1000 pages, the […]
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SPL!NG Movie Review: The Glass Castle
06 Sep 2017 by SPLING / No Comments
Captain Fantastic told the story of a man who decided to raise free range children in the woods, living off the land and off the grid. Viggo Mortensen delivered a striking performance of an unconventional and eccentric father, whose idea of child-rearing raised some pertinent questions for education and society in the modern world. The […]
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SPL!NG Movie Review: American Made
30 Aug 2017 by SPLING / No Comments
American Made is a biographical crime thriller directed by Doug Liman and starring Tom Cruise, who team up again after a successful director-producer-actor partnership in Edge of Tomorrow. Having directed The Bourne Identity, Mr and Mrs Smith and Fair Game, Liman was a good choice to direct American Made, which blends action and comedy elements […]
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SPL!NG Movie Review: Krotoa
23 Aug 2017 by SPLING / No Comments
One of the most written about women in South African history, Krotoa has become the subject of a documentary, a play, a poem and now a film by Roberta Durrant. Krotoa is a South African historical drama based on a young Khoi woman, who was removed from her tribe to serve Jan van Riebeeck and […]
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SPL!NG Movie Review: The Hitman’s Bodyguard
16 Aug 2017 by SPLING / No Comments
The Hitman’s Bodyguard is a buddy movie from Patrick Hughes, the director who brought us Red Hill and The Expendables 3. Loosely based on the same dynamic as Midnight Run, we are introduced to prolific hitman, Darius Kincaid, who is paired with an elite bodyguard, Michael Bryce, commissioned to get his new client to a […]
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SPL!NG Movie Review: Baby Driver
08 Aug 2017 by SPLING / No Comments
Edgar Wright is the British director behind cult classics such as Shaun of the Dead, Hot Fuzz and Scott Pilgrim vs. The World. His ambitious, colourful, quirky, playful and imaginative films are geared towards laughs and thrills and Baby Driver is no different. Always unpredictable, fun and visually-compelling, Wright has added a heist thriller to […]
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SPL!NG Movie Review: Dunkirk
02 Aug 2017 by SPLING / No Comments
Christopher Nolan’s trademark style is brooding, clinical, dark, heavy, elegant and powerful. The acclaimed filmmaker has become a household name, adding a crest of brilliant films to his credit over the last two decades. A visionary director, he’s become respected not only for his output but his method, getting the most from his cast and […]
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SPL!NG Movie Review: Van Der Merwe
26 Jul 2017 by SPLING / 3 Comments
Van der Merwe is a common Afrikaans surname that has become synonymous with a stereotypical Afrikaans character, usually a farmer named Koos, who has become the butt of a lineage of South African jokes dating back over 50 years. Decidedly “doff” and larger-than-life, van der Merwe jokes essentially took a similar stance to dumb blonde […]
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SPL!NG Movie Review: Valerian And The City Of A Thousand Planets
19 Jul 2017 by SPLING / No Comments
Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets is a fun-filled and eye-popping sci-fi comedy action adventure that recalls the quirky, comic spirit of Besson’s previous sci-fi extravaganza The Fifth Element, the CGI dimension of James Cameron’s Avatar and the technologically imaginative and bizarre world of David Cronenberg’s existenZ. Based on the influential comic book […]
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