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Movie Reviews
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SPL!NG Movie Review: Jason Bourne
04 Aug 2016 by SPLING / No Comments
The latest Jason Bourne-fulled movie is about to hit our screens, and it certainly hasn’t let the popular franchise down this time around.
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SPL!NG Movie Review: Captain Fantastic
27 Jul 2016 by SPLING / No Comments
Captain Fantastic is a bizarre clash of cultures. Raised in the forests of the Pacific Northwest, a father educates, imbues his values and trains his six kids to fend for themselves. Without a television and having to hunt for food, their cloistered Swiss Family Robinson style upbringing presents a number of challenges from societal integration […]
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SPL!NG Movie Review: A Bigger Splash
20 Jul 2016 by SPLING / No Comments
A Bigger Splash is an exotic new paradise drama turned psychological thriller from director Luca Guadagnino. ‘Erotic’ may be a better word to use, because A Bigger Splash is a sensuous and seductive film that doesn’t shy away from skin or touch.
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SPL!NG Movie Review: The Legend of Tarzan
13 Jul 2016 by SPLING / No Comments
“Me Tarzan, you Jane.” This is the essence of Tarzan, King of the Apes. A feral man tries to relate to a civilised woman, creating a tension between their worlds as they attract and society repels. In The Legend of Tarzan, we are cast into the future beyond the events of Greystoke: the Legend of […]
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SPL!NG Movie Review: Mr. Right
06 Jul 2016 by SPLING / No Comments
“The perfect guy is out there waiting for me.” While this dreamy sentiment tends to evaporate the closer some woman and men get to their 40s, it still seems to be one of the most popular romantic comedy building blocks in Hollywood. Wishing and waiting for that special somebody to fall into your lap or […]
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SPL!NG Movie Review: The Endless River
29 Jun 2016 by SPLING / No Comments
Oliver Hermanus is the writer-director behind Shirley Adams, Skoonheid and now The Endless River. Each of his films have been set in South Africa, have resonated with him personally, been shaped independently and broach social themes that inform international audiences by means of an intense character portrait.
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SPL!NG Movie Review: Warcraft
22 Jun 2016 by SPLING / No Comments
Warcraft started as a strategy game by a gaming company called Blizzard, which required you to create settlements and explore the unknown surrounding territory. Humans were pitted against Orcs in a race to become the strongest and only civilisation, using precious resources in order to build a town, manufacture armaments and expand your dynasty and […]
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SPL!NG Movie Review: The Nice Guys
15 Jun 2016 by SPLING / No Comments
Shane Black is the guy who wrote and directed Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang… the unconventional comedy crime caper starring Robert Downey Jr., Michelle Monaghan and Val Kilmer. While some would jokingly argue Kilmer first played a gay character in Top Gun, this was Hollywood’s first openly gay character to front a feature film. While the […]
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SPL!NG Movie Review: Everybody Wants Some!!
08 Jun 2016 by SPLING / No Comments
Slacker was one of Richard Linklater’s first feature films, which roamed Austin, Texas as a day in the life of social misfits, outcasts and oddballs played out. With no discernible plot, this set in motion self-taught writer-director Richard Linklater’s appetite for rambling films with colourful characters. In 1993, he did it again with Dazed and […]
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SPL!NG Movie Review: Money Monster
01 Jun 2016 by SPLING / No Comments
Money Monster is the latest film from Jodie Foster, who last acted in Elysium in 2013 and previously directed The Beaver in 2011. On the surface, it’s a simple, somewhat claustrophobic thriller about a gunman who takes a financial show host hostage on live television in a bid to get real answers about a bad […]
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SPL!NG Movie Review: Sing Street
25 May 2016 by SPLING / No Comments
Sing Street is the third film from the passionate and prolific John Carney, and he makes it difficult not to notice with his name appearing again and again in the opening credits. All three of his films have been coming-of-age dramas that infuse music and romance, using a central romantic relationship to drive the characters […]
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SPL!NG Movie Review: X-Men – Apocalypse
18 May 2016 by SPLING / No Comments
X-Men: Apocalypse is the latest installation from director Bryan Singer and writer Simon Kinberg. X-Men: First Class introduced us to the next generation of X-Men, enabling the filmmakers to go back in time and extrapolate the complex story between Professor X and Magneto, and the rise of the X-Men. Singer returned to the franchise, after […]
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SPL!NG Movie Review: Whiskey Tango Foxtrot
11 May 2016 by SPLING / No Comments
Whiskey Tango Foxtrot is based on the memoirs of Kim Baker from her biographical novel, Taliban Shuffle, about a cable news producer who decided to take on a daring new job as a war correspondent in Kabul, Afghanistan in 2002. We journey with the forty-something American woman through the hedonistic haze and turbulent years as […]
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SPL!NG Movie Review: The Jungle Book
04 May 2016 by SPLING / No Comments
When people think of The Jungle Book, they conjure up images of dancing bears, kooky comedy and jovial songs centring around, essentially a young “Tarzan”. While the beloved Disney fairytale probably has a special place in most people’s hearts, few would have guessed that it would be reimagined as a much darker “live–action” adaptation of […]
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SPL!NG Movie Review: Captain America – Civil War
27 Apr 2016 by SPLING / No Comments
Captain America: Civil War continues in the tradition of Captain America: The Winter Soldier. It sounds like an obvious statement when you consider it follows as a sequel, but these sequels are very different from Captain America: The First Avenger. The first installation was an origins story and focused on Steve Rogers, or Captain America, […]
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SPL!NG Movie Review: The Huntsman – Winter’s War
20 Apr 2016 by SPLING / No Comments
Snow White and The Huntsman was a beautiful magpie of a fantasy adventure. While far from perfect, the film’s unlikely duo in Kristen Stewart and Chris Hemsworth kept us guessing as a dark, majestic performance from Charlize Theron stole the show. No one was expecting a prequel… no sequel… spin-off?
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SPL!NG Movie Review: 10 Cloverfield Lane
13 Apr 2016 by SPLING / No Comments
10 Cloverfield Lane follows Cloverfield, a sci-fi thriller that tracked some kids with a first-person video camera perspective during a monster attack on New York City. Matt Reeves went on to direct Let Me In and Dawn of the Planet of the Apes and there wasn’t much thought to a Cloverfield prequel or sequel. Well, […]
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SPL!NG Movie Review: Modder en Bloed
06 Apr 2016 by SPLING / No Comments
Modder en Bloed or Blood and Glory is a war drama, directed by Sean Else, who coaxed some fantastic performances from a stellar cast in his previous feature, ‘n Man soos my Pa. This film stars Stian Bam, Grant Swanby and Charlotte Salt, who lead an equally adept ensemble with the likes of Deon Lotz, […]
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SPL!NG Movie Review: Pride and Prejudice and Zombies
30 Mar 2016 by SPLING / No Comments
[image source: techreport] Pride and Prejudice and Zombies isn’t a spoof. It may sound ridiculous, blending Jane Austen’s old world romance with the blood-thirsty underworld of the undead, but it’s actually quite a refreshing concept. The idea has been executed with style, carrying the same production values as a period piece drama, while injecting some […]
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SPL!NG Movie Review: Batman v Superman – Dawn of Justice
24 Mar 2016 by SPLING / No Comments
Zack Snyder is known for stylish action and it shouldn’t come as any surprise, having amassed a collection of films, which includes: 300, Sucker Punch, Man of Steel, Watchmen and that owl movie. Each of Snyder’s films have a similar review: beautiful to behold, breathtaking action set pieces, bold artistic direction, great ambition carried forth […]
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SPL!NG Movie Review: Sink
16 Mar 2016 by SPLING / No Comments
Sink is a sleek, harrowing and powerful South African domestic drama, written and directed by Brett Michael Innes and starring Anel Alexander, Jacques Bessenger and Shoki Mokgapa. Sink, a title that works in English and Afrikaans, is a feature film debut for Innes, whose extensive history as a documentary filmmaker and photographer have given him […]
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SPL!NG Movie Review: Eye in the Sky
09 Mar 2016 by SPLING / No Comments
Drone military warfare was at the heart of psychological thriller, Good Kill and thriller, Drones. It’s now the subject of Gavin Hood’s war drama thriller, Eye in the Sky, starring Helen Mirren, Aaron Paul, Barkhad Abdi and the late Alan Rickman.
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SPL!NG Movie Review: Anomalisa
02 Mar 2016 by SPLING / No Comments
Anomalisa is a Charlie Kaufman… it’s probably time we gave him a thing. You know, “a Spike Lee Joint”. How about “a Charlie Kaufman pearl”? The screenwriter has brought us many art house pearls: Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Adaptation, Being John Malkovich, Confessions of a Dangerous Mind and Synedoche, New York. Every time he […]
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SPL!NG Movie Review: Gods of Egypt
24 Feb 2016 by SPLING / No Comments
Gods of Egypt is a fantasy adventure from the mind of Alex Proyas. The Egyptian-born director has built a cult sci-fi empire, having directed such films as: Dark City, The Crow, Knowing and I, Robot. The story follows a thief as he joins forces with a mythical god on a quest across Egypt. Unfortunately, while the […]
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SPL!NG Movie Review: Hail, Caesar!
18 Feb 2016 by SPLING / No Comments
Hail, Caesar! is an oxymoronic post card from the Coen brothers. On the one hand, it’s a light-hearted, madcap, send-up of the Golden era Hollywood of the ’50s. Then on the other hand… or wing, it’s also a comic behind-the-curtain examination of studio politics as Capitalist America tried to subvert any hint of Communist ideology […]
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SPL!NG Movie Review: Deadpool
10 Feb 2016 by SPLING / No Comments
Deadpool, “the merc with a mouth”, is a comic book character from Marvel who featured in X-Men Origins: Wolverine. Ryan Reynolds has played a number of superhero characters, but seemed like the only choice for the immoral, over-the-top and juvenile, Deadpool. This is his origins film, an action adventure comedy and sci-fi thriller that could […]
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SPL!NG Movie Review: Spotlight
03 Feb 2016 by SPLING / No Comments
Spotlight is a biographical and historical drama turned thriller about the Boston Globe’s “Spotlight”, a team of investigative reporters who tackled alleged child abuse in the Catholic Church in Boston, exposing a religious, legal and governmental scandal that send shock waves across the world in early 2002. The Pulitzer Prize-winning coverage opened the issue of sexual […]
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SPL!NG Movie Review: The Hateful Eight
27 Jan 2016 by SPLING / No Comments
The Hateful Eight is a Quentin Tarantino film, which has drawn inspiration from The Thing and Reservoir Dogs. The crime drama mystery western is set more than a decade after the Civil War and follows a stagecoach, as a bounty hunter and his passengers find shelter in a cabin inhabited by some mysterious strangers.
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SPL!NG Movie Review: The Revenant
20 Jan 2016 by SPLING / No Comments
The Revenant is a gritty survival adventure masquerading as a grim western, which while brutal remains beautiful and spirited. We follow the tale of a frontiersman, whose desire for revenge gives him the strength he needs to carry on after being mauled by a bear and being left for dead by his hunting party in […]
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SPL!NG Movie Review: The Big Short
13 Jan 2016 by SPLING / No Comments
The Big Short is a film that follows four men, who predicted the impending economic collapse of the U.S. mortgage bond market in the mid-2000s. While director Adam McKay is best known for Anchorman and his affiliation with Will Ferrell, this biographical drama is mostly infotaining, only funny in a tragic kind of way and […]
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