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Movie Reviews
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SPL!NG Movie Review: The Metamorphosis Of Birds
23 Nov 2022 by SPLING / No Comments
‘The Metamorphosis of Birds’ is a curious biographical docudrama from Catarina Vasconcelos – the equivalent of sifting through a family memory box.
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Wildly Different Reviews For ‘Black Panther: Wakanda Forever’
21 Nov 2022 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Some reviews are downright brutal (“seemingly designed to sap viewers’ combined will to live”) while others call the sequel “superhero filmmaking”.
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SPL!NG Movie Review: Wild Is The Wind
16 Nov 2022 by SPLING / No Comments
‘Wild is the Wind’ is a gritty crime drama centred on two bent cops trying to land a score that will set them up for the rest of their lives.
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SPL!NG Movie Review: Men
09 Nov 2022 by SPLING / No Comments
Pivoting off a dysfunctional marriage on the verge of divorce, this atmospheric and suspenseful horror drama thriller serves as a character portrait and by extension social commentary.
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Gary Oldman’s Flick ‘Nil By Mouth’ Got Five Stars [Trailer]
04 Nov 2022 by Tayla / No Comments
Gary Oldman produced an emotionally-wrenching film inspired by his own father and his childhood in south London.
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SPL!NG Movie Review: The Lost City
02 Nov 2022 by SPLING / No Comments
Whatever your thoughts, it’s funny to see ‘Romancing the Stone’ getting its own clone with ‘The Lost City’ starring Sandra Bullock and Channing Tatum.
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SPL!NG Movie Review: Gaia
26 Oct 2022 by SPLING / No Comments
‘Gaia’ is another name for Mother Nature, a mythological ancestral giver of life. It’s also the title of a local horror thriller from ‘Rage’ writer-director team Tertius Kapp (‘Griekwastad’) and Jaco Bouwer (‘Die Spreeus’).
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Ouch: Critics Have Not Been Kind To That George Clooney / Julia Roberts Rom-Com
25 Oct 2022 by Tayla / No Comments
Getting these Hollywood heavyweights back together again for a classic wedding-ruining rom-com in a tropical location, complete with the will-they-won’t-they-get-back-together trope, looked really promising.
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They Gave Colin Farrell’s ‘The Banshees Of Inisherin’ A Rare Five Stars [Trailer]
24 Oct 2022 by Tayla / No Comments
Writer-director Martin McDonagh has reunited Brendan Gleeson and Colin Farrell for his latest jet-black Irish folklore offering.
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SPL!NG Movie Review: The Princess
19 Oct 2022 by SPLING / No Comments
Having been the subject of ‘The Crown’ and films such as ‘Spencer’, renewed interest in the royal family household has made the timing of ‘The Princess’ documentary quite perfect… maybe too perfect.
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SPL!NG Movie Review: Do Not Hesitate
12 Oct 2022 by SPLING / No Comments
‘Do Not Hesitate’ isn’t a music drama but signals by way of a possible tribute to the aforementioned films that things could get heated.
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SPL!NG Movie Review: Blonde
05 Oct 2022 by SPLING / No Comments
‘Blonde’ is a long-awaited Marilyn Monroe biographical drama starring Ana de Armas from the mind of Andrew Dominik, the writer-director behind ‘The Assassination of Jessie James’, ‘Chopper’ and ‘Killing Them Softly’.
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SPL!NG Movie Review: Lou
28 Sep 2022 by SPLING / No Comments
‘Lou’ is a moody, visually-striking and fierce action-orientated crime drama thriller in the tradition of ‘Taken’.
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SPL!NG Movie Review: I Came By
21 Sep 2022 by SPLING / No Comments
‘I Came By’ is a strange movie title, which comes to serve as an understated act of vigilantism in the context of this dark crime thriller.
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The Guardian Gave ‘Moonage Daydream’ Five Stars – Check It Out [Trailer]
19 Sep 2022 by Tayla / No Comments
‘Moonage Daydream’ is essentially a maximalist collage of David Bowie’s life, work, and thoughts.
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SPL!NG Movie Review: The Unbearable Weight Of Massive Talent
14 Sep 2022 by SPLING / No Comments
Nicolas Cage stars in ‘The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent’, a crime action comedy caper that sees the star play a variation of himself in Nick Cage.
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Ouch: Tom Hanks And ‘Pinocchio’ Slammed
13 Sep 2022 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Hanks has starred in a few duds over the years and one of his latest efforts, ‘Pinocchio’, appears to tick that box.
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‘Best Movie Of The Year’: Trailer For Steven Spielberg’s Movie About Himself
12 Sep 2022 by Tayla / No Comments
Having premiered on Saturday night at the Toronto International Film Festival, Spielberg’s personal drama is loaded with character-defining moments, memories, and private insights.
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SPL!NG Movie Review: Pou (Peacock)
07 Sep 2022 by SPLING / No Comments
‘Pou’ or ‘Peacock’ is one of the best and most elegant horror dramas to come out of South Africa.
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Rotten Tomatoes Gave Netflix’s ‘Seoul Vibe’ 80% – Check It Out [Trailer]
05 Sep 2022 by Tayla / No Comments
If ‘The Fast and the Furious’, ‘Baby Driver’, and ‘Ocean’s 11’ had a threesome in South Korea, this blockbuster action heist movie would eventually pop out.
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SPL!NG Movie Review: Running With The Devil – The Wild World Of John McAfee
31 Aug 2022 by SPLING / No Comments
Known for starting McAfee Antivirus, ‘Running with the Devil: The Wild World of John McAfee’ unpacks the eccentric man’s escape from Belize in the Caribbean after being implicated in the murder of neighbour, Gregory Faull.
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SPL!NG Movie Review: Everything, Everywhere All At Once
24 Aug 2022 by SPLING / No Comments
‘Everything, Everywhere All at Once’ stars Michelle Yeoh and is written and directed by Dan Kwan and Daniel Scheinert.
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SPL!NG Movie Review: Death On The Nile
17 Aug 2022 by SPLING / No Comments
Arthur Conan Doyle’s beloved Sherlock Holmes was reinvented by Guy Ritchie to become an action hero, Watson sold separately.
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SPL!NG Movie Review: Persuasion
10 Aug 2022 by SPLING / No Comments
‘Persuasion’ is based on the Jane Austen novel of the same name. “Based” rather than adapted seems to be the hinge in this case as screenwriters Ron Bass and Alice Victoria Winslow craft a modern version of Austen’s classic “will they, won’t they” romance.
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SPL!NG Movie Review: The Gray Man
03 Aug 2022 by SPLING / No Comments
‘The Gray Man’ is an action thriller from Anthony and Joe Russo starring Ryan Gosling, Chris Evans, Billy Bob Thornton and Ana de Armas.
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Glowing Review For “Persian Little Miss Sunshine” [Trailer]
28 Jul 2022 by Tayla / No Comments
Dubbed the Persian version of ‘Little Miss Sunshine’, Panah Panahi’s debut film is both defiant and beautiful.
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SPL!NG Movie Review: Blind Ambition
27 Jul 2022 by SPLING / No Comments
‘Blind Ambition’ is a stirring and entertaining documentary about four sommeliers who combine their forces to form Zimbabwe’s first national wine-tasting team.
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Overwhelmingly Positive Reviews For Jordan Peele Horror, ‘Nope’ [Trailer]
21 Jul 2022 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
When Jordan Peele makes a movie, film critics sit up and take notice. Ahead of the film’s global release tomorrow, the reviews are rolling in.
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SPL!NG Movie Review: The Grand Bolero
20 Jul 2022 by SPLING / No Comments
‘The Grand Bolero’ is a music drama romance turned thriller about a middle-aged organ restorer who becomes a mentor to a young woman after she arrives at a rural Italian church with nothing but a desire to learn.
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SPL!NG Movie Review: The Electrical Life Of Louis Wain
13 Jul 2022 by SPLING / No Comments
To say Louis Wain was a cat lover is an understatement of Titanic proportions.
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