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Movie Reviews
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SPL!NG Movie Review: The Hangover “Part II” (2011)
25 May 2011 by SPLING / No Comments
The much anticipated The Hangover comedy sequel, The Hangover… wait for it… Part II has finally arrived and feels so much like the first one, that the only thing that’s really changed is the location, groom-to-be and movie title. So in keeping with the movie’s formula for success… we just updated The Hangover movie review […]
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SPL!NG Movie Review: Pirates of the Caribbean – On Stranger Tides (2011)
18 May 2011 by SPLING / No Comments
Blackbeard, Barbarossa, Captain Kidd and Davy Jones would’ve rolled in their sea graves if they’d known fictional pirates like Long John Silver, Captain Hook and Captain Jack Sparrow would become more famous than them. Well, as real as Keith Richards is… he’s no pirate – not the way we think at least! Johnny Depp’s famous […]
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SPL!NG Movie Review: Priest 3D (2011)
11 May 2011 by SPLING / No Comments
Love or hate them, priests have always been contentious public figures. Fire and brimstone sermons, dipping into the church coffers or abusing choir boys… the stigma of being a priest almost overshadows the religious and sacred duties associated with the holy role. One film seeks to defy this… turning darkness into light and vampires into […]
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SPL!NG Movie Review: Fast and Furious 5 (2011)
04 May 2011 by SPLING / No Comments
On your marks… get set… GO! Just like the Need for Speed video game brand, The Fast and the Furious has built its own empire out of man’s desire to win, conquer and defy death. Fast & Furious 5: Rio Heist is Fast and Furious in fifth gear and they’ve made a few modifications… powering […]
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SPL!NG Movie Review: Arthur (2011)
27 Apr 2011 by SPLING / No Comments
What ever happened to the old adage, “If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.”? The original Arthur is a Dudley Moore comedy classic with that hauntingly beautiful theme tune, Arthur’s Theme by Christopher Cross. So why spoil it by camping things up with Russell Brand?
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SPL!NG Movie Review: Unknown (2011)
20 Apr 2011 by SPLING / No Comments
According to a 2008 IOL article, identity theft could be costing South African individuals and firms more than R1 billion a year. Scam artists have even begun to register assumed identities as deceased persons in order to make a claim on life insurance policies or estates. That’s what makes Unknown so fascinating and plausible, as […]
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SPL!NG Movie Review: Limitless (2011)
13 Apr 2011 by SPLING / 1 Comment
“What if a pill could make you rich and powerful?” is the tag line for Limitless, a film adaptation of Alan Glynn’s novel that plays with the notion that we only use part of our minds. Just like the little blue sex wonder drug, Limitless imagines the scenario if a drug could be designed to […]
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SPL!NG Movie Review: Somewhere (2010)
06 Apr 2011 by SPLING / No Comments
Somewhere is somewhere between the vapid neon encounter that is Lost in Translation and the decadent, sprawling nothingness that is Marie Antoinette. All of these films were directed by Sofia Coppola, daughter to legendary The Godfather director Francis Ford Coppola.
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SPL!NG Movie Review: No Strings Attached (2011)
30 Mar 2011 by SPLING / 2 Comments
No Strings Attached is not about puppets. It’s a film about friends with benefits or f**k buddies, a fairly new term that has developed over the last twenty years. It’s that agreed upon relational state that prioritizes sex over intimacy in a peer-to-peer network relationship. Some would say this describes how every relationship they’ve been […]
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SPL!NG Movie Review: Just Go With It (2011)
23 Mar 2011 by SPLING / No Comments
Just Go With It is more than just a movie title, it’s advice for the audience. After 20 odd years of friendship between Adam Sandler and Jennifer Aniston, the two stars have finally done a movie together! The delay could have due to the pair not being a natural on-screen match. On the other hand, […]
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SPL!NG Movie Review: Rango (2011)
16 Mar 2011 by SPLING / No Comments
Did you get a slightly uneasy feeling when you discovered Pirates of the Caribbean: Curse of the Black Pearl was a Disney movie? Mild surprise may be a better description, well – you may have experienced a similar feeling when you found that Captain Jack Sparrow, better known as Johnny Depp, is Rango. That’s right… […]
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Die Antwoord Release Short Film: Umshini Wam [VIDEO]
16 Mar 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 4 Comments
Umshini Wam (Bring Me My Machine Gun), a short film directed by Kids writer, Harmony Korine, and starring Die Antwoord’s Ninja and Yo-Landi premiered today at the SXSW festival in Texas. The premise: Ninja and Yolandi are wheelchair-bound,dirt poor gangsters, intent on gaining more street cred by upgrading their wheelchairs for higher-end models.
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SPL!NG Movie Review: Battle – Los Angeles (2011)
09 Mar 2011 by SPLING / 2 Comments
Is it a bird? Is it a plane? Is it Superman? It’s Wednesday – so it must be an alien invasion. In Hollywood, alien invasions have become even more commonplace than UFO sightings. Just over the last few years, there’s been a resurgence in alien interest – spurred on by the success of movies like […]
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Thursday Morning Spice
03 Mar 2011 by Seth Rotherham / No Comments
The S-Train Steve Jobs Unveils New iPad – Apple Inc. Chief Executive Steve Jobs is on medical leave, but that didn’t stop him from making a surprise public appearance to unveil the iPad 2, an upgraded tablet computer that could help the company fend off a slew of rivals in the burgeoning market. “We’ve been working […]
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SPL!NG Movie Review: Drive Angry 3D (2011)
02 Mar 2011 by SPLING / No Comments
Drive Angry 3D is a Nicolas Cage movie. Born Nicholas Kim Coppola, the actor has racked up quite the reputation, earning a Best Actor Oscar for his role in Leaving Las Vegas and then a nomination for Adaptation. Frankly, it was the worst best thing that could have happened to his film career.
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SPL!NG Movie Review: The Fighter (2010)
23 Feb 2011 by SPLING / No Comments
Boxing is one of those sports that has fascinated Hollywood for ages… It’s easy to see how the blood, sweat and tears shed in the boxing ring could inspire films like Raging Bull and Rocky. Yet, the real drama happens outside the ring in preparation, training, media speculation and in betting circles.
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SPL!NG Movie Review: 127 Hours (2010)
16 Feb 2011 by SPLING / No Comments
Would you cut your own arm off to save your life? That’s what it all boils down to in 127 Hours, an adventure-thriller and spirited drama starring James Franco and directed by Slumdog Millionaire’s Danny Boyle. The film is an adaptation of Between a Rock and a Hard Place, a biographical account of now famous […]
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SPL!NG Movie Review: The King’s Speech (2010)
09 Feb 2011 by SPLING / No Comments
The British royal family have had their fair share of embarrassments through the ages: Richard III’s bloody coronation, Queen Victoria’s “wicked uncles”, rumours that Prince Albert Victor was in fact Jack the Ripper, Prince Charles, his ears, Camilla Parker Bowles… the list continues. One such national embarrassment was The Duke of York, whose futile military […]
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SPL!NG Movie Review: Black Swan (2010)
02 Feb 2011 by SPLING / 3 Comments
Little so-called “Caucasian” girls generally tend to get involved in one of two extra-curricular activities… ballet or horse-riding. It’s a tradition, a rite of passage that soccer moms feel compelled to offer their little princesses. The reasons vary: they’ll look cute in a tutu, the riding lessons are cheaper than a pony, “I never got […]
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SPL!NG Movie Review: Love and Other Drugs (2010)
26 Jan 2011 by SPLING / 2 Comments
Anne Hathaway is a lady. One of those well-to-do women, who lifts her pinkie when she drinks tea and waves like the Queen. She’s fit for royalty, blessed with great beauty, intelligence and a coy smile. So it was quite something when she just whipped out a boob in Love and Other Drugs.
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SPL!NG Movie Review: The Next Three Days (2010)
19 Jan 2011 by SPLING / No Comments
Breaking out of prison is never easy, unless you’re one of the Beagle boys or a young Sean Connery. It’s a meticulous process of timing, planning, training, testing and presence of mind as demonstrated by Tim Robbins in The Shawshank Redemption and Wentworth Miller in Prison Break. But there’s another way… A more sensible blueprint for setting your loved one free as witnessed in The Next Three Days.
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SPL!NG Movie Review: Easy A (2010)
12 Jan 2011 by SPLING / No Comments
Temptress, tart, floozy, flirt, cheap, tramp, harlot, trollop, easy, ho’… are just some of the endearing terms you’ll hear being thrown around the playground these days. Pubescent promiscuity is nothing new – think back to that adult movie Kids or a little further back to Sodom and Gomorrah.
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SPL!NG Movie Review: TRON – Legacy (2010)
05 Jan 2011 by SPLING / No Comments
Digital drones, light cycles, frisbee wars, skin tight body suits and daddy issues… welcome to the playground of TRON. It may sound like an ordinary day at the park, but it’s not. TRON: Legacy is the long-awaited remake/sequel/mash-up of the original TRON (1982). Jeff Bridges returns to play an older Kevin Flynn and a much […]
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SPL!NG Movie Review: The Town (2010)
29 Dec 2010 by SPLING / No Comments
Since Hollywoodland, he’s been on the comeback trail. Although, it’s not that difficult when you’re following up roles as a blind superhero in Daredevil and Jennifer Lopez’s play thing in Gigli. This is the life of Ben Affleck, whose career has been peppered with the good, the bad and the ugly.
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SPL!NG Movie Review: Due Date (2010)
22 Dec 2010 by SPLING / No Comments
Due Date is delivered to screen by Todd Phillips, who is the quintessential frat house comedy director with The Hangover, Road Trip, Old School under his belt and The Hangover Part II in the works. If it were a baby, it’d be a poison dwarf: ginger-bearded, brutally funny and pretty darn mean. However, it’s not […]
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SPL!NG Movie Review: Megamind (2010)
15 Dec 2010 by SPLING / 2 Comments
It seems that if you’re blue, you’re in vogue… well that’s if pop culture in 2010 is anything to go by with James Cameron’s Na’vi tribesmen in Avatar, The Smurfs feature film and now our giant blue-headed villain in Megamind. Perhaps Andy Warhol was really onto something with his colour transition duplications of Marilyn Monroe and John Wayne’s heads when he coloured […]
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SPL!NG Movie Review: Scott Pilgrim vs. The World (2010)
08 Dec 2010 by SPLING / 2 Comments
Scott Pilgrim vs The World is brought to us by the guy that gave us Shaun of the Dead and Hot Fuzz. His name is Edgar Wright, whose dark British comedy films have become cult hits with the help of partner-in-crime, Simon Pegg. However, Scott Pilgrim vs The World is a departure from his usual […]
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SPL!NG Movie Review: Spud (2010)
01 Dec 2010 by SPLING / No Comments
John Van De Ruit’s character, John Spud Milton has become the South African equivalent of Sue Townsend’s Adrian Mole. Both characters are at that age when puberty is starting to kick in, physical changes are bound to create some form of clumsy embarrassment and life is only really beginning…
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SPL!NG Movie Review: Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 (2010)
24 Nov 2010 by SPLING / No Comments
It’s old news, but “the magical kid with glasses” has become an international phenomenon. Remember when HP used to be a sauce and Indiana Jones was the only character worthy of a “character name and adventure” movie title?
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SPL!NG Movie Review: RED (2010)
17 Nov 2010 by SPLING / No Comments
Stallone surprised us when he resurrected Rocky with Rocky Balboa, stunned us when he tied the red hair band on for John Rambo and nearly killed himself trying to make The Expendables. Broken neck aside… Stallone pulled it off – he made us believe…
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