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Movie Reviews
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SPL!NG Movie Review: The Bad Lieutenant (2010)
10 Nov 2010 by SPLING / No Comments
A quick note from Spling: “I walked into the cinema without any preconceived bias… armed with only TWO facts: the film was called The Bad Lieutenant and starred Nicolas Cage. I’d like to preface this movie review by saying that I am a big fan of Nicolas Cage as an indie and commercial actor and […]
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SPL!NG Movie Review: The Social Network (2010)
03 Nov 2010 by SPLING / 1 Comment
The Social Network is a timely story about the founders of Facebook and their legal disputes on the back of unprecedented viral Internet growth and accidental billionaires. Whatever your take on the social online platform, The Social Network movie seems to have everyone hitting ‘Like’…
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SPL!NG Movie Review: Piranha 3D (2010)
27 Oct 2010 by SPLING / No Comments
Piranha 3D is best described as a blend of Jaws, Girls Gone Wild and Joe’s Apartment and falls into the so-bad-it’s-almost-good category of films. Now depending on your taste in film that could be a fantastic or horrible combination, because there’s no fence-sitting on this one – you’ll either love or hate it.
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SA Bloggers Free ‘Facebook Movie’ Preview Is 70% Full
21 Oct 2010 by Seth Rotherham / 2 Comments
The three cinemas (Johannesburg, Durban and Cape Town) we have managed to secure for a pre-public screening of Facebook movie, ‘The Social Network’ are 70% full so far – so if you have a blog and you want to watch the movie (with a buddy) before the general public, there is still time! Private screening will take place on 25 October! Follow the link to see how!
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SPL!NG Movie Review: Machete (2010)
20 Oct 2010 by SPLING / No Comments
Grindhouse, a double bill featuring Deathproof and Planet Terror, was created as a tribute to the lost genre of exploitation films as made famous by single screen theatres across America in the ’70s. Sleaze, porn, slashers and martial arts flicks were the rage back then and this was the era that directors like…
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Classic Moments In Cinema #273 – When Ace Ventura Realises “Einhorn Is A Man”
19 Oct 2010 by Jasmine Stone / 2 Comments
Ace Ventura was groundbreaking, to say the least – the movie as a concept was fresh, but moreso was the formal introduction of Jim Carrey to the world. There were too many great moments to talk about in one article (“like a glove” and “captains log” come to mind), so for now let’s ust enjoy this famous snippet.
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SA Bloggers Get To Preview New Facebook Movie – The Social Network – Competition
18 Oct 2010 by Jasmine Stone / 3 Comments
We have managed to secure three Ster-Kinekor cinema’s (Johannesburg, Durban and Cape Town) on the 25th of October, for 40 bloggers in each region (plus 2 friends each) to see The Social Network before ANYBODY ELSE! It’s first come, first serve – so if you want to watch the movie before the general public, then keep reading!
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SPL!NG Movie Review: The Switch (2010)
13 Oct 2010 by SPLING / No Comments
The Switch is not what you’re expecting. Whenever someone starts sloshing a cup of sperm around, everyone immediately flashes back to There’s Something About Mary with Ben Stiller’s vanishing sperm act and Cameron Diaz’s extra strength “hair gel”. Yes, there is a masturbation scene… and no, you don’t get to see Jason Bateman yanking the […]
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SPL!NG Movie Review: Repo Men (2010)
06 Oct 2010 by SPLING / No Comments
Repo Men is based on the novel with the “fruity title”, The Repossession Mambo by Eric Garcia, who also co-wrote the screenplay for Repo Men. It’s a science fiction exploration of what the world would be like if medical agencies sold manufactured bio-mechanical organs with a severe repayment scheme – think credit card companies.
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SPL!NG Movie Review: The Other Guys (2010)
29 Sep 2010 by SPLING / No Comments
The Other Guys, from the same actor/director duo that brought us Step Brothers, Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby and Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy. Adam McKay and Will Ferrell sure know how to get a laugh, taking the seemingly ordinary, flipping it on its head and surgically removing the funny. If they […]
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SPL!NG Movie Review: Wall Street – Money Never Sleeps (2010)
22 Sep 2010 by SPLING / No Comments
Money, money, money, MONEY… watching Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps may remind you of Donald Trump. That’s because it’s like Donald Trump… full of swagger, big talk, power suits, business tycoons, a young apprentice, a smug look and the stock exchange… it all feeds back to the mantra “Money Never Sleeps” as uttered by Gordon […]
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SPL!NG Movie Review: The Karate Kid (2010)
15 Sep 2010 by SPLING / 2 Comments
If Rocky was the ultimate underdog sports movie of the ’70s, The Karate Kid did the same for the ’80s. Both films received nominations for Oscars and both were directed by John G. Avildsen, who obviously took a shine to directing these glory stories – subsequently directing several sequels for each of the popular franchises. […]
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SPL!NG Movie Review: The Last Airbender [3D] (2010)
08 Sep 2010 by SPLING / No Comments
Mr. M. Night Shyamalan has systematically made the wrong decision at every turn in this film adaptation of the beloved Nickelodeon anime series, Avatar: The Last Airbender. From controversial casting decisions to a lackluster 3D post-production hack job, The Last Airbender is an incomprehensible, detached and languishing fantasy adventure, which is only buoyed by its […]
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SPL!NG Movie Review: Salt (2010)
01 Sep 2010 by SPLING / No Comments
Salt was originally written with the intention of becoming an espionage action-thriller with Tom Cruise as the lead. However, when Cruise backed out of the production… Jolie substituted the big name Mission: Impossible star and the script was rewritten for a female lead. Salt’s loosely modeled on the Bourne series with short, sharp bursts of […]
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THE INSPIRATIONAL FOOTBALL SPEECH, OZZY STYLE
30 Aug 2010 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
There’s a cess-pit of bad football films out there. Of course, the discerning viewer will recognise that Any Given Sunday rises above the sentiment and excrement that makes up 90% of the movies in this drama. It’s a great film. There’s plenty of old-school Pacino filth and grit in there. And there’s that one, iridescent […]
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SPL!NG Movie Review: The Sorcerer’s Apprentice (2010)
25 Aug 2010 by SPLING / No Comments
Harry Potter and The Sorcerer’s Stone ripped off Walt Disney’s Fantasia… well, at least the title of that famous 10-minute symphonic clip of Mickey Mouse and his magic shrooms brooms. Seventy years later we have the live-action The Sorcerer’s Apprentice, which has taken revenge on Harry Potter with a knock-off adventure. It’s a vicious cycle […]
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TWO FILMS YOU NEVER EXPECTED TO BE MADE
23 Aug 2010 by Jasmine Stone / 6 Comments
Word is afoot that a film version of my all time favourite childhood comic, The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles is in the works, with the writers of the Iron Man franchise on the case. Although, whether this film will work for the generation that actually cared about the comic remains to be seen. After all, […]
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SPL!NG Movie Review: The A-Team (2010)
18 Aug 2010 by SPLING / No Comments
Screw G.I. Joe, The A-Team are the quintessential All-American action heroes from the ’80s… destined to be everyone’s favourite crack commando squad of mercenaries from now until the end of time. I can tell… I had a Murdock action figure (don’t judge me). Action, adventure, comedy and mild peril… The A-Team had it all and […]
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SPL!NG Movie Review: Please Give (2010)
11 Aug 2010 by SPLING / No Comments
Please Give starts with a series of… boobs, breasts, jugs and “chesticles” of all shapes and sizes. It’s quite an introduction for a smart coming-of-age comedy drama with Catherine Keener, Oliver Platt, Rebecca Hall and Amanda Peet. Now this isn’t a flattering set of boob shots, but more of a flattening one as ordinary breasts […]
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SPL!NG Movie Review: Predators (2010)
04 Aug 2010 by SPLING / No Comments
Predators is a sequel to Predator and Predator 2. Since it’s no longer cool to add a number to denote how many times a blockbuster title has been exploited, unless you’re going straight-to-video or you’re a superhero… it gets the imaginative reworking, Predators. Now it’s been a good 23 years since Arnie busted a Predator’s […]
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SPL!NG Movie Review: Inception (2010)
28 Jul 2010 by SPLING / 2 Comments
in-cep-tion [in-sep-shuh n] noun – beginning; start; commencement. When Christopher Nolan releases a film, the world stops and takes notice… The director started making movies when he was just seven-years-old and 33 years down-the-line he’s still doing what he loves with only several feature length films to date. A short filmography by Hollywood standards, but […]
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JANE AUSTEN’S “FIGHT CLUB”
27 Jul 2010 by Seth Rotherham / No Comments
The original Fight Club with Brad Pitt is on a lot of people’s “Top 10 favourite movies” lists. It’s exciting , it’s scandalous and, for the ladies, one might even deem it sexy. This is exactly what Jane Austen has offered with the upcoming film, “Jane Austen’s Fight Club” which witnesses the uprising of illegal […]
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COMING SOON – THE MANLIEST MOVIE EVER MADE, EVER
26 Jul 2010 by Jasmine Stone / 7 Comments
The Expendables will be the manliest movie you will ever watch in your whole life. Warning: Effeminate viewers may suffer death. Written and directed by the star of the film, Sylvester Stallone, The Expendables promises pretty much the same kind of action as Rambo 4, except this time there’s more than one guy with huge […]
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SPL!NG Movie Review: Knight and Day (2010)
21 Jul 2010 by SPLING / No Comments
Tom Cruise and Cameron Diaz are possibly the coldest on-screen Hollywood couple since Montgomery Clift and Shelley Winters, may they rest in peace. Cruise has always been a little distant, giving that looking-into-the-Sun gaze to the point that it’s become more of a glaze. What’s more, he’s embarrassed himself in the media so many times […]
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SPL!NG Movie Review: A Nightmare on Elm Street (2010)
14 Jul 2010 by SPLING / No Comments
“One, two, Freddy’s coming for you!” A Nightmare on Elm Street is one of the most successful horror franchises ever with more sequels than Rocky… giving Freddy Krueger, the burnt man with a fedora and bladed claw an all-access pass to our dreams for almost three decades! After Freddy’s “colleagues”, Halloween’s Michael Myers and Friday […]
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“TWILIGHT” FOR GUYS
09 Jul 2010 by Seth Rotherham / 1 Comment
The Muse is threatening a viewing of the new Twilight at some stage this weekend – possibly even as soon as Friday night. With weed levels at an all-time low, I’m not really sure how this is all going to pan out. Let alone whether or not I will make it to the other side. […]
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IRISH KUNG FU IS STRONG
07 Jul 2010 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
When you think “Irish movie”, what’s the first thing that pops into your head? You think dreary coastlines, people with a strange affinity for potatoes, seaweed and fish (usually together in a pie), the IRA and The Cranberries. At a push, you might be thinking Gerard Butler and posthumous love letters (why, Gerard, why?). But […]
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SPL!NG Movie Review: I Love You Phillip Morris (2010)
07 Jul 2010 by SPLING / No Comments
Jim Carrey is gay. Well, at least in his latest outing, I Love You Phillip Morris in which he portrays the real life story of Steven Jay Russell, a cop, a conman, an inmate and a big fan of musicals. If you desperately want one of those golden statuettes, play someone famous, someone that’s mentally-challenged […]
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SPL!NG Movie Review: Twilight Saga – Eclipse (2010)
30 Jun 2010 by SPLING / No Comments
Twilight… twilight… TWILIGHT! The word still sends shivers up and down my spine as I think of the young tweens gnashing their teeth like wolverines and vampires at the chance of sinking their teeth into Robert Pattinson, Taylor Lautner or if they’re not too hungry Kristen Stewart. It’s a good thing they didn’t release Twilight: […]
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SPL!NG Movie Review: She’s Out of My League (2010)
23 Jun 2010 by SPLING / No Comments
“She’s out of my league”… those crushing words have been uttered many times in a variety of awkward social situations ranging from slurred bar speak to side-by-side urinal talk. That phrase may be damning, ego-deflating and self-deprecating, but somehow it still doesn’t stop 10s from locking arms with 5s. Come on be honest… when you […]
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