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Movie Reviews
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SPL!NG Movie Review: The Card Counter
06 Jul 2022 by SPLING / No Comments
‘The Card Counter’ recalls ’21’, a Kevin Spacey casino heist film based on the true story of the MIT Blackjack team who used their mathematics and card counting skills to rig the system in their favour, winning millions in Las Vegas.
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SPL!NG Movie Review: Collision
29 Jun 2022 by SPLING / No Comments
‘Collision’ is a word usually reserved for “Chopper Dave” style traffic reports to help you navigate bumper-to-bumper morning commutes.
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SPL!NG Movie Review: Good Life
22 Jun 2022 by SPLING / No Comments
Bonnie Rodini is the co-screenwriter and producer of ‘The Story of an African Farm’, a family drama directed by David Lister and starring Richard E. Grant.
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SPL!NG Movie Review: John And The Hole
15 Jun 2022 by SPLING / No Comments
‘John and the Hole’ is a strange and unsettling thriller. The simple title becomes ironic and minimalist when you discover a much more nuanced and human story beneath it all.
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New ‘Jurassic’ Movie Crucified: A Round-Up Of The Biggest Takedowns
10 Jun 2022 by Tayla / No Comments
As the long-awaited third instalment of the ‘Jurassic World’ trilogy gets ready to entertain fans in theatres, critics have been tearing the film to shreds.
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SPL!NG Movie Review: The Lost Daughter
08 Jun 2022 by SPLING / No Comments
Having been given the nod by the Academy for her role in ‘Crazy Heart’, it must have come as some surprise that her return to the prestigious ceremony was as a filmmaker rather than an actor. Nominated for Best Adapted Screenplay for ‘The Lost Daughter’, the adaptation of Elena Ferrante’s novel also landed two acting nominations.
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SPL!NG Movie Review: Licorice Pizza
01 Jun 2022 by SPLING / No Comments
‘Licorice Pizza’ is Paul Thomas Anderson’s fifth consecutive period film, named after a record store from the ’70s and derived from the appearance of vinyl records.
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SPL!NG Movie Review: The Courier
25 May 2022 by SPLING / No Comments
Keep your friends close and your enemies closer seems to be the stance Russia and the United States have taken.
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Telegraph Gave ‘Holy Spider’ Five Stars – Check Out The Trailer [Video]
23 May 2022 by Tayla / No Comments
The Telegraph gave ‘Holy Spider’ a full five-star review, remarking on how the film is “profoundly compelling, expertly made, and quite intentionally horrifying”.
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SPL!NG Movie Review: Return To Space
18 May 2022 by SPLING / No Comments
‘Return to Space’ is a documentary from Oscar-winning directors Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi and Jimmy Chin who turn their focus to the stars after their astonishing work on ‘Free Solo’ and ‘The Rescue’.
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The ‘Top Gun: Maverick’ Reviews Are In
13 May 2022 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Two weeks from today, the long-awaited sequel to the 1986 cult classic will hit theatres.
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SPL!NG Movie Review: The Alpinist
11 May 2022 by SPLING / No Comments
‘The Alpinist’ is an unconventional sports documentary, which tracks Canadian mountain climber, Marc-André Leclerc, whose death-defying solo ascents are some of the boldest in history.
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SPL!NG Movie Review: Silverton Siege
04 May 2022 by SPLING / No Comments
‘Silverton Siege’ is a heist thriller that centres on three young freedom fighters who take a bank and its customers hostage in exchange for the release of Nelson Mandela.
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SPL!NG Movie Review: Spencer
26 Apr 2022 by SPLING / No Comments
‘Spencer’ is a moody historical character portrait and unsettling psychological drama from Pablo Larraín. Starring Kristen Stewart as Diana Spencer, this sumptuous film is from the director behind ‘Jackie’.
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They Actually Went And Made A ‘Titanic’ Horror Movie [Trailer]
21 Apr 2022 by Tayla / No Comments
Following in the footsteps of spoofy horror films like ‘Sharknado 5: Global Swarming’ is a new horror spectacle aboard the Titanic.
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SPL!NG Movie Review: Sodium Day
20 Apr 2022 by SPLING / No Comments
‘Sodium Day’ is a comedy drama that settles into the a day-in-the-life of a Grade 12 class at John Shelby High in the Cape Flats.
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SPL!NG Movie Review: Against All Odds – The Alwyn Uys Story
13 Apr 2022 by SPLING / No Comments
Alwyn Uys is the name of a paraplegic man whose life story forms the basis for ‘Against All Odds: The Alwyn Uys Story’.
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Netflix’s SpaceX Doccie Sells NASA Down The River [Trailer]
12 Apr 2022 by Tayla / No Comments
There’s a lot that has been conveniently left out of Netflix’s new documentary, ‘Return to Space’, which centres on Elon Musk and SpaceX.
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SPL!NG Movie Review: Apollo 10½: A Space Age Childhood
06 Apr 2022 by SPLING / No Comments
‘Apollo 10½: A Space Age Childhood’ is a sweet and nostalgic animated coming-of-age sci-fi adventure drama from Richard Linklater, the director who brought us ‘Dazed and Confused’, ‘Before Sunrise’, ‘Everybody Wants Some!!’ and ‘Boyhood’.
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“Sucks More Than Just Blood”: Review’s For Marvel’s ‘Morbius’ Are Not Kind
04 Apr 2022 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Marvel movies are always going to hit big numbers at the box office, but the reviews for ‘Morbius’ are so bad that there are fears it will affect the bottom line.
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Empire Gave ‘The Worst Person In The World’ Five Stars [Trailer]
01 Apr 2022 by Tayla / No Comments
This Norwegian/Swedish romance tells the poignant story of a woman coming to terms with all the possibilities of this life.
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SPL!NG Movie Review: The Sparks Brothers
30 Mar 2022 by SPLING / No Comments
The Sparks Brothers had a cameo on ‘The Gilmore Girls’ in an episode where the town of Star’s Hollow was invaded by a horde of buskers.
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SPL!NG Movie Review: Windfall
23 Mar 2022 by SPLING / No Comments
‘Windfall’ typically refers to fruit that has been blown down by the wind or unexpected good fortune. Now also a Hitchcockian crime thriller with comedic tendencies, the story follows a man who becomes trapped at a tech billionaire’s vacation home.
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SPL!NG Movie Review: The Bombardment (In The Shadow Of My Eye)
16 Mar 2022 by SPLING / No Comments
‘The Bombardment’ (also known as ‘The Shadow in My Eye’) is a harrowing chronicle of a tragic moment in Denmark’s history when Operation Carthage, an RAF manoeuvre, went horribly wrong.
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SPL!NG Movie Review: Against The Ice
09 Mar 2022 by SPLING / No Comments
‘Against the Ice’ is a historical survivalist adventure drama based on the book ‘Two Against the Ice’ by Ejnar Mikkelsen and produced by Baltasar Kormákur, best known for directing accomplished survival drama thrillers ‘Everest’ and ‘Adrift’.
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SPL!NG Movie Review: Icarus
02 Mar 2022 by SPLING / No Comments
Vladimir Putin and Russia are in the news, the Oscars are around the corner and so is the Cape Town Cycle Tour… which makes the Oscar-winning sports documentary, ‘Icarus’, as topical as the day it was released.
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Reviews For ‘The Batman’ Say The Same Thing [Trailer]
01 Mar 2022 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
We have reached the review stage of ‘The Batman’ hype machine and one point is being stressed almost across the board.
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SPL!NG Movie Review: The Little Things
23 Feb 2022 by SPLING / No Comments
‘The Little Things’ is a crime drama mystery thriller, penned by John Lee Hancock in the ’90s. The project subsequently got stuck in development limbo as a number of directors and stars were attached, but it never got off the ground.
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There’s A Lot About Charlie Chaplin You Probably Don’t Know [Trailer]
17 Feb 2022 by Tayla / No Comments
“The life of a legend is never black and white” expounds the trailer for ‘The Real Charlie Chaplin’.
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SPL!NG Movie Review: Glasshouse
16 Feb 2022 by SPLING / No Comments
‘Glasshouse’ is a post-apocalyptic sci-fi western period piece drama and psychological thriller set in the not-too-distant future.
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