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Movie Reviews
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SPL!NG Movie Review: The Tinder Swindler
09 Feb 2022 by SPLING / No Comments
Taking our relationships into the digital ether, there’s a greater chance for illusion and catfishing. These are the perfect conditions for the events captured in ‘The Tinder Swindler’.
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‘Death On The Nile’ Really Has Turned Into A Total PR Nightmare
08 Feb 2022 by Tayla / No Comments
Kenneth Branagh’s murder mystery, ‘Death on the Nile’, has not one, but three actors steeped in scandal ahead of Friday’s release.
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The Guardian Issues A Brutal Takedown Of ‘Sex And The City’ Sequel
04 Feb 2022 by Tayla / No Comments
Shame, it looks like Carrie, Charlotte, and Miranda should have sat this one out like Samantha (Kim Cattrall) did when the idea for a sequel was first pitched.
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SPL!NG Movie Review: Amandla (2022)
02 Feb 2022 by SPLING / No Comments
In South Africa, films that echo themes from South Africa’s darkest days are often criticised for being stuck in a time most would rather forget. While a painful reminder, these historical recreations can serve as a contrast to show how much progress we’ve made or how far we’ve still got to go.
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SPL!NG Movie Review: Girls Can’t Surf
26 Jan 2022 by SPLING / No Comments
Ironically titled, ‘Girls Can’t Surf’, this sports documentary returns to the ’80s to a time when professional women’s surfing kicked off, “a circus of fluro colours, peroxide hair and radical male egos”.
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Five Stars For “One-Of-A-Kind” Body-Switching Witch Tale [Trailer]
24 Jan 2022 by Tayla / No Comments
This masterful tale with Macedonian roots and creative-horror tinges follows a shape-shifting witch trying to figure out what it is to be human.
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SPL!NG Movie Review: Dune (2021)
19 Jan 2022 by SPLING / No Comments
‘Dune’ journeys with Paul Atreides, a young noble who begins to discover his true calling. Dreams speak to his destiny as he becomes entrusted with protecting the precious resource known as spice, one of the galaxy’s most valuable and vital elements.
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SPL!NG Movie Review: Don’t Look Up
12 Jan 2022 by SPLING / No Comments
‘Don’t Look Up’ is a political satire starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Jennifer Lawrence from the guy who brought us ‘The Big Short’, ‘Vice’… oh, and ‘Anchorman’.
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A Quick Look At 2021’s Best Reviewed Netflix Original Movies [Trailers]
11 Jan 2022 by Tayla / No Comments
Last year at least, Netflix managed to create a number of excellent original movies, some of which are likely to be Oscar nominees.
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SPL!NG Movie Review: The Power Of The Dog
15 Dec 2021 by SPLING / No Comments
‘The Power of the Dog’ is an unconventional Western psychological drama, directed by Jane Campion and based on the 1967 novel of the same name by Thomas Savage.
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It’s Not Often A New DiCaprio, Lawrence, Streep, And Blanchett Film Gets Slammed [Trailer]
13 Dec 2021 by Tayla / No Comments
When we first heard about ‘Don’t Look Up’, featuring a laundry list of Hollywood heavyweights, we had high hopes.
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SPL!NG Movie Review: 14 Peaks – Nothing Is Impossible
08 Dec 2021 by SPLING / No Comments
’14 Peaks: Nothing is Impossible’ is a new biographical sports documentary, which journeys with Nims Purja and Project Possible… a seemingly impossible mission to summit 14 of the world’s 8000m plus peaks
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Olivia Colman’s New Series Isn’t Your Usual True-Crime Drama [Trailer]
08 Dec 2021 by Tayla / No Comments
Olivia Colman and David Thewlis are a seemingly ordinary British couple who get caught up in an extraordinary murder investigation.
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Guardian Gives New Spielberg Film Five Stars [Trailer]
03 Dec 2021 by Tayla / No Comments
Steven Spielberg’s adaptation of the 1957 Broadway musical, ‘West Side Story’, has received stellar reviews thus far.
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SPL!NG Movie Review: Barakat
01 Dec 2021 by SPLING / No Comments
‘Barakat’ is a “warm and fuzzy” local comedy drama from writer-director Amy Jephta, whose writing credits include ‘Ellen: Die storie van Ellen Pakkies’, ‘Trackers’ and ‘Skemerdans’.
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The Guardian Mocks Leto And Pacino In ‘House Of Gucci’ Three-Star Review
29 Nov 2021 by Tayla / No Comments
Lady Gaga and Adam Driver have come out on top in this ‘House of Gucci’ film review, while the acting chops of Jared Leto and Al Pacino were cut down to size.
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SPL!NG Movie Review: New Material
24 Nov 2021 by SPLING / No Comments
‘New Material’ is the long-awaited sequel to ‘Material’, a local comedy drama gem that established Riaad Moosa as a doctor, comedian and actor. Loosely based on his life story, biographical elements filter into the plot as the son of a material shop owner in Fordsburg tries to keep his secret life’s ambition to be a stand up comedian from his father, who expects him to take over the family business.
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SPL!NG Movie Review: Red Notice
17 Nov 2021 by SPLING / No Comments
Some films allow their movie title to become a self-fulfilling prophecy and unfortunately, ‘Red Notice’ is one of them.
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Double Five-Star Reviews For A-List Packed Comedy Drama [Trailer]
16 Nov 2021 by Tayla / No Comments
‘Licorice Pizza’ has been lauded as both “seductively real” and one of Paul Thomas Anderson’s “funniest and most relaxed films yet”.
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SPL!NG Movie Review: Father Christmas Is Back
10 Nov 2021 by SPLING / No Comments
Christmas is a time to get nostalgic, decorate the tree, drink too much, revive old squabbles and watch heartwarming movies about well, Christmas.
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SPL!NG Movie Review: The Trip
03 Nov 2021 by SPLING / No Comments
When you’re known for your role as Lisbeth Salander, the original ‘The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo’, it can be difficult to shake that iconic character. Noomi Rapace has been trying to outrun that dragon tattoo for over a decade now.
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SPL!NG Movie Review: Fried Barry
27 Oct 2021 by SPLING / No Comments
‘Fried Barry’ is an absolute trip. The local sci-fi horror thriller is a blast of visceral energy from the get-go, thrusting you into the world of a take-it-to-the-streets bastard who gets abducted and possessed by an alien.
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SPL!NG Movie Review: Another Round
20 Oct 2021 by SPLING / No Comments
‘Another Round’, an arthouse ‘The Hangover’, won Best International feature Oscar and set tabloids alight with talk of an American remake starring Leonardo DiCaprio.
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SPL!NG Movie Review: Angeliena
13 Oct 2021 by SPLING / No Comments
‘Angeliena’ is a distinctly South African comedy drama from the mind of writer-director Uga Carlini. Best known for ‘Alison’, a biographical hybrid docudrama about a woman who survived after being left for dead, Carlini turned to a much lighter story.
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The Guardian Gives Another Rare Five Stars – ‘BELFAST’ [Trailer]
13 Oct 2021 by Tayla / No Comments
The film is set in late 1960s Northern Ireland during the turmoil of The Troubles and is a personal and joyful story about the power of memory, with a little boy at the centre.
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Whoah – The Guardian Gave ‘The Ape Woman’ 5 Stars [Trailer]
08 Oct 2021 by Tayla / No Comments
The film, inspired by the true story of a 19th-century Mexican indigenous woman Julia Pastrana, with a condition that has her entire body covered in hair, received a full star rating.
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SPL!NG Movie Review: Britney Vs Spears
06 Oct 2021 by SPLING / No Comments
‘Britney vs Spears’ is a topical documentary that investigates the legal conservatorship around pop icon Britney Spears.
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SPL!NG Movie Review: Kaalgat Karel
29 Sep 2021 by SPLING / No Comments
‘Kaalgat Karel’ is the kind of edgy yet divisive movie title that will already give you an inkling if this film’s for you or not.
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The Bond Reviews Are In
29 Sep 2021 by Tayla / No Comments
With ‘No Time To Die’ set to hit UK theatres tomorrow, the reviews are in for Daniel Craig’s final hurrah as 007.
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SPL!NG Movie Review: Pig
22 Sep 2021 by SPLING / No Comments
One of the most versatile and fearless actors in Hollywood, Nic Cage has turned his attention to another curveball of a film in ‘Pig’.
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