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Movie Reviews
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SPL!NG Movie Review: Malcolm & Marie
24 Feb 2021 by SPLING / No Comments
‘Malcolm & Marie’ is a film from Sam Levinson, starring John David Washington and Zendaya. Levinson is the writer-director of ‘Euphoria’, a critically-acclaimed and award-winning TV series starring Zendaya.
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SPL!NG Movie Review: Bliss
17 Feb 2021 by SPLING / No Comments
‘Bliss’ is a film from writer-director Mike Cahill, who brought us the modest yet beautiful and slow-burning sci-fi romance drama, ‘Another Earth’. His latest effort stars Owen Wilson and Salma Hayek.
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SPL!NG Movie Review: Music
10 Feb 2021 by SPLING / No Comments
Sia is an Australian popstar whose thoughtful lyrics, emotive voice and catchy music’s rhythms have always been complemented by artful and surreal music videos. Her music has been used in soundtracks like ‘The Neon Demon’, yet it’s her directorial debut with which she unleashes 10 new songs to compel her venture into film-making.
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SPL!NG Movie Review: The White Tiger
03 Feb 2021 by SPLING / No Comments
‘The White Tiger’ is based on the book by Indian author Aravind Adiga. Starting much like the book does with an opening email turned monologue to the Chinese premier ahead of his visit to India, the mail sets the tone for the rest of the film.
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SPL!NG Movie Review: A Beautiful Day In The Neighbourhood
27 Jan 2021 by SPLING / No Comments
‘A Beautiful Day in the Neighbourhood’ is directed by Marielle Heller and based on the true story of the unlikely real-life friendship between Fred Rogers and journalist Lloyd Vogel.
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SPL!NG Movie Review: Sound Of Metal
20 Jan 2021 by SPLING / No Comments
‘Sound of Metal’ is a coming-of-age music drama about a drummer who struggles to come to terms with hearing loss.
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The Guardian’s One-Star Review Of Anne Hathaway’s New Flick Is Hysterical (Includes The Word ‘Stinker’)
14 Jan 2021 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
A “pandemic stinker” that gives off a “stench” isn’t what you want to read in a review of your latest movie, but here we are.
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SPL!NG Movie Review: The Minimalists
13 Jan 2021 by SPLING / No Comments
Best friends, Joshua Fields Millburn and Ryan Nicodemus, were steadily climbing the corporate ladder of success. Building their income earning capacity, accumulating more material wealth and expanding their personal empires, they had bought into the American Dream.
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SPL!NG Movie Review: Meisies Wat Fluit
17 Dec 2020 by SPLING / No Comments
‘Meisies Wat Fluit’ (Girls That Whistle) teases out a “friends with benefits” relationship within the dynamic of a couple who married too young, by taking a fly-on-the-wall approach to modern relationships, dating and marriage.
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SPL!NG Movie Review: Riding With Sugar
09 Dec 2020 by SPLING / No Comments
‘Riding with Sugar’ is an important coming-of-age drama, journeying with a refugee much like an African version of Oliver Twist. It’s actually much more than a drama, and blends an array of genres.
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SPL!NG Movie Review: Parow To Parowfest – The Jack Parow Story
02 Dec 2020 by SPLING / No Comments
Zander Tyler, better known as Jack Parow is a rapper, who has become one with South African pop culture. Easily recognisable thanks to his over-sized caps, facial hair and loud outfits, he’s one of the few Afrikaans music artists to crack the international scene.
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SPL!NG Movie Review: Rebecca
25 Nov 2020 by SPLING / No Comments
‘Rebecca’ tells the tale of Mrs De Winter, a young newlywed who finds herself out of her depth on an imposing family estate following a whirlwind romance. Try as it may, Alfred Hitchcock’s adaptation of Daphne Du Maurier’s novel is still superior.
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SPL!NG Movie Review: I Am Greta
18 Nov 2020 by SPLING / No Comments
‘I Am Greta’ serves as an experiential character study, starting with her solo effort and leading to her transatlantic voyage to attend climate conferences in New York City.
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SPL!NG Movie Review: Toorbos
11 Nov 2020 by SPLING / No Comments
‘Toorbos’ can be interpreted from Afrikaans to English as “Dream Forest”, adapted from a Dalene Matthee novel of the same name set in and around Knysna. ‘Toorbos’ is written and directed by Rene van Rooyen.
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SPL!NG Movie Review: Flatland
04 Nov 2020 by SPLING / No Comments
‘Flatland’ is a sprawling and epic adventure crime western from writer-director, Jenna Cato Bass. Her films push cinematic boundaries and are never dull, starting with ‘Love the One You Love’, then ‘High Fantasy’ and now ‘Flatland’.
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SPL!NG Movie Review: The Unfamiliar
28 Oct 2020 by SPLING / No Comments
‘The Unfamiliar’ is a psychological horror just in time for Halloween from South African director Henk Pretorius. Locally, the versatile director is best known for his comedy films: ‘Bakgat’, ‘Leading Lady’ and ‘Fanie Fourie’s Lobola’.
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SPL!NG Movie Review: Totally Under Control
21 Oct 2020 by SPLING / No Comments
‘Totally Under Control’ chronicles the Trump administration’s response to the outbreak of the Coronavirus. Through interviews with public health and inside political officials, the filmmakers contrast this discussion with South Korea’s much more effective response.
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SPL!NG Movie Review: The Last Victims
14 Oct 2020 by SPLING / No Comments
‘The Last Victims’ is a mystery drama thriller set in South Africa, directed by Maynard Kraak and starring Sean Cameron Michael and Kurt Egelhof. It centres around a former death squad member and a survivor.
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SPL!NG Movie Review: Dust
07 Oct 2020 by SPLING / No Comments
‘Dust’ is a slow-burning dystopian crime drama thriller from writer-director, Pieter du Plessis. While a feature film debut as director, du Plessis has a spectrum of experience as a filmmaker and shows remarkable restraint.
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SPL!NG Movie Review: Santana
30 Sep 2020 by SPLING / No Comments
‘Santana’ is an action thriller set in Angola, tracking two brothers who decide to take down the drug cartel linked to the death of their parents.
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SPL!NG Movie Review: Anna
23 Sep 2020 by SPLING / No Comments
‘Anna’ is the latest film from prolific filmmaker, Luc Besson. A spy action thriller, it recalls his earlier films ‘La Femme Nikita’ and ‘The Professional’, echoing many of his trademark elements as a writer-director.
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SPL!NG Movie Review: My Octopus Teacher
16 Sep 2020 by SPLING / No Comments
‘My Octopus Teacher’ is a nature documentary about a tender relationship between a man and an octopus. It’s actually quite difficult to talk about the film without it sounding a little bit funny.
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SPL!NG Movie Review: I’m Thinking Of Ending Things
09 Sep 2020 by SPLING / No Comments
It’s important to contextualise ‘I’m Thinking of Ending Things’ within Charlie Kaufman’s film career because his previous work will serve as a guide as to whether this film is for you or not.
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SPL!NG Movie Review: Da 5 Bloods
02 Sep 2020 by SPLING / No Comments
‘Da 5 Bloods’ is a Spike Lee joint. The story follows the surviving members of Da 5 Bloods, four African American war veterans, who return to Vietnam to recover the remains of their fallen squad leader and a buried fortune.
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SPL!NG Movie Review: Good Hope
26 Aug 2020 by SPLING / No Comments
Beautiful yet broken, South Africa’s a democratic society on a journey of healing… struggling to overcome deep-seated economic inequalities 25 years after the first free and fair elections.
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SPL!NG Movie Review: Project Power
19 Aug 2020 by SPLING / No Comments
‘Project Power’ is a supernatural action thriller from the mind of Mattson Tomlin, a bold new Hollywood screenwriter who also co-wrote ‘The Batman’ with Matt Reeves.
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SPL!NG Movie Review: Bellingcat – Truth In A Post-Truth World
12 Aug 2020 by SPLING / No Comments
‘Bellingcat: Truth in a Post-truth World’ is a documentary about the investigative work and team behind Bellingcat, an international media watchdog agency of citizen journalists.
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SPL!NG Movie Review: Influence
05 Aug 2020 by SPLING / No Comments
This death knell for ‘Bell Pottinger’ is the crux of ‘Influence’, an incisive rise and fall documentary co-directed by journalists and directors, Richard Poplak and Diana Neille.
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SPL!NG Movie Review: Bigger
29 Jul 2020 by SPLING / No Comments
The American dream and pursuit of happiness is a popular film narrative, which forms the basis for ‘Bigger’.
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SPL!NG Movie Review: First Reformed
22 Jul 2020 by SPLING / No Comments
‘First Reformed’ is a film from American screenwriter, film director and movie critic, Paul Schrader. You’ve probably never heard of him but he’s the guy who wrote ‘Taxi Driver’, ‘Raging Bull’ and ‘Affliction’.
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