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Movie Reviews
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SPL!NG Movie Review: Cold Case Hammarskjöld
29 May 2019 by SPLING / No Comments
‘Cold Case Hammarskjöld’ is a bold investigative documentary from writer-director Mads Brügger.
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SPL!NG Movie Review: Long Shot
22 May 2019 by SPLING / No Comments
‘Long Shot’ is a romantic comedy from ’50/50′ director, Jonathan Levine, which stars Charlize Theron and Seth Rogen.
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SPL!NG Movie Review: The Inventor – Out For Blood In Silicon Valley
15 May 2019 by SPLING / 1 Comment
Much like the recent ‘Fyre’ meltdown under tech entrepreneur Billy McFarland, it appears that “fake it, ’til you make it” is becoming a high risk business venture strategy of the modern age.
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SPL!NG Movie Review: Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil And Vile
09 May 2019 by SPLING / No Comments
‘Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile’ is a biographical crime drama about notorious serial killer, Ted Bundy, from the perspective of his longtime girlfriend.
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SPL!NG Movie Review – Avengers: Endgame
02 May 2019 by SPLING / No Comments
‘Avengers: Endgame’ is the concluding chapter of Marvel’s ‘Avengers’ series. The superhero phenomenon seems here to stay, yet one can’t help but feel that this signals the pinnacle.
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SPL!NG Movie Review: Saint Judy
24 Apr 2019 by SPLING / No Comments
‘Saint Judy’ is a legal drama based on a true story about Judy L. Wood, an immigration attorney who gives her all to defend Asefa Ashwari, an Afghan schoolteacher seeking asylum.
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SPL!NG Movie Review: Pet Sematary (2019)
17 Apr 2019 by SPLING / No Comments
Stephen King said that ‘Pet Sematary’ is the only novel that genuinely scared him. The story follows a doctor and his family, who discovers a mysterious burial ground in the woods near their new home just outside of a small rural town.
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SPL!NG Movie Review: Die Seemeeu (The Seagull)
10 Apr 2019 by SPLING / No Comments
‘Die Seemeeu’ or ‘The Seagull’ is based on a classic Russian play by Anton Chekhov, which was originally modernised for stage by writer-director Christiaan Olwagen.
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SPL!NG Movie Review: Die Stropers (The Harvesters)
03 Apr 2019 by SPLING / No Comments
Disillusioned youth and communities lost in time are two pillars of ‘Die Stopers’ or ‘The Harvesters’, a moody coming-of-age drama from writer-director Etienne Kallos.
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SPL!NG Movie Review: Hotel Mumbai
27 Mar 2019 by SPLING / No Comments
‘Hotel Mumbai’ is a recreation of the 2008 tragedy at the Taj Mahal Palace Hotel in India, based on the documentary ‘Surviving Mumbai’.
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SPL!NG Movie Review: Fighting With My Family
20 Mar 2019 by SPLING / No Comments
Every now and then, a sports drama will come along that redefines the genre, sets a new standard, and inspires other directors to equal its greatness. ‘Fighting with my Family’ is not that movie.
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SPL!NG Movie Review: Cold Pursuit
13 Mar 2019 by SPLING / No Comments
It’s got to the point where one has to assume Liam Neeson is going to eventually have his Zimmer frame weaponised so that he can continue to star in revenge thrillers.
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SPL!NG Movie Review: Bohemian Rhapsody (Finally!)
06 Mar 2019 by SPLING / No Comments
‘Queen’ arrived before its time, operating in a theatrical, experimental, innovative and larger-than-life fashion that intrigued and even scared people.
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SPL!NG Movie Review: The Upside
27 Feb 2019 by SPLING / No Comments
‘The Upside’ is based on a true story about an unlikely friendship between a wealthy man with quadriplegia and his careworker. While the premise sounds a bit cold, stuffy and depressing, their unexpected friendship is anything but.
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SPL!NG Movie Review: Green Book
20 Feb 2019 by SPLING / No Comments
‘Green Book’ is without a doubt the most mature film that Peter Farrelly has directed, possibly owing to the fact that it’s been almost 25 years since Ben Stiller found something hanging from his ear.
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SPL!NG Movie Review: Alita – Battle Angel
13 Feb 2019 by SPLING / No Comments
‘Alita: Battle Angel’ is an AI cyberpunk action adventure thriller 20-years-in-the-making, based on the Japanese manga comic book series, ‘Gunnm’.
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SPL!NG Movie Review: Sew The Winter To My Skin
06 Feb 2019 by SPLING / No Comments
‘Five Fingers for Marseilles’ proved we’re able to make homegrown westerns that are sweeping, taut, politically-charged, poetic and epic. It’s in this same light that ‘Sew the Winter to My Skin’ arrives.
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SPL!NG Movie Review: Glass
30 Jan 2019 by SPLING / No Comments
M. Night Shyamalan has come a long way, with a string of hit-and-miss films ranging from ‘The Sixth Sense’ to ‘The Last Airbender’.
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SPL!NG Movie Review: Fyre
23 Jan 2019 by SPLING / No Comments
Ahh, the Instagram lifestyle – perfect complexions, exotic locations, beautiful bodies, limitless wardrobes, expensive accessories and jet-setting adventures.
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SPL!NG Movie Review: Andre The Giant
16 Jan 2019 by SPLING / No Comments
Before the likes of Paris Hilton, the Internet and the Marvel superhero phenomenon, there were self-made celebrities and real marvels of nature like André Roussimoff.
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SPL!NG Movie Review: Spider-Man – Into the Spider-Verse
09 Jan 2019 by SPLING / No Comments
There have been many iterations of Spider-Man over the years with a number of reboots and now an animated spin-off.
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SPL!NG Movie Review: Mowgli – Legend Of The Jungle
12 Dec 2018 by SPLING / No Comments
‘Mowgli: Legend of the Jungle’ is a curious film, following closely in the wake of Disney’s ‘The Jungle Book’ live-action adaptation.
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SPL!NG Movie Review: Widows
05 Dec 2018 by SPLING / No Comments
‘Widows’ is the much-anticipated follow-up to ’12 Years a Slave’, Steve McQueen’s Oscar-winning drama about the antebellum South and the journey of Solomon Northup.
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SPL!NG Movie Review: Creed II
28 Nov 2018 by SPLING / No Comments
‘Creed’ picked up the Rocky story, creating a spin-off boxing drama about Apollo Creed’s son, Adonis, who falls under the mentorship of new coach, Rocky Balboa.
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SPL!NG Movie Review: High Fantasy
21 Nov 2018 by SPLING / No Comments
Casting promising young actors who mix a part of themselves with some of the writer-director’s aims for ‘High Fantasy’, there’s a strong collaborative element at play.
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SPL!NG Movie Review: The Girl In The Spider’s Web
14 Nov 2018 by SPLING / No Comments
‘The Girl in the Spider’s Web’ is a strange creature, based on a book that continues the Millennium series, which wasn’t written by the original ‘The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo’ author, Stieg Larsson.
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SPL!NG Movie Review: Juliet, Naked
07 Nov 2018 by SPLING / No Comments
Juliet, Naked – if you were expecting nudity, you’re guaranteed to be disappointed. While the film title sounds a bit racy, this unconventional music comedy drama is actually quite harmless.
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SPL!NG Movie Review: First Man
31 Oct 2018 by SPLING / 1 Comment
‘First Man’ is a biographical drama based on the life of Neil Armstrong, who became the first man to walk on the moon on July 20, 1969.
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SPL!NG Movie Review: Halloween (2018)
24 Oct 2018 by SPLING / No Comments
The original ‘Halloween’ by John Carpenter was iconic, a horror masterpiece that inspired many sequels and spin-offs.
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SPL!NG Movie Review: Kanarie
17 Oct 2018 by SPLING / No Comments
While South Africa’s complicated history of Apartheid diffuses the pop culture of the ’80s, this is where we find ‘Kanarie’, a film about an army conscript searching for his true identity.
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