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Movies
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SPL!NG Movie Review: The Change-Up (2011)
28 Sep 2011 by SPLING / No Comments
Have you ever wished you could be someone else for a day, a week, a lifetime? The Change-Up will give you a couple of good reasons to stop doing that in the body-swap movie to rule them all… starring Jason Bateman and Ryan Reynolds. This is not a Disney movie folks, in fact, it’s what the Farrelly brothers were […]
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Re-Make Monday: Smiley Like You Mean It – Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy
26 Sep 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 2 Comments
This week’s re-make is less a strict film re-make, and more the graduation of a classic television interpretation to the big screen, and considering how well acclaimed the original story is, it’s quite surprising this hasn’t happened sooner: Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy
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James Cameron To Build Avatar Park At Disneyland
21 Sep 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Disney and James Cameron are teaming up to transform a corner of the Magic Kingdom into a theme park based on Cameron’s multi-billion dollar grossing sci-fi 3D cinema-clogger, Avatar.
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SPL!NG Movie Review: The First Grader (2011)
21 Sep 2011 by SPLING / No Comments
The First Grader is the inspiring true story of Kimani Maruge, a Kenyan ex-Mau Mau freedom fighter, who at the age of 84 fought the system for his right to an education he could never afford. This powerful biographical drama tells of Maruge’s struggle as he and primary school teacher, Jane Obinchu, stood up to a community […]
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Re-Make Mondays: There Goes The Neighbourhood – Straw Dogs
19 Sep 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Sam Peckinpah’s 1971 opus, Straw Dogs, stands as a monument to the psychological thriller genre to this day, and makes surprisingly thrilling fodder for a re-make.
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SPL!NG Movie Review: Hanna (2011)
14 Sep 2011 by SPLING / No Comments
Hanna (nothing to do with Miley Cyrus) would be just like every other hitman movie out there, if it weren’t for its 16-year-old girl assassin and Pride and Prejudice director. While marked by beautiful cinematography, a pulsating soundtrack and a first-class cast – there’s a creeping alienation that never really lets you into this surreal […]
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Top Gun To Blast Into 3D in 2012, Titanic To Follow
13 Sep 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Hollywood’s pathological lack of imagination/lust for audience dollars gathers force as it continues to pilfer the back catalogue of fan favourite flicks. This time not to re-make, or reboot, but to re-D into 3D. Reports have emerged that both Top Gun and Titanic are to receive the 3D treatment and be re-released to audiences around the world as early as next year.
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Re-make Mondays: Smells Like Bacon, Tastes Like Turkey. It’s Footloose
12 Sep 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Footloose is an odd creature in the world of 1980s dance-saves-the-world feature films. It never hit the dizzy heights of fan or critical acclaim that Dirty Dancing did, and now, twenty seven years later, a re-make appears. But does it have that Bacon sizzle?
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Mel Gibson Is Making A Movie About A Jewish Hero
09 Sep 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Mel Gibson is busy making a movie about the life of Jewish hero Judah Maccabee. This is the same person who was phuza when he got pulled over by a police officer a while back. He shared the following insights with the cop: “Effing Jews… The Jews are responsible for all the wars in the world… Are you a Jew?”
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Bollywood’s First Sci-Fi Film Unearthed [VIDEO]
08 Sep 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Film geeks have unearthed India’s first sci-fi film, Hindi space adventure Trip to Moon, made in 1967. And, since it’s unlikely to take Netflix by storm anytime soon (though I fully expect an American re-make by end 2012) they’ve uploaded it to YouTube in full.
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SPL!NG Movie Review: Final Destination 5 [3D] (2011)
07 Sep 2011 by SPLING / No Comments
Final Destination 5 – the franchise has come a long way – relying on a tried-and-tested roller-coaster formula that brings audiences back for a thrill ride. The Final Destination, or fourth installment of the series was a serious low – delivering extra cheese with a gimmicky aftertaste that just ruined whatever credibility Final Destination had […]
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The Ins and Outs of Friends with Benefits…
06 Sep 2011 by Seth Rotherham / No Comments
“I’ve heard that lizards and frogs do it, Layin’ on a rock, They say that roosters do it, With a doodle and cock.” Even Cole Porter knew something was going on way back in 1928 when he wrote the lyrics to “Let’s Do It”, a song that has been re imagined in a variety of […]
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Are You Hot for Bad Teacher with Cameron Diaz?
05 Sep 2011 by Seth Rotherham / 1 Comment
Van Halen first sang about the rite of passage in 1984, but every schoolboy (and girl) will be able to remember when they were hot for teacher. Cooped up in a classroom, going through that awkward phase, the raging hormones, the hungry eyes (another movie) and fantasising about what it’d be like for teacher to […]
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SPL!NG Movie Review: London Boulevard (2011)
31 Aug 2011 by SPLING / 1 Comment
London Boulevard is the sort of movie you’d expect from a director like Guy Ritchie. It feels like it was written with Ritchie in mind – given the setting, characters and dialogue. The problem is… the element of romance and the overall lack of action. Guy Ritchie is more about intense, slick and violent British […]
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Re-make Mondays: D-List and D-Cups – Conan The Barbarian
29 Aug 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 2 Comments
This week we take a look at another cult classic dragged from the mists of time, rebooted with some big effects and bigger chests (as many D-cup pecs as D-list names) and presented in a cinema near you, in glorious 3D. Conan The Barbarian.
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They’re Making Ghost Busters 3, With Or Without Bill Murray
26 Aug 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Dan Aykroyd recently announced the release of the third installment in the Ghostbusters series. But, without a definite yes from Bill Murray, how could it ever be the same? As far as the storyline goes he has dropped a few hints, with one of them being the assembly of a new, younger team, under the supervision of the overweight, handicapped old one.
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Real Life Snatch Documentary: Gypsy’s Battle For Family Pride [VIDEO]
26 Aug 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 2 Comments
A ground-breaking new documentary called Knuckle shows one mans 12-year mission to infiltrate some of the most closely guarded communities in Britain: pikeys. Director Ian Palmer spent over a decade filming James Quinn McDonagh, nicknamed King of the Gypsies, and his family, even living with them, while documenting three feuding gypsy families for a new film.
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SPL!NG Movie Review: The Bang Bang Club (2011)
24 Aug 2011 by SPLING / No Comments
The Bang Bang Club is the story of four conflict photographers, Greg Marinovich, Kevin Carter, Ken Oosterbroek and João Silva, in the build-up to South Africa’s first democratic elections in 1994. These high profile photographers were like soldiers, their weapons – cameras and their ammo – extra spools.
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Remake Monday: Fangs For The Memories – Fright Night
22 Aug 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Who here can remember the first film that scared them sh*tless? I can. It was 1990, and Mnet were screening the 1985 camp horror classic, Fright Night, early one Saturday morning. Let’s compare the original with this year’s remake.
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New Film Starring Meryl Streep Portrays Lady Margaret Thatcher As “Granny Going Mad”
22 Aug 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
A new film that seeks to portray the life of Lady Margaret Thatcher has a fair amount of people hot under the collar. Directed by Mamma Mia! director, Phyllida Lloyd, the film shows Lady Thatcher constantly hallucinating, under the impression that her husband, who died in 2003, is still alive, while she herself appears to be going senile.
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Exclusive Interview With The Smurfs
18 Aug 2011 by Seth Rotherham / No Comments
You should by now be aware that “The Smurfs”, the movie, is coming out soon. It’s gone ballistic overseas and also happens to star Sophie Vergara, of Modern Family fame. I know – how cool is that? Anyway, we managed to secure the SA exclusive for this interview. WITH the actual Smurfs. Check it out!
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SPL!NG Movie Review: Cowboys & Aliens (2011)
17 Aug 2011 by SPLING / No Comments
Cowboys & Indians – sure, Cowboys & Kung Fu – fine, but aliens in the Wild West? Go on, pull the other pulsating tentacle. Isn’t that why Bravestarr was relocated to a planet called New Texas? If only someone had whispered in Jon Favreau’s ear, “it’s a comedy”. Instead, the Iron Man director has gone […]
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Lionsgate Putting Baby Back In The Corner
11 Aug 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 2 Comments
Lionsgate Films has announced plans to re-make everybody’s moms’ favourite film, 1987 classic Dirty Dancing. Kenny Ortega, the head choreographer on the original, is set to take the director’s chair this time.
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SPL!NG Movie Review: Rise of the Planet of the Apes (2011)
10 Aug 2011 by SPLING / No Comments
When you heard that they were releasing a prequel to Planet of the Apes you probably slapped your hand to your forehead. Not only was Tim Burton’s attempt at a reboot to the Planet of the Apes franchise a misfire, the movie title is laughable as if Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines, G.I. Joe: […]
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Al Pacino As Phil Spector
08 Aug 2011 by Seth Rotherham / No Comments
“Who’s the guy with all the hair? It’s Al Pacino, who with the help of an impressive hair and makeup team is becoming Phil Spector for an as-yet untitled biopic about the onetime record executive. The film, which co-stars Helen Mirren (she plays Spector’s friend and attorney Linda Kenney Baden), will air on HBO and […]
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SPL!NG Movie Review: Soul Surfer (2011)
03 Aug 2011 by SPLING / 1 Comment
Only a surfer knows the feeling. It’s a saying that has been reserved for that rush of sheer exhilaration as you catch the perfect wave into shore, that moment of blinding truth that connects you with nature – that driving force that motivates you to get up early and break the ice. For Bethany Hamilton […]
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SPL!NG Movie Review: Super 8 (2011)
27 Jul 2011 by SPLING / 1 Comment
Steven Spielberg is a Hollywood legend. This is the premise of Super 8, a new mystery, science-fiction thriller from writer-director J.J. Abrams that functions as a tribute to Spielberg, who’s signed on as producer. In case you haven’t heard of Jeffrey Jacob Abrams, he’s the guy that brought us Mission: Impossible III and the new […]
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Exclusive First Look: Hugh Jackman And His Boxing Robot In “Real Steel” [PICS]
26 Jul 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 2 Comments
2 December sees the South African release of Real Steel, featuring Hugh Jackman. It is about boxing, but instead of humans we are talking robots in the fighting ring! We can bring you the very first South African look at images from this “gritty, white-knuckle, action ride set in the near-future.” You are welcome.
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The Amazing Spider-Man Trailer [VIDEO]
21 Jul 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
After a brief leaked appearance on Tuesday, the trailer for “”The Amazing Spider-Man” is back online for eager movie-goers to see. If you thought the crappy version of the franchise should never have been made, like I do, you’re in for some well-deserved relief: it looks quite good.
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SPL!NG Movie Review: Insidious (2011)
20 Jul 2011 by SPLING / No Comments
Do you have emotional, physical or spiritual feelings of being blocked? Do you ever have sudden mood swings or changes in personality? Do you hear inner voices? Have you coughed up nails before? If you answered with a resounding “yes” to all of these questions, you may be possessed… or are expecting a visit from […]
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