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Movies
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Detroit Does Need A Statue Of Robocop
11 Feb 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 4 Comments
Since the 7th of February, when some random guy posted a comment on Dave Bing, the mayor of Detroit’s Twitter feed suggesting a statue of Robocop be erected in that city, the internet has been ablaze with ideas on how to achieve the feat.
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Denzel Washington Spotted Out In Cape Town [2oceansvibe EXCLUSIVE]
11 Feb 2011 by Seth Rotherham / 2 Comments
Hollywood A-lister and Man On Fire star, Denzel Washington, was spotted arriving at Sugarhut Club in Cape Town last night. The Oscar winning actor is in town to film a movie with Ryan Reynolds (Scarlett‘s ex). The movie is called Safe House, which is about a young CIA agent (Ryan) who must transport a dangerous criminal […]
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SPL!NG Movie Review: The King’s Speech (2010)
09 Feb 2011 by SPLING / No Comments
The British royal family have had their fair share of embarrassments through the ages: Richard III’s bloody coronation, Queen Victoria’s “wicked uncles”, rumours that Prince Albert Victor was in fact Jack the Ripper, Prince Charles, his ears, Camilla Parker Bowles… the list continues. One such national embarrassment was The Duke of York, whose futile military […]
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How Many Days Was Bill Murray Stuck In “Groundhog Day”?
08 Feb 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
You may have heard of Groundhog Day and if you saw my article last week then you will also know that because Punxsutawney Phil didn’t see his shadow this year, Spring will come early to the US.
But Groundhog day is also a movie where Bill Murray finds himself perpetually waking up on the same Groundhog Day morning, over and over again.
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SPL!NG Movie Review: Black Swan (2010)
02 Feb 2011 by SPLING / 3 Comments
Little so-called “Caucasian” girls generally tend to get involved in one of two extra-curricular activities… ballet or horse-riding. It’s a tradition, a rite of passage that soccer moms feel compelled to offer their little princesses. The reasons vary: they’ll look cute in a tutu, the riding lessons are cheaper than a pony, “I never got […]
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Chinese Central Television Reports Top Gun Clip As News [VIDEO]
31 Jan 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
China’s version of the SABC, the CCTV, is stoking our collective mirth once more with another particularly embarrassing news report. China’s largest news network, and only officially endorsed television news outlet, the CCTV, has repurposed scenes from Top Gun as reportage in a 23 November 2010 evening news bulletin.
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Time Traveling Beatles Film That Prevents The Yoko Situation
31 Jan 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Bar-room time travel talk usually centers around whether or not it would be cool to murder Hitler, because hey. But this misses a more important issue: whether or not Yoko Ono really killed the Beatles. Director Mark Waters wants to make a movie about that – time traveling Beatles fans, I mean.
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So Hey, They’re Remaking ‘Annie’ With Will Smith’s Daughter
28 Jan 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
I can only assume that Will Smith is doing this to punish me for not watching Hitch. I mean, he remade The Karate Kid with his son as the lead, which was fine (awful) except for the part where there was no karate. And now he’s remaking Annie, with Jay-Z’s help. Look out for the ‘Hard Knock Life’ rap.
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Hans Zimmer Slams Chris Nolan’s Latest Oscar Snub
27 Jan 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Christopher Nolan has been ignored yet again by the fickle American Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences for a “Best Director” nomination, and plenty of people are peeved about it, including renowned film-score composer, Hans Zimmer.
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SPL!NG Movie Review: Love and Other Drugs (2010)
26 Jan 2011 by SPLING / 2 Comments
Anne Hathaway is a lady. One of those well-to-do women, who lifts her pinkie when she drinks tea and waves like the Queen. She’s fit for royalty, blessed with great beauty, intelligence and a coy smile. So it was quite something when she just whipped out a boob in Love and Other Drugs.
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The 2010 Academy Award Nominations Are In
26 Jan 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
The 2010 Academy Award nominations is, essentially, one of the least surprising events since the election of our great president.
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Lazy Teenage Superheroes [VIDEO]
24 Jan 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Gone are the days of true superheroes. We want to see a world of “every-day” superheroes who are just like us, but with more courage/ stupidity. And stay-at-home film makers are pumping these babies out every second.
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Cape Town In Time Lapse [VIDEO]
24 Jan 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
This short time lapse film of Cape Town was put together by Silver Bullet productions, and it is pretty stunning. Everyone knows that Cape Town is aesthetically beautiful, and when it comes to its treatment on film, this beauty can be to its detriment. This film shows Cape Town through a darker, gorgeous lens.
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New Batman 3 Villain Is A Wrestler
21 Jan 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
No jokes. Oh yes, there will be no Joker third time round either. Heath Ledger’s impossible-to-top performance and subsequent death last time around pretty much did it for the Joker. Which means there’s space for a new villain. A guy named Bane. Bane was born in a Caribbean prison where he hid a knife in his teddy bear. Bane is bad.
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SPL!NG Movie Review: The Next Three Days (2010)
19 Jan 2011 by SPLING / No Comments
Breaking out of prison is never easy, unless you’re one of the Beagle boys or a young Sean Connery. It’s a meticulous process of timing, planning, training, testing and presence of mind as demonstrated by Tim Robbins in The Shawshank Redemption and Wentworth Miller in Prison Break. But there’s another way… A more sensible blueprint for setting your loved one free as witnessed in The Next Three Days.
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Spud Milton Pens Open Letter To Judge Edwin Cameron
16 Jan 2011 by Seth Rotherham / No Comments
By now you will be well aware of the letter Constitutional Court Justice Edwin Cameron sent to Ross Garland, the producer of Spud the Movie, based on John van de Ruit’s highly successful novel, Spud. Well, would you believe it, Spud, the actual character from the book, has hit back, with some words of his […]
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This Guy Will Murder Daniel Radcliffe One Day
13 Jan 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
That’s a pretty big call. I know. Alright then, I’ll hedge my bets. He’ll definitely murder either Daniel Radcliffe or JK Rowling. After long, protracted periods of stalking, high court judgments, and coincidental midnight run-ins on apartment stair wells, this here guy will eventually figure out that he has been jilted. And he will be pissed off.
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SPL!NG Movie Review: Easy A (2010)
12 Jan 2011 by SPLING / No Comments
Temptress, tart, floozy, flirt, cheap, tramp, harlot, trollop, easy, ho’… are just some of the endearing terms you’ll hear being thrown around the playground these days. Pubescent promiscuity is nothing new – think back to that adult movie Kids or a little further back to Sodom and Gomorrah.
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They’re Making A Fight Club Musical
12 Jan 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
I don’t know how to feel about this. I loved Fight Club the way you love an eccentric uncle; it was weird and it stank of smoke and made people feel uncomfortable, but it was awesome. The fact that it’s director, David Fincher wants to revisit it is great; the whole ‘musical’ angle is where I start panicking.
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Obama Anak Menteng Trailor – Featuring Drug Mule Model
06 Jan 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
You probably read in this morning’s spice about the Saffer who played Obama’s mama in a movie and then got busted. Now, we’re used to hearing of Saffers smuggling contraband abroad but never against the backdrop of a movie featuring a young Obama playing albasters. So here, free of charge, is that movie’s trailer. An indie flick. Made in Indo. Starring a model junkie. Compulsory viewing, really.
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SPL!NG Movie Review: TRON – Legacy (2010)
05 Jan 2011 by SPLING / No Comments
Digital drones, light cycles, frisbee wars, skin tight body suits and daddy issues… welcome to the playground of TRON. It may sound like an ordinary day at the park, but it’s not. TRON: Legacy is the long-awaited remake/sequel/mash-up of the original TRON (1982). Jeff Bridges returns to play an older Kevin Flynn and a much […]
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SPL!NG Movie Review: The Town (2010)
29 Dec 2010 by SPLING / No Comments
Since Hollywoodland, he’s been on the comeback trail. Although, it’s not that difficult when you’re following up roles as a blind superhero in Daredevil and Jennifer Lopez’s play thing in Gigli. This is the life of Ben Affleck, whose career has been peppered with the good, the bad and the ugly.
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Films That Are Hilarious/Horrific When Watched Together
29 Dec 2010 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
Intertextuality makes movies better. Think about it – you can take the already awesome ‘The Prestige,’ and turn it into a film where Wolverine and Batman are rival magicians – and Batman has a clone. See how much better that is? Read the list below, and learn how to make movies better – with more movies
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Separated At Birth: Kevin Pietersen And Chip Douglas
23 Dec 2010 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
This past weekend I suffered the doppelganger effect. It’s that moment of television watching when, just as the sofa threatens to ingest your lumpy physique, your whole body surges forward violently, propelled by sudden realisation. Kevin Pietersen met the Cable Guy in my mind’s eye.
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SPL!NG Movie Review: Due Date (2010)
22 Dec 2010 by SPLING / No Comments
Due Date is delivered to screen by Todd Phillips, who is the quintessential frat house comedy director with The Hangover, Road Trip, Old School under his belt and The Hangover Part II in the works. If it were a baby, it’d be a poison dwarf: ginger-bearded, brutally funny and pretty darn mean. However, it’s not […]
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SPL!NG Movie Review: Megamind (2010)
15 Dec 2010 by SPLING / 2 Comments
It seems that if you’re blue, you’re in vogue… well that’s if pop culture in 2010 is anything to go by with James Cameron’s Na’vi tribesmen in Avatar, The Smurfs feature film and now our giant blue-headed villain in Megamind. Perhaps Andy Warhol was really onto something with his colour transition duplications of Marilyn Monroe and John Wayne’s heads when he coloured […]
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Emma Stone: Still Attractive, Still A Shining Light In Otherwise Awful World
08 Dec 2010 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
So this is sort of interesting – some photos have appeared of Emma Stone with her new blonde get-up, in preparation for the Gwen Stacey role in Spider-Man Whatever. What’s interesting is that a number of people have commented on how much she looks like a Steve Ditko character – Ditko being Spider-Man’s co-creator.
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SPL!NG Movie Review: Scott Pilgrim vs. The World (2010)
08 Dec 2010 by SPLING / 2 Comments
Scott Pilgrim vs The World is brought to us by the guy that gave us Shaun of the Dead and Hot Fuzz. His name is Edgar Wright, whose dark British comedy films have become cult hits with the help of partner-in-crime, Simon Pegg. However, Scott Pilgrim vs The World is a departure from his usual […]
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Wavescape Surf Film Festival 2010 – Barrels For Your Eyeballs
02 Dec 2010 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
The seventh annual Wavescape Surf Film Festival is upon us, girls and boys. To avoid missing out on the event that will undoubtedly set the scene for a most successful summer, click through. We promise you good news, and very, very pretty pictures.
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SPL!NG Movie Review: Spud (2010)
01 Dec 2010 by SPLING / No Comments
John Van De Ruit’s character, John Spud Milton has become the South African equivalent of Sue Townsend’s Adrian Mole. Both characters are at that age when puberty is starting to kick in, physical changes are bound to create some form of clumsy embarrassment and life is only really beginning…
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