‘The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug’ opens in South African cinemas on 13 December 2013. In preparation for the film’s worldwide release, Air New Zealand is up to their old tricks with a new promotional video titled ‘Just Another Day in Middle Earth.’
Consider yourself WAY ahead of your buddies, as this video has JUST hit the internet. It will only be on TV on Sunday – during Carte Blanche. Enjoy!
That’s right, you 90s kids read correctly, and you have reason to celebrate – the Backstreet Boys are back with a brand new video. Now fully-fledged men, the Backstreet Boys choose not to wear silly outfits and do dance routines. Rather, they take their shirts off.
Following a tumultuous council debate, it was decided that disgraced mayor Tom Ford would be stripped of all his powers. He reacted violently.
In order to advertise their ‘Week of Greatness’, Footlocker put together an ad that makes you feel like everything is right with the world.
‘Improv everywhere’, a viral prank group, thought it would be a cool idea to dress some kid up as Harry Potter, adorn his trolley with a Hedwig lookalike, and have him ask people where platform 9 and 3/4 is.
It’s been almost half a century since Bob Dylan dropped ‘Like A Rolling Stone’, but finally, after teaming up with a 27 year-old tech-whizz, Bob Dylan has released a music video to go along with his 1965 hit song.
Ever heard of ‘Oil pulling’? Nope, us neither. That’s because it’s an outdated practice that stems from the biblical era – but it has some serious health benefits, apparently.
Two-time Academy Award winner Robert De Niro was given an Oscar for his role as Vito Corleone in ‘The Godfather Part II’. But, in a strange turn of events, it has been revealed that he also auditioned for the role of Santino ‘Sonny’ Corleone in the first film -something that he was ultimately not as successful with.
The nice thing about making Kim Kardashian your fiancee is that you don’t have to spend any money hiring back-up dancers for your videos. You just give her a call and say, “Hey Kim, do you mind getting naked on a motorbike in front of a green screen with me?”
The official music video for Jack Parow’s P.A.R.T.Y dropped yesterday, and it might be the most South African video ever. (Sorry, Waddy.) In the video, directed by Paul Ward, Jack is on a road trip with his buddies. He lounges on the beach, drinks at a bar, watches sport, surfs, eats at Wimpy and bounces with children and petrol attendees. Like we all do.
In this week’s installment of “Well, What Did You Expect?” we profile a man named Jack Vale, who people are calling a ‘psychic’ .
We don’t know precisely why we get annoyed with Americans who want to ‘save Africa’. Maybe it’s because we see it as paternalistic. Maybe it’s because we see it patronising.
This is either very sad or very legendary. If this man had bought the house for the express purpose of pissing off his ex, then it’s sad. If he had no choice, was forced to move next to his ex, and then erected the satue – he’s a legend. Alan Markovitz had recently broken up […]
The Vans Warped Tour was cancelled yesterday, after a show in London saw one of the artists leap into the crowd from 12 metres. A rapper from the US, George Watsky, thought it would be cool to leap off the lighting rig and into the waiting crowd below. It wasn’t.
These twins are cuddling each other, mimicking the position their positions in the womb, as they take a relaxing spa bath. Yeah, you read that.
We’ve all had those flying dreams. You know, the ones where you can fly around endlessly – until you touch the ground and then can’t fly anymore. If you knew you were dreaming, that is, if you were “lucid dreaming”, you would be able to pick yourself up and fly again.
In America these days, if you’re not knocking out random people on the sidewalk, you’re not cool. Aptly named ‘knockout’, the aim of the game is to identify a target – and then knock him or her out in a single punch. Which is bad enough as it is, but now several teens in New Jersey face jail-time after reportedly beating a homeless man to death.
SNL gone done it again. Despite knowing how much Kanye West hates parodies of himself, they went ahead an produced this spoof video. In the clip, Jay Pharoah (Kanye) and Nasim Pedrad (Kim) nail their respective characters as they host the fictional breakfast show “Waking Up With Kimye”.
If you missed Carte Blanche’s interview with Czech fugitive, Radovan Krejcir, you really missed out. But don’t fret – here is a video of the whole thing.
In one of the most elaborate non-pranks of all time, the make-a-wish foundation helped transform SanFrancisco into Gotham City for a day, in order to fulfill a 5 year-old’s lifelong dream to be Batman.
Check out this video teaser ahead of the 23 November launch of the new Bulls Rugby jerseys. Epic little video!
Footage uploaded to LiveLeak purports to show a hijacking that took place in Johannesburg on Saturday. Multiple vehicles surround the SUV at a traffic light, before hijackers brandishing assault rifles eject the occupants of the vehicle. PRESS PLAY ON VIDEO BELOW No one was seriously injured in the hijacking. [Thanks, Dean!]
If you were doubting the reported scale of the flooding in Somerset West, you can stop that right now. This insane aerial footage gives the clearest insight into the severity and spread of this weekend’s flooding in Somerset West, outside of Cape Town. Shot by Air Flow, the video description reads as follows: Flooding in […]
This man was so adamant that the whole plane should hear his conversation, I thought I would aid him further in his quest and let the world know.
You know it’s a typical boy band song when it starts with the words, “Yeaahh yeeaahh, yeaahh”, and is backed by soulful guitar picking that morphs into a powerful crescendo of bromance.
There is hot competition out there for the first company who can successfully replace the physical wallet with a completely digital version. Google and Apple are the main contenders, but a small start-up may be inching ahead, with this amazing new piece of tech.
This video serves to confirm that Russian children, at least in 1997, are hard as nails. Here, two siblings take part in a friendly game of ‘see who can take down the deadly mammal’.
Volleyball just doesn’t get the same kind of press that other ball sports do. Well, maybe (women’s) beach volleyball does – but certainly not indoor volleyball. We’d like to change that, if only for a minute.