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SPL!NG Movie Review: Star Trek Beyond
24 Aug 2016 by SPLING / No Comments
Star Trek Beyond is the third film in the latest iteration of Star Trek. The first two films, Star Trek and Star Trek Into Darkness, were directed by J.J. Abrams, but since he’s crossed over to the Star Wars camp with Star Wars: The Force Awakens, they’ve forced him to pick a side to keep peace […]
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SPL!NG Movie Review: Kubo and the Two Strings
17 Aug 2016 by SPLING / No Comments
Kubo and the Two Strings is a ridiculous movie title. Who is this Kubo and what exactly are these two strings? Are we talking about a kitten and a ball of twine or maybe this is a story about a kid who can snort noodles? Thankfully it’s neither, although they’ve both got serious potential on […]
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SPL!NG Movie Review: Our Kind Of Traitor
10 Aug 2016 by SPLING / No Comments
Our Kind of Traitor is based on the novel by John le Carré, an author whose film credits include: The Constant Gardener, A Most Wanted Man and Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy. His espionage thrillers are thought-provoking – more realistic than James Bond and less action-intensive than Jason Bourne.
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The Reviews For The ‘Worst Movie Of The Year’ Are Hilarious
08 Aug 2016 by Kiernan / No Comments
The internet can be a cruel and ruthless place, and that’s certainly true when Kevin Spacey and Jennifer Garner star in this poor excuse for a movie.
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SPL!NG Movie Review: The Legend of Tarzan
13 Jul 2016 by SPLING / No Comments
“Me Tarzan, you Jane.” This is the essence of Tarzan, King of the Apes. A feral man tries to relate to a civilised woman, creating a tension between their worlds as they attract and society repels. In The Legend of Tarzan, we are cast into the future beyond the events of Greystoke: the Legend of […]
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SPL!NG Movie Review: Mr. Right
06 Jul 2016 by SPLING / No Comments
“The perfect guy is out there waiting for me.” While this dreamy sentiment tends to evaporate the closer some woman and men get to their 40s, it still seems to be one of the most popular romantic comedy building blocks in Hollywood. Wishing and waiting for that special somebody to fall into your lap or […]
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SPL!NG Movie Review: The Endless River
29 Jun 2016 by SPLING / No Comments
Oliver Hermanus is the writer-director behind Shirley Adams, Skoonheid and now The Endless River. Each of his films have been set in South Africa, have resonated with him personally, been shaped independently and broach social themes that inform international audiences by means of an intense character portrait.
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SPL!NG Movie Review: The Nice Guys
15 Jun 2016 by SPLING / No Comments
Shane Black is the guy who wrote and directed Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang… the unconventional comedy crime caper starring Robert Downey Jr., Michelle Monaghan and Val Kilmer. While some would jokingly argue Kilmer first played a gay character in Top Gun, this was Hollywood’s first openly gay character to front a feature film. While the […]
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SPL!NG Movie Review: Money Monster
01 Jun 2016 by SPLING / No Comments
Money Monster is the latest film from Jodie Foster, who last acted in Elysium in 2013 and previously directed The Beaver in 2011. On the surface, it’s a simple, somewhat claustrophobic thriller about a gunman who takes a financial show host hostage on live television in a bid to get real answers about a bad […]
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SPL!NG Movie Review: X-Men – Apocalypse
18 May 2016 by SPLING / No Comments
X-Men: Apocalypse is the latest installation from director Bryan Singer and writer Simon Kinberg. X-Men: First Class introduced us to the next generation of X-Men, enabling the filmmakers to go back in time and extrapolate the complex story between Professor X and Magneto, and the rise of the X-Men. Singer returned to the franchise, after […]
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SPL!NG Movie Review: Whiskey Tango Foxtrot
11 May 2016 by SPLING / No Comments
Whiskey Tango Foxtrot is based on the memoirs of Kim Baker from her biographical novel, Taliban Shuffle, about a cable news producer who decided to take on a daring new job as a war correspondent in Kabul, Afghanistan in 2002. We journey with the forty-something American woman through the hedonistic haze and turbulent years as […]
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SPL!NG Movie Review: The Jungle Book
04 May 2016 by SPLING / No Comments
When people think of The Jungle Book, they conjure up images of dancing bears, kooky comedy and jovial songs centring around, essentially a young “Tarzan”. While the beloved Disney fairytale probably has a special place in most people’s hearts, few would have guessed that it would be reimagined as a much darker “live–action” adaptation of […]
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SPL!NG Movie Review: Pride and Prejudice and Zombies
30 Mar 2016 by SPLING / No Comments
[image source: techreport] Pride and Prejudice and Zombies isn’t a spoof. It may sound ridiculous, blending Jane Austen’s old world romance with the blood-thirsty underworld of the undead, but it’s actually quite a refreshing concept. The idea has been executed with style, carrying the same production values as a period piece drama, while injecting some […]
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SPL!NG Movie Review: Batman v Superman – Dawn of Justice
24 Mar 2016 by SPLING / No Comments
Zack Snyder is known for stylish action and it shouldn’t come as any surprise, having amassed a collection of films, which includes: 300, Sucker Punch, Man of Steel, Watchmen and that owl movie. Each of Snyder’s films have a similar review: beautiful to behold, breathtaking action set pieces, bold artistic direction, great ambition carried forth […]
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SPL!NG Movie Review: Sink
16 Mar 2016 by SPLING / No Comments
Sink is a sleek, harrowing and powerful South African domestic drama, written and directed by Brett Michael Innes and starring Anel Alexander, Jacques Bessenger and Shoki Mokgapa. Sink, a title that works in English and Afrikaans, is a feature film debut for Innes, whose extensive history as a documentary filmmaker and photographer have given him […]
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SPL!NG Movie Review: Eye in the Sky
09 Mar 2016 by SPLING / No Comments
Drone military warfare was at the heart of psychological thriller, Good Kill and thriller, Drones. It’s now the subject of Gavin Hood’s war drama thriller, Eye in the Sky, starring Helen Mirren, Aaron Paul, Barkhad Abdi and the late Alan Rickman.
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SPL!NG Movie Review: Anomalisa
02 Mar 2016 by SPLING / No Comments
Anomalisa is a Charlie Kaufman… it’s probably time we gave him a thing. You know, “a Spike Lee Joint”. How about “a Charlie Kaufman pearl”? The screenwriter has brought us many art house pearls: Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Adaptation, Being John Malkovich, Confessions of a Dangerous Mind and Synedoche, New York. Every time he […]
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SPL!NG Movie Review: Gods of Egypt
24 Feb 2016 by SPLING / No Comments
Gods of Egypt is a fantasy adventure from the mind of Alex Proyas. The Egyptian-born director has built a cult sci-fi empire, having directed such films as: Dark City, The Crow, Knowing and I, Robot. The story follows a thief as he joins forces with a mythical god on a quest across Egypt. Unfortunately, while the […]
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SPL!NG Movie Review: Hail, Caesar!
18 Feb 2016 by SPLING / No Comments
Hail, Caesar! is an oxymoronic post card from the Coen brothers. On the one hand, it’s a light-hearted, madcap, send-up of the Golden era Hollywood of the ’50s. Then on the other hand… or wing, it’s also a comic behind-the-curtain examination of studio politics as Capitalist America tried to subvert any hint of Communist ideology […]
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SPL!NG Movie Review: Deadpool
10 Feb 2016 by SPLING / No Comments
Deadpool, “the merc with a mouth”, is a comic book character from Marvel who featured in X-Men Origins: Wolverine. Ryan Reynolds has played a number of superhero characters, but seemed like the only choice for the immoral, over-the-top and juvenile, Deadpool. This is his origins film, an action adventure comedy and sci-fi thriller that could […]
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SPL!NG Movie Review: The Revenant
20 Jan 2016 by SPLING / No Comments
The Revenant is a gritty survival adventure masquerading as a grim western, which while brutal remains beautiful and spirited. We follow the tale of a frontiersman, whose desire for revenge gives him the strength he needs to carry on after being mauled by a bear and being left for dead by his hunting party in […]
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SPL!NG Movie Review: Star Wars – The Force Awakens
17 Dec 2015 by SPLING / No Comments
Star Wars: The Force Awakens is the long-awaited sequel that re-ignites the Star Wars Universe with a seventh episode. After a successful Star Trek reboot, Spielberg-in-the-making J.J. Abrams was entrusted to deliver a film that picks up the story decades after the original trilogy, now existing within the Disney empire under the banner of recent acquisition, […]
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SPL!NG Movie Review: Dis ek, Anna
21 Oct 2015 by SPLING / No Comments
A woman is raped every 26 seconds in South Africa. That statistic doesn’t carry enough weight… even if you get Charlize Theron to follow it up with “Real Men Don’t Rape”. This isn’t surprising when you consider we’re living in a culture, where sexual harassment and coercion are viewed as normal male behaviour. In South […]
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SPL!NG Movie Review: Necktie Youth
07 Oct 2015 by SPLING / No Comments
Necktie Youth is a black-and-white drama with a documentary feel that attempts to capture the Zeitgeist of South African youth culture. We’re thrown into an experimental haze of young, affluent and disillusioned South Africans, whose journeys intersect with the deeply affecting live-stream suicide of a local Jo’burg girl.
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SPL!NG Movie Review: Die Pro
16 Sep 2015 by SPLING / No Comments
South Africa is home to many prime surf spots including: Long Beach, Dungeons, Dunes, Cape St. Francis, Eland’s Bay, Jeffrey’s Bay, Nahoon Reef, Wild Coast, Muizenberg and South Africa’s surfing capital, Durban. It’s birthed a growing number of surfing movies including: Otelo Burning, Blue Crush 2, The Perfect Wave, Ocean Driven and now Die Pro.
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SPL!NG Movie Review: Dark Places
09 Sep 2015 by SPLING / No Comments
Dark Places is a movie with a personal slant for lead actress, Charlize Theron, who witnessed her mother kill her father in self-defense after he arrived home drunk in 1991. Gillian Flynn’s novel has been adapted to film by Gilles Paquet-Brenner, after David Fincher did the same for Gone Girl. Instead of a married couple, […]
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SPL!NG Movie Review: Hitman – Agent 47
02 Sep 2015 by SPLING / No Comments
Hitman: Agent 47 is a video game adaptation from up-and-coming director, Aleksander Bach. While explosive and visually stimulating, this action thriller starts with great promise and then becomes increasingly dull as we try to connect with stilted performances and insubstantial characters.
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SPL!NG Movie Review: Impunity
26 Aug 2015 by SPLING / No Comments
Impunity (Freedom from Punishment) is a South African outlaw romance thriller based on a story by Trish Malone and adapted to film by director Jyoti Mistry. We trace the exploits of a love-struck, ultra-violent, on-the-run couple, who are connected to the murder of a politician’s daughter, as Impunity tries to get by on titillation and experimental style.
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SPL!NG Movie Review: The Man from U.N.C.L.E.
19 Aug 2015 by SPLING / No Comments
The Man from U.N.C.L.E. is now a Guy Ritchie film adaptation of the cult TV series of the same name, which ran from 1964 to 1968. Ian Fleming contributed to the show’s concept by suggesting a TV-friendly version of James Bond, which became Napoleon Solo. While Solo was intended to be the main focus, Illya Kuryakin’s […]
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SPL!NG Movie Review: Ant-Man
05 Aug 2015 by SPLING / No Comments
The classic sci-fi adventure, The Incredible Shrinking Man, wowed audiences in 1957 for its cutting edge blend of otherworldly proportions. Now more than 50 years later, we’re getting another little-big sci-fi adventure with a hero named Scott, which is just as spectacular and entertaining.
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