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SPL!NG Movie Review: Thina Sobabili
29 Jul 2015 by SPLING / No Comments
Thina Sobabili translated as The Two of Us is a brave, gut-wrenching and realistic drama about the exploits of a brother and sister in the Alexandra township of Johannesburg, South Africa. We’re introduced to Thulani and his sister Zanele, who become the focus of this shoestring budget production, which was self-funded and shot in the space of a […]
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SPL!NG Movie Review: Ex Machina
22 Jul 2015 by SPLING / No Comments
Ex Machina is a sci-fi thriller and drama from Dredd, Sunshine and 28 Days Later… screenwriter Alex Garland, whose directorial debut is eerie, beautiful, sparse and thought-provoking. It’s a wonderful piece of science fiction, delving into the arena of artificial intelligence with unsettling, provocative drama and keeping an air of suspense with mysterious motives and […]
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SPL!NG Movie Review: Terminator – Genisys
08 Jul 2015 by SPLING / No Comments
After a mesmerising movie poster, a marketing stunt where Arnold Schwarzenegger pranked people at Madame Tussard’s in Hollywood and an endorsement from James Cameron that this film would be the actual third film in the series, there was much excitement and anticipation around the release of Terminator: Genisys.
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SPL!NG Movie Review: While We’re Young
01 Jul 2015 by SPLING / No Comments
While We’re Young is a film by Noah Baumbach, the writer-director who brought us The Squid and the Whale, Margot at the Wedding, Frances Ha and Greenberg, which also starred Ben Stiller. Baumbach’s got an unconventional approach, tending towards comedy dramas and the uncomfortable “dramedy” genre, delivering honest, humorous, heartfelt and meaningful films about complex people and the human condition.
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SPL!NG Movie Review: San Andreas
24 Jun 2015 by SPLING / No Comments
San Andreas is the sort of film you’d expect from Roland Emmerich. It’s big, loaded with CGI, studded with stars and is completely over-the-top. It’s like 2012 meets True Lies, pitting spectacular disaster movie visual effects and Hollywood action against the charm of its stars in a gut-wrenching yet heartwarming tale of survival and redemption in adverse conditions.
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SPL!NG Movie Review: Cobain – Montage of Heck
17 Jun 2015 by SPLING / No Comments
Kurt Cobain is an icon of the ’90s. The Nirvana frontman’s music lives on… long after his alleged suicide, perpetuated by a strong cult following, conspiracy theories and his enigmatic spirit. Montage of Heck is a documentary that assimilates Cobain’s art, writing, vocal recordings and home videos into a raw, honest and intimate biographical music film.
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SPL!NG Movie Review: The Riot Club
03 Jun 2015 by SPLING / No Comments
The Riot Club is an adaptation of the stage play Posh, which follows two first-year students at Oxford University, who are recruited by the infamous Riot Club, where reputations can be made or destroyed overnight.
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SPL!NG Movie Review: Treurgrond
27 May 2015 by SPLING / No Comments
Treurgrond is a South African film about farm murders, directed by Darryl Roodt and starring controversial pop star and actor, Steve Hofmeyr. According to the film’s website, the most frequently asked questions address its political agenda, entertainment value for non-extremists and whether it features racial discrimination. While it answers these questions as you’d expect, it’s interesting […]
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SPLING Movie Review: A Most Violent Year
20 May 2015 by SPLING / No Comments
A Most Violent Year is another film from J.C. Chandor, whose previous efforts Margin Call and All Is Lost have already earned him a spot as an ambitious writer-director with a melancholic disposition. It stars Oscar Isaac from the equally melancholic Inside Llewyn Davis, who finds himself similarly poised in Hollywood. Both director and star are about mood and subtlety, which […]
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Critics Are Loving The New Mad Max: Fury Road [Trailer]
18 May 2015 by Kiernan / No Comments
The hype around the fourth instalment of the ‘Mad Max’ series is growing by the day and critics are gushing over director George Miller. Here’s the scoop.
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SPL!NG Movie Review: Mad Max – Fury Road
13 May 2015 by SPLING / No Comments
Mad Max: Fury Road is a piston-pumping action extravaganza from George Miller, who has reinvigorated the Mad Max franchise. To find some humourous context, the director’s previous films include Babe: Pig in the City, Happy Feet and Happy Feet Two. Mad Max: Fury Road is the antithesis… burning with rage and fuming with eye-popping visuals […]
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SPL!NG Movie Review: Get Hard
06 May 2015 by SPLING / No Comments
Will Ferrell is a comedy kingpin. His over-the-top, loud, brash, incredibly manly, irreverently funny trademark comedy has become his empire, racking up a series of memorable performances and characters in the process.
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SPLING Movie Review: Enemy
22 Apr 2015 by SPLING / No Comments
“You are your own worst enemy.” While we sometimes hurt ourselves or behave unlike ourselves, it’s quite a feat for anyone to believe it was our “evil twin”. Greek mythology suggests we were all originally created with four arms, four legs and a head with two faces. Fearing our power, Zeus separated the beings to […]
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SPL!NG Movie Review: Run All Night
15 Apr 2015 by SPLING / No Comments
Run All Night… while it sounds like a Lionel Richie song, this mobster man-on-the-run thriller deserves to be taken Harvey Keitel seriously. It definitely would’ve got more street cred with a movie title like “Sins of our Fathers”, but it does have a Die Hard affinity, which makes it a bit of an in-betweener.
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SPL!NG Movie Review: Ballade vir ‘n Enkeling
08 Apr 2015 by SPLING / No Comments
Ballade vir ‘n Enkeling is an Afrikaans mystery drama based on the ’80s television series of the same name. After acclaimed author, Jacques Rynhard, goes missing, an aspiring journalist attempts to find out what became of him. As our intrepid journalist sets out on a mission to get dirt on the talented man, she uncovers […]
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SPL!NG Movie Review: Fast and Furious 7
01 Apr 2015 by SPLING / No Comments
Fast and Furious is a film series that seems to be improving with time. You wouldn’t imagine a franchise about sexy women, fast cars and machismo would last seven outings, but Fast and Furious has aged well and keeps reinventing itself! This time, it’s personal… as Deckard Shaw seeks revenge against Dominic Toretto and his […]
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SPL!NG Movie Review: Danny Collins
25 Mar 2015 by SPLING / No Comments
Danny Collins stars Al Pacino in the titular role as an aging rock star, who decides to change his life when he discovers a 40-year old letter written to him by John Lennon. The film is written and directed by Dan Fogelman, best known as the screenwriter behind Last Vegas, The Guilt Trip and Crazy, […]
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SPL!NG Movie Review: Focus
18 Mar 2015 by SPLING / No Comments
Ever since Seven Pounds, it feels as though Will Smith has lost his mojo. Once known for his natural charisma and happy-go-lucky attitude, it’s now difficult to see that x-factor and twinkle in his eye. Perhaps being contrasted with Tom Cruise changed his game plan as the exuberant Oscar-nominated actor found himself in what seems like […]
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SPLING Movie Review: CHAPPiE
11 Mar 2015 by SPLING / No Comments
Chappie is Neill Blomkamp’s latest thought-provoking sci-fi actioner, following in the wake of Elysium and the revered District 9. Die Antwoord were blown away by District 9 and felt an immediate synergy with Blomkamp, leading the zef rappers and director to join forces. Adamant that they be themselves in the film, Chappie was born out of the idea that Ninja and Yo-landi raise a robot.
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SPL!NG Movie Review: Theory of Everything
25 Feb 2015 by SPLING / No Comments
Theory of Everything is a “star-crossed” romance drama and biopic about the relationship between famous physicist, Stephen Hawking, and his wife, Jane. This is a film from James Marsh, the Oscar-winning Man on Wire documentary-maker who also directed IRA thriller, Shadow Dancer. His latest film, Theory of Everything, put him in touch with the Academy […]
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SPL!NG Movie Review: American Sniper
18 Feb 2015 by SPLING / No Comments
American Sniper is a biographical war action drama based on Navy SEAL sniper Chris Kyle’s four tours of duty, the pinpoint accuracy that made him a legend and the unfettered patriotism that almost derailed his family. Letters from Iwo Jima and Flags of our Fathers director, Clint Eastwood, has created a striking film with a garbled message starring Bradley Cooper, Sienna Miller […]
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SPL!NG Movie Review: Kingsman – The Secret Service
11 Feb 2015 by SPLING / No Comments
Kingsman: The Secret Service is a Matthew Vaughn movie. He may sound like a dependable English cricketer, but the film-maker has made a name for himself in Hollywood on the back of producing, writing and directing films like Layer Cake, Stardust, Kick-Ass, X-Men: First Class and now Kingsman: The Secret Service.
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SPL!NG Movie Review: Kite
04 Feb 2015 by SPLING / No Comments
Kite is based on a series of anime films of the same name by Yasuomi Umetsu. The story follows Sawa, a young orphan girl, who is taken in and turned into a cold-blooded killer by a detective assigned to the case of her parents brutal double murder. The film adaptation by writer-producer Brian Cox and directed […]
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SPL!NG Movie Review: Fury
28 Jan 2015 by SPLING / No Comments
Fury is a simple film masquerading as a complex animal. Writer-director David Ayer presents a cocky yet typical platoon war movie as a bunch of characters band together to form, storm and norm again as a new recruit gets initiated. The difference being that instead of being sent to Hell on amphibious landing craft, we’re living, […]
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SPL!NG Movie Review: Birdman
21 Jan 2015 by SPLING / No Comments
Birdman or The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance is a comeback for Michael Keaton, an ambitious masterpiece from Alejandro González Iñárritu and another cinematic breakthrough for Emmanuel Lubezki. While these comments hold some weight, Birdman also happens to be one of the most overrated films of the year.
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SPL!NG Movie Review: Unbroken
14 Jan 2015 by SPLING / 3 Comments
Louis Zamperini’s story was bound to become a movie. The Olympian, war veteran and survivor’s tale of resilience and triumph of the human spirit is astounding. From his early years of fighting off bullies, training for the Olympics, war-time heroics, deep sea survival and prisoner-of-war camp degradation… we’re cast into an epic and powerful true […]
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SPL!NG Movie Review: The Judge
07 Jan 2015 by SPLING / No Comments
Robert Downey Jr. thinks he’s a god. His Twitter bio states “You know who I am.” and based on his runaway Hollywood success since he starred as Tony Stark in Iron Man, many would probably agree with his egotistical musings. Well, Iron Man has been cleared for landing… gracing us with his unequivocal presence in The Judge.
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SPL!NG Movie Review: Exodus – Gods and Kings
31 Dec 2014 by SPLING / No Comments
Exodus: Gods and Kings is a new action adventure drama from Ridley Scott based on the book of Exodus and retold from the perspective of a sibling rivalry. Instead of casting Russell Crowe for the third time, after Robin Hood and his former glory, Gladiator, Scott has enticed Christian Bale to play his hero, Moses.
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SPL!NG Movie Review: The Hobbit – The Battle of Five Armies
17 Dec 2014 by SPLING / No Comments
Peter Jackson has unleashed The Hobbit Trilogy in a similar fashion to George Lucas’s quest to make the first three Star Wars films. Unfortunately, they too don’t live up to the former glory of the original trilogy. While many were quite skeptical about Jackson splitting the adaptation into not two, but three chapters… for the most part, he’s managed […]
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SPL!NG Movie Review: The Longest Week
10 Dec 2014 by SPLING / No Comments
The Longest Week is one of those movies that is so caught up in trying to be something it’s not, that it loses its audience in the process. This is the work of Peter Glanz, whose admiration for Woody Allen and Wes Anderson have turned into the unwanted love child that is The Longest Week.
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