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SPL!NG Movie Review: The November Man
01 Oct 2014 by SPLING / No Comments
Ex-covert operatives are all the rage in Hollywood these days. Just like U2 saved rock ‘n roll with their track Beautiful Day, Liam Neeson has almost single-handedly brought back the old guy with action skills revenge thriller with Taken. Although, let’s not discount Sylvester Stallone’s efforts to reinvigorate aging action men of the ’80s with his reboots and The Expendables. […]
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SPL!NG Movie Review: The Great Beauty
24 Sep 2014 by SPLING / No Comments
The Great Beauty or La grande belezza is a film laced with paradoxes to the point of becoming a paradox in itself. We’re presented with the beautiful city of Rome, in its historical significance and splendor. Director Paolo Sorrentino (This Must Be the Place) has given us a luscious and eye-popping depiction of this glorious city with dazzling […]
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SPL!NG Movie Review: Calvary
17 Sep 2014 by SPLING / No Comments
Calvary is an immense Irish drama about the church, mortality and revenge. As you’d imagine from the movie title and such a severe line-up of themes, it’s a dark, heavy and soulful film led by a tremendous performance from Brendan Gleeson that embodies these sombre qualities.
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SPL!NG Movie Review: Boyhood
10 Sep 2014 by SPLING / No Comments
Writer-director Richard Linklater has built his film career on ambitious, semi-experimental cinema. He wrote and directed the critically-acclaimed Before Sunrise, Before Sunset and Before Midnight series, turning a chance meeting on a train in Europe into a lifelong conversation between two star-crossed lovers. He brought us the ultimate freewheeling movie, Dazed and Confused, bringing free-ranging conversations and a large ensemble to […]
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SPL!NG Movie Review: Lucy
03 Sep 2014 by SPLING / No Comments
Lucy is a high concept sci-fi action film from Luc Besson, starring Scarlett Johansson and Morgan Freeman. The subtitle on the movie poster for Lucy reads “The average person uses 10% of their brain capacity. Imagine what she could do with a 100%.”. This intriguing premise is what attracts and repels in what seems like a mash […]
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SPL!NG Movie Review: Hard to Get
27 Aug 2014 by SPLING / No Comments
Hard to Get echoes a similar passion and energy to the acclaimed Congolese crime thriller, Viva Riva. It’s arguably South Africa’s best action movie ever, powered by a similar sweaty, sexy and dangerous intensity on the back of world-class production values and surprisingly mature film-making for a number of feature film debuts.
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SPL!NG Movie Review: The Expendables 3
20 Aug 2014 by SPLING / No Comments
The Expendables is a concept that just won’t die. As long as action heroes continue to lose their box office mojo and Stallone is able to wear a beret, we’ll have The Expendables: even if they eventually turn him into a digital mission control entity. We’re indebted to Rambo, Commando and all the muscle man action heroes from the ’80s […]
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SPL!NG Movie Review: Jersey Boys
13 Aug 2014 by SPLING / No Comments
Jersey Boys is a film adaptation of the Tony award-winning musical about Franki Valli and The Four Seasons. While The Four Seasons have a rich history of chart-topping singles, you’d be forgiven for thinking they were a Vivaldi tribute band. Their story may not be as well-known as that of The Beatles, but after the long-running and wildly popular […]
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SPL!NG Movie Review: Hercules
06 Aug 2014 by SPLING / No Comments
Hercules has been doing the rounds this year with three films including: Hercules Reborn, The Legend of Hercules and now Hercules starring the top-grossing actor of 2013, Dwayne Johnson. Of the three, Hercules, is head and shoulders above the rest and we’re not just talking about Johnson’s physique. Although to be fair, it wasn’t going to be much of a task […]
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SPL!NG Movie Review: Guardians of the Galaxy
30 Jul 2014 by SPLING / No Comments
Guardians of the Galaxy is one of the most highly anticipated films of 2014. Apart from being yet another superhero comic book adaptation, the ragtag Guardians of the Galaxy have been described as “Space Avengers” and have been toting an exciting trailer in the build-up to their intergalactic adventure.
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SPL!NG Movie Review: Bad Neighbours
16 Jul 2014 by SPLING / No Comments
“Neighbours, everybody needs good neighbours…”, the cheerful theme of the long-running Australian soap drama, is a haunting refrain to some who have experienced nightmare neighbours. While most of us would be quite happy with the prospect of sharing a street with the likes of Kylie Minogue, Guy Pearce, Jason Donovan or Natalie Imbruglia – we’re often […]
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SPL!NG Movie Review: Dawn of the Planet of the Apes
09 Jul 2014 by SPLING / No Comments
Whether you believe in evolution or not, there’s plenty of great contrasts to be made in The Planet of the Apes saga. After it seemed like Tim Burton had broken the franchise, a prequel in Rise of the Planet of the Apes renewed interest in the science-fiction concept, leveraging Andy Serkis and his second most famous digitally rendered performance […]
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SPL!NG Movie Review: Transformers – Age of Extinction
02 Jul 2014 by SPLING / No Comments
WHAM! BAM! Thank you Michael Bay. Love or hate him, the Transformers director has continued to smash the box office with larger-than-life movies about Hasbro’s popular line of toys from the ’80s. His latest sequel, Transformers: Age of Extinction, is a case of too much “more of the same” with Mark Wahlberg replacing long-running front man, Shia LaBeouf.
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SPL!NG Movie Review: Locke
25 Jun 2014 by SPLING / No Comments
When we reach a fork in the road of life, the path we choose often leads to a known set of consequences. Once we’ve knowingly taken the wrong path, getting back on the right path can be tough going as Ivan Locke discovers in the tense drama, Locke.
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SPL!NG Movie Review: 22 Jump Street
18 Jun 2014 by SPLING / No Comments
Johnny Depp is probably the most famous thing about the ’80s TV show, 21 Jump Street. Now that the TV show has been loosely adapted to film with Jonah Hill and Channing Tatum leading the charge, his legacy is in jeopardy. The first film was a bit of a gamble, taking the TV show’s premise of […]
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SPL!NG Movie Review: Edge of Tomorrow
11 Jun 2014 by SPLING / No Comments
“Live. Die. Repeat.” The tag line turned mantra for Tom Cruise’s latest science-fiction action thriller is not officially endorsed by Scientology, although many religions would probably find a nugget of truth in the thematic content at play in his latest sci-fi blockbuster, Edge of Tomorrow.
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SPL!NG Movie Review: Under the Skin
28 May 2014 by SPLING / No Comments
Under the Skin is an original film, based on the novel by Michel Faber. After falling in love with the story and several drafts later, director and co-writer, Jonathan Glazer, decided to move away from an illustrative adaptation and rather tap into the essence of the main character’s experiences. The project was in development for 10 […]
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SPL!NG Movie Review: X-Men – Days of Future Past
21 May 2014 by SPLING / No Comments
X-Men: Days of Future Past has it all: mutant superheroes, time travel, retro ’70s cool and of course, Wolverine. Hugh Jackman has been the X-Men mascot for some time now, sans yellow spandex, so naturally he was the first choice to make the journey back in time to save their future from an event that could endanger humans […]
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SPL!NG Movie Review: Filth
14 May 2014 by SPLING / No Comments
Director, Jon S. Baird is a brave and determined director. When the pig-headed policeman on the front cover of Irvine Welsh’s Filth caught his imagination, he read the novel and was inspired to direct what was then deemed impossible to adapt. The film rights had just expired and Baird took it upon himself to visit Irvine Welsh […]
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SPL!NG Movie Review: Only God Forgives
07 May 2014 by SPLING / 2 Comments
Only God Forgives is the much anticipated follow-up to Drive from writer-director Nicolas Winding Refn. In many ways, this is an unofficial sequel to Drive: Ryan Gosling takes another lead role, while the sleek cinematography and pulsating soundtrack reverberate with the same intensity. The difference is that Only God Forgives is set in Bangkok, balancing on a much sharper and darker […]
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SPL!NG Movie Review: iNumber Number
30 Apr 2014 by SPLING / No Comments
South Africa’s crime epidemic has inspired films like Tsotsi, Jerusalema, A Million Colours, How to Steal 2 Million, Stander, Hijack Stories and more recently, Four Corners. We’re living in a gangster’s paradise with a flourishing subculture of violence and criminality. While the SAPS and local crime watch initiatives are trying to combat this, crime is still a prominent issue in South Africa.
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SPL!NG Movie Review: The Amazing Spider-Man 2
23 Apr 2014 by SPLING / No Comments
The Amazing Spider-Man 2 has got a lot to live up to. For starters, it follows Sam Raimi’s Spider-Man franchise, which only really ran out of web in Spider-Man 3. Second, it’s a sequel following a strong series reboot. Thirdly, the title The Amazing Spider-Man 2 puts a bit of pressure to keep it well, amazing. More to the point, it’s […]
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2 Philip Seymour Hoffman Movie Trailers Come Out After His Death [VIDEOS]
16 Apr 2014 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Philip Seymour Hoffman was found dead in his New York apartment earlier this year. The celebrated actor has left behind a long repertoire of films, but some are still to be released. Here are trailers for two movies he starred in that are yet to come out.
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SPL!NG Movie Review: Sabotage
16 Apr 2014 by SPLING / No Comments
It’s funny how some movie titles seem to become self-fulfilling prophecies, allowing their overriding meaning to seep into the film. On the surface, Sabotage is a dark, trashy and intense Arnold Schwarzenegger action thriller with a couple of name stars thrown in for good measure. However, as it builds to a crescendo, it seems as […]
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SPL!NG Movie Review: Noah
09 Apr 2014 by SPLING / No Comments
Darren Aronofsky’s Biblical fantasy epic was spawned from his fascination with the character of Noah. On the surface, Noah was a man commissioned by God to build an ark and gather two of every bird, animal and reptile before the floods cleansed the earth of humanity. The retelling of this Old Testament story tends to […]
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The Trailer For The Kurt Cobain Murder Movie Is Here [VIDEO]
08 Apr 2014 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
5 April marked 20 years since the death of Kurt Cobain. The events surrounding his death have remained in pop culture cognisance for two decades. Conspiracy theories that his wife was behind it have been around for ages. Here is the trailer for ‘Soaked In Bleach,’ a movie that explores this possibility.
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Here’s The Trailer To Cameron Diaz’ Sex Tape [VIDEO]
02 Apr 2014 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
Cameron Diaz knows that the only way to spice up her sex life is to make a sex tape. Where was this movie at the height of her career? Well, better late than never.
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SPL!NG Movie Review: Captain America – The Winter Soldier
01 Apr 2014 by SPLING / No Comments
Captain America doesn’t really have any super powers. He’s a super soldier, armed with a shield that doubles as a boomerang frisbee. His agility, strength, healing and endurance abilities make him slightly more difficult to kill than you or I, but let’s face the facts… he’s a G.I. Joe at a fancy dress party.
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SPL!NG Movie Review: Four Corners
26 Mar 2014 by SPLING / No Comments
Pollsmoor Prison is overpopulated and way beyond capacity, famous for Nelson Mandela’s incarceration and infamous for its prolific gangsterism. A gang war has been raging for almost a hundred years between ‘The Numbers’, several prison gangs divided by their 26, 27 and 28 affiliations, exercising their rule by means of extreme violence. Their bonds extend beyond […]
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Here Is The ‘Hercules’ Trailer [VIDEO]
26 Mar 2014 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Do you smell what Hercules is cooking? Dwayne ‘the Rock’ Johnson’s portrayal of the title character pits him against mythical beasts in the action film ‘Hercules.’ Check out the trailer here.
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