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SPL!NG Movie Review: The Grand Bolero
20 Jul 2022 by SPLING / No Comments
‘The Grand Bolero’ is a music drama romance turned thriller about a middle-aged organ restorer who becomes a mentor to a young woman after she arrives at a rural Italian church with nothing but a desire to learn.
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SPL!NG Movie Review: The Electrical Life Of Louis Wain
13 Jul 2022 by SPLING / No Comments
To say Louis Wain was a cat lover is an understatement of Titanic proportions.
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SPL!NG Movie Review: The Card Counter
06 Jul 2022 by SPLING / No Comments
‘The Card Counter’ recalls ’21’, a Kevin Spacey casino heist film based on the true story of the MIT Blackjack team who used their mathematics and card counting skills to rig the system in their favour, winning millions in Las Vegas.
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SPL!NG Movie Review: Collision
29 Jun 2022 by SPLING / No Comments
‘Collision’ is a word usually reserved for “Chopper Dave” style traffic reports to help you navigate bumper-to-bumper morning commutes.
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SPL!NG Movie Review: Good Life
22 Jun 2022 by SPLING / No Comments
Bonnie Rodini is the co-screenwriter and producer of ‘The Story of an African Farm’, a family drama directed by David Lister and starring Richard E. Grant.
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SPL!NG Movie Review: John And The Hole
15 Jun 2022 by SPLING / No Comments
‘John and the Hole’ is a strange and unsettling thriller. The simple title becomes ironic and minimalist when you discover a much more nuanced and human story beneath it all.
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SPL!NG Movie Review: Licorice Pizza
01 Jun 2022 by SPLING / No Comments
‘Licorice Pizza’ is Paul Thomas Anderson’s fifth consecutive period film, named after a record store from the ’70s and derived from the appearance of vinyl records.
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SPL!NG Movie Review: The Courier
25 May 2022 by SPLING / No Comments
Keep your friends close and your enemies closer seems to be the stance Russia and the United States have taken.
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SPL!NG Movie Review: Return To Space
18 May 2022 by SPLING / No Comments
‘Return to Space’ is a documentary from Oscar-winning directors Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi and Jimmy Chin who turn their focus to the stars after their astonishing work on ‘Free Solo’ and ‘The Rescue’.
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SPL!NG Movie Review: The Alpinist
11 May 2022 by SPLING / No Comments
‘The Alpinist’ is an unconventional sports documentary, which tracks Canadian mountain climber, Marc-André Leclerc, whose death-defying solo ascents are some of the boldest in history.
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SPL!NG Movie Review: Silverton Siege
04 May 2022 by SPLING / No Comments
‘Silverton Siege’ is a heist thriller that centres on three young freedom fighters who take a bank and its customers hostage in exchange for the release of Nelson Mandela.
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SPL!NG Movie Review: Spencer
26 Apr 2022 by SPLING / No Comments
‘Spencer’ is a moody historical character portrait and unsettling psychological drama from Pablo Larraín. Starring Kristen Stewart as Diana Spencer, this sumptuous film is from the director behind ‘Jackie’.
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SPL!NG Movie Review: Sodium Day
20 Apr 2022 by SPLING / No Comments
‘Sodium Day’ is a comedy drama that settles into the a day-in-the-life of a Grade 12 class at John Shelby High in the Cape Flats.
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SPL!NG Movie Review: Against All Odds – The Alwyn Uys Story
13 Apr 2022 by SPLING / No Comments
Alwyn Uys is the name of a paraplegic man whose life story forms the basis for ‘Against All Odds: The Alwyn Uys Story’.
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SPL!NG Movie Review: Apollo 10½: A Space Age Childhood
06 Apr 2022 by SPLING / No Comments
‘Apollo 10½: A Space Age Childhood’ is a sweet and nostalgic animated coming-of-age sci-fi adventure drama from Richard Linklater, the director who brought us ‘Dazed and Confused’, ‘Before Sunrise’, ‘Everybody Wants Some!!’ and ‘Boyhood’.
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SPL!NG Movie Review: The Sparks Brothers
30 Mar 2022 by SPLING / No Comments
The Sparks Brothers had a cameo on ‘The Gilmore Girls’ in an episode where the town of Star’s Hollow was invaded by a horde of buskers.
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SPL!NG Movie Review: Windfall
23 Mar 2022 by SPLING / No Comments
‘Windfall’ typically refers to fruit that has been blown down by the wind or unexpected good fortune. Now also a Hitchcockian crime thriller with comedic tendencies, the story follows a man who becomes trapped at a tech billionaire’s vacation home.
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SPL!NG Movie Review: The Bombardment (In The Shadow Of My Eye)
16 Mar 2022 by SPLING / No Comments
‘The Bombardment’ (also known as ‘The Shadow in My Eye’) is a harrowing chronicle of a tragic moment in Denmark’s history when Operation Carthage, an RAF manoeuvre, went horribly wrong.
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SPL!NG Movie Review: Against The Ice
09 Mar 2022 by SPLING / No Comments
‘Against the Ice’ is a historical survivalist adventure drama based on the book ‘Two Against the Ice’ by Ejnar Mikkelsen and produced by Baltasar Kormákur, best known for directing accomplished survival drama thrillers ‘Everest’ and ‘Adrift’.
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SPL!NG Movie Review: Icarus
02 Mar 2022 by SPLING / No Comments
Vladimir Putin and Russia are in the news, the Oscars are around the corner and so is the Cape Town Cycle Tour… which makes the Oscar-winning sports documentary, ‘Icarus’, as topical as the day it was released.
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SPL!NG Movie Review: The Little Things
23 Feb 2022 by SPLING / No Comments
‘The Little Things’ is a crime drama mystery thriller, penned by John Lee Hancock in the ’90s. The project subsequently got stuck in development limbo as a number of directors and stars were attached, but it never got off the ground.
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SPL!NG Movie Review: Glasshouse
16 Feb 2022 by SPLING / No Comments
‘Glasshouse’ is a post-apocalyptic sci-fi western period piece drama and psychological thriller set in the not-too-distant future.
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SPL!NG Movie Review: The Tinder Swindler
09 Feb 2022 by SPLING / No Comments
Taking our relationships into the digital ether, there’s a greater chance for illusion and catfishing. These are the perfect conditions for the events captured in ‘The Tinder Swindler’.
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SPL!NG Movie Review: Amandla (2022)
02 Feb 2022 by SPLING / No Comments
In South Africa, films that echo themes from South Africa’s darkest days are often criticised for being stuck in a time most would rather forget. While a painful reminder, these historical recreations can serve as a contrast to show how much progress we’ve made or how far we’ve still got to go.
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SPL!NG Movie Review: Girls Can’t Surf
26 Jan 2022 by SPLING / No Comments
Ironically titled, ‘Girls Can’t Surf’, this sports documentary returns to the ’80s to a time when professional women’s surfing kicked off, “a circus of fluro colours, peroxide hair and radical male egos”.
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SPL!NG Movie Review: Dune (2021)
19 Jan 2022 by SPLING / No Comments
‘Dune’ journeys with Paul Atreides, a young noble who begins to discover his true calling. Dreams speak to his destiny as he becomes entrusted with protecting the precious resource known as spice, one of the galaxy’s most valuable and vital elements.
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SPL!NG Movie Review: Don’t Look Up
12 Jan 2022 by SPLING / No Comments
‘Don’t Look Up’ is a political satire starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Jennifer Lawrence from the guy who brought us ‘The Big Short’, ‘Vice’… oh, and ‘Anchorman’.
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SPL!NG Movie Review: The Power Of The Dog
15 Dec 2021 by SPLING / No Comments
‘The Power of the Dog’ is an unconventional Western psychological drama, directed by Jane Campion and based on the 1967 novel of the same name by Thomas Savage.
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SPL!NG Movie Review: 14 Peaks – Nothing Is Impossible
08 Dec 2021 by SPLING / No Comments
’14 Peaks: Nothing is Impossible’ is a new biographical sports documentary, which journeys with Nims Purja and Project Possible… a seemingly impossible mission to summit 14 of the world’s 8000m plus peaks
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SPL!NG Movie Review: Barakat
01 Dec 2021 by SPLING / No Comments
‘Barakat’ is a “warm and fuzzy” local comedy drama from writer-director Amy Jephta, whose writing credits include ‘Ellen: Die storie van Ellen Pakkies’, ‘Trackers’ and ‘Skemerdans’.
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