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SPL!NG Movie Review: High Fantasy
21 Nov 2018 by SPLING / No Comments
Casting promising young actors who mix a part of themselves with some of the writer-director’s aims for ‘High Fantasy’, there’s a strong collaborative element at play.
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SPL!NG Movie Review: The Girl In The Spider’s Web
14 Nov 2018 by SPLING / No Comments
‘The Girl in the Spider’s Web’ is a strange creature, based on a book that continues the Millennium series, which wasn’t written by the original ‘The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo’ author, Stieg Larsson.
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SPL!NG Movie Review: Juliet, Naked
07 Nov 2018 by SPLING / No Comments
Juliet, Naked – if you were expecting nudity, you’re guaranteed to be disappointed. While the film title sounds a bit racy, this unconventional music comedy drama is actually quite harmless.
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SPL!NG Movie Review: First Man
31 Oct 2018 by SPLING / 1 Comment
‘First Man’ is a biographical drama based on the life of Neil Armstrong, who became the first man to walk on the moon on July 20, 1969.
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SPL!NG Movie Review: Halloween (2018)
24 Oct 2018 by SPLING / No Comments
The original ‘Halloween’ by John Carpenter was iconic, a horror masterpiece that inspired many sequels and spin-offs.
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SPL!NG Movie Review: Kanarie
17 Oct 2018 by SPLING / No Comments
While South Africa’s complicated history of Apartheid diffuses the pop culture of the ’80s, this is where we find ‘Kanarie’, a film about an army conscript searching for his true identity.
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SPL!NG Movie Review: A Simple Favour
10 Oct 2018 by SPLING / No Comments
‘A Simple Favour’ is a neo-noir thriller based on the novel by Darcey Bell, as projected through the mind of writer-director Paul Feig.
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SPL!NG Movie Review: Leave No Trace
03 Oct 2018 by SPLING / No Comments
‘Leave No Trace’ is a drama about doing what most people only dream of doing these days – living off the land in peace and harmony.
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SPL!NG Movie Review: The Recce
27 Sep 2018 by SPLING / No Comments
‘The Recce’ is a South African war drama from writer-director Johannes Ferdinand Van Zyl. The film follows the journey of a soldier behind enemy lines.
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SPL!NG Movie Review: Johnny English Strikes Again
19 Sep 2018 by SPLING / No Comments
‘Johnny English Strikes Again’ is the third instalment in the Johnny English franchise, starring Rowan Atkinson as a bumbling Secret Service agent.
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SPL!NG Movie Review: Ellen – The Ellen Pakkies Story
12 Sep 2018 by SPLING / No Comments
‘Ellen: The Ellen Pakkies Story’ tells of the troubled relationship between a mother and her drug-addicted son.
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SPL!NG Movie Review: The Spy Who Dumped Me
22 Aug 2018 by SPLING / No Comments
‘The Spy Who Dumped Me’ isn’t a sequel to ‘Austin Powers’, but rather a spy action adventure comedy starring Mila Kunis and Kate McKinnon.
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SPL!NG Movie Review: Solo – A Star Wars Story
06 Jun 2018 by SPLING / No Comments
Love it or hate it, Star Wars is here to stay… at least until everyone gets sick of the remakes, spin-offs, reboots and prequels.
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SPL!NG Movie Review: Vuil Wasgoed
11 Apr 2018 by SPLING / No Comments
Vuil Wasgoed or Dirty Laundry is an Afrikaans crime caper turned buddy movie starring Bennie Fourie and Bouwer Bosch and directed by Morne du Toit.
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SPL!NG: How To Learn To Stop Worrying And Predict Oscar Winners [Video]
07 Feb 2018 by SPLING / No Comments
Our resident movie critic Spling has created a foolproof guide to predicting Oscar winners, and he’s pretty much on the money with each and every point.
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SPL!NG Movie Review: Alison
12 Apr 2017 by SPLING / No Comments
Alison is the powerful true story of a South African woman, who reclaimed her life after being raped, disemboweled, nearly decapitated and left for dead. Directed by Uga Carlini, this part documentary, part docudrama and has been treated like a fairy tale, getting the inside story from various interviewees, who helped Alison along her journey. […]
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SPL!NG Movie Review: Ghost in the Shell
29 Mar 2017 by SPLING / No Comments
Ghost in the Shell is based on a manga series, which was later adapted into an animated feature in 1995. Partly inspired by Arthur Koestler’s The Ghost in the Machine and partly an inspiration for The Matrix, this much-loved Japanese series continues to inspire. Now unveiling its latest iteration, an almost inevitable live-action adaptation, starring […]
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SPL!NG Movie Review: The Magnificent Seven (2016)
28 Sep 2016 by SPLING / No Comments
The Magnificent Seven is a revisionist Western remake of a classic Western, which was based on a Japanese film called The Seven Samurai. The story of heroes vs. cowards, little man vs. big man, defending your fortress and fighting for freedom from tyranny and persecution has remained timeless. The altruism at the heart of The […]
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SPL!NG Movie Review: Blair Witch
21 Sep 2016 by SPLING / No Comments
Blair Witch is comparable with Evil Dead 2 in as much as it’s delivering what the first one did, with less novelty and more finesse. The original The Blair Witch Project was one of the first found footage horror films to emerge and while the hype exceeded delivery, managed to carve out a new genre […]
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SPL!NG Movie Review: 10 Cloverfield Lane
13 Apr 2016 by SPLING / No Comments
10 Cloverfield Lane follows Cloverfield, a sci-fi thriller that tracked some kids with a first-person video camera perspective during a monster attack on New York City. Matt Reeves went on to direct Let Me In and Dawn of the Planet of the Apes and there wasn’t much thought to a Cloverfield prequel or sequel. Well, […]
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SPL!NG Movie Review: Modder en Bloed
06 Apr 2016 by SPLING / No Comments
Modder en Bloed or Blood and Glory is a war drama, directed by Sean Else, who coaxed some fantastic performances from a stellar cast in his previous feature, ‘n Man soos my Pa. This film stars Stian Bam, Grant Swanby and Charlotte Salt, who lead an equally adept ensemble with the likes of Deon Lotz, […]
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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: 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: 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: 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: Jurassic World
11 Jun 2015 by SPLING / No Comments
Jurassic World is one of those movie sequel throwbacks that channels ’90s nostalgia and theme park curiosity into a weird tribute to dinosaurs. We’re living in an age where films like Sharknado have an audience, which helps explain the theme park roller-coaster ride meets Jurassic Park tribute tone of Jurassic World.
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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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