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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: 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: 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: 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: 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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SPL!NG Movie Review: Horrible Bosses 2
03 Dec 2014 by SPLING / No Comments
Horrible Bosses was dark, reasonably funny and featured a stellar cast. It was a vent for frustrated employees who wanted to see the little guy take revenge and served its purpose as a comedic stab at interoffice politics. The Office Space style scenario had its quirks and picked up some fans along the way, but no one was […]
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SPL!NG Movie Review: The Drop
19 Nov 2014 by SPLING / No Comments
The Drop is a slow-boiling, character driven Brooklyn crime drama based on Dennis Lehane’s short story, Animal Rescue,about a Brooklyn bartender, who finds himself entwined in an investigation after a robbery gone awry. It’s quite surprising that this is Lehane’s first feature film screenplay when you consider his novels: Mystic River, Shutter Island and Gone Baby Gone have all been adapted into […]
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SPL!NG Movie Review: What If
05 Nov 2014 by SPLING / No Comments
Without the Harry Potter thing, Daniel Radcliffe is a pretty ordinary guy, something we tend to lose sight of when it comes to watching him in just about anything post-2011. He’s always been a bit of a cold fish, stubbornly determined yet tempered by his British-ness. Imagining him in a quirky Canadian comedy romance would have been […]
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SPL!NG Movie Review: Snowpiercer
15 Oct 2014 by SPLING / No Comments
Snowpiercer is a visually-arresting, thought-provoking and action-packed sci-fi thriller based on French graphic novel, Le Transperceneige. It’s headed by Captain America, one times Chris Evans, who is backed by a critically-acclaimed ensemble including: John Hurt, Octavia Spencer, Ed Harris, Tilda Swinton, Kang-ho Song and Jamie Bell.
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SPL!NG Movie Review: Gone Girl
08 Oct 2014 by SPLING / No Comments
David Fincher is a heavyweight director with a proven track record, who has become synonymous with dark mystery crime thrillers after Seven, The Game, Fight Club, Zodiac, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo and now Gone Girl. His latest film, an adaptation penned by Gone Girl author Gillian Flynn herself, is a curiously entertaining dark pearl about a man who becomes the focus of […]
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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: 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: 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: 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: Transcendence
04 Jun 2014 by SPLING / No Comments
Transcendence picks up a similar thread to The Lawnmower Man, following the trajectory of a man, whose meddling with computer science turns him into a god. The divide between humanity and technology is narrowing as artificial intelligence evolves. When will machines overtake humanity? It’s a recurring, thought-provoking and timely science-fiction theme that takes root in our collective […]
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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: 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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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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