SPL!NG Movie Review: Spider-Man – Into the Spider-Verse
There have been many iterations of Spider-Man over the years with a number of reboots and now an animated spin-off.
SPL!NG Movie Review: Mowgli – Legend Of The Jungle
‘Mowgli: Legend of the Jungle’ is a curious film, following closely in the wake of Disney’s ‘The Jungle Book’ live-action adaptation.
SPL!NG Movie Review: Widows
‘Widows’ is the much-anticipated follow-up to ’12 Years a Slave’, Steve McQueen’s Oscar-winning drama about the antebellum South and the journey of Solomon Northup.
SPL!NG Movie Review: Creed II
‘Creed’ picked up the Rocky story, creating a spin-off boxing drama about Apollo Creed’s son, Adonis, who falls under the mentorship of new coach, Rocky Balboa.
SPL!NG Movie Review: High Fantasy
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.
SPL!NG Movie Review: The Girl In The Spider’s Web
‘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.
SPL!NG Movie Review: Juliet, Naked
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.
SPL!NG Movie Review: First Man
‘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.
SPL!NG Movie Review: Halloween (2018)
The original ‘Halloween’ by John Carpenter was iconic, a horror masterpiece that inspired many sequels and spin-offs.
SPL!NG Movie Review: Kanarie
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.
SPL!NG Movie Review: A Simple Favour
‘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.
SPL!NG Movie Review: Leave No Trace
‘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.
SPL!NG Movie Review: The Recce
‘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.
SPL!NG Movie Review: Johnny English Strikes Again
‘Johnny English Strikes Again’ is the third instalment in the Johnny English franchise, starring Rowan Atkinson as a bumbling Secret Service agent.
SPL!NG Movie Review: Ellen – The Ellen Pakkies Story
‘Ellen: The Ellen Pakkies Story’ tells of the troubled relationship between a mother and her drug-addicted son.
SPL!NG Movie Review: Mile 22
Mile 22 isn’t an Eminem sequel but another collaboration between actor–director duo, Mark Wahlberg and Peter Berg.
SPL!NG Movie Review: Crazy Rich Asians
Crazy Rich Asians is a romance comedy drama based on the international bestseller, and features an all-Asian cast of up-and-coming to established stars.
SPL!NG Movie Review: The Spy Who Dumped Me
‘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.
SPL!NG Movie Review: Mary Shelley
‘Mary Shelley’ is a biographical romance drama and origins story of the famed author, whose published name serves as a mask for a fascinating entry into the world of writing.
SPL!NG Movie Review: Stroomop
‘Stroomop’, which means upstream, follows the lives of five women with their own personal struggles, who join a whitewater rafting expedition.
SPL!NG Movie Review: Mission Impossible – Fallout
Who knew that when they dangled Tom Cruise from the air duct in Mission Impossible in 1996, that it would still be in business some 22 years later.
SPL!NG Movie Review: Adrift
Adrift is a romance drama and survival thriller, based on a true story about a young seafaring couple, who faced one of the most catastrophic hurricanes in recorded history. The deep sea misadventure stars up-and-coming young talents, Shailene Woodley and Sam Claflin, floating somewhere between the perilous All is Lost with Robert Redford and rose-tinted […]
SPL!NG Movie Review: Isle Of Dogs
Isle of Dogs… a play on the phrase “I Love Dogs” was inspired by a road sign Wes Anderson saw whilst filming his previous stop-motion film, Fantastic Mr. Fox.
SPL!NG Movie Review: Hereditary
Hereditary is a grand and masterfully composed horror, in the same league as The Shining. This is a remarkable achievement for a feature film debut.
SPL!NG Movie Review: Ant-Man & The Wasp
Ant-Man & The Wasp is the sequel to Ant-Man, continuing a surprising departure from Marvel’s usual superhero formula, to deliver something akin to a heist film.
SPL!NG Movie Review: Thys & Trix
The idea of equal-opposite Johannesburg cop siblings going undercover as a wealthy couple on an elite Mossel Bay golf estate to infiltrate a drug trafficking ring is perfectly poised.
SPL!NG Movie Review: Ocean’s 8
Sandra Bullock, Cate Blanchett, Anne Hathaway, Sarah Paulson, Rihanna, Mindy Kaling and Helena Bonham Carter lead the charge.
SPL!NG Movie Review: Jurassic World – Fallen Kingdom
This Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom roller-coaster is darker, following some time after the events of Jurassic World.
SPL!NG Movie Review: Solo – A Star Wars Story
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.
SPL!NG Movie Review: Nommer 37
‘Nommer 37’ is an Afrikaans language homage to Alfred Hitchcock’s Rear Window, borrowing and re-imagining the concept at the heart of the classic thriller.