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Movie Reviews
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SPL!NG Movie Review: Rise – The Siya Kolisi Story
22 Mar 2023 by SPLING / No Comments
Through ‘Chasing the Sun’ and ‘Rassie: The Official Film’, the trophy’s guts-and-glory fairytale has been reframed from several perspectives, shifting from the maverick coach to his star captain for this documentary.
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SPL!NG Movie Review: Ted K
15 Mar 2023 by SPLING / No Comments
‘Ted K’ is a biographical crime drama chronicle of Ted Kaczynski’s life in Lincoln, Montana, in the years before his capture as The Unabomber.
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SPL!NG Movie Review: The Worst Person in the World
08 Mar 2023 by SPLING / No Comments
‘The Worst Person in the World’ (‘Verdens verste menneske’) received two Oscar nominations for Best Screenplay and Best International Feature Film at the 94th Academy Awards.
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SPL!NG Movie Review: Top Gun – Maverick
01 Mar 2023 by SPLING / No Comments
‘Top Gun’ was released in 1986, pitting Tom Cruise and Val Kilmer against each other as fierce rivals at the United States Navy Strike Fighter Tactics programme, better known as Top Gun. The long-awaited sequel to his iconic ’80s movie takes place 30 years later, as Maverick is called on to lead a talented squad of fresh-faced recruits on a critical bombing raid in Iran.
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SPL!NG Movie Review: Your Place or Mine
22 Feb 2023 by SPLING / No Comments
‘Your Place or Mine’ is a sweet romantic comedy from writer turned director Aline Brosh McKenna, featuring a charming cast and an unexpected co-lead pairing in Reece Witherspoon and Ashton Kutcher.
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SPL!NG Movie Review: Moonage Daydream
15 Feb 2023 by SPLING / No Comments
Brett Morgen is the visionary director behind ‘Cobain: Montage of Heck’, a biographical documentary about the late Nirvana frontman, Kurt Cobain. Inspired by Pink Floyd’s ‘The Wall’, it’s been Morgen’s ambition to create similarly eclectic depictions, sanctioned by the Bowie estate for ‘Moonage Daydream’.
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SPL!NG Movie Review: Rassie – The Official Film
08 Feb 2023 by SPLING / No Comments
Johan “Rassie” Erasmus has been a rugby fan, player, coach and director over his sports career, culminating in winning the 2019 Rugby World Cup in Japan. A major proponent of the overwhelming success story that characterised the Springboks in what became their third World Cup victory after 1995 and 2003’s dramatic finals, the story was beautifully captured in a rousing documentary series called ‘Chasing the Sun’.
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SPL!NG Movie Review: White Noise
25 Jan 2023 by SPLING / No Comments
Once regarded as unfilmable, Don DeLillo’s ‘White Noise’ has now been successfully adapted to film by ‘Marriage Story’ writer-director Noah Baumbach, making it much easier for students studying post-modernism to get the gist without having to read the book.
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SPL!NG Movie Review: The Menu
18 Jan 2023 by SPLING / No Comments
‘The Menu’ is an elegant yet prickly dark comedy horror from Mark Mylod, which serves as a poetic and political allegory, a spicy blend of art and entertainment.
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A Rare Five-Stars From The Guardian – Cate Blanchett’s New Film, ‘TÁR’ [Trailer]
12 Jan 2023 by Tayla / No Comments
Cate Blanchett took home a Best Actress Golden Globe award for her “piercing” performance in ‘TÁR’.
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SPL!NG Movie Review: I Am Here
11 Jan 2023 by SPLING / No Comments
It’s amazing to think that we live in a society where there are still people who deny the Holocaust ever happened. This is the launchpad for an intimate memoir from Ella Blumenthal, whose compassionate letter to a high profile influencer and denialist became the inception for this vivid chronicle of her storied life in the life-affirming hybrid documentary, ‘I Am Here’.
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The Guardian’s Brutal Two Sentence Review Of Latest Banderas / Bosworth Flick, ‘The Enforcer’ [Trailer]
09 Jan 2023 by Heinrich / No Comments
The critics are having a ball with this predictable crime thriller that “limps” between Miami sleaze clichés.
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SPL!NG Movie Review: North Hollywood
14 Dec 2022 by Seth Rotherham / No Comments
‘North Hollywood’ is a biographical coming-of-age sports comedy drama, loosely based on writer-director Mikey Alfred’s life and relationship with his father. The film stars Ryder McLaughlin, a real-life skateboarder who does most of his own stunts to create an added level of authenticity in this vivid slice-of-life drama.
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SPL!NG Movie Review: Sr.
07 Dec 2022 by SPLING / No Comments
Robert Downey Jr. leverages his fame by introducing this documentary directed by Chris Smith, he serves as a sounding board, attempting to redirect the spotlight and there to coax out the real Robert Downey Sr.
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Docuseries Pulls Back The Curtain On Branson’s Life [Trailer]
06 Dec 2022 by Tayla / No Comments
Sir Richard Branson, one of the world’s most inspiring risk-takers and big-shot businessmen, has a reputation for consistently rolling the dice.
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SPL!NG Movie Review: Bill & Ted Face The Music
30 Nov 2022 by SPLING / No Comments
For a few decades, it seemed that ‘Bill & Ted’s Bogus Journey’ in 1991 was the final chapter of the film franchise, but since the turn of the millennium a script for a long overdue sequel has been pinballed about Hollywood.
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SPL!NG Movie Review: The Metamorphosis Of Birds
23 Nov 2022 by SPLING / No Comments
‘The Metamorphosis of Birds’ is a curious biographical docudrama from Catarina Vasconcelos – the equivalent of sifting through a family memory box.
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Wildly Different Reviews For ‘Black Panther: Wakanda Forever’
21 Nov 2022 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Some reviews are downright brutal (“seemingly designed to sap viewers’ combined will to live”) while others call the sequel “superhero filmmaking”.
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SPL!NG Movie Review: Wild Is The Wind
16 Nov 2022 by SPLING / No Comments
‘Wild is the Wind’ is a gritty crime drama centred on two bent cops trying to land a score that will set them up for the rest of their lives.
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SPL!NG Movie Review: Men
09 Nov 2022 by SPLING / No Comments
Pivoting off a dysfunctional marriage on the verge of divorce, this atmospheric and suspenseful horror drama thriller serves as a character portrait and by extension social commentary.
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Gary Oldman’s Flick ‘Nil By Mouth’ Got Five Stars [Trailer]
04 Nov 2022 by Tayla / No Comments
Gary Oldman produced an emotionally-wrenching film inspired by his own father and his childhood in south London.
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SPL!NG Movie Review: The Lost City
02 Nov 2022 by SPLING / No Comments
Whatever your thoughts, it’s funny to see ‘Romancing the Stone’ getting its own clone with ‘The Lost City’ starring Sandra Bullock and Channing Tatum.
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SPL!NG Movie Review: Gaia
26 Oct 2022 by SPLING / No Comments
‘Gaia’ is another name for Mother Nature, a mythological ancestral giver of life. It’s also the title of a local horror thriller from ‘Rage’ writer-director team Tertius Kapp (‘Griekwastad’) and Jaco Bouwer (‘Die Spreeus’).
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Ouch: Critics Have Not Been Kind To That George Clooney / Julia Roberts Rom-Com
25 Oct 2022 by Tayla / No Comments
Getting these Hollywood heavyweights back together again for a classic wedding-ruining rom-com in a tropical location, complete with the will-they-won’t-they-get-back-together trope, looked really promising.
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They Gave Colin Farrell’s ‘The Banshees Of Inisherin’ A Rare Five Stars [Trailer]
24 Oct 2022 by Tayla / No Comments
Writer-director Martin McDonagh has reunited Brendan Gleeson and Colin Farrell for his latest jet-black Irish folklore offering.
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SPL!NG Movie Review: The Princess
19 Oct 2022 by SPLING / No Comments
Having been the subject of ‘The Crown’ and films such as ‘Spencer’, renewed interest in the royal family household has made the timing of ‘The Princess’ documentary quite perfect… maybe too perfect.
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SPL!NG Movie Review: Do Not Hesitate
12 Oct 2022 by SPLING / No Comments
‘Do Not Hesitate’ isn’t a music drama but signals by way of a possible tribute to the aforementioned films that things could get heated.
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SPL!NG Movie Review: Blonde
05 Oct 2022 by SPLING / No Comments
‘Blonde’ is a long-awaited Marilyn Monroe biographical drama starring Ana de Armas from the mind of Andrew Dominik, the writer-director behind ‘The Assassination of Jessie James’, ‘Chopper’ and ‘Killing Them Softly’.
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SPL!NG Movie Review: Lou
28 Sep 2022 by SPLING / No Comments
‘Lou’ is a moody, visually-striking and fierce action-orientated crime drama thriller in the tradition of ‘Taken’.
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SPL!NG Movie Review: I Came By
21 Sep 2022 by SPLING / No Comments
‘I Came By’ is a strange movie title, which comes to serve as an understated act of vigilantism in the context of this dark crime thriller.
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