Movie Reviews
Movie Review: This Is It (2009)
04 Nov 2009 by SPLING / 3 Comments
This Is It is a special tribute to Michael Jackson, the undisputed King of Pop, which was originally intended to be screened for 2 weeks after its world premiere last week. However, the This Is It “show” has been extended by another two weeks in countries like South Africa to give everyone (like you) a […]
Movie Review: Trick ‘r Treat (2009)
28 Oct 2009 by SPLING / 3 Comments
It’s Halloween again, which means you’ll either be scaring up a tacky fancy dress costume for a party or guarding your front door against a small militant wing of kids, who think they’re entitled to some of your hard-earned candy. I thought they were supposed to avoid strangers with candy!? Well, if it’s the one […]
Movie Review: Inglourious Basterds (2009)
21 Oct 2009 by SPLING / 3 Comments
Quentin Tarantino’s latest film, Inglourious Basterds (yes, that’s how you spell it) is about to hit South African shores like D-Day this Friday. Brad Pitt appears to be the star and headlines a cast including: Christoph Waltz, Diane Kruger, Julie Dreyfuss, Melanie Laurent, Eli Roth, Til Schweiger with a siff cameo from Mike Myers (think […]
Movie Review: Jennifer’s Body (2009)
14 Oct 2009 by SPLING / 4 Comments
Every now and then a movie comes along that blows our minds… Jennifer’s Body is not that movie. It blows alright… but not in a good way. The creators of Juno must have been high on Oscar fever (or cocaine) when they decided to make Jennifer’s Body. Imagine the setting in the creator’s board room or […]
BIFF’S “QUESTION SONG”
13 Oct 2009 by Seth Rotherham / 2 Comments
Now when I say “Biff” I’m not talking about Graeme Smith, but rather the guy from Back To The Future. The guy who used to pick on Michael J Fox’s character, Marty McFly. His real name is Thomas F. Wilson and he played the character, Biff Tannen. I’ve arranged a visual clue for you: Biff […]
Movie Review: The Ugly Truth (2009)
07 Oct 2009 by SPLING / 3 Comments
Ah The Ugly Truth… women fall head over heels and men fall for women that wear nothing but heels. The whole intergalactic “Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus” game of cat-and-mouse has been discussed at length and there just doesn’t seem to be a light (or even a candle-lit dinner) at the end of […]
Movie Review: The Boat That Rocked (2009)
30 Sep 2009 by SPLING / 6 Comments
Austin Powers and Dr. Evil are the same person, Mike Myers. No, not the psychotic serial killer from Halloween that just won’t die, the guy from Wayne’s World… Wayne. (GET ON WITH IT!) Yes… quite, well The Boat That Rocked is British – you may think it’s American, but it’s not – it hasn’t even been released there […]
Movie Review: The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3 (2009)
23 Sep 2009 by SPLING / 6 Comments
Remember how our parentals tried to force-feed us as children… “Here comes the aeroplane”, “If you eat the crust you’ll get a deep voice” and “Don’t make me come down there!”. Okay, maybe the last one was only for special occasions, but that’s what watching The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3 is like, except […]
MEGAN FOX IS “AS DUMB AS A ROCK” AND “CLASSLESS”
22 Sep 2009 by Seth Rotherham / 6 Comments
Megan Fox has punished herself by referring to her Transformers director as a Napoleon and Hitler type. But there’s no surprise there, we’ve always known that Megas doesn’t pack a full one. The big result here was an open letter from director Michael Bay’s crew who got deep into it. Megan Fox The way […]
Movie Review: Observe and Report (2009)
16 Sep 2009 by SPLING / 2 Comments
The thin line between love and hate isn’t as thin as we once thought… and it’s blue, thanks to middling mall cop movies like Paul Blart: Mall Cop with Kevin James and more recently Observe and Report with Seth Rogen. The film has generated some mixed responses with one rendition of this movie poster’s subtitle […]
WIKUS VAN DE MERWE MIGHT PLAY “HOWLING MAD” MURDOCK IN A-TEAM MOVIE
16 Sep 2009 by Seth Rotherham / 9 Comments
I am still ASTOUNDED when I ask people if they’ve watched District 9 and they reply in the negative. “Is it good?” they ask. Is it good? IS IT GOOD? Heh….umm did you miss the fact that it’s virtually 100% South African and it’s one of the best selling movies on the planet at the […]
SETH DISCUSSES PRAWNS WITH VANESSA HAYWOOD ON SET AT ELLE MAGAZINE COVER SHOOT
14 Sep 2009 by Jasmine Stone / 2 Comments
You should be well aware by now of Vanessa Haywood, the smoking hot leading actress in the globally critically acclaimed, District 9. Seth caught up with Vanessa at her ELLE Magazine cover shoot in Cape Town today. Wait for video to load and check it out: *Slow connections should wait for the box […]
ON SET WITH DISTRICT 9 STAR, VANESSA HAYWOOD
14 Sep 2009 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
Everyone’s trying to keep it a secret, but it’s pretty difficult to hide the fact that Vanessa Haywood, the star of the biggest movie in the world at the moment, District 9, is in Cape Town. Why is she in Cape Town? Oh…just to quietly shoot the cover of SA Elle Magazine! Now we’re talking! […]
Movie Review: UP (2009)
09 Sep 2009 by SPLING / 1 Comment
UP is possibly the shortest name for a film since X, but we’re not talking about Spike Lee’s film on Malcolm X, the first X-Men movie, the X-Files or even the similarity of illiterate people’s signatures. We’re talking about UP, Pixar’s latest Best Animated Film Oscar in the wake of “WAAAALLLLL-E” (pretty irritating after a […]
Movie Review: Public Enemies (2009)
02 Sep 2009 by SPLING / No Comments
Public Enemy was one of the films that cemented Jimmy Cagney in the old Hollywood. No, they didn’t erect a statue and he didn’t get dropped off at the docks. It was his extraordinary career performance as Tom Powers that gave rise to the gangster picture and set Cagney up as the ultimate tough guy. […]
Movie Review: Crank 2: High Voltage (2009)
26 Aug 2009 by SPLING / 2 Comments
Right, so you saw Crank and enjoyed it… well done. To say Crank had a lot of heart is an understatement. The public display of affection, the pulsating action, the heart-stopping moments and the heartbeat bass were incredible and Jason Statham wasn’t too bad either. The original had the action reflex of a kung-fu squirrel […]
Movie Review: District 9 (2009)
19 Aug 2009 by SPLING / 8 Comments
Watching District 9 was a new film experience, which could only be described as Hotel Rwanda, Fido and Lars and the Real Girl… in a blender. In retrospect, it’s all of that and more. Neill Blomkamp burst onto the movie scene in 2005 with Alive in Joburg, a fascinating Sci-Fi/Documentary short film about aliens in […]
Movie Review: G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra (2009)
12 Aug 2009 by SPLING / 2 Comments
At this moment in time, it’s sad but true… Stephen Sommers is a poor man’s Michael Bay. He directed two fun-filled fantasy adventures in the shadow of Spielberg’s Indiana Jones saga with The Mummy and The Mummy Returns and then gave us a whirlwind tour of horror classics with Van Helsing. What made these adventures […]
Movie Review: Fired Up (2009)
05 Aug 2009 by SPLING / 2 Comments
What would you think if you heard a film had been submitted to the MPAA 18 times to obtain a PG-13 rating, was written by four writers collectively credited as “Freedom Jones” and contained no nudity whatsoever, after marketing a poster with a giant F.U. for Fired Up? Well the F.U. part certainly rings a […]
THE ESPY AWARDS, NELSON MANDELA VIBE
31 Jul 2009 by Seth Rotherham / 8 Comments
I’ve received quite a few emails and sms’s and calls about this ESPY Awards vibe that was on TV a couple weeks back. People were really “touched” by their Nelson Mandela “tribute.” For the uninformed, the ESPY Awards is an annual sports awards event created and broadcast by American cable television network ESPN. The Arthur […]
Movie Review: Friday the 13th (2009)
29 Jul 2009 by SPLING / 2 Comments
Friday the 13th is a staple in horror movie history. The slasher film franchise has come a long way and has struggled to break the vicious (yet popular) cycle of blood, boobs and boozing. Jason Voorhees, the masked psychopath is to slasher films what James Bond is to espionage and they both share one irritating […]
MEGA SHARK VS GIANT OCTOPUS
28 Jul 2009 by Seth Rotherham / 4 Comments
It cannot get worse than this. Possibly the worst looking movie I have ever seen in my life. Including powerhouse acting performances by household names Lorenzo Lamas and Deborah Gibson !! Oh, you don’t remember Lorenzo Lamas? My god, where have you BEEN!? Well let me just bring you up to speed. He was probably […]
SETH HEADS OFF TO LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA – FOR PAULY SHORE’S “ADOPTED” VIBE
23 Jul 2009 by Seth Rotherham / 6 Comments
Hey gang, I’m sorry to do this to you, but daddy is going away for a little bit. I know you must be scared, but just realise that it is very necessary as it will bring me us one step closer to global domination. You know how busy daddy gets. I will be gone for […]
Movie Review: Management (2009)
22 Jul 2009 by SPLING / No Comments
Management is an oddball romantic comedy starring Jennifer Aniston, Steve Zahn and Woody Harrelson. The cast have had their fair share of ups and downs in Hollywood, but that’s enough about their private lives… Aniston revisits her role from The Good Girl to produce another decent performance in this off-kilter “romcom”. She’s the main draw […]
Movie Review: Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (2009)
15 Jul 2009 by SPLING / 8 Comments
Harry Potter and The Half-Blood Prince is the best Harry Potter adaptation yet (despite sitting next to someone with a super-size popcorn and slurpy and no sense of volume control!). The franchise has slowly evolved from an adorable, theme park-friendly fantasy adventure for kids into a swirling, dark mass of might and magic for older […]
Movie Preview: Brüno (2009)
08 Jul 2009 by SPLING / 1 Comment
Brüno is Sacha Baron Cohen’s third incarnation after the much-quoted Ali G and the controversial culture shock that is Borat Sagdiyev. From his days on The 11 O’Clock Show to hosting his own show… the man has sent shock waves of comedy: ranging from downright witty to upright horrific. Some have called him “a comic […]
Movie Review: Next Day Air (2009)
30 Jun 2009 by SPLING / 1 Comment
Next Day Air is a Benny Boom film with boom in terms of gunfire and ‘boom’ in the Afrikaans sense of the word. Boom’s MTV video direction must have raised some eyebrows, because the man’s made a name for himself at MTV and now at the movies. His feature film debut is an uneasy mix […]
Movie Review: Transformers 2 (2009)
24 Jun 2009 by SPLING / 4 Comments
Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen is the second live-action Transformers movie from Michael Bay, starring rising talents Shia LeBeouf and Megan Fox. Now LaBeouf’s name may evoke images of croissants, French maids and Paris (not Hilton), but the kid’s the real deal. His second-in-command, a Ms Megan Fox, had a breakthrough performance in Transformers and […]
Movie Review: Obsessed (2009)
17 Jun 2009 by SPLING / No Comments
Obsessed is obsessed with Fatal Attraction in a Lifetime movie kind of way. It aims to be sleek, sexy and enticing, yet ends up like a Tween-friendly tongue-in-cheek office comedy with Idris Elba, Ali Larter, Beyonce Knowles and a leaner Jerry O’Connell. Come on, Jerry O’Connell’s in it… this must be a comedy! Elba can’t […]
Movie Review: The Hangover (2009)
13 Jun 2009 by SPLING / 2 Comments
The Hangover is the ultimate bachelor party, wedding jitters, road trip splurge on Las Vegas. This is a guy’s movie that toes the line with raunchy humour from screenwriters Jon Lucas and Scott Moore and Todd Phillips, director of Old School. You’ve got the comedy and camaraderie of City Slickers shared between Doug, the groom-to-be […]
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