Jaimie Alexander – heard the name? If not, don’t be too concerned. Apart from appearing in a few low-budget horror flicks, she hasn’t made much of an impression on Hollywood. That is, until she decided to step out onto the red carpet without any underwear.
If you’ve been struggling to find the right movies to watch this year, there’s no one better to take advice from than Barry Ronge. Wait, no, not Barry Ronge – Quentin Tarantino.
Local film maker, Ben Jay Crossman got in touch with us recently to share his video series, titled ‘The Streets Of Fietas’. The series is a stark insight into the lives of the residents of one of Johannesburg’s poorest suburbs, as they battle drug addiction. This is part one of three.
The first thing you’ll notice about Luc Besson’s Mafia action comedy, The Family, is its stellar cast, featuring Robert De Niro, Michelle Pfeiffer and Tommy Lee Jones. The film functions as a tongue-in-cheek look at the life of a gangster trying to escape his sordid past. It’s also a fish-out-of-water comedy in the way that […]
Pitch Black introduced us to the dangerous escaped convict by the name of Richard B. Riddick. The survivors of a prisoner transport ship were stranded on a planet becoming prey to the local flesh-eating alien inhabitants. This gave Vin Diesel, now the poster boy for The Fast & The Furious, xXx and The Chronicles of […]
After much anticipation and controversy, the show’s creator and screenwriter, Doug Ellin, has confirmed that the hit show will become a movie. I say anticipation because since the show launched in 2004, it captured everyone’s attention with it’s “one celebrity cameo per show format”, creating a massive worldwide audience.
After winning the coveted Palme d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival, the movie ‘Blue Is The Warmest Colour’ has caused a massive furor, after it was issued with an NC-17 rating from the Motion Picture Association of America. What does that mean? It means, confusingly, that no one under the age of 18 may watch the film due to its graphic nature (they added the ‘NC’ after the porn industry appropriated the ‘XX’).
After Charlie Hunnam backed out of the role to play kinky billionaire Christian Grey in the screen production of “Fifty Shades of Grey” two weeks ago, producers launched a search for a replacement. Fortunately for the producers, and for all the middle-aged women who so love the books, they managed to find a super sub in time for production to start in November.
Here’s the latest trailer for the musical, ‘As Jy Sing’. Heads up: Afrikaans musicals are still the highest-grossing box office movies in South Africa. Would you just look at that. Just have a long, hard (pronounced “hahrt”) think about that. [Source : JyTube] [Dankie, Lize!]
Steve Jobs was an entrepreneur, a pioneer and a creative genius. This is the iconic Jobs we know from the media, yet we only know half the story. Jobs the biopic drama about the Apple founder is an eye-opening journey, taking the tempestuous Jobs from his days as a hippie in college to his crowning […]
Please enjoy the latest trailer for Paramount Pictures’ feature film production: Anchorman 2. We have gay jokes, sex jokes, and gay sex jokes inside a Winibago. [Source : YouTube]
This is impressive. All this four-year-old kid had to do was memorise Jack Nicholson’s famous line “The truth?! You can’t handle the truth!” and he would have impressed everyone. Instead memorised the whole of Colonel Jessup’s courtroom monologue and recited it in the bathtub.
There’s a lot of noise going on about Zac Efron’s naked butt in the trailer for his upcoming movie ‘That Awkward Moment’. Having burst onto the scene in his time at High School Musical, it was only a matter of time before he, like so many other child stars, got naked on camera for the enjoyment of his adoring public.
Love him or loathe him – Wes Anderson is prolific. This time he’s roped in Ralph Fiennes, Edward Norton, Bill Murray, Willem Dafoe, Jude Law, Adrien Brody, Owen Wilson and Tilda Swinton – to mention just a few.
Will Ferrell has done it again in his new mini-series, “Spoils of Babylon”. Produced by Ferrell’s own Funny or Die label, it is a truly weird adaptation of a non-existent novel by Eric Jonrosh. Ferrell does play a major part in the series, but only as the voice of Jonrosh. He appears later, however, as the Shah of Iran. Quality.
Gravity writer-director, Alfonso Cuarón has always wanted to be two things: a director and an astronaut. These lifelong dreams meshed somewhere along the way to become his magnum opus, Gravity, a breathtakingly beautiful, mesmerising, visceral and moving space film about a medical engineer and an astronaut, who work together to survive after an accident leaves […]
Starring Bale, Adams, Bradley Cooper, Jeremy Renner and Jennifer Lawrence, “American Hustle” is out in American theaters on December 13, and we’re of the opinion that this has the potential to be the best broad-collar-suit film since Goodfellas, or at least Boogie Nights. Also, Christian Bale: that boep, my man. That boep.
‘Inside Llewyn Davis’ is the latest movie to come out the Coen brothers’ wild minds. It stars greats like John Goodman, Cary Mulligan, Justin Timberlake and Justin Timberlake’s beard.
Prisoners is an epic crime drama thriller from Denis Villeneuve, director of the Oscar-nominated foreign film, Incendies. The film pivots on two powerful co-lead performances from Hugh Jackman and Jake Gyllenhaal with fine direction from Villeneuve. Prisoners makes a wonderful comparative character study of two men approaching the same dire situation from a subjective and […]
In 2009, film maker Alex Gibney set out to make a film documenting Lance Armstrong’s comeback year in cycling. For the whole year, Armstrong lied to Gibney’s face. In ‘The Armstrong Lie’, Lance finally sets the record straight. “A cancer survivor overcoming the disease comes back and wins. Yeah, they liked that.”
What if telekinesis was real? How would you react? A hidden camera promotion engineered and executed by Sony could be one of the best viral film trailers of all time. The stunt captured the reactions of unsuspecting customers at a New York City coffee shop as they witnessed a “telekinetic event.” “Telekinetic Coffee Shop Surprise” […]
Alfonso Cuarón’s highly anticipated film, ‘Gravity’ will made landfall in the US last week, and it looks fairly stunning. The movie follows the events of a simple routine mission on the International Space Station (ISS) gone wrong. Inspired by The Kessler Syndrome, a theory that predicts a giant domino effect could occur if space debris in low orbit started colliding, we follow Dr. Ryan Stone (Sandra Bullock) and astronaut Matt Kowalski (George Clooney) as they battle to get back home to Earth.
Think Little Miss Sunshine meets The Wonder Years. That’s essentially what’s going on in The Way Way Back. The film was inspired by a conversation one of the writer-director’s had with his stepfather when he was in the way back seat, which is now the opening scene. This is where the title The Way Back […]
The second instalment of Peter Jackson’s trilogyy film adaptation of JRR Tolkien’s ‘The Hobbit’s is due for release in South African cinemas on December 13 this year. The official trailer has just dropped, which means you are now permitted to begin your feverish countdown to the date of the premiere.
Star Wars fans rejoice, you’re one step closer to becoming a Jedi Knight. Scientists at Harvard and MIT have discovered a way to bind protons together to form a new state of matter that behaves like Luke Skywalker’s weapon of choice, the lightsaber.
William Boyd is the award winning author who wrote the latest 007 novel, Solo. Boyd based his Bond on Daniel Day-Lewis, and says that his vision of James Bond is almost identical to the original author, Ian Flemming’s depiction of James Bond.
Four Corners, the movie set in the Cape ganglands, has been selected as South Africa’s official 2014 foreign language entry for the Academy Awards. This is the first foreign language film to blend Sabela (the coded prison language of the 26 and 28 Number gangs) Tsoti-taal, Cape Afrikaans and English.
Rolling Stone has released their top10 stoner movies of all time, and we’ve compiled them here for you in a neat list for your reference. Get a pen and paper and write them down so you don’t forget, go to the store, buy a ton of snacks and settle in for the weekend.
Runner Runner is a slick crime thriller that immerses itself in the world of online gaming, corrupt casinos and underhanded entrepreneurship. Brad Furman, director of The Take and The Lincoln Lawyer, has crafted a high stakes cat-and-mouse game that meshes the flash of Las Vegas with the grit of Costa Rica.
The Paperboy is a strange and unusual thriller with a first class cast. Director Lee Daniels has followed up his Oscar-nominated drama, Precious, with a film based on a novel by Pete Dexter that carries a similar intensity. As palpable as the tension is, The Paperboy also seems overly ambitious and experimental.