Saturday, July 26, 2025

SPL!NG Movie Review: Icarus

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Vladimir Putin and Russia are in the news, the Oscars are around the corner and so is the Cape Town Cycle Tour… which makes the Oscar-winning sports documentary, ‘Icarus’, as topical as the day it was released.

SPL!NG Movie Review: The Tinder Swindler

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Taking our relationships into the digital ether, there’s a greater chance for illusion and catfishing. These are the perfect conditions for the events captured in ‘The Tinder Swindler’.

SPL!NG Movie Review: Girls Can’t Surf

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Ironically titled, ‘Girls Can’t Surf’, this sports documentary returns to the ’80s to a time when professional women’s surfing kicked off, “a circus of fluro colours, peroxide hair and radical male egos”.

SPL!NG Movie Review: Doin’ My Drugs

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Zambian-born musician, Thomas Buttenschøn, was born HIV+ and relocated to Denmark to receive treatment in 1985 at a time when there was still much uncertainty about the virus.

SPL!NG Movie Review: Africa & I

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Some of us only dare follow our dreams, yet for a young Moroccan man it seemed as though destiny was calling. Othmane Zolati wasn’t content with simply living in and touring his own country, a famous film setting for ‘Casablanca’.

Three Trailers For Your Friday Perusal

Watch out for these intense Netflix movies and documentaries that are all about women kicking a** and making some big changes. If that’s not for you, there’s also something in the classic horror realm.