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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: 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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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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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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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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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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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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SPL!NG Movie Review: The Unbearable Weight Of Massive Talent
14 Sep 2022 by SPLING / No Comments
Nicolas Cage stars in ‘The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent’, a crime action comedy caper that sees the star play a variation of himself in Nick Cage.
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SPL!NG Movie Review: Pou (Peacock)
07 Sep 2022 by SPLING / No Comments
‘Pou’ or ‘Peacock’ is one of the best and most elegant horror dramas to come out of South Africa.
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SPL!NG Movie Review: Running With The Devil – The Wild World Of John McAfee
31 Aug 2022 by SPLING / No Comments
Known for starting McAfee Antivirus, ‘Running with the Devil: The Wild World of John McAfee’ unpacks the eccentric man’s escape from Belize in the Caribbean after being implicated in the murder of neighbour, Gregory Faull.
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SPL!NG Movie Review: Everything, Everywhere All At Once
24 Aug 2022 by SPLING / No Comments
‘Everything, Everywhere All at Once’ stars Michelle Yeoh and is written and directed by Dan Kwan and Daniel Scheinert.
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SPL!NG Movie Review: Death On The Nile
17 Aug 2022 by SPLING / No Comments
Arthur Conan Doyle’s beloved Sherlock Holmes was reinvented by Guy Ritchie to become an action hero, Watson sold separately.
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SPL!NG Movie Review: Persuasion
10 Aug 2022 by SPLING / No Comments
‘Persuasion’ is based on the Jane Austen novel of the same name. “Based” rather than adapted seems to be the hinge in this case as screenwriters Ron Bass and Alice Victoria Winslow craft a modern version of Austen’s classic “will they, won’t they” romance.
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SPL!NG Movie Review: The Gray Man
03 Aug 2022 by SPLING / No Comments
‘The Gray Man’ is an action thriller from Anthony and Joe Russo starring Ryan Gosling, Chris Evans, Billy Bob Thornton and Ana de Armas.
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SPL!NG Movie Review: Blind Ambition
27 Jul 2022 by SPLING / No Comments
‘Blind Ambition’ is a stirring and entertaining documentary about four sommeliers who combine their forces to form Zimbabwe’s first national wine-tasting team.
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SPL!NG Movie Review: The Grand Bolero
20 Jul 2022 by SPLING / No Comments
‘The Grand Bolero’ is a music drama romance turned thriller about a middle-aged organ restorer who becomes a mentor to a young woman after she arrives at a rural Italian church with nothing but a desire to learn.
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SPL!NG Movie Review: The Electrical Life Of Louis Wain
13 Jul 2022 by SPLING / No Comments
To say Louis Wain was a cat lover is an understatement of Titanic proportions.
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SPL!NG Movie Review: The Card Counter
06 Jul 2022 by SPLING / No Comments
‘The Card Counter’ recalls ’21’, a Kevin Spacey casino heist film based on the true story of the MIT Blackjack team who used their mathematics and card counting skills to rig the system in their favour, winning millions in Las Vegas.
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SPL!NG Movie Review: Collision
29 Jun 2022 by SPLING / No Comments
‘Collision’ is a word usually reserved for “Chopper Dave” style traffic reports to help you navigate bumper-to-bumper morning commutes.
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SPL!NG Movie Review: Good Life
22 Jun 2022 by SPLING / No Comments
Bonnie Rodini is the co-screenwriter and producer of ‘The Story of an African Farm’, a family drama directed by David Lister and starring Richard E. Grant.
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SPL!NG Movie Review: John And The Hole
15 Jun 2022 by SPLING / No Comments
‘John and the Hole’ is a strange and unsettling thriller. The simple title becomes ironic and minimalist when you discover a much more nuanced and human story beneath it all.
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SPL!NG Movie Review: Licorice Pizza
01 Jun 2022 by SPLING / No Comments
‘Licorice Pizza’ is Paul Thomas Anderson’s fifth consecutive period film, named after a record store from the ’70s and derived from the appearance of vinyl records.
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