Thursday, January 23, 2025

Friday Morning Spice

Fruit exports plummet, How SANDF ranks globally in 2024, Japan’s space agency braces for moon landing attempt, Walvis Bay becoming top fuel stop for large ships, and Will pop-punk ever die?

Friday Morning Spice

Elon’s rocket goes boom, New National State of Disaster proposed, Russia accidentally bombs their own city, and Ramaphosa is snubbed for G7 meeting.

SPL!NG Movie Review: Midway

Roland Emmerich is known for his blockbuster films, including ‘Independence Day’, ‘The Day After Tomorrow’, ‘10,000 BC’, ‘2012’ and now ‘Midway’.

SPL!NG Movie Review: The Glass Castle

Captain Fantastic told the story of a man who decided to raise free range children in the woods, living off the land and off the grid. Viggo Mortensen delivered a striking performance of an unconventional and eccentric father, whose idea of child-rearing raised some pertinent questions for education and society in the modern world. The […]

SPL!NG Movie Review: War For The Planet Of The Apes

Andy Serkis is the ringmaster in the reboot series of The Planet of the Apes. A pioneer of iconic digital characters, having played Gollum in The Lord of the Rings trilogy, he’s done it again with Caesar in Rise of the Planet of the Apes, Dawn of the Planet of the Apes and now War […]

SPL!NG Movie Review: The Hunger Games – Catching Fire

The Hunger Games underplayed its hand. While competent and carried by a strong performance from Jennifer Lawrence, Gary Ross seemed like the wrong director for the film. Getting the Seabiscuit and Pleasantville director on-board must have been a ploy to cushion the adult themes to appeal to a much broader audience. While marketed as a […]

SPL!NG Movie Review: Now You See Me

Movies and magic share the art of illusion. Making you believe something’s real is the end goal for both entertainment mediums, which can be a tricky balancing act in itself. Slick crime thriller Now You See Me walks this tightrope, drawing audiences in with its heady mix of intrigue and crime, in an attempt to […]

SPL!NG Movie Review: Seven Psychopaths

Armed with an intriguing title and oozing suave cool, Seven Psychopaths is destined for cult status. What movie starring Colin Farrell, Sam Rockwell, Woody Harrelson and Christopher Walken wouldn’t achieve some level of notoriety? Throw in some dark Tarantino style crime comedy and you’ve got yourself a locked-and-loaded shotgun ready to blow your head off… […]

SPL!NG Movie Review: The Hunger Games (2012)

The Hunger Games is old hat. We’ve seen our fair share of films involving a group of children, forced to do combat in a confined area in a kill-or-be-killed situation. Suzanne Collins has just commericialised the format made famous by William Golding’s Lord of the Flies, writing a novel that has enough human interest and viral appeal to capture a […]