Tagged Cinema

It's been 4 days since the World Cup ended. Sigh. How do we carry on with life? Can you even remember what we did before the seemingly all-consuming football phenomenon? Well, we must persevere and One Room...

The Animatrix is a 2003 animated portmanteau film set in the Matrix universe. Released directly to video to coincide with the theatrical release of The Matrix Reloaded, it is comprised of nine individual short...

In 2027 the youngest human on Earth is killed. None will come after him. They’ve all stopped: there are no more pregnancies, no more births, no more babies, and no answers. In the chaos of the 18 years since...

Scene Stealers is a new feature exploring supporting characters, smaller roles or particularly memorable cameos that either stick with you more than their screen time would warrant, or steal the whole show...

Michael Bay isn’t a film director. He’s a demolition expert, and a damn good one at that. So much destruction explodes across Age of Extinction, in fact, that it appears to have shellshocked any semblance...

Dragons really are the myth du jour. Daenerys Targaryen’s beastly brood continues to incinerate all of HBO’s competition, while Smaug, Tolkien’s monstrous kleptomaniac, is looking to drag another $1bn of...

In Bruges is a 2008 black comedy, written and directed by playwright Martin McDonagh. His feature debut, it centres on Irish hitmen Ken and Ray (Brendan Gleeson and Colin Farrell respectively). After a bungled...

In the second article in the series, One Room With A View goes 12 Rounds with James D. Dever, the master of on-screen warfare. An expert on all things military, contemporary and historical, Sergeant Major...

A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away. The opening titles crawl for Star Wars now act as an accurate punch line for the original trilogy. The cinematic journey began 36 years ago during the hottest...

Maybeland is a new feature exploring all the Brave New Worlds of cinema, a look at the various visions of the future – utopic, dystopic and in-between – that all have their own style, predictions and ideas...

Mistaken for Strangers is a tale of two siblings rather than your usual hedonistic rock doc. Tom Berninger’s lo-fi filming strips away all glamour and lays bare the mundanity behind any success. The...

Love trivia? Love six degrees of Kevin Bacon? Then you’ve come to the right place. Ten Degrees of Trivia combines the two to take you on a journey through the world of loosely connected facts, beginning and...

22 Jump Street is belly-aching, mickey-taking, cinema-shaking summer comedy at its very best. Phil Lord and Chris Miller’s follow up to their 2012 reboot does not shy away from its bigger sequel status....

As the superhero franchise machine rumbles on, it seems like an appropriate time to look back at the history of the genre. I’ve explored its past, present and future and now I’m here to put my neck on the...

Welcome to Blended, brought to you by the South African Tourist Board. On your left is a lumbering performance from Drew Barrymore, and on your right is a clunky and drawn-out plot. At least South Africa looks...