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Midweek Movie Mouth-off: what character will you be dressing up as for...
It’s almost Halloween, which means we’re almost done with the scary-movie-themed Midweek Movie Mouth-Offs. I have to say, it’s been challenging thinking up new topics around a genre of movie that I...
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Midweek Movie Mouth-Off: which movie should get an all-female reboot?
It looks like the “all-female reboot” is Hollywood’s next big thing. There’s the new Ghostbusters that’s well under way, and an Ocean’s Eleven remake being lead by Sandra Bullock, plus rumours of a...
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Midweek Movie Mouth-Off: your favourite rainy day movie
Last week we had some crazy heat here in Joburg, and thank goodness that’s broken. Now, the weather’s all about thunderstorms, hail and cold rain. I’m not complaining, we seriously needed a break from...
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Midweek Movie Mouth-Off: what’s your crazy theory about STAR WARS: THE FORCE...
The new Star Wars is almost here (three weeks and counting!) and the tension is almost palpable. And this is one movie that Disney has on super-serious lock-down. No leaks, no spoilers, no titbits of...
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Midweek Movie Mouth-Off: your favourite Christmas movie
Even though the shops have had their decorations up for the last two months, as they do every year, now that we’re officially in the twelfth month we can break out the fake pine trees, plastic...
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Midweek Movie Mouth-Off: your thoughts on this year’s Academy Award nominations
The announcement of the Academy Awards nominations is never without some surprises. Movies and actors that you thought were shoe-ins might have been snubbed, while other nominations might have come...
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Midweek Movie Mouth-Off: the worst jobs in movie universes
Sometimes, I think my job sucks. Not this one, obviously, but my daily grind. I’ve got a hell of a commute, cranky customers and long, boring hours in front of a computer screen. But, after watching...
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Midweek Movie Mouth-Off: the lost art of the movie poster
If you follow TheMovies on Twitter and Facebook (and if you don’t… why not? All the cool kids are doing it), you’ll know that we have our Movie Poster of the Day, where we hunt down the interesting...
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Midweek Movie Mouth-Off: Finally, an R-Rated Comic Book Movie!
I touched on the topic of ratings ruining movies last year, and I’ll stand by my opinion, making a movie PG to reach a wider audience is more likely to be a hindrance than a help. Nothing brings this...
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Midweek Movie Mouth-Off: the perfect casting choice
It’s not very common to have an actor fit a potential role perfectly, be it in terms of looks or acting style. After all, they’re actors, they’re supposed to make themselves fit the roles and pull it...
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Midweek Movie Mouth-off: movie marketing gone viral
Gone are the days where a movie’s marketing could solely consist of some trailers, a few posters and lots and lots of interviews with the cast. Thanks to the internet and social media, movie studios...
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Midweek Movie Mouth-Off: Leo has his Oscar, who’s next?
Yes? Yes! Leonardo DiCaprio finally took home the gold! It’s about damn time, okay yes I don’t think this was his strongest performance out of the times he’s been nominated, but if it didn’t happen...
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Midweek Movie Mouth-off: what’s next for the DC Extended Universe?
Now that the frenzy of Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice has died down somewhat, we can start asking the question, so what’s next for DC? And I don’t mean what are they going to be releasing next, we...
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Midweek Movie Mouth-Off: board games as movies
This may come as a shock (especially to Kervyn who’s probably going to fire me now) but, despite what I claimed otherwise to land this gig, movies and TV aren’t my biggest passion (sorry Kerv). That...
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Midweek Movie Mouth-Off: More Hollywood whitewashing?
There was a lot of hubbub last week around the first look we got at Scarlett Johannson as Major Motoko Kusunagi in the upcoming feature film adaptation of Ghost in the Shell. As Kervyn pointed out,...
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Midweek Movie Mouth-Off: review scores for major franchises: do they change...
The embargo on US reviews for X-Men: Apocalypse lifted yesterday, and like Kervyn pointed out, it’s a miXed bag (bonus points for the X joke there). So far most critics agree that it’s pretty… meh....
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Midweek Movie Mouth-Off: Hands up, who DIDN’T like CAPTAIN AMERICA: CIVIL WAR?
Marvel’s Captain America: Civil War has been smashing it at the box office – pushing Marvel one step closer to being the first movie of 2016 to earn over $1 billion. Cumulatively, the MCU has now...
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Midweek Movie Mouth-Off: are we ever going to get a good video game movie?
So the early reviews for Warcraft are in and… well… it’s not looking too good. While the movie might be pretty, it sucks pretty much everywhere else. Which is a major disappointment, after the...
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Midweek Movie Mouth-Off: what only ever happens in movies?
Have you ever noticed that, despite what is no doubt your best effort, your life never seems to resemble a movie? Besides for the obvious lack of montages, that is. No matter how realistic a movie is,...
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