Many women will be able to empathise with Sarah Jessica Parker’s character, Kate Reddy. She is a fierce career woman, a passionate wife and a loving mother who always wants to be there for her children. 
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The movie focuses on Danish economist, Bjorn Lomborg, the controversial author of “The Skeptical Environmentalist,” who came under fire from the scientific community for his published views on the topic of Global Warming. To sum it up, Lomborg believes the panic surrounding global warming has negatively encouraged countries to budget enormous sums of money to achieve insignificant reductions in temperature.
This is an Afrikaans musical and I gotta give a hand to local film makers for stretching the boundaries! The cinematography will make you fall in love with the country life, and the gorgeous South African land scape. 
Oh so juicy, this is the true-to-life story about the man who was forced to be the official double of Uday Hussein, Saddam’s son. Dominic Cooper impresses by playing both the psychopathic Uday and his unwilling doppelganger, and the sordid stories unfold like bullets. Not only is it fascinating but well acted and produced too.
At 38, Oliver (Ewan McGregor) is successful but not particularly happy. His father (Christopher Plummer), on the other hand, at the age of 75 has just revealed that he is gay and feels like his life is just beginning. Alrighty then. This is a fantastic film about love, acceptance and making new beginnings at any age.
Mickey Rourke and Stephen Dorff in the same movie? Awesome. I’m in. Mickey plays King Hyperion, who comes to blows with Theseus, chosen by the god Zeus, to bring him down. Also in the mix is Henry Cavill from the Tudors, who plays a brilliant Theseus, along with a gorgeous Isabel Lucas who plays Athena. From what I’ve heard it’s a fabulous take on the legend, with some awesome effects and production. Can’t wait to see it.
The premise of this film is that old footage of two astronauts is discovered, revealing something so terrible that it has never been spoken of, until now. Okay, so that leaves the door wide open for any number of interesting things to happen, but unfortunately they don’t. While the mood builds and the horror seeds are planted, this movie just fails to take off, if you’ll forgive the pun. It’s simply average in every way.
I was a big fan of the first PA. I couldn’t sit through the second one and now they’ve gone and released a third? Seriously, how many more can they expect us to stomach? Not only does the camera work make me feel rather ill, but the rehashed “special effects” do too.
Yes this movie is about a clean-living 27-year-old who discovers he has cancer and, consequently, a 50/50 chance at survival, but it’s not all tears and morbidity. Instead it’s one of those films that’s more about living and dying well.
Did some anonymous writer actually pen all of William Shakespeare’s plays, sonnets and poems? If you’re a conspiracy theorist, perhaps. If not, you’re still likely to find the proposition rather interesting.
This film’s pretty weak storyline is beefed up with a semi-impressive list of actors, which will be the only reason people see it.
From the guys who brought us Shaun of the Dead we’re transported to Souf London, Yeah, where some bad-ass kids come face to face with some bad-ass aliens. It’s filled with some classic British humour and one-liners that you’ll be using for days after. Just remember that this is a very specific type of humour; if you don’t get the Brits, you won’t get this movie.
In the spirit of Lake Placid, Anaconda, Piranha and others comes the latest in creature movies. It ticks all the right boxes for the genre: hot college kids in swimsuits, expensive beach house on a private island, water and a boat. Now throw in some ravenous sharks and you’ve got the makings of a really bad fright flick.
We’ve had our fair share of virus outbreak movies, but the genre has been given a shot of adrenalin thanks to director Steven Soderbergh’s hard-hitting doccie-style lens.
Colin Farrell as a charming and seductive vampire? Yes, I can see that working, can’t you?
If you have any reverence of South African poetry you’ll know the name Ingrid Jonker.
What looks like a whimsical indie movie from the outside is really just a miscellany of better indie movies gone by.
I’ve said it before: when you see Jason Statham’s name in the credits you know what to expect, and that is some serious ass kicking. I’m not the biggest action fan but I do know that this is not Statham’s best work to date. Nor is it even close to Robert de Niro’s best work. He seems to have fallen into some really bad gangster type movies lately and it’s doing nothing for his reputation (but everything for his pocket, I’m guessing). Nevertheless, I’m sure action junkies will be satisfied to some degree… after all, there is a fair amount of body blows and blood. Isn’t that what it’s all about?
No doubt you’ve seen this movie in one form or another; it’s simply a sexier and more technologically advanced remake of an age-old tale.
It’s been eight years since Rowan Atkinson played the role of 007 wannabe Johnny English, but as the title suggests, he’s baaaack. For some this might be great cause for celebration, for others the event will pass by unacknowledged. Although I fall into the latter category I do understand (I think) the appeal of watching a half-wit fumble his way through an international conspiracy. For the fans, I hope the eight years has been worth the wait.
When she returns from college to 1960s Jackson, Mississippi, “Skeeter” finds that she doesn’t fit into the privileged, white upper class as easily as she used to. A journalism graduate, she starts to observe the black “help” employed to raise the white children and maintain a pristine household, and approaches her family servant, Aibileen, to discuss what it feels like, for an article. After some initial resistance, a whole can of worms is opened up, giving Skeeter enough fodder for a novel titled "The Help".
Like an action movie on steroids, this Congolese offering from first-time director Djo Tunda Wa Munga is a shining light for African film. Highly acclaimed at a series of international film festivals, the crime-action thriller packs a punch that must be a massive eye-opener for Western viewers.
I usually turn my nose up at fight movies. Not because I don’t enjoy them (I actually consider Rocky a classic), but because more often than not they’re badly done with terrible ex-WWE stars and the most pedestrian of scripts. This one ain’t half bad though.
When Ally (Anna Faris) reads in a magazine that a woman should find her husband within 20 relationships, she starts to panic and promises that she will not go over that number without finding her future “other”.