Q&A with Stephen Spling Aspeling on his new book The Essence of Dreams
By Staff Writer 24 July 2023Stephen 'Spling' Aspeling has been informing/entertaining us through his movie reviews for more than 16 years. Now, with his new book The Essence of Dreams: An Anthology of Film Reviews launching, we caught up with him to... FULL STORY >
Bingeing with Spling movie night hits up Halloween
By Staff Writer 30 October 2020Being the month of horror, Spling was prompted to stage the event at FrightFan.tv with the fresh horror film, The Cleaning Lady, followed by Swedish horror Videoman. FULL STORY >
TNT Africa brings new releases with the launch of TNT Original Movies
By Staff Writer 3 July 2020Escape from Pretoria kicks things off, with Daniel Radcliffe escaping an apartheid prison. FULL STORY >
The 5 most-anticipated films in 2018
By Spling 26 January 2018We already know what to expect from this plethora of blockbuster titles, so for those film fanatics who aren’t caught up in the mainstream fantasy hype, Spling talks about some of the promising releases heading our way. FULL STORY >
Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets
By Spling 21 July 2017While Valerian will pass the time with its beautiful cast, spectrum of colour and wonderful visuals, it's a fairly mindless exercise. FULL STORY >
Ghost in the Shell
By Spling 30 March 2017We get a chance to see Major come alive, even if her shoes seem too big for her. FULL STORY >
Blair Witch
By Spling 22 September 2016Blair Witch is a terrifying ordeal and a strong redux. FULL STORY >
Star Trek Beyond
By Spling 26 August 2016Star Trek Beyond takes the director's chair away from J.J. Abrams - is Justin Lin up to the challenge? FULL STORY >
Movie Review: Fantastic Four
By Spling 19 August 2015Fantastic Four could have and should have been so much more. It's a pity that film politics ruined what could have been, and a tragedy that they weren't able to reinvigorate a misfire superhero franchise. FULL STORY >
Review: Ant-Man
By Spling 5 August 2015The classic sci-fi adventure, The Incredible Shrinking Man, wowed audiences in 1957 for its cutting edge blend of otherworldly proportions. Now more than 50 years later, we're getting another little-big sci-fi adventure with Ant-Man. FULL STORY >
Top 5 (recent) SA Films
By Spling 5 March 2015South Africa is quickly developing as a film-making nation. To see just how far we’ve come along, movie fundi Spling picks his recent Top 5 SA movies. FULL STORY >
New Movie Releases: February 2015
By Spling 4 February 2015What’s worth catching at the movies during Feb? Movie critic Spling provides a few suggestions. FULL STORY >
Top 5 Buddy Movies
By Spling 3 February 2015Seeing that February is all about loooooove, we don’t want to forget those special bromances captured on celluloid. Movie connoisseur Spling goes searching for love, but not in that way. FULL STORY >
2014 - Top Movies of the year
By Spling 4 December 2014With only December standing in the way of 2015, movie fundi Spling rounds-up the best releases of 2014. FULL STORY >
Top 5 Mind-Bending Movies
By Spling 6 November 2014Some movies just leave you perplexed, or “Curiouser and curiouser!” as little Alice said. Movie aficionado, Spling tries to navigate the maze of mind-benders. FULL STORY >
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