The Vent sat down with the talented young cast of the popular Spud franchise. Troye Sivan and Caspar Lee share their thoughts on the experience of working on the movie, shooting at an all girls school, and Troye Sivan’s process of getting deeper into the more mature Spud character. SYNOPSIS: As Spud Milton continues his […]
South Africans have proved once again that comedy is the best choice of genre when it comes to deciding what film to watch for either date night or family night. The number 1 film this week is a sequel to a twenty year old comedy classic film Dumb and Dumber. Dumb and Dumber To opens […]
It is no secret that internationally produced films break the money bank when it comes to box office charts in South Africa, leaving South Africa films out in the cold as they struggle to even reach the top 3. Why is that? Why are we not passionate about our own films and flocking to the […]
The Magnificent Imagined Life of Sherry Sherman and Her Fantastic Couch or the Sherry Sherman Short Film, is a six-minute short film created by an impromptu collective of young Stellenbosch creatives in 2014. Sherry Sherman (Marelize Viljoen) is a quirky, naive young girl with an incredibly colourful imagination. When she happens across a charming old […]
Punching, pinching, kicking, screaming and crying were the weapon of choice on Saturday the 15th of November. This was not an EFC match but a mass swarm of teenagers riled up and fighting their way to the front of the line upon the appearance of the ‘Spud 3: Learning to Fly’ cast. Promoting their latest […]
As the award season is nearing, blockbuster films under consideration for big shot awards are starting to make theatrical release and debuting with great power on the box office. This trend has started with Gone Girl, which debuted at the top spot back in October, a month later the trend continues with the number 1 […]
For those fans who cannot wait for the release of the third installment of the successful Spudseries, Spud 3: Learning to Fly, Ster-Kinekor has a spoil in store for local Joburg audiences. The film releases nationally at select Ster-Kinekor sites on Friday, 28 November. However, Spud fans have the chance to ‘get up close and personal’ with some of […]
2014 has marked a year of expansion for the local cinema powerhouse Ster-Kinekor with new cinema complexes and IMAX theaters opening left right and center. When it was announced that another Ster-Kinekor cinema complex was opening, a few might have found themselves thinking “yeah whatever”. What has peaked interest about the new cinema complex is […]
EbonyLife TV, Africa’s first Global Black entertainment and lifestyle network, has launched in Southern Africa (including South Africa). The channel which was hitherto available to DStv customers in 44 countries in West, East and Central Africa, now brings the best of homegrown programming to audiences in Southern African region. Since its launch in July 2013, EbonyLife TV […]
Paramount Television is again reaching into the studio archives, announcing that it is partnering withJerry Bruckheimer on a television adaptation of the 1980 Richard Gere-Lauren Hutton film “American Gigolo.” Bruckheimer, who was a producer on that crime drama centered around a superficial male escort in Los Angeles, will exec produce the project. Paul Schrader, the film’s director and writer, […]
