UNBOXING: Top 20 Flieks van 2018

20. The Wife | DVD 19. The Ballad of  Buster Scruggs | Netflix18. On Chesil Beach | DVD | Blu-ray 17. Spider-man: Into the Spider-verse | Tans in fliekteaters16. They Shall Not Grow Old | Nie tans beskikbaar nie15. The Shape of Water | iTunes | DVD 14. Nommer 37 | BoxOffice | DVD13. Cargo | Netflix12. Ellen: Die Ellen Pakkies Storie| BoxOffice | DVD11. A Quiet Place | iTunes Continue Reading

Floris se Top 40 flieks van alle tye

Ons het Floris se Top 40 flieks van alle tye afgetel, en hier’s hulle almal nou, met skakels as jy (meeste van hulle) self wil kyk: 40. 50/50 [Director: Jonathan Levine] DVD on Amazon.co.ukBlu-ray on Amazon.co.uk 39. The Way, Way Back [Director: Jim Rash & Nat Faxon] DVD on Loot.co.zaBlu-ray Continue Reading

The legend of Luke Skywalker and how Star Wars: The Last Jedi is surprisingly metafictional and self-examining

One of the three* primary themes that The Last Jedi offer a point-of-view on (see what I did there?), is Legend status. The legend of a great Jedi Master, set up as the saviour of the good guys – mostly because [34 year old spoiler alert] his suffering once got Continue Reading

#FliekInAFrikaans – Top 20 Flieks van 2017

Floris het sy gunsteling 20 flieks van verlede jaar gekies.

Split’s big twist: M. Night Shyamalan is back

A lot of people are calling Split a kind of return-to-form for director M. Night Shyamalan. And it very much is. When he first appeared as the “new kid on the psychological thriller block” in 1999 with The Sixth Sense, M. Night seemed to have a successful formulaic approach to his films: Slow-burning, tense thrillers, Continue Reading

TheFlow’s Top 10 movies of 2016

Instead of doing something productive last year, I made it my mission to watch as many new movies as possible – and out of those 63, here are my favourite Top 10 movies of 2016.

Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice packs punches – but lacks heart?

What can I say about Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice that hasn’t been said by the ten jillion trailers and lacerating critical reviews? Very little. But my will to rant has always been strong. Warning: I spoiler in my sleep so watch out.

The Hateful Eight – Tarantino wants to get there last

Samuel L. Jackson portrays the bounty hunter Major Marquis Warren in Quentin Tarantino’s 8th film, The Hateful Eight. “Let’s slow it down,” he says at one point, while aiming his revolver at other characters. “Let’s slow it way down.”