VIDEO: Terugspoel Top 40 flieks #27 – The Empire Strikes Back (1980)

#27 uit my Top 40 flieks van alle tye: The Empire Strikes Back (1980) Geregisseer deur Irvin Kershner. Geskryf deur Leigh Brackett en Lawrence Kasdan. Met Harrison Ford, Carrie Fisher, Mark Hamill, Billy Dee Williams en Frank Oz.

Solo or: How Han doesn’t fly alone

I like to proclaim myself The Mildest Star Wars Fan in Universe™. I feel about the franchise the same way I feel about a beer every now and then, a trip to the hairdresser or a vegan meal. There are many things I am very fanatical about but Star Wars Continue Reading

Die 1ste Flowchart Flipchart Fliektoekennings

As jy net so min omgee oor die Oscars soos ek, het ek vir jou ‘n #FliekInAfrikaans alternatief! Kyk saam na ons 1ste amptelike Flowchart Flipchart Fliektoekennings! Star Wars speelgoed nabootsingtonele deur https://www.instagram.com/shootingthegalaxy/

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

The First Order Strikes Back: Star Wars: The Last Jedi Review

It was always going to be impossible not to compare Star Wars: The Last Jedi to the first Star Wars sequel, The Empire Strikes Back. Especially after the previous episode, The Force Awakens, got a lot of flack for being a spiritual remake of the first film (undeserved flack, in my opinion). Continue Reading

Rogue One: A Star Wars Story with a difference

Where The Force Awakens played it safe and acted as a familiar pseudo-rehash of the original Star Wars, this year’s Rogue One (the first of several planned spin-off Star Wars movies) is experimental in all the right ways. But does it have the magic that makes Star Wars special?

20 Exciting movies coming in 2016

A new year brings new films and character to fall in love with. Last year saw innovative pictures come to life. From an entire movie shot in a single take, shooting in the harshest conditions using only natural light, to George Miller’s masterpiece that is Mad Max: Fury Road. With Continue Reading

Floris’ Top 10 movies of 2015

Every December, I make a list of my 10 favourite movies of the year. We’ll call it “Top 10 movies of 2015”, but it doesn’t reflect box office performance, critical reception, or public consensus. This is just one person’s recommendation of 10 great films that were released in the past year. Now, counting Continue Reading