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🎞️ Critic: SPL!NG, CapeTalk, Expresso ✍️ Editor: ReviewMyScript πŸ“– Author: The Essence of Dreams πŸ† Writer/Producer: Close to Home 🌐 FIPRESCI | WGSA | FCASA

Cape Town, South Africa
Joined June 2010
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Those "sad lost souls" could save our souls.
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Finally saw #PumpingIron... fascinating sports documentary... offers a slice-of-life and companion piece to the early chapters in Schwarzenegger's biography, Total Recall. Wonder how a #ThisIsSpinalTap version would have gone?
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Can you make a citizen's arrest when someone is clearly drunk and driving?
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Watched a car ahead of us straddling lanes, indicating haphazardly, windscreen wipers... they almost drove into a traffic light island. Clearly on their way to cause damage to themselves or someone else. But it's the police's problem right?
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The CD market is showing a resurgence, think it won't be long before DVDs head in the same direction. Difficult to beat the permanence and tangibility of owning the physical licence to watch something as it was originally intended without having to scroll against the algorithm.
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Before apps and algorithms people used to trust voices.
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Cunk on Cinema... it's a great idea but if the best bits are in the trailer... it pales in comparison with Between Two Ferns and Ali G's early interviews. Give me the Borat version even.
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I know everyone is caught up with the new kids on the block but what if we simplified things and gave Robert Pattinson both James Bond and Batman?
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Dear @TaikaWaititi I haven't had a chance to review 'Klara and the Sun'. Please do send a screener link if you'd like an opinion from a fellow antipodean. Thanks Spling P.S. My Jojo Rabbit review for your eyes only: splingmovies.com/2020/02/mov…
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"Don't take candy from strangers... oh, and happy Halloween my darlings!"
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Parenting in 2026 is the real trick or treat.
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Why doesn't Halloween have any songs?
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Really seems like there should be something kids can sing from door to door as they ask strangers for candy... Trick or Treat already sounds like a nursery rhyme.
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Here's my suggestion, update the lyrics to the John Lennon song, Happy Xmas... So this is Halloween, And what have you done? Another scare over, And a new fright begun. And so this is Halloween, I hope you have chills, The ghosts and the goblins, Are creeping the hills. Etc.
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Feels like a missed opportunity... CC: @MariahCarey
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MIP Africa with these characters!
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This week's WKNDwatchlist, featuring two surf films on Red Bull TV... splingmovies.com/2026/10/wkn… @RedBullZA #LetsBeFrank #Shaka #ChasingThatFeeling
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Met a buddy's twin brother today and had the most ridiculous conversation. After this interaction, I think identical twins should be forced to wear nametags at all times... yes, and while unrelated... even in the bedroom.
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Man or Bear? In this case you may be stumped because there's a good chance there are men inside the bear. #ManvsBear
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Learned about this viral phenomenon for the first time today. This is the Ysbeer, a massive "puppet" and title character from a local South African film.
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