TV & Movies

Apple TV+ drops dramatic teaser for upcoming series The Morning Show

Apple on Monday dropped the first teaser trailer for The Morning Show, an upcoming series for its Apple TV+ streaming service. The show, which…

3 oddly meaningful animated series on Netflix you should watch

There’s no arguing with the fact that some animated movies have the knack of hitting you straight in the feels. Anything made by the…

Disney’s The Lion King is now the biggest animated movie of all time

Disney’s The Lion King is now the biggest animated movie of all time, bringing the six-year reign of previous titled holder Frozen to an…

Game of Thrones showrunners sign $200m deal with Netflix

The famed Game of Thrones series creators David Benioff and Dan Weiss have left HBO and moved to Netflix in a $200 million movie…

CBS’s Star Trek: Picard is getting host of prequel book material

Once again, the world is getting even more Star Trek, this time in the form of two written prequel series about character Jean-Luc Picard’s…

Doctor Who will stream exclusively on HBO Max in 2020

WarnerMedia’s upcoming streaming service HBO Max will be the exclusive home of Doctor Who when the platform launches next year, a report by Variety revealed…

Netflix wants to track smartphone users’ ‘physical activity’ in new test

Netflix is asking users if it can track their devices’ physical activity information, according to users on Twitter and a report by The Next…

What to watch on Netflix and Showmax in South Africa in August

New month, new shows, seasons and movies to stream on Showmax and Netflix. But what is there to watch exactly? We’ve done all the…

This was the only ‘real’ shot in The Lion King. Did you notice it?

There’s only one “real” shot in the new CGI version of The Lion King. Did you spot it? Well, if you didn’t, film director…

The Lion King made R24.5m in South Africa in its first weekend

Disney’s new uncanny valley Lion King remake may have been disliked by critics, but it sure is appealing to South African movie goers. In…

6 movies and series trailers from San Diego Comic-Con 2019

Marvel might have stolen the show at the San Diego Comic-Con this year, but it wasn’t the only company to give us all a…

The Eternals, Mighty Thor and everything else planned for MCU phase four

The 11-movie long third phase of Marvel’s cinematic universe (MCU) came to an end with Spider-Man Far From Home in June, making way for…

Avengers: Endgame dethrones Avatar as the biggest movie in history

It’s only gone and done it. After its global re-release, Marvel Studios’ Avengers: Endgame has finally surpassed Avatar as the biggest movie of all…

HBO drops the first season trailer for Phillip Pullman’s His Dark Materials

HBO is bringing another best selling fantasy book series to life, this time with Phillip Pullman’s His Dark Materials trilogy. The content company dropped…

Broadway musical Cats gets its first movie trailer and horrifies Twitter

The world renowned Broadway play Cats is moving from the stage to the screen this December in the form of a live action movie…

The Lion King review: a beautiful remake of a much better movie

Dumbo, Aladdin, and now The Lion King. Disney continues its computer-generated roadmap of remaking almost ever single childhood animation loved by Millennials. It would…

Twitter can’t get enough of Beyonce’s Lion King-inspired ‘Spirit’ music video

Beyonce is trending on Twitter yet again in the wake of something Lion King related. This time, the music video for her new song…

Netflix removes that graphic suicide scene in 13 Reasons Why

Netflix on Tuesday announced that it has removed the suicide scene in the first season of 13 Reasons Why, which depicts main character Hannah…

Google Lens lets fans scan ‘Starcourt Mall’ ads from Stranger Things 3

Believe it or not, but the Stranger Things 3 craze has not yet ended even though it premiered on Netflix just over a week…

HBO Max, WarnerMedia’s new streaming service, to launch in 2020

WarnerMedia on Tuesday announced the upcoming release of its very own direct-to-consumer streaming service, HBO Max. “Anchored with and inspired by the legacy of…

Beyonce takes Twitter ‘to church and Africa’ with new Lion King single ‘Spirit’

Next week, The Lion King‘s live-action remake will premiere globally along with an album curated by Beyonce and “steeped in the sounds of Africa”,…

Microsoft’s Windows 1.0 teaser was all for a Stranger Things 3 app

Last week Microsoft confused its followers on social media when it seemingly went back to 1985 and announced the upcoming release of Windows 1.0….

Stranger Things 3 was watched by 40m accounts in its first four days

Stranger Things 3, which hit Netflix just under a week ago, has already racked up over 40 million views according to the streaming service….

VR entertainment could be coming to a British Airways flight near you

Google updates Chrome OS with better navigation and audio control

YouTube to stop monetisation of ‘unfair’ manual copyright claims

Five SA fintechs that service the growing market of SME lending

AlphaCode awards R16m in grants, support services to eight black-owned SA fintechs

Seedstars calls on startups to apply to Tanzania accelerator and receive $25k each

Some older Nokia smartphones to receive an extra year of updates

The foldable Huawei Mate X is now delayed until November

Open-world Need for Speed Heat is launching in November

Audi’s new cars in Germany will count you down, pace you to green lights

Two Ford Focus trim levels also found to have lock issues

South Africa’s govt ministers really love German cars and big Toyotas report reveals