TV & Movies

Netflix and Warner Bros to produce live-action series based on Sandman comics

Netflix may be creating a TV series based on the Sandman comics, this according to a Sunday report by The Hollywood Reporter. According to…

Avengers: Endgame will be re-released in South Africa on 12 July

Not content with second place on the most lucrative movie in history list, Disney and Marvel are re-releasing Avengers: Endgame worldwide and in South…

Final Fantasy XIV is getting its own live-action TV series

Production company Hivemind and Sony Pictures Television on Thursday announced the upcoming development of a live-action series based on the game Final Fantasy XIV….

The Office will leave Netflix in 2021 for NBCUniversal’s upcoming streaming service

Hit comedy series The Office will ditch Netflix and move to NBCUniversal’s upcoming streaming service come 2021, the latter announced on Tuesday. “The Office…

Toy Story 4 review: an emotive, charming classic

Apprehensive that a fourth movie in a classic Pixar franchise was pushing it, I went into watching Toy Story 4 with a considerably skeptical eye….

Avengers: Endgame is getting a post-credits scene next week

A report by Screen Rant on Wednesday revealed that Avengers: Endgame will head back to cinemas with a new post-credits scene. “If you stay and…

Avengers: Endgame passed R100m mark in SA Box Office this weekend

Disney on Tuesday revealed that Avengers: Endgame passed the R100 million mark in the local South African Box Office this past weekend. The movie…

Meet Triggerfish: Cape Town’s Oscar-nominated animation studio

Thirty-five minutes outside Cape Town’s CBD lies an unobtrusive farmhouse nestled beneath the Constantiaberg. A decade ago, it housed old-fashioned horse-drawn carriages and 19th…

Why is South Africa not watching South African movies?

You hear it all the time (at least in the hipster parts of Cape Town): support local. Wear locally-made clothes, buy fruit and veg…

SA’s box office: this week was boring so I made stuff up

The box office this week was really boring. Barely anything changed. The top four is exactly the same as last week, and the bottom…

Last week in trailers: Saoirse Ronan, John Cena, Tommy Wiseau & more

It’s this writer’s last trailer roundup here on Memeburn, so of course that means the marketing world dried up and delivered a host of just…

Three Billboards appropriates black and female struggles for the white man

Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri tells a universal tale of women abandoned by the justice system sworn to protect them. In South Africa, this…

8 feel-good shows on Netflix to help escape the world’s suck

Life is hard. Problems barrel at us at a steady pace, and social media has allowed us all direct access to almost every human…

Last week in trailers: Incredibles 2, Descendants 3, and more

It’s still February. I don’t know how. I thought this was meant to be the shortest month and yet here we are, still in…

SA’s box office: Black Panther has best Saturday performance of all time

Marvel’s Black Panther is the studio’s biggest opening ever in South Africa, pulling in R16.8-million in its first weekend at the theatres. The film was warmly embraced…

Black Panther is a personal, intimate blockbuster

Comic fans around the world have waited with bated breath to witness the fate of Black Panther, Marvel’s first black-led superhero film. The blockbuster,…

SA’s box office: Fifty Shades Freed comes first

Happy Valentine’s Day, South Africa, and congrats on never being afraid to get your (missionary) freak on. This weekend, Fifty Shades Freed, the last of…

5 films on Netflix to watch alone this Valentine’s Day

It’s the season of love, and for some that means flowers and chocolates and romantic declarations. For others it means avoiding the shops at…

Last week in trailers: Solo, Venom, Deadpool & more

Need a gift for your significant other this Valentine’s Day? Why not show them one of these week-old trailers? They’ll say: “Why did you…

Netflix’s Queer Eye is soothing for the soul

After an exhausting week filled with long days and short showers, I fell into my couch, ready to glue my eyes to any TV…

The Disaster Artist is a feature-length trailer for so-bad-it’s-good film The Room

In 2003, Tommy Wiseau released a film now widely understood as the worst film ever made. The Room, which Wiseau wrote, directed, produced, and…

SA’s box office: Inxeba (The Wound) opens in sixth despite protests

The South African film on everyone’s lips, Inxeba (The Wound), has opened in an impressive sixth spot on the box office charts despite being subject…

Last week in trailers: Mission: Impossible, Avengers TV spot, and more

Yesterday was Super Bowl Sunday — and while that means nothing to 99.9% of South Africans, what it does mean is that the entertainment industry blessed…

TCL South Africa Unveils 2025 Mini LED TV Range with Wide Viewing Angles

RIP Skype Microsoft Pulls the Plug on a Digital Pioneer

SITA pushes back as Home Affairs eyes IT exit

EmpowaEntrepreneurs 2025 Targets Africa’s High-Growth Founders and Investors

French No-Code Pioneer Tinkso Secures Strategic Investment from SA Entrepreneur Henk Pretorius

IBM Think 2025: Enterprise Gen AI Moves Beyond the Hype

Acer Unleashes Beastly New Predator BiFrost and Nitro GPUs with AMD Radeon RX 9000 Series

Philips Evnia Drops Jaw-Dropping QD OLED Monitors: 240Hz, Ambiglow, and All the Good Stuff

Microsoft launches new Surface devices in new AI era

Slate Truck is an outrageously sensible pickup

Red Bull wings for Lucid – not Tesla

Gravity is a true driver’s EV SUV