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Stephen 'Spling' Aspeling 🎬

@MovieCriticSA

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

 Cape Town, South Africa
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Joined June 2010
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We made a short film. youtu.be/X0FPUPTvns4?si=_Kb8…
CLOSE TO HOME | Official Trailer (2026) Psychological Thriller

CLOSE TO HOME | Official Trailer (2026) Psychological Thriller

To rewrite her story, she must first outrun the darkness. Watch the...

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Are standing ovations overrated? splingmovies.com/2026/11/ask… #StandingOvation #Theatre #Film #FilmCulture #AskSpling
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Started wondering what ever happened to Cara Delevingne... a quick Google revealed she's got a top-rated film called #ClubKid coming out soon. Pleased for her!
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Micro dramas are the new podcast. Soon everyone will want or have one.
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Also implies the existence of macro dramas.
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I take it the Elon's X Odyssey isn't on a weekly release schedule...
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Close to Home@Close2HomeMovieNov 8
Check out our latest behind-the-scenes video for our psychological mystery thriller 'Close to Home'... instagram.com/reel/DffX8GOoC… #ClosetoHomeMovie
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Discovered stand up @normmacdonald via Judd Apatow's "rabbit hole" documentary biopic after developing a love for him via 'The Middle'... only to find out he's no longer with us. What an emotional rollercoaster. The Forrest Gump of stand ups. 🤣😥
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Blue light therapy.
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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…
Movie Review: Jojo Rabbit - SPLING

Movie Review: Jojo Rabbit - SPLING

Jojo Rabbit is the latest comedy drama from New Zealander, Taika Waititi, the writer-director behind What We Do in the

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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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