The Brothers Streep are a duo of South African musical comedians best known for their breakthrough appearances on SA Idols and The Graham Norton Show. After four years of podcasting and appearing on other popular shows, Simon van Wyk and Dylan Hichens decided to host their own show on 2OceansVibe Radio.

Spling was invited to be a guest on their special movie edition show on Friday the 13th to chat about being a movie critic, film etiquette, favourite films with a special movie ideas pitch session. Here's what went down...

The Brother Streep Show: Movie Edition featuring Spling

Lee-Anne Summers is a South African actress and producer best known for her role as triplets in Big Fellas. She was picked for a Walt Disney World TV advert at age 5 and appeared in several classic school productions before graduating with a Psychology degree from UCT. Summers moved to New York to study acting full-time at the New York Film Academy and received a gold diploma from the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Arts in 2010.

Since then Lee-Anne has appeared in several TV series including: Binnelanders, Rhythm City and SABC 3’s mini-series Stellenbosch. Her international roles include: BBC’s To Be First and the German movie The Secret of the Whales (Geheiminis Der Wale) with Christopher Lambert.

Lee-Anne's theatre credits in South Africa include playing the lead role of Abby Prescott in Neil Labute’s The Mercy Seat in Cape Town and most recently in the supporting role of Jeannie in the Labute play Fat Pig opposite Colin Moss. The up-and-coming South African actress has also featured in FHM and posed for Marie Claire's Naked Issue.

Lee-Anne Summers is an ambitious, beautiful, lively and industrious individual, a star-in-the-making and the subject of our latest Top Ten Movies feature. You can catch Lee-Anne starring alongside Colin Moss in Neil LaBute's play Fat Pig at Theatre on the Square in Sandton, Johannesburg until 10 May.

The African Film Library, the world’s largest archive of award-winning African cinema, is now live at africanfilmlibrary.com. A project more than 3 years in the making, the African Film Library (AFL) allows users to rent and view hundreds of films from the continent’s best filmmakers via a secure website, worldwide, for just US$5.

A vast catalogue of short films, feature films and documentaries from across the continent is available in a variety of languages and includes films by – amongst many others - Senegalese legend Ousmane Sembène (Borom Sarret, La noire de…), Egypt’s Youssef Chahine (Le Destin, Saladin, The 6th Day, The Land and The Sparrow), Senegal’s Djibril diop Mambéty (Badou Boy, Hyenes, Le Franc and Touki Bouki), Haile Gerima, Knaw Ansah, Flora Gomes, Jean Rouch and Idrissa Ouedragou.

Albert Nobbs - Movie Review

Glenn Close garnered an Oscar nomination for her portrayal of Albert Nobbs, a butler leading a secretive life of servitude in the hope of opening a tobacco shoppe in Dublin. While beautifully filmed and spurred on by an intriguing premise and great production values, Albert Nobbs lacks focus and leans too heavily on the ensemble's collective talent.

The concept would have possibly worked better if they had veiled it in Gothic horror like Jane Eyre (2011) or applied more claustrophobic and voyeuristic intensity as experienced in Chilean domestic drama, The Maid. Close's performance is commendable, but casting a well-known actress leaves very few surprises in this curious, yet stilted drama.

South African surfing film Otelo Burning scooped the most nominations (13), followed closely by South African film noir How 2 Steal 2 Million (11) and Nigeria’s Benin-set historical epic Adesuwa (10).  Ghana’s civil war film Somewhere in Africa has seven nominations, as does the Nigerian-South African xenophobia-themed co-production Man on Ground, while Kenya’s Rugged Priest has six.

Otelo Burning tells the story of a group of township kids who discover the joy of surfing against a backdrop of brewing conflict between two political groups in 1989. When 16-year-old Otelo Buthelezi takes to the water for the first time, it's clear that he was born to surf. When tragedy strikes, Otelo is forced to choose between surfing success and justice.

Shot in Durban and directed by Sara Blecher (Surfing Soweto), this coming-of-age drama stars Thomas Gumede as New Year with Jafta Mamabolo as the title character, Otelo Buthelezi. The film is described as somewhere between Brazilian crime masterpiece City of God and the teen dream adventures of surfing movie Blue Crush.

The winners will be announced at a glittering ceremony for the African Movie Academy Awards (AMAA) on 22 April 2012, hosted by Heroes star Jimmy Jean-Louis. For the first time, the awards will be held in Lagos rather than Bayelsa in Nigeria. “Our theme this year is Africa Rising,” says founder Peace Anyiam-Osigwe. “Africa’s economies are consistently growing faster than those of almost any other region of the world and our film industries are following suit. With the success of last year’s AMAA winner, Viva Riva!, all of a sudden there’s this great excitement about the potential of the African film industry, which is clearly demonstrated in this year’s diverse nominees.”

Triple Oscar nominee Albert Nobbs will have its African première at the first edition of the 19th Out In Africa Gay and Lesbian Film Festival, which runs from Friday, 23 March-Sunday 1 April 2012 in Cape Town and Johannesburg.

Glenn Close received her sixth Oscar nomination for her titular role as a woman passing as a man in order to work and survive in 19th Century Ireland. Janet McTeer, nominated as Best Supporting Actress, also has a cross-dressing role, and the film is up for Best Makeup. Rising star Mia Wasikowska (Alice in Wonderland, Jane Eyre) is the love interest.