Mystery of the waves
Otelo Burning is a good example of an emerging genre in SA cinema: that of stories attempting to fit together the personal and the political.
comments (0)
Stories in the Rue Morgue
Two thrill-offering movies are being released this week, but they are being marketed in very different ways.
comments (1)
Gently swimming upstream
After Chocolat, What's Eating Gilbert Grape? and The Cider House Rules, Lasse Hallström moves on to the fish course.
comments (0)
My, what big eyes you have
Months before the release of The Grey, this newspaper had already received a message from some lupine anti-defamation league.
comments (0)
How not to grow up
Young Adult and The Hunger Games both explore the uncomfortable space between youth and maturity.
comments (0)
'Scuse me while I kiss this pie
It is now 13 years since American Pie, and all those virginities are well and truly lost.
comments (2)
Gods on the run
Wrath of the Titans features silliness and predictability in epic proportions, writes Shaun de Waal.
comments (1)
Christopher and the Berlin boys
Christopher and His Kind is the adaptation of the autobiography by Christopher Isherwood.
comments (0)
Gender bender unsettles and affects
Glenn Close has been trying to get a film of Albert Nobbs, George Moore's novella set in the 1800s, off the ground since 1982.
comments (0)
Blood on the sofa
At its best, Carnage is a spiky satire on contemporary bourgeois correctness; at its worst, it;s a strained piece of upscale dinner theatre.
comments (0)
