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Movie of the week: 360

Movie of the week: 360

24 May 2013 00:14 - Shaun de Waal
360 is rich with human life and the textures of our fractured, disparate worlds
Not the movie of the week: The Great Gatsby

Not the movie of the week: The Great Gatsby

17 May 2013 00:36 - Shaun de Waal
The main action in the movie is its visual effects, beside which the sad strivings of the mere humans in the narrative are as chaff in the wind.
Movie of the week: Stoker

Movie of the week: Stoker

10 May 2013 16:41 - Xan Brooks
South Korean director Park Chan-wook makes his English-language debut with an outrageous quasi-remake of Hitchcock's 1943 thriller Shadow of a Doubt.
Movie of the week: This is 40

Movie of the week: This is 40

03 May 2013 00:07 - Peter Bradshaw
The ingredients are in place for a very enjoyable, smart, fluent comedy with wittily managed moments of sadness and bittersweet regret.
Not the movie of the week: Trance

Not the movie of the week: Trance

26 Apr 2013 00:00 - Peter Bradshaw
Danny Boyle's 'Trance' is frankly a disappointment: a strident, chaotic, frantically overcooked film.
Movie of the week: Oblivion

Movie of the week: Oblivion

19 Apr 2013 00:00 - Shaun De Waal
Despite copying from or echoing other movies throughout, Oblivion is not a dully derivative film, writes Shaun de Waal.
Movie of the week: Seven Psychopaths

Movie of the week: Seven Psychopaths

12 Apr 2013 00:00 - Shaun De Waal
Quentin Tarantino may have introduced the idea of chatty assassins, bantering along with hilarious banality, but Martin McDonagh surely perfected it.
Not the movie of the Week: Red Dawn

Not the movie of the Week: Red Dawn

14 Mar 2013 21:01 - Shaun De Waal
The new Red Dawn, vintage 2010 but held back from release while it was reworked, does not appear to have been written or directed by anyone.
Fanie Fourieâs Lobola pays tribute to romcoms

Fanie Fourie’s Lobola pays tribute to romcoms

01 Mar 2013 00:00 - Shaun De Waal
South Africa doesn’t make a lot of romantic comedies. That’s probably because they’re actually rather hard to do, or at least hard to get right.
Non-serious movie of the week: Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters

Non-serious movie of the week: Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters

22 Feb 2013 00:00 - Shaun De Waal
Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters is preposterous fantasy entertainment for people too young to care about hyphens, writes Shaun de Waal.
Movie of the week: Zero Dark Thirty

Movie of the week: Zero Dark Thirty

15 Feb 2013 00:00 - Peter Bradshaw
This is an effective thriller, uninterested in anyone other than the home team.
Movie 43: When big stars go cheap

Movie 43: When big stars go cheap

08 Feb 2013 00:41 - Catherine Shoard
Movie 43 has been called the “worst film ever” and the “biggest waste of talent in cinema history”.
American movie of the week: Lincoln

American movie of the week: Lincoln

01 Feb 2013 00:00 - Peter Bradshaw
Abraham Lincoln's second term has been brought to the screen by Steven Spielberg as a fascinatingly theatrical contest of rhetoric and strategy.
Movie of the week: Argo

Movie of the week: Argo

25 Jan 2013 00:03 - Peter Bradshaw
'Argo', Ben Affleck's new movie as a director, is an amazing real-life caper straight out of 'Ripley's Believe It or Not!'
Musical of the week: Les Miserables

Musical of the week: Les Miserables

18 Jan 2013 05:38 - Peter Bradshaw
The film conquers its audience with weapons all its own: not passion so much as passionate sincerity; not power so much as overwhelming force.
Movie of the week: Django Unchained

Movie of the week: Django Unchained

18 Jan 2013 05:25 - Peter Bradshaw
Quentin Tarantino's brilliant and brutal revenge western is a wildly exciting return to form and a thrilling adventure in genre and style.
A big year for film buffs

A big year for film buffs

11 Jan 2013 00:00 - Peter Bradshaw
With new offerings from Steven Spielberg, Kathryn Bigelow, Neill Blomkamp and Steve McQueen, 2013 is set for big screen success.
Movie of the week: Butter

Movie of the week: Butter

04 Jan 2013 00:00 - Catherine Shoard
There's something about this film's churn of goo and grit that lingers ambivalently and makes it difficult to digest.
From small screen to silver screen in 2012

From small screen to silver screen in 2012

21 Dec 2012 01:03 - M&G Reporter
Akin Omotoso, Loyiso Gola and others share their favourite film and television highlights from 2012.
All the festive movies

All the festive movies

21 Dec 2012 00:00 - M&G Reporter
From action and drama to fantasy and escapism, we round up the latest holiday releases.

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