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Movie of the week: The Dictator

Movie of the week: The Dictator

06 Jul 2012 00:00 - Peter Bradshaw
The Dictator is set to make Peter Sellers's Inspector Clouseau a model of subtlety and sensitivity.
Movie of the week: Technotise: Edit and I

Movie of the week: Technotise: Edit and I

29 Jun 2012 00:27 - Shaun De Waal
The third Celludroid festival runs at the Labia in Cape Town until July 5, and focuses on science fiction, fantasy and related genres.
Movie of the week: Consequences of Love

Movie of the week: Consequences of Love

24 Jun 2012 17:59 - Shaun De Waal
This is a very European kind of movie, the kind Americans seem almost entirely unable to produce, even in "indie" mode.
Movie of the week: Prometheus

Movie of the week: Prometheus

08 Jun 2012 00:01 - Shaun De Waal
Of all the movies coming out this year, "Prometheus" is the one to have attracted the most questions of the "Have you seen it yet?" sort.
Movie of the week: Snow White and the Huntsman

Movie of the week: Snow White and the Huntsman

01 Jun 2012 00:53 - Shaun De Waal
The second reworking of the Snow White fairytale to appear on our screens within a month is engaging enough, writes Shaun de Waal.
Mystery of the waves

Mystery of the waves

11 May 2012 01:00 - Shaun De Waal
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.
Stories in the Rue Morgue

Stories in the Rue Morgue

04 May 2012 12:00 - Shaun De Waal
Two thrill-offering movies are being released this week, but they are being marketed in very different ways.
Gently swimming upstream

Gently swimming upstream

26 Apr 2012 00:00 - Catherine Shoard
After Chocolat, What's Eating Gilbert Grape? and The Cider House Rules, Lasse Hallström moves on to the fish course.
My, what big eyes you have

My, what big eyes you have

20 Apr 2012 00:00 - Shaun De Waal
Months before the release of The Grey, this newspaper had already received a message from some lupine anti-defamation league.
How not to grow up

How not to grow up

13 Apr 2012 00:00 - Shaun De Waal
Young Adult and The Hunger Games both explore the uncomfortable space between youth and maturity.
'Scuse me while I kiss this pie

'Scuse me while I kiss this pie

05 Apr 2012 00:00 - Shaun De Waal
It is now 13 years since American Pie, and all those virginities are well and truly lost.
Gods on the run

Gods on the run

30 Mar 2012 00:00 - Shaun De Waal
Wrath of the Titans features silliness and predictability in epic proportions, writes Shaun de Waal.

Christopher and the Berlin boys

23 Mar 2012 17:53 - Shaun De Waal
Christopher and His Kind is the adaptation of the autobiography by Christopher Isherwood.
Gender bender unsettles and affects

Gender bender unsettles and affects

23 Mar 2012 17:48 - Catherine Shoard
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.
Blood on the sofa

Blood on the sofa

23 Mar 2012 00:00 - Peter Bradshaw
At its best, Carnage is a spiky satire on contemporary bourgeois correctness; at its worst, it;s a strained piece of upscale dinner theatre.

The charm offensive

09 Mar 2012 15:11 - Shaun De Waal
Let us not overstate the wonderfulness of The Artist, writes Shaun de Waal

Gloriously funny and achingly tender

09 Mar 2012 15:03 - Peter Bradshaw
The Artist has to be the first film that has left Peter Bradshaw weeping tears of joy.
Ciphers in the shadows

Ciphers in the shadows

09 Mar 2012 00:00 - Shaun De Waal
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy is absorbing in its thinky, downbeat way; it's an intelligent adaptation of a long, complicated tale .
Good cop, bad cop

Good cop, bad cop

02 Mar 2012 00:00 - Peter Bradshaw
Rampart is a gripping movie, and a great addition to the Ellroy canon.
These lips were made for lying

These lips were made for lying

24 Feb 2012 00:00 - Shaun De Waal
This Means War is an example of what Hollywood refers to as a "high-concept" movie -- and what French critics call la haute poppicocquerie.

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