It is no great work of pioneering cinema, but Hysteria is very enjoyable in a middle-of-the road sort of way.
Premiering at Horrorfest this week are three South African horror movies.
The fourth and last segment, for this year, of the Out in Africa Gay and Lesbian Film Festival has just begun at Nu Metro cinemas.
From Jacques Lacan to the Marquis de Sade and now Marie Antoinette, Benot Jacquot’s movies have a lot of range.
When I first saw Gandu at the Durban International Film Festival last year, there were a few walkouts but not as many as might have been expected.
‘There was a rumour around for years among filmmakers that Sweden had more archive material on the Black Panthers than the entire USA.’
A driving storyline and good script makes "Dredd" a shoot-’em-up of the highest quality, writes Shaun de Waal.
Opening this week at the Bioscope in Jo’burg and the Labia in Cape Town is South African indie pic Casting Me … Yes, with the dots.
Zhang Yimou’s new movie, The Flowers of War, is the equivalent of a megabudget two-and-a-half-hour South African movie about the Sharpeville massacre.
Alan Hollinghurst says that, unlike Brideshead Revisited, his novels show the brutal side of riches.