Had George W Bush’s torturers at Guantanamo Bay used this film instead of waterboarding, the war on terror would be long over, writes Shaun de Waal.
The deliberate, underplayed build-up gives the movie a very convincing sense of realism.
Heat: Hot To Stop The Planet Burning by George Monbiot (Penguin/Allen Lane)
A new book traces the background and trajectory of the Voelvry juggernaut.
Penguin modern classics: South African series
Until relatively late in the last century, African literature was seen to have been dominated by social realism.
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.
The second reworking of the Snow White fairytale to appear on our screens within a month is engaging enough, writes Shaun de Waal.
Shame, Steve McQueen’s film about a damaged sibling relationship, is a nightmarish, laugh-free black comedy about neurosis and dysfunction.
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.