Traditionally, at the Out in Africa gay and lesbian film festival, there isn’t much crossover between the lesbian movies and the flicks for gay men.
Competing metaphors for literary production are like competing discourses. For a healthy industry, we need more of them.
A few years ago <b>Shaun de Waal</b> tried to read the bestseller <i>Freakonomics</i>. He didn’t get very far though.
African film is strung between harsh reality and freeing fantasy. This is evident at the Pan-African film festival in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso.
Is it a "spoiler" to reveal that a movie has a happy ending? That’s, after an hour and a half of watching suffering and trauma, it all turns out okay.
The Coen brothers’ version of <i>True Grit</i> is going as a return to the novel by Charles Portis rather than a remake.
If the public was voting for the Oscars, it’s clear that Natalie Portman would be a shoo-in for best actress.
<b>Shaun de Waal</b> thinks <i>Black Swan</i> is undeniably a powerfully and even painfully engrossing film.
The auteur theory developed by French critics in the late 1950s and early 1960s is often misunderstood.
It comes about 50 minutes into the movie: the moment at which <i>The Tourist</i> begins to fall apart writes <b>Shaun de Waal</b>.