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/ 17 September 2009
Dan Brown’s latest work, although banal, crammed with clichés and frequently nonsensical, is readable. Shaun de Waal did it in six hours.
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/ 16 September 2009
This trend of using art as an outlet for frustration and marginalisation is evident in the films showing at the Tri Continental film festival.
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/ 11 September 2009
MOVIE OF THE WEEK: Shaun de Waal reviews <em>Shank</em>
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/ 4 September 2009
<em>Fig Trees</em>, which shows at the Out in Africa film festival, is an inverted documentary opera that defies the genre’s conventional tragedy
It’s often easy for South Africans to imagine they live in an alternative reality. Maybe that’s why <i>District 9</i> works so well.
The marketing campaign for the sci-fi movie <i>District 9</i>, set in South Africa and opening here, was planned before the movie was even filmed.
Shaun de Waal speaks to Australian director Steve Jacobs about adapting <em>Disgrace</em> to film.
Guy Willoughby, who died this week of Aids-related complications, was a well-known man of the theatre, academic, cultural commentator and novelist.
Shaun de Waal and Yvette Christiansë discuss the anguish of liberation from slavery into the non-life of indentured work.
NOT QUITE THE MOVIE OF THE WEEK: Shaun de Waal reviews <i>Genova</i>