DRAMA OF THE WEEK: Shaun de Waal reviews Nick Cassavetes’s film, <i>Alpha Dog</i>.
MOVIE OF THE WEEK: Shaun de Waal on Nicholas Cage’s very well-made rubbish of a movie, <i>Next</i>
Shaun de Waal reviews Charles van Onselen’s new book The Fox and the Flies: The World of Joseph Silver, Racketeer and Psychopath
Shaun de Waal reviews the film adaptation of Patrick Suskind’s novel <i>Perfume</i>
The brilliant American satirical magazine, The Onion, recently headlined a new development in education in the United States: “Evangelical scientists refute gravity with new ‘intelligent falling’ theory”. Its report continued: “Scientists from the Evangelical Center For Faith-Based Reasoning are now asserting that the long-held ‘theory of gravity’ is flawed, and they have responded to it with a new theory of Intelligent Falling.
Will Ferrell’s Blades of Glory isn’t quite as funny as Zoolander or Dodgeball, but it deserves a solid score from the judges, writes Shaun de Waal.
<i>Catch a Fire</i> deals with South Africa in the turbulent 1980s. <b>Shaun de Waal</b> speaks to its director.
If Spider-Man III is a popcorn movie, it should whiz by with lots of thrills and little to angst over, but it drags itself out like it’s Dr Zhivago, writes Shaun de Waal
Knysna swathed itself in lurid magenta last weekend in celebration of the Pink Loerie mardi gras, a very gay event that brings up to R8-million to the seaside resort in the off-season. For the fifth incarnation of the festival, shopkeepers from hairdressers to leather-and-feather vendors decorated their shopfronts with pink bunting or festooned them with pink-dyed ostrich feathers.
A couple of old actors are sitting around in their local coffee shop, checking the obituaries to see if any of their contemporaries has died.