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/ 26 September 2008
ON CIRCUIT: <i>Apollo Film Festival </i>, <i>Choke</i>, <i>The House Bunny</i> as well as <i>Star Wars: The Clone Wars</i>.
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/ 19 September 2008
MOVIES OF THE WEEK: Shaun de Waal reviews Hellboy II: The Golden Army, while Peter Bradshaw reviews Colin Farrell’s latest, In Bruges.
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/ 19 September 2008
ON CIRCUIT: <i> Space Chimps</i> and <i>Swing Vote</i> make an entrance onto the circuit.
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/ 13 September 2008
MOVIES OF THE WEEK: Shaun de Waal looks at some of the interesting offerings at this year’s Out in Africa Film Festival.
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/ 12 September 2008
ON CIRCUIT: The <i>Air France Film Festival</i> is on at Hyde Park Nu Metro. There is also <i>Elite Squad</i> and <i>Into Great Silence</i>.
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/ 8 September 2008
Shaun de Waal takes a look at the South African short films on at <i>Out in Africa</i> festival, tha opened last week.
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/ 5 September 2008
MOVIE OF THE WEEK: Shaun de Waal reviews <i>Tropic Thunder</i>, about the making of a movie about the Vietnam war.
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/ 5 September 2008
ON CIRCUIT: Action adventure <i>Babylon AD</i>, which stars Vin Diesel and Gerard Dpardieu.
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/ 4 September 2008
The notion of testing yourself against Austen’s novels would not have been so unfamiliar to their author.
The TriContinental Film Festival in Cape Town features<i>The Choir</i> a film that represents the vilest of colonial anti-black representations.
Andrew Worsdale speaks to the director of <i>Jerusalema</i>, the new gritty crime drama set in Johannesburg.
MOVIE OF THE WEEK: Shaun de Waal reviews the ABBA-inspired musical, <i> Mamma Mia!</i>, starring a singing, dancing Meryl Streep.
ON CIRCUIT: <i>Prom Night</i>, starring Brittany Snow and <i>Redbelt</i>, with Chiwetel Ejiofor as a jujitsu instructor who needs to get out of debt.
ON CIRCUIT: <i>Meet Dave</i>, starring Eddie Murphy as an alien, and <i>WsZ</i>, a serial-killer horror knockoff of the Saw franchise.
ON CIRCUIT: <i>The Big Nothing</i>, a comedy about good-guys-turned-bad-blackmailers. It stars Mimi Rogers.
A long-forgotten and inspiring perspective of the Twin Towers emerges in a new documentary by British filmmaker James Marsh.
Shaun de Waal finds out more about Francis Ford Coppola’s fully restored <i>Godfather</i> trilogy, out on DVD, and reviews more DVD releases.
MOVIE OF THE WEEK: Shaun de Waal reviews the latest <i>Batman</i> instalment, <i> The Dark Knight</i>, and likes its sense of realism.
ON CIRCUIT: <i> The Bank Job</i>, <i>Drillbit Taylor</i> and <i>Journey to the Centre of the Earth</i> are reviewed.
MOVIE OF THE WEEK: <i>Lust, Caution</i> is entirely engrossing, despite its slow pace and its length, with superb performances throughout.
Something for everyone: <i>The Jane Austen Book Club</i>, <i>Eastern Promises</i>, <i>No Country for Old Men</i> … Shaun de Waal reviews new DVDs.
Tony Bensusan’s documentary on the formation of the United Democratic Front 25 years ago is a voyeuristic journey into disparate moments.
<b>ON CIRCUIT:</b> <i>Deception</i>, starring Ewan McGregor, and <i>Definitely, Maybe</i>
Agnes Poirier looks at Laurent Cantet’s film <i>Entre les Murs </i>, which won the Palme d’Or at this year’s Cannes Festival.
<b>ON CIRCUIT:</b> <i>El Cantante</i>, starring Jennifer Lopez and Marc Anthony and <i>Paris, Je t’Aime</i>.
<b>BLOCKBUSTER OF THE WEEK</b>: Peter Bradshaw reviews <i>Be Kind Rewind</i>, a film by Michael Gondry.
<b>ON CIRCUIT:</b> <i>The Eye</i> and <i>Married Life</i>, in which Pierce Brosnan stars and narrates.
<b>ON CIRCUIT:</b> <i>Awake</i>, <i>Bricklane</i>, <i>The Forbidden Kingdom</i> and the new Cameron Diaz film, <i>What Happens in Vegas</i>
<b>ON CIRCUIT:</b> <i>Closing the Ring</i>, <i>Drillbit Taylor</i>, <i>88 Minutes, a thriller starring Al Pacino</i>, and Kevin Spacey’s <i>21</i>.
<b>DVD REVIEWS:</b> Shaun de Waal looks at the DVDs to look out for this month.
<b>ON CIRCUIT:</b> <i>Iron Man</i>, <i>Made o Honour</i>, <i>Semi-Pro</i> and <i>The Walker</i>
<b>NOT QUITE THE MOVIE OF THE WEEK</b>: Shaun de Waal looks at the latest work of Hong Kong director Wong Kar Wai, called <i>My Blueberry Nights</i>.