An exhibition explores how and why the photographer’s family name shifted from Mokwena to MacQuena in the 1960s
Skin Diver defies many mainstream texts that encourage us to embrace our uniqueness promote an othering of those who are considered the norm.
Over and over old tropes are trotted our in films, with modern and “civilised” always triumphing. But what is the new definition of “civilised”?
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It has awoken in me a sense of pride and dignity I had no idea I had lost from all those many years of being erased in international public discourse
The director and storyteller has been ‘shooting the feels’ and making melanin pop on screen
Decolonising and reimagining institutions is not a mere theory or idealism but a responsibility
The film embraces the intricacies of black American masculinity, eschewing the stereotypes to mastering black cinema.
Gender and political activist Bev Ditsie talks about how unspoken sexual violence and silenced narratives obscure queer history in South Africa.
Romantic comedies have helped open the floodgates for the success of black films.
Readers write in about the State of the Nation Address, racism, and the value of history.
Recalling the history of the movement reminds us there are still places where women cannot vote.
Adam Sandler’s video game adventure Pixels among the top nominees, while Sylvester Stallone is nominated for a redemption award.
From Hear Me Move to Dis Ek, Anna, the South African film industry is telling bold and refreshing stories for a whole new audience.
The cast of the movie "Trumbo" led the Screen Actors Guild Award nominations with three nods, including one for best ensemble, the guild’s top prize.
Those who don’t want English as Stellenbosch’s main language have invoked SA’s Constitution, but the assumptions underlying their arguments are false.
The latest Bond movie begins with a flurry of spectacle, but it also aims to offer atmosphere, beauty and scale.
Debating, Survivor style.
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A newly released local film buoyed by an open approach to filmmaking takes on the complexities faced by the politically astute LGBTI community.
Shifting from sombre, celebrated actor and director talks about his new movie, a romcom titled "Tell Me Sweet Something".
A BLK JK has swapped music for film with ‘Black President’, homing in on an artist whose work interrogates power on the African continent.
Tales of township, inner-city and suburban Jo’burg life suggest we are creating more movies we can relate to.
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Sibs Shongwe-La Mer’s award-winning film observes the aftermath of tragedy among a hedonistic, multiracial circle of suburban young adults.
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Paramount is the latest studio to reboot its movies as TV series, with the likes of Minority Report and Shutter Island to get the treatment.
Local film director Sara Blecher’s latest work comes home to Durban audiences next week.
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Aryan Kaganof’s film about Wits deceptively reflects on the political grandstanding at the institution.
‘A Most Violent Year’ by JC Chandor is a foil to neoliberalism and a reflection on the genre of Howard Hawks’s ‘Scarface’.
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The fall of apartheid’s structures has allowed fiction to explore a range of social issues.
Cinderella is constructed as a fable that’s evergreen-familiar but slightly modernised and much more English in tone than the animated original.
The actor, who played the logical human-alien Mr Spock in the cult Star Trek TV series and subsequent movies, has died after battling a lung disease.
Opinionistas are divided over the portrayal of the main female character in the film ‘Gone Girl.’
"In making Boyhood, Richard Linklater truly has created something never before seen in a fiction feature film," writes Nadia Neophytou.
In a world saturated by violence and sensation, true escape comes in Richard Linklater’s moving film Boyhood.