Despite his many successes, Woody Allen
still defers to those who inspired him
<i>The Way Back</i> is heartfelt and well executed, but falls down on a lack of personal intensity.
A very good film, slightly overpraised, has been remade as a slightly good film, very overpraised.
The lack of a new blockbuster hit like 2009’s <em>Avatar</em> helped push third-quarter profits down 21%. News Corporation said on Wednesday.
Films like this put <b>Shaun de Waal</b> in a state of mind guaranteed only to generate maudlin laments for the decline of Western civilisation.
The makers of <i>White Wedding</i> follow up their local hit comedy with a funny take on South Africa’s quirky cops and criminals.
After years of wrangling, Oscar-winning director Peter Jackson finally called "action" on Monday on his latest Tolkien epic, <em>The Hobbit</em>.
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/ 14 February 2011
<i>The King’s Speech</i> continued its regal progress through the awards season, winning the best film award at the Baftas.
<b>Shaun de Waal</b> thinks <i>Black Swan</i> is undeniably a powerfully and even painfully engrossing film.
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/ 24 January 2011
Only once before has anyone made the descent into the Mariana trench, the deepest point on Earth. Now James Cameron wants to repeat that journey.
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/ 13 January 2011
Sporadic sounds of clashes and rounds of gunfire echoed in the suburbs of Tunisia’s capital as youths defied curfew.
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/ 10 December 2010
Oh, the travails of a movie page! In some weeks, there are two or three movies that could make a lead review, whether Movie of the Week or Not.
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/ 29 October 2010
Though he stepped on a land mine in Afghanistan, the show is not over for João Silva.
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/ 29 October 2010
An orthopaedic surgeon answers whether photo-journalist Joao Silva will be able to continue his career, following his brush with death.
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/ 15 October 2010
Want to know what movies to watch? Read reviews of <i>Cyrus</i>, <i>The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo</i> and <i>The Switch</i>.
Not quite the movie of the week: <b>Shaun de Waal</b> reviews <i>Long Street</i>.
MOVIE OF THE WEEK: <b>Shaun de Waal</b> reviews <i>The Other Guys</i>, starring Mark Wahlberg.
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/ 19 September 2010
In the final years of apartheid, four South African photojournalists went to extraordinary lengths to capture the horrors of poverty and violence.
The director of <i>Shirley Adams</i> harboured no goals to be a famous filmmaker.
MOVIE OF THE WEEK: <b> Peter Breadshaw</b> reviews <i>Greenberg</i>, a film starring Ben Stiller.
NOT THE MOVIE OF THE WEEK: <b>Peter Bradshaw </b>reviews <i>The Last Airbender</i>.
MOVIE OF THE WEEK: Shaun de Waal reviews <i>Agora</i>.
<b>Peter Bradshaw</b> reviews <i>The A-Team</i>, which he sys is an intermittently entertaining feature-length revival of the 1980s TV series.
Steve Kwena Mokwena’s <i>Driving with Fanon</i> tries to interrogate the reality of post-war Sierra Leone but fails in most regards.
There are few South African films that have been as daring in their choice of narrative style as Oliver Hermanus’s <i>Shirley Adams</i>.
<b>Peter Bradshaw</b> reviews Christopher Nolan’s new movie, <i>Inception</i>. It stars Leonardo DiCaprio.
<i>Inception</i>, the new movie by Batman Returns director Christopher Nolan, has been been a surprise hit – or a surprise beyond expectations.
Adi Loveland is a colourful character — two parts creative, one part entrepreneur. He is an events organiser, a wedding DJ and now a filmmaker.
Khalo Matabane speaks about is his film <i>State of Violence</i>, which will open Durban International Film Festival this weekend.
MOVIE OF THE WEEK: <b>Shaun de Waal</b> reviews <i>Knight and Day</i>, an action comedy starring Tom Cruise and Cameron Diaz.
Climate-change campaigners on Wednesday welcomed plans to alter the way changes to the Kyoto protocol are made in an effort to salvage negotiations.
Vampires are in fashion across the US, encouraged by the hit TV series <i>True Blood</i>, the <i>Twilight</i> movies and <i>Vampire Diaries</i>.