<i>X-Men: First Class</i> has enough action to keep the fight fans happy, and sufficient use of special effects to beguile the sensation-seeking eye.
Joe Wright’s self-conscious assassin movie <em>Hanna</em> is too boring to be a proper thriller and too goofily hectic for anything grander than that.
There’s nothing quite like the Cannes Film Festival, a place where big egos and big mouths are placed under the scrutiny of the media.
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
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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/ 29 October 2010
Though he stepped on a land mine in Afghanistan, the show is not over for João Silva.
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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.