Quentin Tarantino’s brilliant and brutal revenge western is a wildly exciting return to form and a thrilling adventure in genre and style.
With new offerings from Steven Spielberg, Kathryn Bigelow, Neill Blomkamp and Steve McQueen, 2013 is set for big screen success.
There’s something about this film’s churn of goo and grit that lingers ambivalently and makes it difficult to digest.
From action and drama to fantasy and escapism, we round up the latest holiday releases.
Akin Omotoso, Loyiso Gola and others share their favourite film and television highlights from 2012.
An Unexpected Journey feels as though it has been stretched and stretched again to fill up a running time of nearly three hours.
In A Separation, Iranian writer-director Asghar Farhadi takes a scalpel to his bourgeois homeland.
The 50th anniversary of the big-screen Bond is the right time to pull off something big.
Earlier this year, Bullhead was the Belgian entry in the Oscars category of best movie in a foreign language (meaning non-American-speaking).
There’s much huffing and puffing in The Cold Light of Day, but the plot is decidedly thin and the sketchy script barely manages to join the dots.
It is no great work of pioneering cinema, but Hysteria is very enjoyable in a middle-of-the road sort of way.
At nearly three hours long, Cloud Atlas has all the marks of a giant folly, and those unfamiliar with the book will be baffled.
Frankenweenie, Tim Burton’s new movie, is a feature-length treatment of a 1984 short originally rejected by Disney for being too "dark".
Premiering at Horrorfest this week are three South African horror movies.
The fourth and last segment, for this year, of the Out in Africa Gay and Lesbian Film Festival has just begun at Nu Metro cinemas.
A driving storyline and good script makes "Dredd" a shoot-’em-up of the highest quality, writes Shaun de Waal.
Opening this week at the Bioscope in Jo’burg and the Labia in Cape Town is South African indie pic Casting Me … Yes, with the dots.
Documentarians tend to traffic in misery and horror and it can be hard to escape that feeling when taking a look at the TriContinental Film Festival.
This mockumentary about Rodriguez is an interesting footnote to a denied cultural history: the history of South Africa’s white liberal class.
Seth MacFarlane, the creator of TV’s Family Guy, has co-written and directed a stoner fantasy-comedy that is cynical and lethargic, sour and dour.
With such strong performances to propel it, The Eye of the Storm makes absorbing viewing.
It’s a joke that some will find in sacrilegious bad taste. For others, the self-aware craziness is the whole point.
Although showing at the Out in Africa gay and lesbian film festival, Tom Tyk-wer’s film ‘3’ has the distinction of not being about gay people at all.
Steven Soderbergh’s ‘Magic Mike’ somehow looks like a much darker and more challenging movie than is actually the case.
Five years after the ropey Spider-Man III crawled out of the multiplex plughole, starring a jaded Tobey Maguire, the reset button has been pressed.
Nazis from the moon! Yes, that’s the basic idea of Iron Sky, the Finnish-German-Australian co-production.
The Dictator is set to make Peter Sellers’s Inspector Clouseau a model of subtlety and sensitivity.
The third Celludroid festival runs at the Labia in Cape Town until July 5, and focuses on science fiction, fantasy and related genres.
This is a very European kind of movie, the kind Americans seem almost entirely unable to produce, even in "indie" mode.
Of all the movies coming out this year, "Prometheus" is the one to have attracted the most questions of the "Have you seen it yet?" sort.
The second reworking of the Snow White fairytale to appear on our screens within a month is engaging enough, writes Shaun de Waal.
Otelo Burning is a good example of an emerging genre in SA cinema: that of stories attempting to fit together the personal and the political.