<b>DVD REVIEWS:</b> Shaun de Waal looks at the DVDs to look out for this month.
<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>.
Shaun de Waal reviews three new books on local cinema.
<b>NOT QUITE THE MOVIE OF THE WEEK</b>: Shaun de Waal reviews Richard Gere’s latest film, <i>I’m Not There</i>.
<b>NOT QUITE THE MOVIE OF THE WEEK</b>: Shaun de Waal reviews <i>The Other Boleyn Girl</i>, starring Natalie Portman.
<b>NOT THE MOVIE OF THE WEEK</b>: Shaun de Waal reviews the new Afrikaans teen comedy, <i>Bakgat!</i>.
Shaun de Waal reviews Breyten Breytenbach’s latest book, <i>A Veil of Footsteps</i>.
<b>MOVIE OF THE WEEK:</b> Shaun de Waal reviews Woody Allen’s <i>Scoop</i>, his best in a decade.
<b>DVD OF THE WEEK:</b> Bar a lapse in historical accuracy, Shaun de Waal enjoys Anne Hathaway in <i>Becoming Jane</i>.
<b>NOT QUITE THE MOVIE OF THE WEEK:</b> Shaun de Waal explains why <i>Grace Is Gone</i> looks like it should be on TV.
<b>NOT THE MOVIE OF THE WEEK:</b> Roland Emmerich’s <i>10 000 BC</i> takes viewers back to a cliché-ridden prehistoric era, writes Shaun de Waal.
Marriage is an odd mixture of personal commitment and public show; of property rights and romance; of civic obligation and religious avowal. Despite religious homophobia, gay and lesbian people in South Africa have fought for their right to be married in the sight of God, writes Shaun de Waal.
<b>MOVIE OF THE WEEK:</b> Shaun de Waal reviews <i>Juno</i>, the indie outsider nominated for a best-movie Oscar this year.
<b>MOVIES OF THE WEEK:</b> Shaun de Waal reviews Michael Moore’s healthcare documentary <i>Sicko</i> as well as <i>There Will Be Blood</i>.
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/ 29 February 2008
<b>MOVIE OF THE WEEK:</b> Shaun de Waal reviews the Coen brother’s <i>No Country for Old Men</i> which recently won a slew of Oscars recently.
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/ 15 February 2008
The new Quentin Tarantino flick, writes Shaun de Waal, is unbelievably bad — and nasty to boot.
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/ 8 February 2008
<b>MOVIES OF THE WEEK:</b> Shaun de Waal reviews two movies out on circuit this week, <i>Cloverfield</i> and <i>1408</i>.
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/ 1 February 2008
<b>MOVIE OF THE WEEK:</b> Shaun de Waal reviews the film adaptation of Ian McEwan’s novel <i>Atonement</i>.
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/ 31 January 2008
DVD OF THE WEEK: Shaun de Waal looks at the humour of <i>Another Gay Movie</i>.
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/ 30 January 2008
Murder and mystery in the time of Henry VIII, writes Shaun de Waal.
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/ 25 January 2008
NOT QUITE THE MOVIE OF THE WEEK</b>: <b>Shaun de Waal</b> reviews <i>Into the Wild</i>, directed by Sean Penn.
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/ 11 January 2008
The word of God, like language, is constantly evolving. Shaun de Waal looks at recent books about the human and the divine.
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/ 7 December 2007
Shaun de Waal reviews Philip Rotha’s novel, <i>Exit Ghost</i>
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/ 7 December 2007
Movie of the week: Shaun de Waal reviews <i>The Golden Compass</i>, starring Nicole Kidman and Daniel Craig.
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/ 30 November 2007
Gavin Hood’s latest offering, <i>Rendition</i>, gets to the human core of the United States war on terror, writes Shaun de Waal.
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/ 23 November 2007
Composer Philip Miller brings South African freedom songs into dialogue with the Western-style orchestral tradition. He spoke to Shaun de Waal.
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/ 16 November 2007
MOVIE OF THE WEEK: Shaun de Waal reviews Robert Redford’s latest offering, <i>Lions for Lambs</i>.
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/ 9 November 2007
MOVIE OF THE WEEK: Shaun de Waal reviews the documentary <i>Deliver Us from Evil</i> .
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/ 6 November 2007
As the secondary literature on the post-apartheid novel continues to expand (possibly faster than the post-apartheid novel), Cheryl Stobie takes an interesting and hitherto unique line. The figure of the bisexual in South African fiction is a marginal one, yet in Somewhere in the <i>Double Rainbow: Representations of Bisexuality in Post-Apartheid Novels</i> (UKZN Press) Stobie places that figure centrally, writes Shaun de Waal.
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/ 2 November 2007
MOVIE OF THE WEEK:Shaun de Waal reviews Michael Winterbottom’s <i>A Mighty Heart</i>, starring Angelina Jolie.
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/ 26 October 2007
MOVIE OF THE WEEK:Shaun de Waal reviews Paul Haggis’s latest offering, <i>In the Valley of Elah</i>.
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/ 19 October 2007
NOT THE MOVIE OF THE WEEK: Watering down Bollywood for Western audiences robs the Bollywood style of its very appeal, writes Shaun de Waal.