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/ 12 October 2007
MOVIE OF THE WEEK: Shaun de Waal reviews <i>Stradust</i>, the fantasy adventure based on Neil Gaiman’s bestselling novel.
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/ 11 October 2007
DVD OF THE WEEK: John Cameron Mitchell’s Shortbus is a provocative achievement, writes Shaun de Waal.
MOVIES OF THE WEEK: Shaun de Waal reviews two thrillers opening on circuit this week, <i>The Dead Girl</i> and <i>The Lookout</i>.
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/ 25 September 2007
<b>MOVIES OF THE WEEK:</b> Shaun de Waal reviews two comedies out on circuit this week <i>Knocked Up</i> and <i>Death at a Funeral</i>
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/ 21 September 2007
<b>THRILLER OF THE WEEK:</b> Shaun de Waal reviews <i>Disturbia</i>, a remake of Alfred Hitchcock’s <i>Rear Window</i>.
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/ 21 September 2007
<b>COMEDY OF THE WEEK (FOR SHEER NERVE):</b> Shaun de Waal reviews the Afrikaans comedy <i>Poena Is Koning</i>
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/ 14 September 2007
<b>MOVIE OF THE WEEK:</b> Shaun de Waal reviews <i>What Is It Worth?</i>, showing at this year’s Tri-Continental Film Festival.
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/ 7 September 2007
<b>COMEDY OF THE WEEK</b>: Shaun de Waal is ambivalent about <i>I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry</i>.
Shaun de Waal reviews the latest DVD releases
<b>MOVIE OF THE WEEK:</b> Shaun de Waal reviews <i>Waitress</i>, a lovely little film, with a persistently off-beat sense of humour.
Shaun de Waal on non-fiction that examines South African senses of space.
<b>MOVIE OF THE WEEK:</b> Shaun de Waal reviews Michael Bays’ flashy action movie, <i>Transformers</i>, which opens in theatres this weekend
<b>MOVIE OF THE WEEK:</b> Mexican writer-director Guillermo del Toro’s <i>Pan’s Labyrinth</i> has arrived in South Africa at last, writes Shaun de Waal.
MOVIE OF THE WEEK: David Fincher returns to the serial-killer idea with Zodiac, which opens this week, writes Shaun de Waal
DVD ROUNDUP: Martin Scorsese’s <i>The Departed</i> leads the pack of recent DVD releases, writes Shaun de Waal.
‘Transman’ Robert Hamblin is no longer a woman, but he has always been an artist. He spoke to Shaun de Waal about his work and his journey.
DRAMA OF THE WEEK: Shaun de Waal reviews Nick Cassavetes’s film, <i>Alpha Dog</i>.
MOVIE OF THE WEEK: Shaun de Waal on Nicholas Cage’s very well-made rubbish of a movie, <i>Next</i>
Shaun de Waal reviews the film adaptation of Patrick Suskind’s novel <i>Perfume</i>
<b>MOVIE OF THE WEEK:</b> In the light of Clint Eastwood’s latest offerings it looks as though his career as a director has been a long tussle with the notion of heroism, writes <b>Shaun de Waal</b>
<i>Catch a Fire</i> deals with South Africa in the turbulent 1980s. <b>Shaun de Waal</b> speaks to its director.
<b>UNDENIABLY THE MOVIE OF THE WEEK:</b> <i>Volver</i> is yet another Pedro Almodóvar masterpiece, writes <b>Shaun de Waal</b>.
<b>Shaun de Waal</b> examines the three new South African poetry collections.
A couple of old actors are sitting around in their local coffee shop, checking the obituaries to see if any of their contemporaries has died.
<b>MOVIE OF THE WEEK:</b> Shaun de Waal reviews <i>The History Boys</i>, a film that explores the different ways of teaching, different kinds of ambitions and different kinds of relationship between teacher and pupil.
<b>MOVIE OF THE WEEK:</b> Robin Williams’s latest film,<i>The Night Listener</i> makes for engrossing viewing, especially as it gets increasingly noir in flavour, writes Shaun de Waal.
<b>NOT THE MOVIE OF THE WEEK:</b> <b>Shaun de Waal</b> reviews <i>300</i>, the new movie about the Battle of Thermopylae in 480BC which is based on Frank Miller’s graphic novel.
Shaun de Waal reviews Ian Buruma’s <i>Murder in Amsterdam: The Death of Theo van Gogh and the Limits of Tolerance</i>.
<b>NOT QUITE THE MOVIE OF THE WEEK:</b> <i>Marie Antoinette</i> is a brave development on Sophia Coppola’s part, but we need less insipid characters, or more complex situations, if we are to care, writes Shaun de Waal.
<b>MOVIE OF THE WEEK:</b> Not only does <i>Bunny Chow</i> have laughs, it has youth, energy and style, writes Shaun de Waal.
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/ 26 January 2007
<b>NOT EVEN VAGUELY THE MOVIE OF THE WEEK:</b> Descendants of the Maya have already objected strenuously to Mel Gibson’s version of the facts about the May in his new feature, <i>Apocalypto</i>, writes Shaun de Waal.
<b>MOVIE OF THE WEEK:</b> <i>The Queen</i> takes us into the dynamics of the tug-of-war between Britain’s Queen Elizabeth and her prime minister, writes Shaun de Waal.