Sometimes it seems that the only legislation all parties in an African Parliament can agree on is one that persecutes gays and lesbians.
It is no great work of pioneering cinema, but Hysteria is very enjoyable in a middle-of-the road sort of way.
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.
From Jacques Lacan to the Marquis de Sade and now Marie Antoinette, Benot Jacquot’s movies have a lot of range.
When I first saw Gandu at the Durban International Film Festival last year, there were a few walkouts but not as many as might have been expected.
‘There was a rumour around for years among filmmakers that Sweden had more archive material on the Black Panthers than the entire USA.’
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.
Zhang Yimou’s new movie, The Flowers of War, is the equivalent of a megabudget two-and-a-half-hour South African movie about the Sharpeville massacre.
Alan Hollinghurst says that, unlike Brideshead Revisited, his novels show the brutal side of riches.
Shaun de Waal reviews two documentaries about Israel-Palestine, both showing at the TriContinental Film Festival.
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.
Making or acting in your own film is possible with an innovative project in downtown Jo’burg.
With such strong performances to propel it, The Eye of the Storm makes absorbing viewing.
Farewell, My Queen gives a pretty comprehensive portrait of how royalty lived and behaved, at least as seen by serving characters such as Sidonie.
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.
Nazis from the moon! Yes, that’s the basic idea of Iron Sky, the Finnish-German-Australian co-production.
A spy and a philosophy professor shed light on South Africa’s transition to democracy.
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.
Had George W Bush’s torturers at Guantanamo Bay used this film instead of waterboarding, the war on terror would be long over, writes Shaun de Waal.
The deliberate, underplayed build-up gives the movie a very convincing sense of realism.
Heat: Hot To Stop The Planet Burning by George Monbiot (Penguin/Allen Lane)
A new book traces the background and trajectory of the Voelvry juggernaut.
Penguin modern classics: South African series
Until relatively late in the last century, African literature was seen to have been dominated by social realism.
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.
Shame, Steve McQueen’s film about a damaged sibling relationship, is a nightmarish, laugh-free black comedy about neurosis and dysfunction.
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.
Two thrill-offering movies are being released this week, but they are being marketed in very different ways.