<b>Movie of the week:</b> Karel Schoeman’s novel <i>Na die Geliefde Land,</i> has been made into a movie, <i>Promised Land</i>, writes Neil Sonnekus.
Neil Sonnekus joins a voyeuristic audience to view <i>Two to Tango</i>.
<b>Movies of the week:</b> Neil Sonnekus reviews a satirical English movie, <i>Once Upon a Time in the Midlands</i>, and a small independent film called <i>Tadpole</i>.
Can South African movies located in a specific time and place tackle universal themes? Neil Sonnekus speaks to filmmaker Jason Xenopoulos.
One of the strokes of genius of <i>The Dangerous Lives of Altar Boys</i> is to jump right into that animated universe, writes Neil Sonnekus.
<b>Q&A</b>: Ronnie Apteker with Neil Sonnekus.
<b>Thriller of the week:</b> <i>Insomnia</i> is a work of true genius, writes Neil Sonnekus.
The Apollo Film Festival in Victoria West can only get better, writes Neil Sonnekus.
<b>Not the movies of the week:</b> Two very different films, <i>Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood</i> and <i>Frailty</i>, ignore the basics – and make us wish for a remote…
<b>Not the movie of the week:</b> <i>Bad Company</i> is just propaganda by wishful thinking, writes Neil Sonnekus.
It is puzzling to see South African league champions and newly crowned BP Top 8 victors operating without a sponsor while the club (Kaizer Chiefs) that finished ninth on the log…
An English teacher (the miraculous Cate Blanchett) in Italy decides to blow up the businessman who caused the drug-related death of her husband and some of her pupils. But things…
<b>Not quite the movie of the week:</b> <i>In the Bedroom</i> is an impressive debut, even if it doesn’t quite achieve what Wyeth is quoted as saying in his Helga series: "You…
<b>BIG-BUDGET MOVIE OF THE WEEK:</b> Not a scene, action or word is wasted in this fine evocation of the endless joys and lurking terrors of youth – <i>Hearts in Atlantis</i>,…
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<b>Not quite comedy of the week:</b>It falters because it tries to be everything for everyone, but where it really falls apart is when it looks back to another era and turns to…
<b>Movie of the week:</b> The scientist sees the human as a machine that procreates and dies or is copied, whereas a flawed artist like Spielberg sees the human, real or copied,…
<b>Love story of the week:</b> Occasionally an American film comes along that, as untimely as it might sound in these crashing days, restores one’s faith in the human race.…
The Encounters film festival elevates the filming of actuality to a fine art, writes Neil Sonnekus.
Bertold Bohmer (Armin Mueller-Stahl) is a widowed, sixtysomething German émigré and athletics trainer. He lives like a pig in a cottage on an Afrikaans couple’s farm, has no…
