Featured Movie Review: Verraaiers (2013)
Film Critic: Stephen ‘Spling’ Aspeling Verraaiers (Traitors) is a historical drama from director-writer team, Paul Eilers and Salmon de Jager, who previously collaborated
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Featured Movie Review: Die Wonderwerker (2012)
Film Critic: Stephen ‘Spling’ Aspeling Katinka Heyns, the acclaimed director behind South African classics like Paljas and Fiela se Kind, makes a much-anticipated
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Featured Movie Review: My Father’s War (2016)
Film Critic: Stephen ‘Spling’ Aspeling My Father’s War is a drama from writer-director, Craig Gardner, which examines the fractious relationship between David, a
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Featured Movie Review: Fanie Fourie’s Lobola (2013)
Film Critic: Stephen ‘Spling’ Aspeling Fanie Fourie’s Lobola is better than you think. The title and movie poster conjure up what you’d imagine
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Featured Movie Review: Die Windpomp (2014)
Film Critic: Stephen ‘Spling’ Aspeling Die Windpomp (The Windmill) is a mercurial genre butterfly. What starts out as a quirky, campy and quaint
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Featured Movie Review: Meet The Khumalos (2025)
Film Critic: Gino Shelile Meet The Khumalos is all about dads, daughters and Durban. Firstly, I am convinced the DTi has a watertight
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Featured Movie Review: Blood Diamond (2006)
Film Critic: Stephen ‘Spling’ Aspeling Blood Diamond is an intense, thrilling, blood-drenched action drama about diamond smuggling in Africa. The story rests on
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Featured Movie Review: Vir die voëls (2016)
Film Critic: Stephen ‘Spling’ Aspeling South African film has come a long way as evidenced by Vir Die Voëls (For the Birds), a
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Featured Movie Review: Life, Above All
Film Critic: Stephen ‘Spling’ Aspeling Life, Above All is a universal story about the intricate relationship between mother and daughter. Set in modern
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Featured Movie Review: District 9 (2009)
Film Critic: Stephen ‘Spling’ Aspeling District 9 is singular, a cinema experience that could be described as Hotel Rwanda, Fido and Lars and
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