Featured Movie Review: Felix (2013)
Film Critic: Stephen ‘Spling’ Aspeling Felix is a feel-good comedy-drama that you will cherish for its exuberant, sweet-natured tone. Arriving in the wake
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Featured Movie Review: Noem My Skollie (2016)
Film Critic: Stephen ‘Spling’ Aspeling Noem My Skollie (Call Me Thief) tells the story of Abraham and the Young Ones, a small-time gang
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Barry Ronge and the Endangered Craft of Film Criticism
Before an audience relied on the aggregate hum of Rotten Tomatoes or the algorithmic streaming slideshow, South African cinema-goers looked to a single,
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Maurice Carpede on Internal Empathy, Linguistic Agility and South African Cinema
In an in-depth conversation for FCASA.com, film critic Stephen “Spling” Aspeling sat down with veteran South African actor and broadcaster Maurice Carpede (The
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Featured Movie Review: The Sexy Girls (1998)
Film Critic: Stephen ‘Spling’ Aspeling The Sexy Girls is a film “about getting even”, a South African crime caper set in Muizenberg and
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Featured Movie Review: Spud (2010)
Film Critic: Stephen ‘Spling’ Aspeling John van de Ruit’s character, John “Spud” Milton, has become the South African equivalent of Sue Townsend’s Adrian
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Meg Rickards on the Creative Rollercoaster and Mental Health in South African Cinema
The public perception of the film industry is historically fixed on the glittering half-percent of time filmmakers experience the flashbulbs of the red
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Featured Movie Review: Hollywood in my Huis (2015)
Film Critic: Stephen ‘Spling’ Aspeling Hollywood in My Huis is a South African romantic comedy about a wallflower living in an impoverished railway
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Featured Movie Review: Triomf (2008)
Film Critic: Stephen ‘Spling’ Aspeling Triomf is a curious South African drama centered on a poor, white Afrikaans family at the turning point
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Interview: Zenobia Kloppers on Craft, Hustle and the South African Frontier
In the high-stakes world of cinema, few moments are as “magical” as a double premiere. For Zenobia Kloppers, April 17th marked exactly that:
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