Featured Movie Review: Die Seemeeu (2018)
Film Critic: Theresa Smith Sharp, nasty, brittle, thought-provoking, Christiaan Olwagen’s film Die Seemeeu makes for uncomfortable but absorbing viewing, like watching a train
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Featured Movie Review: Ayanda (2015)
Film Critic: Claudia Hauter Ayanda is a film about a creative, young Jo’burger who tries to rescues her late father’s motor repair shop,
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Featured Movie Review: Late Bloomer (2022)
Film Critic: Gabi Zietsman If you’ve zoomed past the 30-year mark, life tends to become a series of milestones that you haven’t reached
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Featured Movie Review: Amandla (2022)
Film Critic: Stephen ‘Spling’ Aspeling In South Africa, films that echo themes from the country’s darkest days are often criticised for being stuck
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Featured Movie Review: Johnny Is nie dood nie (2016)
Many times when it comes to Afrikaans films, the most positive thing you can say is, at least it had a great soundtrack.
Johnny is nie dood nie though doesn’t have a great soundtrack despite itself, but revolves its entire story around the soundtrack to an entire generation of Afrikaners’ political awakening.
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Featured Movie Review: Five Fingers for Marseilles (2017)
Contrary to confused belief, Five Fingers for Marseilles is not South Africa’s first Western. Our film industry is well-aged and with it comes eons of storytelling ingrained in our very souls.
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Featured Movie Review: Flatland (2019)
Flatland is an adventure crime western from writer-director, Jenna Cato Bass. Her films push cinematic boundaries and are never dull, starting with Love the One You Love, then High Fantasy and now Flatland.
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Film Critics Association of South Africa (FCASA)
The Film Critics Association of South Africa is entering a new chapter with a new website. Until now the association has simply been
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