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Moonlight review: an Oscar-worthy story of a lifetime
Director Barry Jenkins has crafted an intimate, compassionate story with Moonlight. At times it's a hard watch, but at others it will bring you to tears with its grace.
Hit or Miss: The 89th Academy Award Nominations
No Amy Adams, no Tom Hanks, no Clint Eastwood... AND no Deadpool?! What are your thoughts on this year's Academy Award nominations?
Midweek Movie Mouth-Off: we need new movie awards
The major awards shows of 2016 have come and gone, but we still have room for some silliness with the MTV Movie Awards, the winners of which were announced on Monday. Now obviously, the MTV Movie Awards aren’t anything like the BAFTAS, the Golden Globes or the grand-daddy of them all, the Academy Awards. MTV doesn’t take itself, or the …
Midweek Movie Mouth-Off: Leo has his Oscar, who’s next?
Yes? Yes! Leonardo DiCaprio finally took home the gold! It’s about damn time, okay yes I don’t think this was his strongest performance out of the times he’s been nominated, but if it didn’t happen this year it probably wasn’t going to happen at all. And we all wanted so badly for this dream to come true, DiCaprio’s win is …
Movies out Today: 26 February 2016
The last of the Academy Awards Best Picture nominees to grace South African cinemas opens this week, and it comes highly recommended by Craig. The same can’t be said about the rest of this week’s releases unfortunately, but they can’t all be winners. Room Both highly suspenseful and deeply emotional, ROOM is a unique and touching exploration of the boundless …
Midweek Movie Mouth-off: Could this be DiCaprio’s Oscar year?
After five nominations between four movies in three different categories and still no Oscar, never mind all of his roles that he should have been nominated for and wasn’t, Leonardo DiCaprio not winning an Academy Award has become a cliché. But this year might just be his year. His latest offering, The Revenant, has lit up the box office and, …
AWARDS SEASON: What films to look out for
NOTE: This is an opinion piece and does not necessarily reflect the views of the rest of the writers at TheMovies.co.za. I’m not one for awards ceremonies, as I tend to find what critics deem a good movie is not necessarily always the most entertaining (which is the purpose of movies in the first place), so I don’t think it’s …
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