Midweek Movie Mouth-off: where’s the love for local actors?
American actors will play the leads in THE FORGIVEN. Why don’t we have any major South African talent in the lead roles of movies about South Africa?
Movies out today: twisty thrillers and drama with a local flair
Gone Girl Directed by David Fincher and based upon the global bestseller by Gillian Flynn, Gone Girl unearths the secrets at the heart of a modern marriage. On the occasion of his fifth wedding anniversary, Nick Dunne (Ben Affleck) reports that his beautiful wife, Amy (Rosamund Pike), has gone missing. Under pressure from the police and a growing media frenzy, …
We review CITY OF VIOLENCE – A gritty and powerful crime drama steeped in SA history
I was luckily born too late to experience or be conscious of the true, debilitating horrors of the Apartheid regime. However, I grew up in what you might very well consider the wrong side of the tracks (not that we had any tracks, probably because somebody had stolen them), so I know all about the legacy of crime and drugs …
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