In 2003, as politicians in Britain and the US angle to invade Iraq, GCHQ translator Katharine Gun leaks a classified e-mail that urges spying on members of the UN Security Council to force through the resolution to go to war. Charged with breaking the Official Secrets Act, and facing imprisonment, Katharine and her lawyers set out to defend her actions. With her life, liberty and marriage threatened, she must stand up for what she believes in…

I’m enough of an ou toppie to have first got to know Gavin Hood as a paraplegic rugby player in local 1989 TV series The Game. Of course the rest of the world would really get to know Hood from 2005’s Tsotsi which would win the South African actor turned director the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film and catapult him into the Hollywood limelight. And during a press …

Six new movies open in South Africa today, with a bias towards coming of age tales, where young people are forced to navigate the complexities of an unforgiving adult world as they shape their own identities. Last Updated: August 29, 2017

“This is basic rocket science, people” one adult trainer tells a class of prepubescent commanders-to-be in one scene of Ender’s Game, writer/director Gavin Hood’s feature film adaptation of Orson Scott Card’s critically acclaimed, classic sci-fi novel. That oxymoronic sentence is used in the film to demonstrate this particular young class’ advanced intellect, but it also serves as quite the allegory for …

With all the brouhaha surrounding Orson Scott Card’s anti-gay position, it’s easy for those issues to drown out the promo campaign for Ender’s Game, Gavin Hood’s feature film adaption of Card’s most famous novel. So what’s a film studio to do in a case like this? Well to paraphrase Gary Oldman, GET EEEEEVERYTHIIIIIIING!!! of course. So check out some new posters, …

I think we can all agree that Orson Scott Card is a really talented writer. Unfortunately, we can also agree that he is a vitriol-spewing bigot. Card has made a number of increasingly inflammatory statements over the years regarding his controversial stances against everything from Muslims to Mexicans, and recently his diatribes against same-sex marriage got him removed from a highly …

Over at JPosters they’ve revealed five new character sheets for Gavin Hood’s upcoming film adaptation of the classic Orson Scott Card science fiction novel. Last Updated: July 1, 2013

When the fhe first trailer for the trailer for writer-director Gavin Hood’s adaptation of Orson Scott Card’s Ender’s Game was released it was prefaced by an intro from a rather bored looking pair of stars, namely Asa Butterfield and Harrison Ford, who looked like they were providing commentary on the World Grass Growing championships. Now the first full trailer is here, …