Last Days in the Desert is a Bible movie with serious artistic and spiritual ambition. However, its opaqueness means it won't win over mainstream audiences.

It’s a four-day Easter long weekend in South Africa starting from tomorrow. As a result, all the new movie releases are hitting cinemas from today, and there are six of them – ranging from action-packed escapism to feel-good fare and horror. The Legend of Hercules: Screening in 2D and actually-shot-for-3D is this (supposedly) mythological fantasy adventure centred on Greek hero …

When is the last time that we had a movie director really stir the public up? Roman Polanski has dodged the extradition bullet, while other directors have had to endure a wave of criticism when addressing the religous icon that is Jesus Christ with anything less than respect, in their movies. And now, Paul Verhoeven, the man behind such films …