Last Friday I had the opportunity to attend the red carpet Premier of Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom. Dressed up in my Assassin’s Creed T-Shirt I marched into Century City and demanded the best champagne to oil my critical (ly broken) mind and prepared for a marathon of Mandela. I thought to myself through star struck eyes that it is …

Most locally produced films are pretty much reserved for the worst offenders in hell, those people who are seen as bigger scum than puppy-stranglers and the guys who write lyrics for Afrikaans Justin Bieber style single tunes. But lately, the industry has started to shove out a few diamonds from all that excrement. Dredd 3D was shot on location here, …

A certain homegrown hero turned 95 yesterday, and while the majority of his family is busy tearing away at his legacy faster than a politician in a PR blitz, at least the majority of the nation could stand solid for 67 minutes yesterday as a sign of solidarity. Earlier this week we saw a teaser trailer for the upcoming Mandela: …

It’s impossible to not know who Nelson Mandela is. The icon, the hero, the first democratically elected president of this country. Mandela may not have been alone as he worked with numerous other individuals to help end apartheid, but he was most certainly the face of that revolution. With the national saint in hospital, the country is naturally feeling apprehensive …

Let’s face facts: Our beloved former president isn’t going to be around for much longer. But after  94 years of activisim, politics and fund-raising for those who need it, he’s led a hell of a life. And of course, Hollywood loves that kind of true to life story. Long in development, the autobiographical book of the president Long Walk to …

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If there’s one local icon that is loved harder than rugby, soccer, gatsby sammiches and Sunday alcohol, it’s got to be Nelson Mandela. While the great one has been portrayed in movies and television before, his full life story has yet to be turned into a full length feature film. Until now that is, as Michael Bay will be shooting …

Does the name Idris Elba ring a bell? It doesn’t? Come on, he was the kickass Asgardian gatekeeper, Heimdall, who had a brief yet memorable part in last years Thor movie, and also a larger and more forgettable part in the latest Nicholas Cage train of crazy, Ghost Rider: Spirits of vengeance. But besides that particular excrement-filled turkey of a …