
Joburg Film Festival film review: Amazing grace – a concert
2019-11-21"Your enjoyment of this film hinges on whether you are an Aretha Franklin fan or not."

Joburg Film Festival film review: 8 – unconvincing
2019-11-19"You must commend the South African film industry, where budgets are small, for attempting genres other than slapstick or drama, slightly more commercially viable options."

Joburg Film Festival film review: Hero – it should’ve been more
2019-11-19"The extraordinary story is there – war hero, law expert, survivor, charmer – but the movie fails its subject dismally."

Joburg Film Festival film review: Luce – the sustained menace will haunt you
2019-11-19"It could set in motion such thought-provoking and justifiable, yet completely conflicting, interpretations, that one could argue for weeks on end. It is marvellous."

Joburg Film Festival film review: Vision portraits – interesting topic, average film
2019-11-19"It is a moving portrait of artists losing their sight, the one thing they depend on most."

Filmresensie: Racheltjie de Beer
2019-10-25"Moenie hierdie resensie lees nie. Stop dit. Ek is ernstig. Gaan kyk net die film."

Film review: Late night – clever but safe
2019-10-16"The major issue Late night grapples with is how superficial TV, and life in general, has become. How substance has been substituted for likes, views and followers."

Joker – darker than Gotham
2019-10-04"Joker is an expansive film, a cinematic marvel with plenty of jaw-dropping scenes. The unrelentingly dark nature of this instalment will, however, frighten many cinemagoers. Be warned. Or heartened."

Film review: Hustlers, or rather, The godmother
2019-09-19"It’s a gritty drama, an all-out condemnation of the greed of men, with rather great comedy thrown in – and yes, with some strippers. Oh, and believe you me, JLo is a revelation as Ramona Vega."

Blinded by the light captures the power of music, but not the power of film
2019-08-13"It is a dazzling concept, using Bruce Springsteen’s working-class Americana lyrics and music as a backdrop to life in Britain in 1987 for a working-class Pakistani family."

The best of enemies: black and white race relations portrayed in shades of grey
2019-08-02"The best of enemies is not a brilliant film, it is not a ground-breaking film, but it does not deserve to be tanked, either."

The Lion King – louwarm
2019-07-22"Die 2019-weergawe het nie die passie van die 1994-weergawe nie. Ek het heeltyd gewag vir die energie om toe te neem, vir die weerbarstigheid van byvoorbeeld die aasvoëls of die hiënas om deur die skerm te breek. Die oomblik het nie aangebreek nie."

Rolling thunder revue, a Bob Dylan story by Martin Scorsese on Netflix
2019-07-09"Part documentary, part concert film, part fever dream, Rolling thunder is a one-of-a-kind experience from master filmmaker Martin Scorsese."

Booksmart: a film review
2019-07-02"Booksmart, a film about high school – the current colosseum where the innocent and not so innocent are fed to lions – is simply not cruel enough to feel authentic, not funny enough to make you cringe at what you are laughing at, and not insane enough to elevate it to mockumentary/spoof status."

Game of Thrones se finale seisoen – ewe veel pyn en plesier
2019-05-24"’n Klomp moerige bewonderaars het ’n petisie opgestel waarin hulle daarop aandring dat seisoen 8 oorgeskryf en -verfilm moet word. Natuurlik kan enige bewonderaar op sosiale media en om die braaivuur kla as hulle nie van iets hou nie. Maar om aan te voer dat jou idees en storielyne beter is, en dat ander mense se harde werk in die proses geskrap moet word?"