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Where sensitivity and skill converge: Reading Sally Partridge's Dark Poppy's Demise

Jonathan Amid 2011-08-19

A crime thriller that can offer more than cheap thrills: Reading HJ Golakai's The Lazarus Effect

Karlien van der Schyff 2011-08-17

A crime thriller that can offer more than cheap thrills: Reading HJ Golakai's The Lazarus Effect

Karlien van der Schyff 2011-08-17

Wear red, play dead

Arja Salafranca 2011-08-16 Wear red, play deadThe invite said: Wear red, play dead, Put your head in a gilded cage. Come as your favourite rock star. Wear black, change your name, Buy a dress made of safety pins. Come as your favourite Disney character. ...

Wear red, play dead

Arja Salafranca 2011-08-16 Wear red, play deadThe invite said: Wear red, play dead, Put your head in a gilded cage. Come as your favourite rock star. Wear black, change your name, Buy a dress made of safety pins. Come as your favourite Disney character. ...

An apple in Munich

Arja Salafranca 2011-08-11 An apple in Munich

I think a red apple won’t be good enough.
A red apple plucked from a bowl on a luxury
river cruise liner, carried in my bag for two days.

An apple in Munich

Arja Salafranca 2011-08-11 An apple in Munich

I think a red apple won’t be good enough.
A red apple plucked from a bowl on a luxury
river cruise liner, carried in my bag for two days.

Skoonheid: Beautiful and brave

Réney Warrington 2011-08-10 I needed to hug someone after watching Skoonheid.

Skoonheid: Beautiful and brave

Réney Warrington 2011-08-10 I needed to hug someone after watching Skoonheid.

Super 8 - A highly enjoyable blockbuster

Réney Warrington 2011-08-10 Super 8 uses a technique made famous by the mother of all alien films, Alien, and that is never to do a full frontal of the alien, not to zoom in on every fang and all the dripping gore.

Super 8 - A highly enjoyable blockbuster

Réney Warrington 2011-08-10 Super 8 uses a technique made famous by the mother of all alien films, Alien, and that is never to do a full frontal of the alien, not to zoom in on every fang and all the dripping gore.

Eddie Signwriter: An auspicious debut

Kayang Gagiano 2011-08-03

Eddie Signwriter: An auspicious debut

Kayang Gagiano 2011-08-03

Very little bang in The Bang Bang Club

Réney Warrington 2011-07-27 I don’t get it. War photographers Greg, Joao, Ken and Kevin, the four original members of The Bang Bang Club, lived the kind of lives, during the violent end of apartheid, that legends and great films are made of. So why is The Bang Bang Club, the film, so boring?

Very little bang in The Bang Bang Club

Réney Warrington 2011-07-27 I don’t get it. War photographers Greg, Joao, Ken and Kevin, the four original members of The Bang Bang Club, lived the kind of lives, during the violent end of apartheid, that legends and great films are made of. So why is The Bang Bang Club, the film, so boring?

Shaggy: Side-splitting South African short stories

Jonathan Amid 2011-07-20

Shaggy: Side-splitting South African short stories

Jonathan Amid 2011-07-20

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part II damn near perfect

Réney Warrington 2011-07-19 Harry Potter 7 is a damn near perfect film.

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part II damn near perfect

Réney Warrington 2011-07-19 Harry Potter 7 is a damn near perfect film.

Bridesmaids is not just a chick flick

Réney Warrington 2011-07-15 Bridesmaids is not a chick flick just because there’s a lot of chicks in it! It will appeal to anyone with a slightly twisted sense of humour and a tendency toward the politically incorrect. I fitted the bill and loved every minute of it. ...