 | This movie is not at all what you’d expect from the frequently tried and tested takes on druggie culture. Instead of being about drug addiction, it has a much fresher approach and never resorts to every scene involving the use of drugs, getting drugs, getting caught and expressing remorse. Drugs play a central but much smaller role in the film, although they are a relevant aspect to the situations the characters make for themselves. Instead it offers a brilliant and ...read more |
Amphetamine
Saturday, October 16th, 2010 by Bianca Fernandes
Partners / Les Complices
Friday, October 15th, 2010 by Bianca Fernandes
 | This stereotypical French film has everything you’d expect – prostitution, love and violence caused by an excess of passion. When a young man is mysteriously found floating dead, two cops start their investigation, which turns out to affect them a lot more than they anticipate. ...read more |
This Horror is so Gay
Thursday, October 14th, 2010 by Bianca Fernandes
 | This year’s Gay and Lesbo film festival is upon us and the terror is already manifesting in every bible-thumping mother. Last year’s festival saw all street posters advertising the event torn down and perhaps burnt and sent to hell, like the rest of us, so the theme this year is Horror. The old school horror film posters bring back the screeching, dancing, show tune loving monsters of the 60s, and closing your eyes definitely won’t make them go away. ...read more |
The Runaways
Wednesday, October 6th, 2010 by Tamlin Wightman
 | In front of me is a platinum blonde feline in lingerie oscillating in front of her microphone. She channels David Bowie and Bridgette Bardot, while the glowering Cat Woman in a red leather jumpsuit next to her is more Suzi-Quatro and Keith-Richards. Electric guitar in hand, the Cat has hair and eyeliner as black as her surname implies. They’re ebony and ivory, the yin to each other’s yang, yet both share a dangerous magnetism. And they’re only teens. ...read more |
Money Never Sleeps
Thursday, September 30th, 2010 by Kavish Chetty
 | Wall Street 2 is surprisingly merciful to that crass alleyway of capitalism. Among all the tempestuous meltdowns and suicides that have characterised the last few years financially, I expected this film to be two hours of Stone-esque diatribe: oblique Marxian critiques of political economy; greedy pigs in pinstripe with the crosshair aimed at their guts. Instead, this film is really just a drama about personal ambition and personal greed. It’s a thriller rushing along on a permanently peaked-up pulse – ...read more |
Kung Fu Prince of Bel-Air
Tuesday, September 21st, 2010 by Kavish Chetty
 | The ‘90s becomes, increasingly, a distant memory (but its déjà vu is still made up of garish primary colours and light-blue denim). And so does the Fresh Prince – time has wedged itself between us and that lanky motherfucker. “He’s getting old,” we sigh with collective gratitude to the aging process: “He’s getting old and we’re slowly escaping him.” But The Karate Kid proves that Will Smith cannot be outrun. ...read more |
The Expendables
Thursday, September 16th, 2010 by Roger Young
 | Bad filmmaking can only become “good” if the filmmakers are oblivious to the inherent “badness”; in short the good part of bad films is the laughing at the naiveté of the filmmakers. The Expendables is a calculated attempt to exploit our need to laugh at badly made films. However, it is such a bad attempt at this exploitation that it ends up being neither so bad it’s good, or so consciously bad/good that it’s bad but rather falls into that ...read more |
Chuck
Wednesday, September 15th, 2010 by Ryan Govender
 | Why are there no great articles on Chuck Norris that capture what makes every one of his movies a masterpiece? I am aware of the cult following he has as well as the endless jokes – but Chuck is more than that. He is the greatest action hero ever. His movies are from another world – part action and part fantasy. The best way to understand Chuck is to compare him to yourself. ...read more |
Check your brain in at the door
Saturday, September 11th, 2010 by Kavish Chetty
 | I was troubled at dinner once by a middle-aged woman with pubescent streaks of blonde in her hair. She leered across the table at me, accenting her accusations in hyper-American drawl: “You just need to cut loose, man,” I was informed. She admonished me, amongst other things, for the fact that I didn’t know how to “suspend my disbelief.” I had become the recipient of this critical largesse because I told her that some horror film she was exalting for ...read more |
Chloë
Thursday, September 2nd, 2010 by Angela Spencer
 | Dr Catherine Stewart is lost. Although she’s a successful gynaecologist, she no longer knows how to seduce David, her husband, and feels invisible in a world of younger and supposedly more beautiful women. The men around her are obsessed with girls – her teenage son is sleeping with his sweetheart under her roof, her male colleague has a partner half his age and David, a university professor, is constantly chatting to his young students. ...read more |
