 | Adventureland may be from the director of Superbad, but it’s not the gross-out comedy the trailer let’s you think it is. It’s a much better film than that. ...read more |
Adventureland
Thursday, June 11th, 2009 by Roger Young
Persepolis
Wednesday, June 10th, 2009 by Zoe Henry
 | South Africans often complain about living here. The crime, the poverty, the lack of jobs, the affirmative action. The list of complaints goes on and on. ...read more |
No Salvation for Terminator
Thursday, June 4th, 2009 by Nathan Zeno
 | Unfortunately, this is the third film in a row director MCG has blown, so we have to ask ourselves, why is this joker tolerated? Who does he have the dirt on? Terminator Salvation is, um, not a salvation, as you may have heard by now. But how bad is it, really? When Arnold appears for his fifteen seconds, he doesn’t even have a clumsy one-liner. He is mute and, I suspect, mostly a computer graphic. MCG is all about the ...read more |
4 Months, 3 Weeks & 2 Days
Thursday, May 28th, 2009 by Kavish Chetty
 | In 1987, Romania was limply exiting the black aegis of Communist dictator Nicolae Ceausescu. In an attempt to revive the flat-lining fertility rate, Ceausescu’s 1966 decree banned all abortions. And into the muted chill of this grimly communist backdrop is penciled the story of 4 Months, 3 Weeks & 2 Days. Because of social and political contingencies, undergraduate Otilia (Anamaria Marinca) must attempt to aid her room-mate Gabita (Laura Vasiliu) through an illegal, hotel-room abortion. But Gabita’s non-endearing naïveté will ...read more |
Man on Wire
Thursday, May 21st, 2009 by Kavish Chetty
 | In 1974, Frenchman Philippe Petit, an egomaniacal tightrope-artist of some extraordinary talent, enlisted a gang of hippies and adoring fans/friends to plot and execute his most ambitious high-wire walk to date. 417 metres high, amongst the pastel-coloured clouds of the January sky, he’d walk, mince and swagger between the towers of the World Trade Centre. ...read more |
I Once Was
Thursday, May 14th, 2009 by Nathan Zeno
 | Brilliant books seldom make for brilliant films. Written by José Saramago, “Blindness” is the kind of singular reading experience that requires the readers’ imagination to film in the gaps. Not only are city and place names left out, so are the characters and the key identifiers, the place that Blindness takes place in is everyplace and it’s people are everypeople. The horrors in the book are emotional and universal and they are also obviously metaphorical. ...read more |
Star Drek
Thursday, May 7th, 2009 by Andy Davis
 | Er, I’m Sylar… no wait… I’m Spock. No, I’m definitely Sylar Eish… I just checked the new Star Trek and I almost choked on my popcorn. I mean, I was underwhelmed. Quite disappointed really. I still enjoyed bits, and it had me sitting on the edge of my seat during the action sequences but something was deeply wrong. ...read more |
Careful What You Wish For, Coraline
Thursday, May 7th, 2009 by Zoe Henry
 | Coraline is yet another addition to the whack of 3D films being thrust at us. It was damn impressive when that axe came flying at our heads in the 3D version of Beowulf. And it was somewhat thrilling when we were guided down close to where the hot liquid magma lies in the 3D version of Journey to the Centre of the Earth. I’m all for the “wow” factor that comes with these films, if the “wow” factor is actually ...read more |
I Love You, Man
Thursday, May 7th, 2009 by Zoe Henry
 | It seems that Hollywood has finally found the balls to make films about a subject that we all know about but hardly ever mention: Bromance. This is the pure and charming love that takes place between two heterosexual men. Director Judd Apatow started the trend back in 2005 with The 40 Year Old Virgin – a story about a group of guys that just wanna get their virginal buddy laid. He kept the ball rolling with Knocked Up in 2007, ...read more |
Nice day for a White Wedding?
Thursday, April 30th, 2009 by Nathan Zeno
 | For some inexplicable reason, during the big reunion scene in White Wedding (this is not a plot spoiler, it’s got wedding in the title, there’ll be a wedding, kids.) I shed a tear. Not buckets and not of laughter either, but a real tear or two. ...read more |
