White House Down

by Kavish Chetty / 12.07.2013 All this apocalyptic drama is in fact an allegory, and the true story is a fable about a father-daughter relationship which comes together in spite of a divorce, his perpetual

Man of Steel

by Kavish Chetty / 28.06.2013 Clark Kent’s adaptors and overseers are all faced with a philosophical problem: namely, the absence of any philosophical problems at all. The tenebrous urge of the new superhero culture is

To the Wonder

by Kavish Chetty / 20.06.2013 All the wonders of Malick’s new film belong to a presence of the aesthetic. Rarely is cinema which gravitates around such boring materials – relationships and their unhappily ever aftermath;

How to Survive a Plague

by Bongani Kona / 11.06.2013 This is one fucking hellish experience. You are very lucky to be born after the plague is over.

The Queen of Versailles

by Katie de Klee / 10.06.2013 In 2007 when Lauren Greenfield started making her documentary The Queen of Versailles, she intended it to be about the billionaire couple who were building their ludicrous dream home: the

Star Trek: Into Darkness

by Kavish Chetty / 07.06.2013 Science fiction often has a failure to imagine with sufficient complexity our future cultures; and what we get instead is the present propelled forward in time. Almost predictably, the geopolitics

Fast & Furious 6

by Kavish Chetty / 24.05.2013 Furious 6 announces itself with a splurge of generic sluts, the throaty roar of sovereign engines. Media previews are, ordinarily, a rather sombre affair: the same five or six critics,

The Great Gatsby

by Kavish Chetty / 17.05.2013 Baz Luhrmann, it appears, is waging war against the nightmarish memory of his high-school syllabus. He’s transmuting the materials of these dead texts – Romeo and Juliet, The Great Gatsby

Stoker

by Kavish Chetty / 14.05.2013 Do you remember Wentworth Miller? If not, summon to mind the image of a rectangular concrete slab left outside under turbulent meteorological conditions for two years: the resultant erosion which

Blitz Patrollie

by Kavish Chetty / 09.05.2013 I have taken a roughly year-long absence from local cinema, and in that time I have seen its phantasms in my peripheral vision – films beckoning for a full evisceration