The Hunger Games: Catching Fire

by Kavish Chetty / 22.11.2013 "The Hunger Games" takes place in a superbly-conjured dystopian future-America, although one in which the historical traces of own our world are thoroughly obliterated. Histories of real slavery and inequalities

Fatherland

by Nedine Moonsamy / 08.11.2013 Fatherland offers exclusive entry into the Kommandokamps, where a group of boys embark on a nine day camp during their school holidays to relive the military experiences of their fathers.

Blue is the Warmest Colour

by Kavish Chetty / 01.11.2013 Blue is the Warmest Colour is acted out with superb, raw intensity: its everyday episodes of emotion elaborating from this intimacy outward into magnificent themes of sexual discovery, romantic secrecy,

Khumba

by Kavish Chetty / 25.10.2013 I reviewed "Jock of the Bushveld" for this magazine, describing it, rather generously, as a “shit-crusted cliché” and a “bat-signal for an age of mediocrity”. But two years later, Triggerfish

Out in Africa

by Kavish Chetty / 18.10.2013 Out in Africa announces itself this year with a curious line-up. I shoulder through a fog of colliding colognes, and low-slung in this shadowy theatre, sit through a gracious rehearsal

Metallica: Through the Never

by Kavish Chetty / 03.10.2013 Through the Never is the last, desperate attempt of Metallica to recoup the lost insignias of their rebellion. Perhaps it was once imaginable that this group of abraded youths, these

Midnight’s Children

by Kavish Chetty / 20.09.2013 Is the cinema of India fated to its comparison, ever after, with Slumdog Millionaire? I can’t quite exorcise the spirit of that “chai-wallah” and his garish feel-good fortunes from my

Elysium

by Kavish Chetty / 30.08.2013 In 2154, “Elysium” is a luxurious space-station which hovers above a ravaged Earth. To Elysium – a name which invokes the classical Grecian concept of an “afterlife” – belongs the

Evil Dead

by Kavish Chetty / 16.08.2013 Terror, authentic terror, is atavistic, primal; resurrects our emotionally-blunted senses. The poster for Evil Dead declares “the most terrifying film you will ever experience”, inscribed in capital letters within its

Of Good Report

by Kavish Chetty / 12.08.2013 The “animality” of man is a threatening artistic construct, especially in an age coming into mortal awareness of “rape culture”, the silent historical privileges embedded in the very flesh of