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

Iron Man 3D

by Kavish Chetty / 02.05.2013 “Ever since that big dude with the hammer fell out of the sky,” says Aldrich Killian, “subtlety had its day.” Tony Stark’s latest and forgettable arch-enemy has a point here.

Oblivion

by Kavish Chetty / 25.04.2013 Tom Cruise is a reminder that there is no justice in the relation between talent and wage in this world. The highest paid actor in Hollywood, nature has mercilessly challenged

Trance

by Kavish Chetty / 18.04.2013 Conjure your most bust-mouthed Cockney accent and recite: “I use’ tuh fink Danny Boyle was mustard. Now, I’m star’inna fink ‘e ain’t got the min’rals, do he?” I admit Boyle

Seven Psychopaths

by Kavish Chetty / 22.03.2013 Chances are, especially in this shallow, glittery trench called Cape Town, two or three of your best friends are psychopaths: slickly charismatic, embourgeoisied, pathological liars with no depth of empathy

Best of 2012 | Zulu Crush

by Andy Davis / 03.01.2013 Originally published 11 May 2012 While much of South Africa’s surfing community was crowded around the set of Blue Crush 2, trying to get their noses in the trough of the

Best of 2012 | Searching for Sugar Man

by Brandon Edmonds / 24.12.2012 Originally published 24 July 2012 An American woman in a modest black cocktail dress has wolfish green eyes that flash with neurotic sincerity as she tells me about struggles over food

Last Picture Show

by Don Pinnock / 05.12.2012 There were once bioscopes that had Saturday matinees where, for a few shillings, you could sit in the dark and inch your hand northwards from your girlfriend’s knee and hope