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

Savage Industry

by Dorothy Mhone / 27.11.2012 It was a rather chilly Friday night but that didn’t stop the Johannesburg hipsters from coming out to look at each other in the city’s sexiest dirt pot, Maboneng. More

Skyfall

by Kavish Chetty / 15.11.2012 Superheroes are becoming instructively aware of their own mortality. As the great, arcing Empire of masculinity slithers into its twilight phase – its invulnerability ruined; its omnipotence in shards –

Worker of Wonders

by Don Pinnock / 31.10.2012 Eugene Marais was such a profound but complex character that it must have taken considerable courage for Katinka Heynes to bring him back to life in the film Die Wonderwerker

I Represent Africa

by Ts'eliso Monaheng / 20.09.2012 “Hey Zuluboy, take my phone and call me later.” Silence. ”I’m in town, take my phone and call me later…” My eavesdropping ceases and the conversation trails away. Didier Awadi is on his

Bully

by Andy Davis / 28.08.2012 If you look closely at Filmmaker Lee Hirsch’s face you’ll notice his nose is kind of squiff. It bends off to the left. When he was 13 years old, an

The African Cypher

by Brandon Edmonds / Images by Filipa Domingues / 17.08.2012 It was good to see a dog called Ella thanked in the credits of happening young film-maker Bryan Little’s vivid and sincere new documentary about township street dance, “The African

This Must Be The Place

by Brandon Edmonds / 30.07.2012 Coming to America can really make or break a director. It was a perfect fit for Hitchcock, Lang and Polanski (until he got handsy with a lolita in Jack Nicholson’s