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 inequalities3


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,

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

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

