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Let's get one thing clear upfront: Brüno isn't as good as Borat . Overall, it's not as funny, though is ha...
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Two South African films showing at the National Arts Festival in Grahamstown (July 2 to 11) might be classified as “in...
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Some movies, however unpromising, can be saved by a great ending. Here is one. Nicolas Cage is an astrophysicist and des...
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In the wake of Gus van Sant’s necessarily fictionalised biopic of Harvey Milk, the Labia in Cape Town has resurrected ...
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Piecing together the night before can often be frightening. Many of us have been there — getting freeze-frame flashes ...
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A rather unconvincing attempt at suspense, this movie combines bad acting with a mismatched soundtrack and a predictable...
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Some well-meant but fantastically flaccid and perfunctory gestures of friendship towards the Muslim world are the founda...
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Paul Abbott’s much-admired BBC drama serial about a murderous conspiracy at the heart of the British establishment has...
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Adventureland is bland, clichéd and
half-baked. The premise (confused
teen has to deal with life and love) i...
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Director Sam Raimi returns to his horror roots with one of the most hilariously over-the-top horror films released since...
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Okay, so Persepolis originally came out in 2007, which makes it odd to call it “movie of the year” in 2009, b...
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Having done Batman (twice), Christian Bale now essays John Connor, hero of the human war of resistance against the machi...
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Hamilton Naki, assistant to famous heart surgeon Christiaan Barnard, was a product of his time.
Anonymous and invisibl...
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The third live-action film of the series has the plucky Gaul villagers sallying forth to compete at the Olympics. Despit...
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Beyoncé Knowles is co-exec-producer and star of this biopic of legendary American recording company Chess Records, whic...
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