Art for art’s sake. Art felt and artful.
The Iliad, The Odyssey and the Rubaiyat, not to mention Romeo and Juliet, Lolita, and Madame Bovary are all alluded to Michael Mohammed Ahmad’s latest instalment of the adventures of Bani Adam, THE OTHER HALF OF YOU.
First met in …
On seeing LUNCH WITH BERNAYS, one wonders whether The Gruen Transfer should have been called The Bernays Source.
Like Victor Gruen, Edward Bernays was an Austrian-American, but rather being an architect of shopping malls, was the architect of modern propaganda …
Not to be confused with the delightful Australian film of three summers ago, THREE SUMMERS (TRES VEROES) waxes Brazilian over the winter of discontent of a bunch of domestics when their employer makes an inglorious runner making them all gawp.…
Family friendly Anima’s latest film, CRANSTON ACADEMY: MONSTER ZONE can’t help put the political boot into American migration policy.
The Mexican company, specialising in 2D and CGI animation, isn’t particularly edgy, its social justice themes subtly placed rather than sledge …
MARTIN EDEN is a slice of cinema paradise.
Based on a novel by Jack London, MARTIN EDEN is a throw back to the classic, epic films of Visconti and Bertolluci.
Pietro Marcello is a director to watch.
Unskilled laborer Martin …
Double O Sergio is a Chilean spy. Sort of. He is a Double O old age pensioner recruited by a private investigator who needs someone to infiltrate a retirement home for a client who suspects her mother is being abused.…
Joe Pantoliano plays Marco Gentile in FROM THE VINE, a mid life crisis return to your roots scenario based on the award winning novel of the same name by Ken Cancellara.
Pantoliano has made a career playing hard arse characters …
Check it out! https://youtu.be/N1jN6mp-o5U
The paint has just dried on a striking new mural celebrating the life and legacy of Yolŋu actor, dancer, singer and painter, David Gulpilil AM on the east wall of TANDANYA National Aboriginal Cultural Institute, on …
Theatre as thesis, SILLY TO THINK is silly as in absurd and it certainly drives you to think.
Silly to think? Not on your Nelly, or your Aphrodite.
In SILLY TO THINK, playwright Sophie Davis conjures Aphrodite to ponder the …
Following on from another successful virtual Festival, the South African Film Festival (SAFF) presents SAFF On Demand, a curated selection films from the 2021, 2020 and 2019 SAFF Festival program available for rent online from 29th May – 13th June…