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The Beast of Burden
I am not one for “fantasy dramas.” I indulged in enough fantasy when I was younger and have enough drama in my life now to be instinctively repelled by either genre. It was probably for this reason that I waited until Film Society held a screening of Beasts of a Southern Wild before...
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And the Oscars Go To…
It was a night almost without surprise at the 85th Academy Awards. Those who have been following the Oscars buzz may have been able to preempt most of the names that were read from the golden envelopes throughout the night. In the end Argo picked up the big prize for Best Picture and became the first film...
The Most Deserving, and Most Likely to Take Home Gold
So here we are again, the 85th Academy Awards are days away and it’s about time we weigh up once and for all who will go home several golden pounds heavier and who really deserves the little golden man. I have painstakingly watched almost every film nominated in every category and paid close attention to...
Screen Actors Guild Awards
Hollywood awards season marches on with intensity towards the 24th of February and the Academy Awards. Last night saw the Screen Actors Guild Awards live in Los Angeles. Traditionally, the SAGs is one of the better indicators as to who will walk home with Oscars and is the only televised awards ceremony that focuses only...
Django Unchained
There is a dark magic that pervades much of Tarantino’s work; a killer combination of witty riffs, circular dialogues and continually rising tension that is eventually released by gunfire, brutality and sadism. Tarantino has become a master of shocking audiences, holding them down in their seats as they writhe and pine for escape but at...
UCT Students Make It To Sundance
Katey Lee Carson and Dylan Bosman aren’t quite household names just yet but, if the last few years are anything to go by, that may well change in the not-too-distant future. Both recently received mail from the people at the Sundance Film Festival notifying her that their latest short film The Washing Up and The Running...
Golden Globes Winners
Hollywood’s most enjoyable awards ceremony, the 70th Annual Golden Globes was held last night in front of the most familiar faces in film and television the world over. Amy Poehler and Tina Fey (both Nominees themselves for Best Actress in a TV Series, Comedy) were absolutely hilarious as hosts, but then who expected anything less?...
‘Lincoln’ the Frontrunner, ‘Argo’ and ‘Zero Dark Thirty’ Underdogs
You can read the full list of 2013′s Oscar Nominations here. The Oscar nominations always yield a few surprises. For example, Jim Carey, who had already missed out in 1998 for The Truman Show was once again ignored by the Academy, despite him winning the Golden Globe for his performance in Man on the Moon. More recently, in...
2013 Oscar Nominations
Announced by the hilarious off-the-cuff pairing of Emma Stone and ceremony host Seth MacFarlane just an hour ago, below is the list of the 2013 Academy Award Nominations. The Academy Awards will be broadcast live from the Dolby Theatre in LA on the 24th of February. Best Picture Amour Life of Pi Argo Lincoln Beasts...
Finding the Silver Lining
All children are warned growing up that it is not right to make fun of the kids who are different. And so, with this ingrained into the human psyche, there is an understandably fine line for a director to tread when making a comedy about those who are mentally ill. The subject matter demands more...
2012′s Best Picks
After the shipwreck that was 2011 cinema, there’s been more than enough to celebrate this year. Last year I struggled to pull together five movies that I considered worthy of accolade (you can see which films eventually made it here). But this time around I was faced with at least 16 films that could quite...
Living the Pi Life
A brief glance down the list of Ang Lee’s past works will leave most nodding their head in appreciation or admiration. His diverse resumé includes films that range from tales of Chinese war-time espionage (Lust, Caution) to an exposition of Victorian England in the film adaption of Jane Austen’s Sense and Sensibility. As if that cultural...
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