Watchin’ Movies
Your dose of film reviews, upcoming releases, new trailers and Film Society screenings.
If You Go Down To The Woods Tonight…
While standing in the popcorn queue prior to watching Cabin in the Woods, I noticed that the crowd at the cinema complex wasn’t the usual array of highly strung mothers with snotty children, annoyingly sweet couples with a love of public affection and pre-teen boys trying to impress their female counterparts by being rude to...
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Alternative Africa Film Festival
If Tim Burton, Table Mountain and a hippo-quagga all got together and had a filmic orgy of epic proportions, the resulting love-child would be The Alternative Africa Film Festival. African. Weird. Awesome. When you think of ‘Alternative African Cinema’, try not to picture a hipster wearing a Madiba shirt, standing outside the Labia smoking organic...
Otelo on Fire – Michael Klein
For the most part South Africans make three different films – the gangster/ crime film, the absurd comedy and the poverty/AIDS film. With this in mind it such a relief to say that Otelo Burning is completely different to so many of its peers, not only in its content, but more importantly in its attitude....
CINESOUTH Presents ‘The Conversation’ by Francis Ford Coppola
A new film screening initiative called Cinesouth is showing quality films (because they’re so hard to find in theatres!) regularly in Cape Town. The next is The Conversation, a taut psychological thriller from director Francis Ford Coppola, the genius behind The Godfather and Apocalypse Now. This promises to be a good night out! The Premise Loner Harry Caul (Gene Hackman)...
Friends with Kids
Winning formulas can be quite hard to come by in the modern industry. Some ideas, stories and casts just seem to click. Others don’t. And so, fresh off the success of last year’s hit comedy Bridesmaids, Jennifer Westfeldt thought it a good idea to assemble some of the cast for round two of the slightly-off-the-bat romantic...
Amazing is the New Awesome
First Impressions I honestly did not have high hopes for the new Spiderman film when I heard they were making yet another rehash of a rehash only a few years after the Tobey Maguire/Kirstin Dunst disasters. The title in particular put me off: The Amazing Spiderman. ”Amazing” – seriously!? Who uses that adjective any more? It...
“Hercules! Rescue Me!!”
Those who are not au fait with Greek Mythology, will probably not know the story of Prometheus. In a nutshell, when Zeus hid fire from man, Prometheus, a demigod worshipped by humans, used trickery to steal the flames and return them to earth. It was a bad move. I mean, who crosses Zeus? As punishment,...
The Skyfall Trailer is here by Toutatis!
The new James Bond trailer is here. Doesn’t tell us too much, but I like the look of it, hopefully Skyfall will make a recovery from the disastrous Quantum of Solace and get us back to where Daniel Craig was at in Casino Royale. They kept threatening on shooting some scenes for Bond 23 here in SA...
‘Harlinn’ an impressive piece of filmmaking
UCT student, Greg Bakker, embarked on a mission last year to write and direct his own film. It’s often impossible. It rarely works out. This time it did. UCT Film Society Productions is proud to present Harlinn. Here’s the official synopsis: The year is 2014 and cross-species transformation is now legal. Harlinn, having undergone the...
Earth’s Mightiest Heroes
A movie that has been several years in the making and required five films to set up has a lot of hype to live up to. And does The Avengers live up to that hype? The answer in this humble geek’s opinion is a resounding yes. The enjoyment of this epic film of course hinges...
The Shotties Wrap
The last two-and-a-half months have been a mad rush. A few weeks ago I was walking on campus and was nearly bowled over by a group of Shotties contestants who were frantically running in the opposite direction with camera, tripod, lighting and sound kits to get to their set and finish shooting their film. They...
Shotties Showcase
Shotties is one of my favourite things about Film Society. What could be better than letting our members loose, camera in one hand, screenplay in the other and allowing them to make their own films! Year after year I am astounded at the overall quality of what students are capable of producing with little or...
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