Archives for Film
Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom – A Few Thoughts
Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom opens this weekend, in South Africa and in the US. I’ve read reviews, from both here and in SA, and I’ve tried to reconcile...
Aningaaq: A Short Film Companion to Gravity
This is amazing. Jonas Cuarón, who co-wrote Gravity with his director father, Alfonso, has shown us who Sandra Bullock’s character was talking to when she made her distress call to...
Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom NYC Premiere
It’s been a few weeks since the Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom film premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival (leaving me weeping in my seat). The film has...
Oprah Winfrey in Lee Daniels’ The Butler
Oprah Winfrey makes her return to the big screen after a 15 year absence in Lee Daniels’ The Butler, which releases in South Africa this weekend. She says it’s...
TIFF 2013: And That’s a Wrap!
I cried a lot during this year’s Toronto Film Festival. Between 12 Years a Slave, Gravity and the Mandela movie, I was affected by almost everything I saw. Luckily,...
TIFF Time: The Toronto International Film Festival
I know I shouldn’t keep saying it, but where does the time go? I can’t believe it’s already a year since I experienced my first TIFF. Ah, T.Dot. The...
The Cannes Diaries – Robert Redford Day
Wednesday was supposed to be Ryan Gosling Day. His new movie with Nicolas Winding Refn, the eagerly-awaited follow-up to Drive, was debuting and I was really looking forward to...
The Cannes Diaries – Of Douglas and Damon
Michael Douglas and Matt Damon star in the biopic about extravagant pianist and entertainer Liberace, Behind the Candelabra. It premiered at Cannes on Tuesday night, after being screened early...
The Cannes Diaries – Love for Fruitvale and Waiting for Leo
Day 2 of the Cannes Film Festival definitely belonged to the cast of Fruitvale Station, which received a standing ovation after the film’s premiere here this evening. I was...
This is 40
A few months ago, I found myself sitting opposite Judd Apatow, supposed to be talking about his film, This is 40, but instead, getting carried away talking about Searching...