Bad breakups, toxic behaviour and fear of your own thoughts, that’s exactly what Daphne (Shailene Woodley – Big Little Lies) is dealing with in ‘Endings, Beginnings’. Living in her sister’s guesthouse, she regularly witnesses her sibling and her brother-in-law fighting, which not only aggravates Daphne’s growing despair regarding long-term love, but on top of that …
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SSAFF Review – ‘Back of the Moon’
The closing film of Sydney’s South African Film Festival 2020 is Academy Award-nominated director Angus Gibson’s (Mandela) ‘Back of the Moon’, a tragic love story set in a rundown part of Johannesburg. It’s 1958 and Badman (Richard Lukunku – Black Sails), an intellectual and the leader of the most powerful gang in Sophiatown, lives life …
SSAFF Review – ‘Fiela Se Kind’
In Brett Michael Innes’ adaptation of Dalene Matthee’s classic novel, a coloured woman living in the dried up valley, Karoo, takes in a lost white child and raises him as her own. Nine years later, the boy is removed and forced to live in the Knysna Forest with a family of woodcutters who claim that …
Review – ‘How To Build a Girl’
Caitlin Moran’s novel (who also wrote the screenplay) ‘How To Build a Girl’ tells the story of teenager Johanna Morrigan’s (Beanie Feldstein – Booksmart) journey as she reinvents herself as Dolly Wilde. Yesterday, a teenager in search of her own identity; today, a sex-positive wild child with an infamous look, and trash talking the finest …
Review – ‘The Lodge’
Who doesn’t want to go to a remote lodge in winter to celebrate Christmas with the family?! Unless of course it’s with your stepmom, who you don’t necessarily have anything in common with. That’s exactly what happens in Severin Fiala and Veronika Franz’s newest film ‘The Lodge’. After its premiere at Sundance over a year …
Review – ‘Color Out of Space’
Cult director Richard Stanley (who once famously got fired as the director of ‘The Island of Dr. Moreau’) directs H.P. Lovecraft’s cosmic nightmare Color Out of Space. The story follows Nathan Gardner (Nicolas Cage continuing his Cage-aissance) and his family, whose recent retreat to rural life gets interrupted when a meteorite crashes into their front …
Review – ‘Butt Boy’
Who is Butt Boy? Where is Butt Boy? Why is Butt Boy? Let’s settle it once and for all: Butt Boy just is! That’s right. Writer, director and star of this one-of-a-kind experience, Tyler Cornack (this is also his directorial debut), has created something so foolish and ridiculous, it turns into something exceptionally entertaining unlike …
Review – ‘Hostage’ (1983)
Umbrella Entertainment is bringing back Frank Shields’ (The Breaker) ’80s cult classic ‘Hostage’. Not only is this version restored so it can be viewed in glorious 4K, this is also a slightly longer director’s cut of the film, based on the incredible, yet terrifying true story of Christine Maresch (Kerry Mack – The Lancaster Miller …
Netflix Review – ‘The Half of It’
The Half Of It – Leah Lewis, Collin Chou – Photo Credit: Netflix / KC Bailey Shy, straight-A student Ellie (Leah Lewis – Nancy Drew) is hired by sweet but inarticulate jock Paul (Daniel Diemer – Sacred Lies), who needs help winning over a popular girl. But their new and unlikely friendship gets complicated when …
Netflix Review – ‘Dangerous Lies’
DANGEROUS LIES A few months after the tragic events at the diner Katie Franklin (Camila Mendes – Riverdale) worked at, she finds a job as a caretaker to a wealthy elderly man in his rather large, empty Chicago estate. The two grow close, but when he unexpectedly passes away and names Katie as his sole …