I love Christmas. If you’ve been following this column you may have picked up that I also love animation. Klaus on Netflix has the magic of both. Netflix’s first animated feature, released in 2019 and nominated for an Oscar, Klaus is a…
It’s December, it’s been a long year and we are all gatvol. Plus it’s the Christmas season! All the shops are wrinkly, crinkly and dinkly with draped decorations and booze specials. All we want to do is braai, swim, snooze and tap out…
What makes the monster, and what makes a man? Frankenstein, a sumptuous visual masterpiece showing on Netflix is created by Oscar-winning director Guillermo del Toro. He has taken Gothic theatre and turned into film. Frankenstein is a…
What do we do when we get old? A Man on the Inside on Netflix is a quirky, heartfelt detective story that goes beyond the “who-done-it” theft narrative. It’s a heartfelt, lovely story and watch. Charles, played by Ted Danson, is pushed by…
I’ve been seeing a lot of stuff about AI lately. Instagram reels of people talking about Meta using your personal messages and digital footprint for training data, trying to make computers feel more human. A Chinese company made a robot…
Young men in uniform, training for war. That’s what all military forces contain, right? Despite there being any obvious conflict, there is a narrative told again and again of a strapping young teen hoping to defend his homeland by joining…
It’s Halloween week, so let’s board something haunted by regret, rich people and psychopaths. Netflix’s The Woman in Cabin 10 is a proper grown-up thriller starring Keira Knightley as Lo Blacklock, a travel journalist sent on a luxury…
Maybe I’m feeling soppy and in the mood for something romantic that’s not your typical buff hottie-meets-toy blonde babe. December festive flicks are coming people. Chad Michael Murray I think is returning to our screens with some…
This show is pure sugar. Netflix’s Is It Cake? Halloween adds a spooky twist to the viral trend where people made hyper-realistic versions of everyday objects and made the world guess: is it re-e-e-ally a TV remote, or is it cake?!…
Our front page story is about a bright young man making his way through the brutal ranks of chess. Here is a review of a brilliant short series about the same struggle of personal actualisation through chess, but set in conservative…
Cunk on Life: Asking all the wrong questions, perfectly! POPPY KORNELL A 2025 Emmy winner, Cunk on Life continues Diane Morgan’s reign as our queen of deadpan nonsense. An oldie but a goodie. I think about the one-liners and can’t retell…
POPPY KORNEL Soft-launching spooky season, Netflix series Wednesday — a spin-off of the ever-popular Addams Family universe — has returned for its second round of deadpan detective action. The show was wildly popular when it was first…
A classic hug that reveals and heals Go! Review: Good Will Hunting By ChatGPT* Matt Damon’s breakout performance in Good Will Hunting (1997) still pulses with raw emotional truth nearly three decades later. Co-written with Ben Affleck,…
Genre: Comedy, drama The opening shot of A Cop and A Half is something which would normally be enough for one to switch the movie off and forget it ever existed. Starting your movie with a shot of poop is certainly a choice, but if…
MIKE LOEWE What makes our city come alive? The Spring Swim had its best ever turnout — more than 250 people arrived at Nahoon Beach Lifesavers’ Shack — in the dark! At first light they started streaming in, with family, significant…
Genre: Crime, drama, dark comedy When Pulp Fiction hit cinemas in 1994, it didn’t just entertain, it redefined modern cinema. Quentin Tarantino’s cult classic, starring John Travolta and Samuel L Jackson, blended crime, comedy and chaos…
Genre: comedy Madea’s Destination Wedding is yet another unfortunate addition to Tyler Perry’s ever-growing catalogue of poorly executed films. Written, directed, and produced by Perry, the movie attempts to combine family drama with…
Genre: Animated action/ musical Songs and swords chime together in latest Netflix release, K-Pop Demon Hunters, which brings to life a beautiful animated story about overcoming shame through the power of sisterhood. Rumi (Arden Cho) and…
The latest iteration of the Karate Kid successfully captures the universal values of fortitude, grit, resilience and humility that made the first movies instant hits — proving that a simple and heartfelt story finds eternal resonance with…
Exterritorial revives the nostalgia of iconic female-led action films and hints at a promising comeback for tough, tenacious women at the forefront of the genre. Sara Wulf (Jeanne Goursaud) is a former German special forces solider who…
