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Poppie Nongena is a South African historical biographical drama about a housekeeper who struggles to keep her family together in the face of inhumane pass laws. Set in Cape Town during the ’70s when South Africa was subject to the
1917 is a spectacular World War I film from Sam Mendes. The British writer-director was at the helm of American Beauty, Revolutionary Road and Skyfall. His elegant films have substance, style and are always worth considering come award season. While
Bombshell is a film directed by Jay Roach and written by Charles Randolph, starring Charlize Theron, Nicole Kidman and Margot Robbie. The story deals with a scandal at Fox News, where News head Roger Ailes was found wanting when a
Roland Emmerich is known for his blockbuster films, including 10,000 BC, 2012 and now Midway. Based on the battle of Midway, which followed six months after the Pearl Harbor attack during World War II, this passion project for Emmerich is
While the illusion of cinema is able to immerse you in other worlds, there are very hard rules when it comes to dialogue and screenplays. A curious example is Marriage Story, the Noah Baumbach independent drama with Adam Driver and
When it comes to writing a screenplay, especially a thriller, there’s a tendency for writers to stick to the genre’s propensity for twists and turns. While it is to be expected that there will be a couple of surprise plot
A “Woody Allen film” has almost become a film genre. He frequently plays a neurotic New Yorker, casts himself, features a writer, a semi-successful entertainment figure, starts with narration, references literary works and sets his films in New York. These
The Shining is one of Kubrick’s masterpieces. Inspiring many academic papers that grapple with the inherent meaning behind his grand horror at the Overlook hotel, it’s a work that has lasted, regarded as one of the scariest films of all-time.
“It’s so formulaic.” The term is often bandied about by critics, who have come to encompass cookie-cutter film-making into one word. Coming from the word formula, the criticism is leveled at an apparent lack of inspiration, adhering to the safe
James Cameron’s Terminator franchise has been running for 35 years. Starting in 1984 with the groundbreaking The Terminator, it was followed up seven years later by Terminator 2: Judgement Day, a film that capitalised on Arnold Schwarzenegger’s star power. Originally