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Feb 18, 2024 | 
dailymaverick.co.za | Tevya Shapiro |Bernard Kotze |Ankur Banerjee |Johann M Cherian
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Dec 10, 2023 | 
dailymaverick.co.za | Tevya Shapiro
KEEP AN EYE OUT With 2023 coming to a close, we look back at some of the year’s best films and series you might have missed, and a few of the big titles to look forward to next year. Gems of the 2023 film festival circuitsAnatomy of a FallThe Palme d’Or winner at Cannes this year was Justine Triet’s psychological courtroom drama starring Sandra Hüller, whose performance was among the best of the year.
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Nov 30, 2023 | 
dailymaverick.co.za | Tevya Shapiro
KEEP AN EYE OUT Our non-exhaustive list of films and series to look out for in December on streaming sites and in cinemas. Love letters to love itselfMay December: In cinemas nowA haunting film of interpersonal intricacies.
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Nov 29, 2023 | 
dailymaverick.co.za | Tevya Shapiro
WHAT WE’RE WATCHING ‘All The Light We Cannot See’ is a new Netflix series about kindred spirits in World War 2, which prioritises name-dropping actors over the subtlety of the novel it was based on. The majority of fair expectations one might have of a World War 2 limited series directed by Steven Knight, creator of Peaky Blinders, would have been disappointingly mistaken in this fable-like adaption of a well-loved Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Anthony Doerr.
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Nov 21, 2023 | 
dailymaverick.co.za | Tevya Shapiro
LIVE SMARTER A therapist’s guide on how to stay grounded despite your concerns for the state of the world. There will always be bad news, but ensuring there’s less of it in the future means getting more people to read about it. The unfortunate irony is that if you care enough to read it, you’re invested enough to be upset by it – so the empath walks a tightrope, carrying their desires to improve the world without being weighed down by the current state of it and falling into despair.
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Oct 30, 2023 | 
dailymaverick.co.za | Tevya Shapiro
KEEP AN EYE OUT Our non-exhaustive list of films and series to look out for in November on streaming sites, DSTV and in cinemas. DocumentariesMusic is My Life – Selected as South Africa’s submission for the Academy AwardsThis is the first time a documentary has been chosen since 1989, when South Africa began submitting films for nomination in the International Feature Film category in the Annual Academy Awards.
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Oct 27, 2023 | 
dailymaverick.co.za | Tevya Shapiro
WHAT WE’RE WATCHING A new South African true crime series follows the case of Stewart Wilkin, a South African serial killer whose hellish crimes in the 90s were overshadowed by the country’s transition to democracy And you thought Devilsdorp was disturbing … Stewart ‘Boetie Boer’ Wilken is a South African serial killer who was active in Port Elizabeth (now Gqeberha) during the 1990s.
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Oct 20, 2023 | 
dailymaverick.co.za | Tevya Shapiro
WHAT WE’RE WATCHING The Palme d’Or winner at Cannes this year was Justine Triet’s psychological courtroom drama starring Sandra Hüller, whose performance is among the best of the year. Sandra Hüller plays a German writer (also named Sandra) who lives with her French husband Samuel and their visually impaired child Daniel in a remote chalet in the Alps.
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Oct 16, 2023 | 
allafrica.com | Tevya Shapiro
Set just before South Sudan seceded from what was the largest nation in Africa, Mohamed Kordofani's restrained drama about two women from different sides of the country demystifies the racism that still divides it. Set in a particularly turbulent time in Sudan's history, during the riots just before the secession of South Sudan, Mona, a Northern woman, is implicated in the death of a Southern man.
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Oct 16, 2023 | 
dailymaverick.co.za | Tevya Shapiro
WHAT WE’RE WATCHING Set just before South Sudan seceded from what was the largest nation in Africa, Mohamed Kordofani’s restrained drama about two women from different sides of the country demystifies the racism that still divides it. Set in a particularly turbulent time in Sudan’s history, during the riots just before the secession of South Sudan, Mona, a Northern woman, is implicated in the death of a Southern man.
