TV Interview: Anthony Carrigan – Being With Barry, Or You’ll Hank Him Later
HBO’s dark comedy series Barry, available on Showmax, picked up 50 awards in its first three seasons, including nine Emmys. Wrapping up the critically acclaimed story of hitman-turned-actor Barry Berkman (series co-creator Bill Hader, in a performance that’s...
Music Interview: Basson Laas – Tightly Bound, Or Dreaming Of Dynamics
By BRUCE DENNILL Tightly Bound is the debut single from singer-songwriter Basson Laas. What are the aspects of music that most appeal to or thrill you as a listener, from lyrics to arrangements to instruments used to production techniques? Most of...
Book Extract: The Dead Of Winter by Stuart MacBride, Or Part Of The Hole Story
The Dead of Winter by Stuart MacBride is published by Penguin Random House and is available now. The extract is published by permission. It was supposed to be a simple delivery job for DI Victoria Montgomery-Porter and her sidekick, Edward Reekie - pick...
Film Reviews: Kidnap The Gringo, Or All We Had Was Tulip Fever
By BRUCE DENNILL Gringo / Directed by Nash Edgerton / 16LVS Tulip Fever / Directed by Justin Chadwick / 16SN Kidnap / Directed by Luis Prieto / 13LV Proud Mary / Directed by Babak Najafi / 16LVD All We Had / Directed by Katie Holmes / 13DL The Strangers:...
Theatre Review: A Midsummer Night’s Dream – Wit In The Woods, Or An Absolute Dream Of A Show
By BRUCE DENNILL A Midsummer Night’s Dream / Directed by Geoffrey Hyland / Pieter Toerien’s Montecasino Theatre, Fourways, Johannesburg In a theatre calendar populated with classic hits (The Sound Of Music and Mamma Mia are both returning soon for...
Theatre Review: Peter Pan – Pirated Patterns, Or A Successful Smee Campaign
By BRUCE DENNILL Janice Honeyman’s Peter Pan / Directed by Janice Honeyman / The Mandela, Joburg Theatre, Braamfontein A return to well-known source material – Janice Honeyman directed different versions of a Peter Pan pantomime in 2007 and 2014 –...
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Film Reviews: Kidnap The Gringo, Or All We Had Was Tulip Fever
By BRUCE DENNILL Gringo / Directed by Nash Edgerton / 16LVS Tulip Fever / Directed by Justin Chadwick / 16SN Kidnap / Directed by Luis Prieto / 13LV Proud Mary / Directed by Babak Najafi / 16LVD All We Had / Directed by Katie Holmes / 13DL The Strangers:...
TV Interview: Anthony Carrigan – Being With Barry, Or You’ll Hank Him Later
HBO’s dark comedy series Barry, available on Showmax, picked up 50 awards in its first three seasons, including nine Emmys. Wrapping up the critically acclaimed story of hitman-turned-actor Barry Berkman (series co-creator Bill Hader, in a performance that’s...
Opinion: Live-Action Remakes – Nostalgia Or Nous?
By JESS ROBUS It is often remarked that there are not enough hours in the day to do all of the things that need doing. While that's probably intended as a light-hearted bemoaning of busyness, this phrase has since become the grumbled mantra of doctors,...
Conservation: A Small Sumatran, Or Rare Rhino Reprieve
By Plt. Kepala Balai Taman Nasional Way Kambas The Government of Indonesia has announced the birth of a Sumatran rhino at the Sumatran Rhino Sanctuary (SRS) in Way Kambas National Park, Lampung Province on September 30, 2023. Minister of Environment and...
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Theatre Interview: Mark Elderkin – Midsummer Night’s Dream, Or Getting To The Bottom Of A Role
By BRUCE DENNILL Presented by the Maynardville Open-Air Festival, in association with VR Theatrical, A Midsummer Night's Dream weaves a tale of love-struck couples, eccentric actors, and mischievous fairies. The play blurs the line between reality and fantasy,...
Author Interview: Tracey Hawthorne – Flipped, Or The Weathering Of Loss
by ARJA SALAFRANCA Flipped by Tracey Hawthorne is a novel about being seen, what is not seen, and how the previously hidden is revealed when the unexpected happens. In the unusually wet winter of 2010, two teenage girls set off to a party on a farm...
Book Reviews: Verwoerd Empires, Or Messiah’s Light
By ROB HOFMEYR, LISA WITEPSKI, NIGEL WILLIS Secret Empires by Peter Schweitzer Verwoerd: My Journey Through Family Betrayals by Wilhelm Verwoerd The Four Horsemen: Tthe Discussion That Sparked An Atheist Revolution by Richard Dawkins, Daniel Dennett, Sam...
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