Jan 20, 2025 | chART
By BRUCE DENNILL Calabash South Africa 2025 – Green Day, The Offspring, Fokofpolisiekar / FNB Stadium, Soweto Happily falling on one of three summer’s days so far when it wasn’t raining, Calabash South Africa 2025 brought together a trio of...
Jan 14, 2025 | chART
By BRUCE DENNILL & ROB HOFMEYR Nutshell by Ian McEwan A Wild Life by Martin Hughes-Games The Spy by Paulo Coelho Shadow by James Swallow Nutshell is a kitchen-sink murder thriller with a couple of major twists. Firstly, it’s a retelling of...
Jan 9, 2025 | chART
By BRUCE DENNILL A Simple Favour / Directed by Paul Feig / 16DLNSV Vuil Wasgoed / Directed by Morne du Toit / 16LPV A Family Man / Directed by Mark Williams / 13L The Last Word / Directed by Mark Pellington / 13DL Isle Of Dogs / Directed by Wes Anderson...
Dec 27, 2024 | chART
By BRUCE DENNILL, HUGH HUGGETT & ROB HOFMEYR Outside Looking In by TC Boyle Chastise by Max Hastings and William Collins Catching Tadpoles by Ronnie Kasrils Timothy Leary is well-known to anyone with even a passing interest in Sixties culture....
Dec 23, 2024 | chART
BY BRUCE DENNILL, MARION HOFMEYR Talking To Strangers by Malcolm Gladwell The Pact by Amy Heydenrych Amazing Fantastic Incredible – A Marvelous Memoir by Stan Lee, Peter David and Colleen Doran Harry Potter And The Cursed Child: Parts One And Two by JK...
Dec 16, 2024 | chART
By BRUCE DENNILL Mzansi Ballet: Carmen / Choreography by José Manuel Buzón Ruiz and Angela Revie / Pieter Toerien’s Montecasino Theatre, Fourways, Johannesburg There is nothing shy about Carmen. The title character, her community, the opera that...
