Oct 25, 2014 | chART
By JOHN TOSH The lives of the obscure are an essential corrective to South Africa’s traditional emphasis on the towering personalities of the past. Familiar events gain a subtly different slant when refracted through the experience of ordinary people. Jeremiah...
Oct 18, 2014 | chART
By BRUCE DENNILL Earthbound Sauvignon Blanc 2014 Goats / Directed by Christopher Neil / 13LD Earthbound’s 2014 Sauvignon Blanc (produced at Papkuilsfontein Vineyards in Darling) makes a somewhat moist first impression – it’s as though you’re lying...
Oct 11, 2014 | chART
It’s possible, as an adult book reviewer, to over-think the impact a story has on its intended audience. The visual stimuli provided when watching an eight-year-old read – widening eyes; giggles; the shaking of a head – confirm that there’s...
Sep 30, 2014 | chART
By CAITLIN CLERK There are two things that annoy me about audiences in South Africa. The first thing is that they consider a local cast to be inferior to an international one. Nowhere close to true! The second is that they don’t support student productions....
Sep 27, 2014 | chART
By BRUCE DENNILL Don Jon / Directed by Joseph Gordon-Levitt / 16LNS Joseph Gordon-Levitt’s debut all-in feature – he’s the leading man in this examination of lust and life, which he also wrote and directed – is an interesting one. For a start, it places...
Sep 22, 2014 | chART
In the Fifties, Sixties and Seventies, Frankie Valli, Bob Gaudio, Tommy De Vito and Nick Massi were skipping in and out of jail, working their way up from third-rate hoods to two-bit musicians and then to first-class, world-beating pop stars. In the late Eighties, Jon...
