By BRUCE DENNILL Mercy Me: Welcome To The New 7 Skye: Transformme 6 Lea Michele: Louder 6 Jeremy Loops: Trading Change 6.5 With a career high point, I Can Only...
By BRUCE DENNILL Spongebob Squarepants: Deep-Sea Games / PG The world’s most famous clothes-wearing (and oddly ubiquitous) invertebrate continues to maintain his high profile in all things televisual with this collection of episodes built around...
By BRUCE DENNILL Pythonesque / Directed by Alan Swerdlow / Pieter Torien’s Montecasino Theatre Playwright Roy Smiles’ affectionate homage to Monty Python has received a polishing and a tweak or three since its last run in South Africa in 2008, and...
By BRUCE DENNILL In South Africa, apartheid stories are still woven through much of the literature, using fiction as a way to investigate the way contemporary society is impacted by the evils of the past. In John Connolly’s latest novel, A Song Of Shadows, the latest...
By BRUCE DENNILL Reflection by Heinrich van den Berg Heinrich van den Berg’s latest collection begins its agreeable assault on your senses before you even open it. The cover – all three square feet of it; it’s a big book – features a close-up of half...