A personal journal of film and documentary reviews, and reviews of anything else that intrigues me.
Chinese and Chinese-language Films, South African Films
“China / Africa Big Business (Episode 4: Moving Africa)” (ENDEVR, 2013) Fourth instalment in a series of documentaries investigating examples of Chinese industrial investment in Africa,…
Chinese and Chinese-language Films, South African Films
“China / Africa Big Business (Episode 4: Doctors for Africa)” (ENDEVR, 2013) A very good episode in the “China / Africa Big Business” series from the…
Chinese and Chinese-language Films, South African Films
“China / Africa Big Business (Episode 6: Precious Water)” (ENDEVR, 2013) This South African documentary follows two Chinese corporations on opposite sides of southern Africa in…
Chinese and Chinese-language Films, South African Films
“China / Africa Big Business (Episode 2: Building Homes)” (ENDEVR, 2013) Part of a South African-made series of six episodes on Chinese business investment in Africa,…
Michael Mathews, “Apocalypse Now Now” (2017) Made as a proof-of-concept film on which a television series or a feature film will be based, “Apocalypse Now Now”…
Northern European Films, South African Films
Jean van de Welde, “An Act of Defiance” (2017) Quite a hard-hitting and confrontational film this historical drama on the incidents and trial that sent political…
Neil Blomkamp, “District 9” (2009) The inspiration for this science fiction film arises from a context in which racial segregation and exploitation informed the basis for…
North American Films, South African Films
Neil Blomkamp, “Chappie” (2015) In amongst the ruined buildings, the body count, the junk metal and unexploded cluster munitions that form the detritus long after the…