“Is there a more appropriate – or more sinister – metaphor for the state of the country right now than a deadly cholera outbreak just spitting distance from the Union Buildings? Unless something more complex (climate change-related, perhaps) is at play, it would appear the dead and sick are victims not only of waterborne bacteria… Continue reading Coming Up On Carte Blanche – 28 May 2023
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Fourth & final Season Of “Barry” Comes To An End On Showmax, Monday 29 May 2023
Barry picked up 50 awards in its first three seasons, including nine Emmys, and the new season has a 97% score on Rotten Tomatoes – the fourth-highest this year. Empire Magazine calls the final season “nerve-shredding, hilarious and emotionally devastating to the very end,” saying, “Season 4 will be remembered as some of the best… Continue reading Fourth & final Season Of “Barry” Comes To An End On Showmax, Monday 29 May 2023
Coming Up On Carte Blanche – 21 May 2023
“In the early 2000s, I travelled to Baghdad accompanying a charitable foundation as it delivered much-needed medical supplies to a country in the grip of international sanctions. The group was led by an energetic and affable doctor called Imtiaz Sooliman, a devout, bespectacled man who spoke so quickly his words overlapped. More than 20 years… Continue reading Coming Up On Carte Blanche – 21 May 2023
What To Stream This Africa Month: Showmax
From The Real Housewives of Lagos to Blind Ambition May is Africa month, a time when the continent commemorates the founding of the Organisation of African Unity (OAU) in 1963. This pioneering moment made Africa the first continent to focus on continental unity through an organisation of this kind. Culturally, as South Africans, we’ve been… Continue reading What To Stream This Africa Month: Showmax
“Indiana Jones” Collection of Movies & TV Series Swing Onto Disney+ on 31 May
IN CELEBRATION OF THE UPCOMING THEATRICAL RELEASE OF “INDIANA JONES AND THE DIAL OF DESTINY,” THE “INDIANA JONES” COLLECTION OF MOVIES AND TV SERIES SWING ONTO DISNEY+ ON 31 MAY “Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark,” “Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom,” “Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade,” “Indiana Jones and… Continue reading “Indiana Jones” Collection of Movies & TV Series Swing Onto Disney+ on 31 May
Must-watch trailer: Rosemary’s Hitlist, from the producers of Devilsdorp and director of The Real Housewives of Durban
A trail of killings. One beneficiary Showmax has just dropped the trailer for Rosemary’s Hitlist, a Showmax Original true-crime documentary series about cop-turned-serial-killer Nomia Rosemary Ndlovu. Rosemary’s Hitlist is produced by IdeaCandy, the company behind the SAFTA-winning true-crime sensation Devilsdorp, and directed by Valen’tino Mathibela (the first season of The Real Housewives of Durban, Lebo… Continue reading Must-watch trailer: Rosemary’s Hitlist, from the producers of Devilsdorp and director of The Real Housewives of Durban