‘Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge, has given birth to a healthy baby boy’, proclaims my iPod, unbidden, first thing on a Tuesday morning. Of course, I already knew about that because, to be in England, one would have to have been living in a cave not to have heard the news. […]

Only God Forgives (2013) I literally just finished watching Only God Forgives and there are no words I can think of in the English language that can describe the experience I had while watching it. It left me discombobulated. On top of that, I’m actually watching it right now, as I type […]

We all have our ideas and fantasies of it but what exactly are the lengths that people are willing to go to, to become perfect ? The idea came to me while re-watching the critically acclaimed, Black Swan. The protagonist, Nina Sayers, seeks perfection culminating at the expense of her life. […]

Here in South Africa we are possibly on the brink of losing our nation’s father. Nelson Mandela was admitted into the MediClinic Heart Hospital in Pretoria on the 8th of June, following recurrent lung infection. Still admitted, Mandela’s condition does not seem to be improving. It is difficult for supporters- […]

About the importance of being alive, good and not rewarded. There is a movie-related question the overstated American meritocracy tends to ignore: why most people in Hollywood would kill to get an Oscar, while a few have died over and over again, but without being rewarded? Leonardo DiCaprio was just […]

Is the era of the Hollywood blockbuster at an end? The question might seem ridiculous to some, after all, there are still more Transformers movies in the pipeline, more Fast and Furious films to come and announcement of a new Robocop, a new Godzilla and a new Jurassic Park movie. […]

Sometimes you read things on the internet so heinous, so utterly, utterly heinous, you have to do a double take. Before I expand on that, can I just say, before anything else, how incredibly, insanely tacky and disrespectful it is to keep posting a leaked picture of a young woman’s […]

Asking whether the record-breaking, octave-shaking diva can pull off yet another return to the top of the charts. From the moment she debuted on the charts back in 1990 Mariah Carey has been big business. For the rest of the decade the quintessential diva reigned supreme, scoring hit after hit after hit. […]