--- This week's round-up of newish releases from Spoek Mathambo, Loatinover Pounds, Mila Smith, Birdie, VERMOOR, Shortstraw, and Celeste Noxx. --- Under These Stars, Nothing Is Too Far | Spoek ...

--- Mother City is by no means a fun night out at the cinema. But, in light of the upcoming municipal elections, seeing this film is a civic duty. It is a hard and long watch, a recounting of a deca...

--- She dies amongst the lush tall green grass and the trash of an unclaimed urban pathway winding cramped between two buildings, her l...

--- Hands locked behind our heads we are sitting on the cold concrete floor in front of each others laps, our elbows on the knees of the...

--- Valley Girl is a bright breezy self-identified contemporary folk album that is charming until you listen to it. Most of the tracks function as a sing-along background, the kind...

--- an interview with Kaden Arguile --- Kaden Arguile, the GOOD candidate for Ward 77 in Cape Town, turns 28 on the day of the munic...

--- Vuka Zulu is the sound of an artist reaching maturity. This is a coded way to say that an artist has plateaued. Vuka Zulu is many, many, many tracks that all sound eeril...

--- by Roger Young --- “White crosses on the church yard, I want to smash them all” - Against Me. On Saturday 26th of September Erns...

--- Phezula! and he's running with the genius of bravado, snatched out of her hand as she sat in the minibus hurtling down through Hillb...

--- Disclaimer: I am not an eight-year-old child. Silas en die Ysbeer is a film made “for all our children”, which is why it explicitly refers to a time when the Cape was Dutch and there are no blac...

---- by Roger Young --- “She’s deformed because of all the drugs and things.” – Helen Zille, who does not have a medical degree. Roug...

--- 1977 is an ambient bromance a decade in the making. The first major work for Laband since Deaf Safari (at best The Soft White Hand often felt like outtakes from that album), this duet sou...

--- by Roger Young --- Let's just call it what it is: Kevin Fraser performs blackface with his character Gladys, has been doing so for a...

--- an interview with Yugen Blakrok --- You should basically be ashamed of yourself for not knowing who Yugen Blakrok is. It took a Face...

--- Landmyn ebbs and seethes through a winter family holiday by the beach. Siblings Colette, Johan and Lisa, one returned from a career in London (or Scotland) apparently making coffe...

--- by Roger Young --- “Dolly Parton — love her. She nursed her ill husband till the end. She looked like a complete floozy, but she w...

--- An Interview With Boima Tucker --- Boima Tucker has spent the last few years making a film about extraction, energy, colonialism and...

--- The first question I had when I saw that The Haven Night Shelter are promoting, along with the CCID, a Homeless Golf Day was… When d...

--- I Hardly Remember Their Names --- From her kitchen in a container near the rank she arrives at night, scolding and so on, in a huff ...

--- Benaaihilism has to be the dumbest album released in recent times. Big, dumb, and 3am Eternal beautiful. This is a collection of songs entirely for driving from Pretoria to Stel...

--- an interview with Sandulela Asanda --- Sandulela Asanda went to an all-girls boarding school, and has now made a feature about goi...

--- An Interview with Guy Buttery --- Guy Buttery was recently nominated for three SAMAs for Orchestrations — Album of the Year, Best In...

--- SC8 | Friday 31st July | 7pm --- Waaabap-bap-bap. A story as old as time. Sometimes you just want to donut until your tyres come off, and the government won't let you. From Dust We S...

--- Black Burns Fast gets right into it upfront, announcing and dispensing with setup and exposition in teen rapid-fire dialogue, overcompensating, overstating, and shrugging all at the same time. Se...

--- The Rise of the Afrikaner Villain in the Trump Era --- by Roger Young --- From Mel Gibson to Jason Statham, the Afrikaner villai...

--- SC5 | Wed 29 July | 5pm & SC7 | Sun 2nd Aug | 5pm --- There are no statistics here. There are no images of bombed-out buildings. No before-and-after satellite images of devastation. No discu...

--- SC5 | Fri 24 Jul | 5pm --- Dance With Me hits all the story beats but does not convincingly portray a universe with an interior life. The world feels inhabited. The cinematography is excel...

--- Premier | SC5: Friday 8pm 24 July --- People grieve differently. This is the entire premise of Mngomezulu’s Themba. The entire film is two people grieving differently, and misund...

--- Gayton McKenzie's Blockbuster: Algo Scriptwriting, Social Cohesion & The Death Of Chance --- by Roger Young --- In Hyènes, Djibr...

an interview with Eldon van Aswegen, director of FOSTA --- FOSTA follows both the story of DJ Fosta and Bridges For Music, from Fosta's...

--- by Roger Young --- There's a woman talking to the fence about the one time she took Ritalin, and it's still straight-edge early. This is the first sign that the word "fest" might...

--- DIFF | Premiere | SC7: 5pm July 24 --- FOSTA is a document of our times. As a film it often hedges its bets, reflexively providing quick solutions after to...

--- I Hardly Remember Their Names --- The bike slides out from under him, wet slick as he brakes too late, crossing Harrow to Hillbrow, both of them, Jam...

--- by Roger Young --- Black Math gloriously revel in not reinventing the wheel. Screamo, punk, rock n roll grunge, youth, whatever, attacked with gusto. Don't let the word Math fool you ...

1: In Defence Of Street Crime Phezula! and he's running with the genius of bravado... 2: The Corruption Of My Understanding Hands locked behin...

Access to harm reduction treatments, including opioid substitution therapy, clean needles and drug counselling treatment could save lives. I’m living proof. But there are plenty of others who don’t ma...

Access to harm reduction treatments, including opioid substitution therapy, clean needles and drug counselling treatment could save lives. I’m living proof. But there are plenty of others who don’t ma...

--- After his arrest no-one mentioned him, he dropped out of our thoughts, except to mock that he had been arrested so easily. So dom. S...