OUT ON FILM
LET’S GO TO THE MOVIES WITH DANIEL DERCKSEN
WOMEN IN LOVE
The difficulties faced by a lesbian police
detective and her domestic partner is
explored in Freeheld (25/3), based on the
2007 documentary short film of the same
name about police officer Laurel Hester’s
fight to allow her pension benefits to be
transferred to her domestic partner after
being diagnosed with terminal cancer.
Two friends confront the trauma of breast
cancer in Miss You Already (7/4), and
moms collide in the comedy Mothers
Day (6/5)
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HAVE A LAUGH
When a beloved kitten, Keanu (29/4)
is catnapped, two cousins impersonate
ruthless killers in order to infiltrate a street
gang and retrieve the purloined feline.
Tina Fey plays a war correspondent in
Afghanistan and Pakistan during Operation
Enduring Freedom who develops a crazy
relationship with a fellow journalist from
Scotland(Martin Freeman) in Whiskey
Tango Foxtrot (13/5), three retired
men (Morgan Freeman, Michael Caine,
Alan Arkin) hatch a scheme to rob a bank
in Going In Style (20/5), and Melissa
McCarthy plays an ex-convict who tries
to rebrand herself as America’s latest
sweetheart in The Boss (27/5).
ADVENTURE FOR ALL
The Jungke Book (15/4) is an all-new
live-action epic adventure about Mowgli
(newcomer Neel Sethi), a man-cub who’s
been raised by a family of wolves; Chris
Hemsworth and Charlize Theron return
for the dark fantasy The Huntsman:
Winters War (22/4); and Alice returns
to the whimsical world of Underland and
travels back in time to save the Mad Hatter
in Alice Through The Looking Glass
(27/5)
THE ART OF FILMMAKING
With Knight Of Cups,(11/3) Terrence
Malick is very much a storymaker in search
of meaning, and through his journey of
finding and answer to the essence of live,
love and art, he allows us to reconnect with
our own our own personal journey into
ourselves and our place in this world. This
is the story of a lonely a comedy writer Rick
(Christian Bale) who longs for something
other, something beyond the life he knows,
without knowing quite what it is, or how to
go about finding it.
ZOMBIES & THINGS THAT
GO BUMP IN THE NIGHT
England is overrun with the undead,
upending genteel Victorian mores and
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Freeheld
turning the bucolic countryside into a
war zone in Pride And Prejudice And
Zombies (4/3); a mother who struggles
with the loss of her son opens the door
between the worlds of the living and the
dead, unleashing a horrific figure in the
form of her son in the supernatural horror
The Other Side Of The Door (11/4); a
woman goes into Japan’s Suicide Forest
to find her twin sister, and confronts
supernatural terror in The Forrest (15/4),
a man discovers a terrifying Satanic cult
and human sacrifice rituals in Regression
(6/5); a boy’s darkest nightmares comes
alive and wreaks havoc in the superb
Before I Wake (20/5).
THE END OF THE WORLD
A virus wipes out half of the population
in Viral (25/3), a worldwide chemical
attack leaves Earth’s surface uninhabitable
in 10 Cloverfield Lane (8/4), in the
wake of a disaster that wipes out most of
civilization two men and a young woman
find themselves in an emotionally charged
love triangle as the last known survivors
in Z For Zachariah (8/4), and in a
futuristic utopian society, human emotions
have been eradicated and everyone lives in
peace but when a new disease surfaces in
Equals (27/5)
LOCAL IS VERY LEKKER
A woman return from New York to help
her widower father run the struggling
family farm in Sonskyn Beperk (11/3);
two best friend’s come up with a wacky
money-making scheme in Safe Bet
(11/3); a Mozambican domestic worker
in Johannesburg is forced to make a lifechanging decision after her daughter dies
while under the care of her employer in
Sink (18/3); Modder en Bloed (1/4)
deals with a Boer warrior and family man
whose wife and only child were killed by
British soldiers during the Anglo-Boer War;
Mignon Mossie Van Wyk ( 15/4) tel