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Fantasia 2020: Fried Barry

Posted on August 19, 2020August 19, 2020 by Keri O'Shea

The BBFC-esque send-up at the beginning of Fried Barry – with a ‘warning’ of all the adult content to follow and the pointer that film certification is there to help us make informed decisions – suggests from the outset a film stacked with OTT content which is also ready to send itself up. In the […]

Five Fingers for Marseilles (2017)

Posted on September 8, 2018 by Keri O'Shea

The Western, pioneered by the likes of Sergio Leone and Sam Peckinpah, is a format which has spawned cinema around the world, with recognisably Western-style filmmaking appearing everywhere, even in the likes of the Convict Scorpion films in Japan during the 70s. However, I think it’s probably fair to say that South Africa isn’t greatly […]