3 Continents Film Festival

Don’t forget about the 3 Continents Film Festival which kicks off this weekend and ends on the 24th of August at Cinema Nouveau in Rosebank, where you can see “The Choir” and “Up the Yangtze” and a whole lot more that actually deserve to be seen. Tickets cost R 30.00.

Also, there is that awesome “Out of Frame” section of the festival, a tribute to the late filmmakers Michelangelo Antonioni (who starved himself to death?!), Ingmar Bergman and Ousmane Sembène. That’s obviously a must as well.

Meet Dave

Norbit director Brian Robbins teams up with Eddie Murphy for a second time to bring to the screen this comedy that features Murphy in two roles – as the humanoid alien commander of a giant spacecraft that looks and acts like a larger version of himself.

Waz

This debut feature from writer Clive Bradley and UK director Tom Shankland presents an unflinching vision of the foul deeds that man is prepared to do to his fellow man. A violent tale of the lengths one is willing to go to for love, the shocking and violent nature of the story means that it’s definitely not for the faint-hearted. Those who choose to persevere with such disturbing material however will be well rewarded. It’s fierce, even if totally uneven and misguided.