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The admirable ambition to frame the film with all the iconoclastic, outlaw verve of its rogue antihero is both the making and the unmaking of “Sew the Winter to my Skin,” the proto-Western sophomore feature from rising South African powerhouse Jahmil X.T. Qubeka. As shown in his well-received noir-indebted debut “Of Good Report,” Qubeka has filmmaking energy to burn, but this time it sparks and flares over much broadened horizons — often literally, in the form of returning Dp Jonathan Kovel’s striking landscape photography, featuring vistas so huge they have visibly different weather on one side than the other.
But the narrative enlargement is less successful: While the project of infusing a local legend with grandly cinematic, mythic status is a worthy one, the film can’t quite get out of its own way, and the result is incoherently at odds with itself, with two outsized personalities — the hero John...
But the narrative enlargement is less successful: While the project of infusing a local legend with grandly cinematic, mythic status is a worthy one, the film can’t quite get out of its own way, and the result is incoherently at odds with itself, with two outsized personalities — the hero John...
- 10/6/2018
- by Jessica Kiang
- Variety Film + TV
Author: Zehra Phelan
To celebrate the forthcoming UK premiere and release of Blood & Glory, we have to honour of exclusively launching the trailer for the film.
Written and directed by Sean Else (Platteland; ‘n Man Soos My Pa), Blood & Glory may be a fictional story but it takes its inspiration from events that unfolded during the Anglo-Boer war in South Africa in 1901.
The cast is made of both British and South African actors that include Charlotte Salt (Beowulf; The Tudors), Patrick Connolly (Inferno; Crushed), Nick Cornwall (Blood Loyal; Retribution) and Josh Myers (Rise of the Footsoldier III; The Sweeney) for the British contingent and Stian Bam (Veraaiers) who plays Morkel, Bok van Blerk (Platteland; Vrou Soek Boer) and acclaimed South African talent Grant Swanby (Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom; Invictus; The Fall) fighting for the South African contingent.
Also in trailers – The first teaser for Mary Poppins Returns arrives!
Director...
To celebrate the forthcoming UK premiere and release of Blood & Glory, we have to honour of exclusively launching the trailer for the film.
Written and directed by Sean Else (Platteland; ‘n Man Soos My Pa), Blood & Glory may be a fictional story but it takes its inspiration from events that unfolded during the Anglo-Boer war in South Africa in 1901.
The cast is made of both British and South African actors that include Charlotte Salt (Beowulf; The Tudors), Patrick Connolly (Inferno; Crushed), Nick Cornwall (Blood Loyal; Retribution) and Josh Myers (Rise of the Footsoldier III; The Sweeney) for the British contingent and Stian Bam (Veraaiers) who plays Morkel, Bok van Blerk (Platteland; Vrou Soek Boer) and acclaimed South African talent Grant Swanby (Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom; Invictus; The Fall) fighting for the South African contingent.
Also in trailers – The first teaser for Mary Poppins Returns arrives!
Director...
- 3/5/2018
- by Zehra Phelan
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
Snooty English actress meets rugged local in South Africa: blandness ensues
Both the blandest of romcoms and a film about film-making that displays zero feel for the way films are made. Ireland’s Katie McGrath adopts a cut-glass English accent as an actress jetting to South Africa to research a Boer war role, landing at the farm of a rugged local (the marvellously named Bok van Blerk). She’s snooty enough to be mistaken for royalty; he’s rough-edged, but strums the guitar. What could possibly happen? Getting from A to B necessitates countless insipidly scored montages, and while director Henk Pretorius fills the frame with veldt, early glimpses of Big Ben establish the wider lack of ambition. It’s tourist-trap cinema, for gullible eyes only.
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Both the blandest of romcoms and a film about film-making that displays zero feel for the way films are made. Ireland’s Katie McGrath adopts a cut-glass English accent as an actress jetting to South Africa to research a Boer war role, landing at the farm of a rugged local (the marvellously named Bok van Blerk). She’s snooty enough to be mistaken for royalty; he’s rough-edged, but strums the guitar. What could possibly happen? Getting from A to B necessitates countless insipidly scored montages, and while director Henk Pretorius fills the frame with veldt, early glimpses of Big Ben establish the wider lack of ambition. It’s tourist-trap cinema, for gullible eyes only.
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- 10/8/2015
- by Mike McCahill
- The Guardian - Film News
At a loss for what to watch this week? From new DVDs and Blu-rays, to what's streaming on Netflix, we've got you covered.
New on DVD and Blu-ray
"Chappie"
Dev Patel, Sigourney Weaver, Sharlto Copley (in motion capture as Chappie), and Hugh Jackman star in this thought-provoking sci-fi film from Neill Blomkamp, director of "District 9." The Blu-ray comes with a ton of features, including an alternate ending, extended scenes, and eight featurettes: "Chappie: The Streetwise Professor," "Arms Race: The Weapons and Robots," "Bringing Chappie to Life: The Visual Effects," "From Tetra Vaal to Chappie," "Keep It Gangster," "The Reality of Robotics," "Jozi: Real City and a Sci-Fi Setting," and "Rogue Robot: Deconstructing the Stunts & Special Effects."
"Run All Night"
Liam Neeson plays a mobster hit man caught between his crime family and his estranged son in this action thriller co-starring Joel Kinnaman, Ed Harris, and Vincent D'Onofrio. The Blu-ray features "Shoot All Night,...
New on DVD and Blu-ray
"Chappie"
Dev Patel, Sigourney Weaver, Sharlto Copley (in motion capture as Chappie), and Hugh Jackman star in this thought-provoking sci-fi film from Neill Blomkamp, director of "District 9." The Blu-ray comes with a ton of features, including an alternate ending, extended scenes, and eight featurettes: "Chappie: The Streetwise Professor," "Arms Race: The Weapons and Robots," "Bringing Chappie to Life: The Visual Effects," "From Tetra Vaal to Chappie," "Keep It Gangster," "The Reality of Robotics," "Jozi: Real City and a Sci-Fi Setting," and "Rogue Robot: Deconstructing the Stunts & Special Effects."
"Run All Night"
Liam Neeson plays a mobster hit man caught between his crime family and his estranged son in this action thriller co-starring Joel Kinnaman, Ed Harris, and Vincent D'Onofrio. The Blu-ray features "Shoot All Night,...
- 6/15/2015
- by Gina Carbone
- Moviefone
South African culture-clash romantic comedy Leading Lady enjoyed a successful reception at the Seattle International Film Festival recently, and has now secured a cinematic distribution deal for the Us. Check out the trailer embedded below.Leading Lady leading lady, Katie McGrath, is best-known for her work as Morgana in BBC One's Merlin series. Here she plays an idealistic British drama teacher (McGrath is actually Irish) who travels to South Africa to prepare for a role as an Afrikaans war heroine. She convinces a dashingly dour Afrikaner farmer to help her (played by Afrikaner singer Bok van Blerk) (real name), and in exchange agrees to plan the annual farm concert. He, of course, becomes something more to her along the way, as does his odd family, and...
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- 11/12/2014
- Screen Anarchy
Dark Places
A24 and DirectTV have acquired all U.S rights to Gilles Paquet-Brenner's "Dark Places" based on the novel by "Gone Girl" author Gillian Flynn. Charlize Theron, Chloe Grace Moretz, Nicholas Hoult, Christina Hendricks, Tye Sheridan and Corey Stoll star.
Theron plays a survivor of the brutal killing of her family as a child who is forced to confront the events of that day by a secret society obsessed with solving crimes.
Gentlemen
Magnolia has acquired U.S. rights to Mikael Marcimain's post-wwii-set "Gentlemen" which stars David Dencik, Sverrir Gudnason and Pernilla August.
Based on Klas Ostergren’s bestselling novels, the story deals with the forbidden love and dark secrets surrounding Sweden’s flamboyant Morgan brothers.
The Mirror
Film Movement has acquired North American rights to Ed Boase's urban myth-inspired horror tale "The Mirror". The story follows friends who buy a supposedly haunted camera on eBay. The...
A24 and DirectTV have acquired all U.S rights to Gilles Paquet-Brenner's "Dark Places" based on the novel by "Gone Girl" author Gillian Flynn. Charlize Theron, Chloe Grace Moretz, Nicholas Hoult, Christina Hendricks, Tye Sheridan and Corey Stoll star.
Theron plays a survivor of the brutal killing of her family as a child who is forced to confront the events of that day by a secret society obsessed with solving crimes.
Gentlemen
Magnolia has acquired U.S. rights to Mikael Marcimain's post-wwii-set "Gentlemen" which stars David Dencik, Sverrir Gudnason and Pernilla August.
Based on Klas Ostergren’s bestselling novels, the story deals with the forbidden love and dark secrets surrounding Sweden’s flamboyant Morgan brothers.
The Mirror
Film Movement has acquired North American rights to Ed Boase's urban myth-inspired horror tale "The Mirror". The story follows friends who buy a supposedly haunted camera on eBay. The...
- 11/10/2014
- by Garth Franklin
- Dark Horizons
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