Downloading six month’s worth of unlimited music downloads is harder than you might think. You run out of artists to download – artist on your CD shelf, artists on your mp3player and artists your friends suggest. You get download fatigue!
Essay oor die gebruik van bloed in films.
Geskryf vir en gepubliseer deur Litnet Ons is geneties aanmekaar gesit om op bloed te reageer. Goed, party meer as ander. Ek is vies daarvoor as ek van my bergfiets afval, verlam daardeur as dit my geliefdes s’n is en hartseer wanneer dit op die pad langs die motorfietsryer poel.
Take Shelter – My best movie of 2012 and it’s only April!
When you review films, a hazard of the job is that you tend to watch quite a few of them. (Tough life, I hear all of you sigh.) You do grow slightly jaded, though. It takes a phenomenal film to raise your blood pressure, to make you forget that you are evaluating the film – …
The Hunger Games
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Bon Iver – I Can’t Make You Love Me/Nick of Time
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Kyss Mig – utterly romantic and undoubtingly relevant
Kiss Me (Kyss Mig) is a series of beautiful, tenderly crafted, well-acted scenes carefully strung together in a feature length film that warms the heart. And the chicks are hot! (Note to self: remove last sentence before publishing.)
Project NIM – How much have humans really evolved?
We humans can be such idiots. We can be great, we can be generous and kind, but we are mostly cruel, self-involved schmucks. In the story of NIM the chimpanzee we are especially vindictive characters. In a nutshell NIM is taken from his mother at birth. He is given to a human family to raise. ...
The Descendants – ʼn Perfekte balans tussen humor, hartseer en familie-waansin
Dit gebeur soms dat ʼn uiters vermaaklike, besonders goeie fliek ook lewensverrykend kan wees. Ek kan The Descendants nie hoog genoeg aanskryf nie. Dié rolprent vang die goeie, die slegte en die alledaagse van familielewe met deernis en wysheid vas. ʼn Moet vir elke fliekvlooi.
Buck – A subtle life lesson
Buck (short for Buckshot) Brannaman is the real horse whisperer. The oke Robert Redford phoned. What he manages to coax out of a horse never saddled or ridden before in a few minutes is astounding to the owners, onlookers and viewers of this film.
The Tillman Story – An embarrassing tale of the US government
Written for and first published by Litnet. That the US government (or any other government for that matter) covers things up and mostly gets away with it should not come as a surprise to anyone. That the US uses their cover-up to glorify their cause, to market their war, that I still find appalling.
The Black Keys surprise me yet again
Just when I thought I knew what The Black Keys sounded like, just when I could say with confidence that I would be able to spot one of their tracks at an ungodly hour in a drunken state in a seedy blues club, (not that I any longer try such antics at my advanced ...
Wear black today!
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Teaser trailer for Gaga’s new video ‘Marry the Night’
Is there no end to this woman’s talent? I hope not.
Florence and The Machine – Ceremonials
If Florence Welch lived in the 17th century, she would have burnt at the stake for being a witch! The evidence against her? Being a commanding, gorgeous woman that possesses the ability to afflict people through her magic.
ROSA
It is just under 10minutes long, it was made by one guy, a guy with no budget whatsoever and no backers to keep happy. What bliss. It is called ROSA and it is utterly breathtaking.
50/50
Oorspronklik gepubliseer op www.sarie.com As die lewe druk, is daar mooiweersvriende wat wegsluip. 50/50 bring hulde aan die mense wat bly, aan hul ongevraagde advies, hul selfsugtige optredes, maar bowenal hul onvoorwaardelike liefde vir jou.
Gasland (2010)
When are we going to learn that if we stick crap into the earth, she’s gonna spit it out right back at us? And that we’re going to end up eating it, drinking it and bathing our children in it? Whether it is garbage in landfills, acid water eating at the foundations of Joburg or …
A Town called Panic! (2009) – A raucous, French, stop frame animation
Horse, Cowboy and Indian live on one hill. Horse is the brains of the household, Cowboy and Indian the adolescent creators of chaos. Steve, his wife, his cows and his precious tractor live on the other hill and Steve is permanently pissed off. Whether you ring his doorbell or touch his studio, I mean tractor, …
Love her or hate her, there’s no one quite like Lady Gaga.
Gaga opening the 2011 MTV VMA’s as her alter ego, Jo Calderone.
Friends with Benefits
Oorspronklik gepubliseer op www.sarie.com Friends with Benefit (FWB) gaan nie enige Oscars wen nie. Ook nie die filmindustrie ‘wiel’ herontwerp nie. Dit is wel ʼn bogemiddelde komedie, met ʼn skerp, effense onhebbelike draaiboek en twee sexy, tog uiters bekwame hoofspelers in die vorm van Mila Kunis en Justin Timberlake.
Lovely, Still (2008)
Originally published on www.litnet.co.za Lovely, Still is a gentle film utterly worth watching, but when sitting down to view it, one should know more or less nothing about the film. (Except that the performances by veterans, Ellen Burstyn, aged 79, and Martin Landau, aged 80, will steal your heart and to some extent, break it.) …
Crazy, Stupid, Love
Om ander mense se harde werk af te kraak, is ʼn tydverdryf waarvan ek wegbly. Ek hou bloot nie daarvan nie. (En as die film plaaslik is, is die kanse goed dat jy in iemand by ʼn volgende premiere raakloop wat betrokke was by die einste film en jou dan uitkyk oor hulle glas whiskey.) …
Rosa – an independent short-film and the future of filmmaking?
An overhaul of the film industry has been a long time coming. The production of films, the people who fund these productions and in what manner these films will be sent out into the world is changing dramatically. Thanks to the Internet, naturally.
Incendies – die storie van ʼn ma
Oorspronklik gepubliseer opwww.sarie.com Ek hoop vir die dag wanneer sinnelose oorlog, die uitbuiting van vrouens en die verwoesting van kinders se onskuld, ‘ou nuus’ is. Wanneer films soos Incendies, wat eenvoudig gaan oor die liefde van ʼn ma, nie meer so broodnodig is nie. Ons is nog ver van daardie dag af, maar by films …
Skoonheid – Beautiful and brave
Originally published by www.litnet.co.za under my column Reeltime. I needed to hug someone after watching Skoonheid. One, because I was happy to have just watched the best South-African film ever made, and two, to calm my nerves. Oliver Hermanus has made a rather brilliant, but exceedingly disturbing film.
Super 8 – A highly enjoyable blockbuster
Super 8 uses a technique made famous by the mother of all alien films, Alien, and that is to never do a full frontal of the alien, to not zoom in on every fang and all the dripping gore. What you don’t see, what your own imagination comes up with is way scarier than what …
Skoonheid – Beeldskoon, maar brutaal
Oorspronklik op www.sarie.com gepubliseer. Ek wil Skoonheid graag aanbeveel. Ek wil ook nie. Dit is sonder twyfel die beste Afrikaanse/Suid-Afrikaanse film nog ooit verfilm. Dit is ook sonder twyfel, een van die ontstellendste films wat ek al gesien het, en ek is nie ʼn sensitiewe kyker nie.
ADELE iTunes Festival London 2011
do not sing. Not for anyone. Not on any occasion. Not even in the shower.
The Bang Bang Club has little ‘bang’
I don’t get it. War photographers Greg, Joao, Ken and Kevin, the four original members of The Bang Bang Club, lived the kind of lives, during the violent end of apartheid, that legends and great films are made of. So why is The Bang Bang Club, the film, so boring?
Dit reën liggies op haar
Die verhaal hieronder is die tweede ‘episode’. Vir die eerste episode, lees ‘wanneer die kamer weer stil is’. Lize staan doodstil. So ook Nina, Henk, JP en Philip, almal netjies in ʼn rytjie en vrek ver van die Landcruiser, die fotograaf en die veldgids met sy geweer af. Niemand chirp niemand nie. Daar word skaars, …
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 2
Harry Potter7 is a damn near perfect film. Whether you are a devotee to the franchise or not, Deathly Hallows: Part II is, a remarkable finale that will entertain until the last line of dialogue is spoken.
Ek joke net
Candid camera films was nog nooit ‘hogere’ kuns nie. Dit kan wel vlymskerp kritiek wees en dit moet verseker snaaks wees. Vat Borat as voorbeeld. Sacha Baron Cohen kan jou in een toneel laat lag, huil en met afgryse gevul laat terugsit. Selfs Schuster se films kwalifiseer. (Wie sal die taxi vergeet wat die luislang …
Bridesmaids
Bridesmaids is not a chick flick just because there’s a lot of chicks in it! It will appeal to anyone with a slightly twisted sense of humour and a tendency toward the politically incorrect. I fitted the bill and loved every minute of it.
Jane Eyre
I love the sprawling, poetic nature of great English literature. I love Mia Wasikowska. (And don’t tell anyone, but I am a romantic at heart. Wuthering Heights, by the other Brontë,tore me up for days. Shush.) Rotten Tomatoes, my trusted benchmark, also summarises the film as follows: “Cary Fukunaga directs a fiery and elegant adaptation, …
Bitteinder Jaco van der Merwe – die cool Dutchman
Daar was net een boom by RAMFEST hierdie jaar. Een boom wat Vrou se hangmat kon akkommodeer. En onder daardie boom, in haar hangmat, het Vrou dan die hele dag saam met die wind en alternatiewe musiek gewieg.
Bloedsuiersmovie: wenner van die eerste kompetisie
Suritha Blake het ingeskryf vir ʼn Bloedsuiers kompetisie en ‘n ete saam met die vier lede van die cast gewen. Ek het haar uitgevra oor die aand. (Iemand anders was verantwoordelik vir die foto’s.)
My interview with Roger Ballen
With the republication of Dorps I had the opportunity to sit down with Roger Ballen and ask him a few questions.
Bloedsuiers Movie: Onderhoud met Francois van Coke, Inge Beckmann (In Afrikaans)
Kom nou, ʼn Afrikaanse vampier fliek wat gedeeltelik in die Klein Karoo afspeel, met onder andere Inge Beckman as die tawwe vampierjagter Lizelle (nogal), en Francois van Coke as Ettiene, ja wag vir dit, ʼn vampier, kan verseker net gatskop.
‘Blood Pressures’ by The Kills (MUSIC)
I have a band-crush! (Band-crush = when you love a band so much that you’re on their mailing list, you’re their Facebook friend, Twitter tweep and Youtube slut and you buy every new album no questions asked.)
Anna Calvi is just breathtaking
Anna Calvi is nie vir almal nie. Net vir diegene met ‘n goeie oor en ‘n oop kop.
Getroud met Rugby
Laat ek net eerstens my hand oplig en sê, ek het nog nie een episode van die reeks Getroud met Rugby gesien nie. Inderwaarheid het ek nie geweet van die reeks tot ek die film se voorprent gesien het nie. Ahem. Hier volg my resensie in elk geval.
The King’s Speech
Come on, this film could only be great. You can throw Colin Firth, Geoffrey Rush and Helena Bonham Carter in an Afrikaans play about General Christiaan de Wet that launches it at the KKNK and it would be great. Add a great director, Tom Hooper (The Damned United, Longford) to the mix and The King’s …
The Black Swan
My mother was right all along! Darren Aronofsky, the director of The Black Swan, agrees. Balance is everything. Nina tries to be the sweet, innocent girl her overprotective, smothering mother demands of her. She wears white and pink, sleeps in a frilly, pink bedroom fit for a teenager and lives only for ballet. Until the …
‘Anna Calvi’ by Anna Calvi
Imagine this. A broody Nick Cave ballad written for a Bond film, Shirley Bassey in all her glory behind the microphone and PJ Harvey wrestling Jimi Hendrix for the electric guitar. Yes, that is more or less what Anna Calvi’s debut album sounds like.
Barton Hollow by The Civil Wars
I must be getting old. I am no longer immune to Americana. Or indie folk as some folks call it.
Florence and the Machine
We have too few of those moments, when we feel undeniably alive, when we are weightless in our troubled lives.
‘Gewis Is Alles Net ‘n Grap’ deur Hennie Aucamp
As mens self al ʼn boek of twee aan ʼn uitgewer gestuur het, of die droom koester om eendag jou naam (in liggies) op Kalahari.net se ‘24hr Delivery Shop’ te sien, en jy slaan ʼn Hennie Aucamp bundel oop, kan een van twee dinge gebeur.
‘Klara kom tuis’ deur Margaret Bakkes
Ek is beslis nie die teikenmark vir hierdie boek nie.
Fotografie
Ek het ʼn fotografie galery bestuur vir drie jaar. In daardie tyd het ek ʼn hele klomp foto’s gesien, met talle fotograwe gewerk en ook te doene gekry met die politiek van ons land. Hoera vir my.
Bakkes vs. Bakkes
Ek het beide moer toe die vreemde in en Stoffel in die Wildernis terdeë geniet.
Eternity
I thought that with Liefling the South African film industry had hit rock bottom. I was so completely wrong. Eternity, which the creators call a ‘romantic thriller’, feels like a late night e-tv movie. Without the soft porn.
Winter’s Bone
When a film so bleak, so gut wrenchingly forlorn as Winter’s Bone, manages to tenderly lift out the resilience, and even kindness, of the human spirit, I stand in awe. At the point where the rest of us would have given up, broken down and started bawling for our mama’s, that is where the tale …
easy A
I might have to watch this film again! The script is so clever, it moves so fast, that I am sure I missed a few things! And Emma Stone’s performance is worth seeing a second time!
‘RED’ – A great Bruce Willis film
RED is cinema at its most entertaining. Half the magic lies in the perfect casting. Helen Mirren plays the aristocratic dame/assassin. Bruce Willis is the tough guy with the soft inside. Morgan Freeman is wise, John Malkovich is crazy and Mary-Louise Parker is ditsy. Need I say more?
‘Liefling’ – ‘n Lang, cheesy Afrikaanse musiekvideo
Ek is nou al ʼn week lank van koffie af en vir ʼn week lank wag ek al vir die onttrekkingsimptome om in te skop. Die verblindende hoofpyn wat halfpad deur Liefling opgedaag het, sal talle mense dan toeskryf aan die gebrek aan kafeïen. Hulle is verkeerd. Dit is die sage wat op die groot …
Karen Zoid – ‘Terms & Conditions’
Terms & Conditions is goed genoeg. Die skerp lirieke, die uiters catchy poptunes, die paar gatskop rock tunes, die gebruik van gesoute musos, haar stem wat beter klink as ooit tevore, dit is alles goed genoeg.
‘Weerkaatsings: ‘n sprokie’ deur ELEANOR BAKER (1984)
Sjoe. Ten spyte van die besonderse taalgebruik, die spanningslyn wat my tot op die laaste bladsy aangegryp het en eenvoudige, maar kosbare gebare tussen die twee hoofkarakters, sukkel ek om vrede te maak met die stereotipes in Weerkaatsing: ʼn sprokie.
‘Net een wenner’ deur Daantjie Badenhorst (2005)
Dit is ʼn biblioteek boek, so ek kan nie kla oor die geld wat ek daarvoor betaal het nie. Ek is wel spyt oor die petrol wat uitgery het.
Unstoppable
Unstoppable was so exhilarating I just about had an asthma attack! And I am only prone to asthma when I encounter a particular little white flower in a campsite, in the middle of nowhere, late at night when my inhaler is 90km’s away.
Gossip – the band
To start off my review of the band Gossip I will quote a very expressive one-liner (copied directly from an email dated September 15th, 2010, with the subject ‘jinne julle ouens die WIND!’ ) that is frequently used by a friend* of mine. This way I won’t be in trouble with my mom. (I hope.) …
The White Ribbon: A brilliant, but unbearable film
It does occasionally happen. I watch a film highly rated on Rotten Tomatoes and hate it! I understand why ‘White Ribbon’, the black and white German epic, is a masterpiece and deserve the rating. I am not sorry I watched it either. I still hate it.
‘Keep it Hid’ by Dan Auerbach (2009)
When Dan Auerbach, one half of the Black Keys, releases a solo album and there is a strong element of The Black Keys present in the music, don’t fret. If you can produce anything close to the brilliance of The Black Keys, you’ve done well.
The Damned United (FILM)
Michael Sheen played Tony Blair in The Queen, David Frost in Frost/Nixon and just to keep things interesting he shined as Lucian, the pissed off vampire, in Underworld: Rise of the Lycans. The man simply is an extraordinary actor and The Damned United gives him the vehicle to shine even further.
The Natalie Merchant iTunes Session
I know Natalie Merchant as a) the chick from 10 000 Maniacs and b) the chick who covered ‘Because the night’, an original Bruce Springsteen track that I adore. I also know I have always enjoyed her very peculiar voice. (And if you don’t know her voice there is no hope for you.)
the timmins clan
23 years ago Cowboy Junkies recorded an album called ‘Trinity Sessions’ in the Church of the Holy Trinity, Ontario. In 1989 their cover of a Lou Reed track, ‘Sweet Jane’, from this historic album, included in the Natural Born Killers soundtrack, became a worldwide hit and thrust them onto the international scene.
my first attempt
Cooking is not my forte. Let me state that upfront. I have other talents. (I am yet to discover them, but I am convinced they are there. Somewhere.) My culinary duties have been restricted to breakfast and making pancakes. (My pancakes are on par with the best church bazaar pancake out there, I’ll have …