Trevor Noah hosts Amazon Prime’s first South African original, LOL: Last One Laughing South Africa
In his first TV gig since leaving The Daily Show, Amazon Prime announced that Trevor Noah is to host the streaming service’s first South African original production, LOL: Last One Laughing. The LOL: Last One Laughing series is an adaptation of Prime
Minnie Dlamini – The Storyteller
Minnie Dlamini: The Storyteller Minnie Dlamini hasn’t given a detailed interview in three years. Deliberately so. Her brother Khosini died in September 2019 after having suffered a ruptured brain aneurysm and being on life support for 23 days before succumbing
Entertainment is a given – but film also needs to inspire, educate, provoke and criticise
The Joburg Film Festival (JFF), which ran from Tuesday, 31 January until Sunday, 5 February at various locations across the city, offered a provocative and challenging slate of films from around the world that explored various social issues and offered
Connie Chiume and Minnie Dlamini: Generations of Film
Connie Chiume is the darling of SA film and television. From teaching through the 1976 student uprising in Soweto to taking up a career as an actress, her story is one of working through an era when the creative arts
MTV Africa Brings The Love & Hip Hop Concept To South African Shores With Love & Hip Hop SA
The first quarter of the year in the reality TV space is getting off to a fine start. This follows the announcement that MTV Africa will be airing a version of the popular VH1 format global hit reality show Love
Amapiano enters the Marvel Cinematic Universe with DBN Gogo, Sino Msolo, Kamo Mphela, Young Stunna and Busiswa
Black Panther: Wakanda Forever is set to hit our screens next week and the soundtrack for the movie has dropped today. Some of SA’s favourite artists feature on it as amapiano has officially made it into the Marvel Cinematic Universe.
Blood Psalms: A Multitude of African Mythologies That Make For An Epic Fantasy
Blood Psalms is here. Showmax’s epic fantasy, co-produced by French premium television channel CANAL+, launched on Wednesday the 28th September in a first for South African television. Set in ancient Africa 11 000 years ago, Blood Psalms chronicles the rise to power of
Akin Omotoso Directed Giannis Antetokounmpo Biopic Coming to Disney+ Next Month
Akin Omotoso has directed a biopic telling the story of Giannis Antetokounmpo and his family. The biopic, telling the true events of the Antetokounmpo family’s move from Nigeria to Greece, and then to the USA to follow their NBA dreams,
Disney+ is coming to DStv subscribers in May
The Multichoice Group announced that it will bring Disney* to DStv subscribers in May 2022. Disney’s direct-to-consumer streaming service is the home of movies and shows from Disney, Pixar, Marvel, Star Wars, and National Geographic, along with The Simpsons and
The jeen-yuhs of Kanye West: A Look Into The Polarising Artist’s New Documentary
Visions – The first episode of the trilogy jeen-yuhs tracking Kanye West’s life as an ambitious producer who wanted to rap. Kanye West is a polarizing character. Many people are divided regarding how they feel about him. There are multitudes
Minnie Dlamini – The Storyteller
Connie Chiume and Minnie Dlamini: Generations of Film
MTV Africa Brings The Love & Hip Hop Concept To South African Shores With Love & Hip Hop SA
Blood Psalms: A Multitude of African Mythologies That Make For An Epic Fantasy
Akin Omotoso Directed Giannis Antetokounmpo Biopic Coming to Disney+ Next Month
Disney+ is coming to DStv subscribers in May