Don’t be fooled by the fact that Black Swan, the latest film from Darren Aronofsky, arrives in SA surfing the crest of a tidal wave of awards-season buzz. It is not one of those mannered, middle-of-the-road dramas
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Award-winning art-house thriller Winter’s Bone has snuck so stealthily into SA’s art-house cinemas that it is likely to disappear just as quietly after a week or two on circuit. That would be a pity
This year promises to be another packed full of monster hits for the videogaming industry, with a host of massive titles expected to hit the shelves over the next 12 months
God of War 3, Call of Duty: Black Ops, Rock Band 3, Fallout: New Vegas, Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker, Alan Wake, Limbo, Darksiders, Just Cause 2, Minecraft and Super Mario Galaxy 2. The fact that TechCentral couldn’t cram
In between the bloated 3D summer blockbusters and mindless romantic comedies, 2010 offered up a diverse spread of arthouse dramas and exciting popcorn movies. TechCentral’s entertainment critic, Lance Harris
From its punchy opening, a cinemagoer who goes to see The American knowing little about the film might expect to it keep up the brisk pace of a contemporary espionage actioner like the Jason Bourne trilogy throughout
Gran Turismo 5, the latest release in Sony’s multimillion-selling car simulator franchise, makes it clear from the outset that it is a game designed for the most dedicated of petrolheads. After keeping
What is a superstar, a living legend like John Cleese doing in a mining town like Jo’burg? This is the question that Cleese dryly poses to the audience gathered for a premiere of his new movie Spud at Montecasino in Johannesburg last Saturday night.
Consumerisation — the use by business of technologies that were first tested in the consumer market — is one of the IT industry’s buzzwords of the moment. One technology that Microsoft hopes will soon evolve from expensive toy into essential productivity tool is the motion and voice interface featured in Kinect.
From the start, The Social Network is a barrage of words as relentless as a Twitter stream. David Fincher’s fictionalised account of the founding of Facebook doesn’t pause for breath as it fires off its sound bites and zingers at a rate of about a zillion a minute to compress Aaron Sorkin’s dense 162-page script into a concise two-hour film.