Mob flick Gangster Squad proudly claims to be inspired by a true story, but its definition of the terms “true” and “story” seems to be particularly loose. There’s not much truth here, and little in the way of story. No matter. This pulpy, derivative treatment of the battle between the Los Angeles
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Mark Shuttleworth, the South African billionaire who sold his young, Cape Town-based start-up Thawte Consulting to VeriSign for US$575m and who then went on to spearhead the creation of the open-source Ubuntu Linux operating system, has now set his sights on shaking up the global smartphone business. Shuttleworth
From Sam Mendes’ stunning reinvention of James Bond in Skyfall to Wes Anderson’s quirky look at young love in Moonrise Kingdom, 2012 has been a great year at the cinema. Here’s a rundown of some of the best films of the year
Director Rian Johnson is keenly aware that the mechanics of time travel in movies don’t make much sense – and that they make less sense the more you think about them. In Looper, he cheekily dismisses the physics with a wave of his hand and tells you to think about the metaphysics instead
Technology entrepreneur Stafford Masie spent two-and-a-half years working on the Payment Pebble smartphone payment device before it was unveiled last week by retail banking giant Absa. The device was engineered and built by Masie’s Centurion-based company Thumbzup, which he wants
Skyfall takes James Bond to darker, more personal places than any other film in the series ever has. Before the film rebuilds him, its Bond is a wreck, pill-popping and borderline alcoholic, his nerves as shattered as his body is dilapidated. He’s an anachronism, a symbol of the withering
Agent 47, the antihero with the bald, barcoded head, is back after a six-year absence, every bit the self-possessed and cold-blooded predator he was when we last saw him in Hitman: Blood Money. Though the new Hitman game makes some concessions to the latest gaming trends, Hitman: Absolution
End of Watch, the latest film from Training Day scribe and Street Kings director David Ayer, opens with Los Angeles beat cop Brian Taylor (Jake Gyllenhaal) describing himself and his comrades in the police force as “the thin blue line protecting the prey from the
South Africa’s wealthy Oppenheimer family is investing in the country’s technology sector. E Oppenheimer & Son has become an investor in a venture capital fund run by Cape Town’s 4Di Capital. The Oppenheimer investment – the value is not being disclosed – will
Bringing with it a new lead character and a change of setting, Assassin’s Creed 3 promised a rebirth for a franchise that has become bloated and directionless over the past two years. But rather than seizing the opportunity to trim the fat