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Nov 29 , 2020

TRIAL OF THE CHICAGO SEVEN

It is often in history that the story of the present could be told colourfully, and perhaps even meaningfully. There is nothing like seeing our present through the lens of yesterday. It makes us more...

Oct 31 , 2020

BORAT: 'VERY NICE' MOVIE AMERICANA

Borat Sagdiyev - the Kazakh who stole our hearts with his unfathomable levels of anti-Semitism, sexism and racism - is back. And as our current state of politics would have it, his experiences are eve...

Sep 19 , 2020

Residue: Spiritual Sequel to Teza

Residue is the spiritual sequel to the acclaimed Teza. The latter is a movie by Ethiopia's single most acclaimed filmmaker, Haile Gerima, while Residue is the directorial debut of his son, Merawi...

Sep 6 , 2020

SWEETNESS IN THE SIDE-STORY

The momentousness of the latter half of the 20th century in Ethiopia is stark in the popular imagination, especially to non-Ethiopians. It was attended by the fall of one of the oldest monarchies in t...

Jul 25 , 2020

THE OFFICE: DARKLY COMEDIC, LIGHTLY TRAGIC

The advantage that TV shows have over movies is the sheer amount of time at their disposal for character development. And there are few shows that have taken to exploiting this advantage with a sense...

Jul 10 , 2020

A Space Odyssey: Lessons on What Makes for an Endlessly Repeatable Movie

There are movies and then there are pieces of art that have defined what cinema is. One of those movies is, inarguably, at least if we go by critic's best-movies-of-all-time picks, 2001: A Space Odyss...

Jun 27 , 2020

HOLLYWOOD’S SPIELBERGIAN RECOVERY

Over the past weekend, the US box office got a blast from the past. Still reeling from the COVID-19 induced lockdowns that led to the closure of theatres across the world, cinemas in the US opened wit...

Jun 20 , 2020

Rick and Morty: A Back to the Future Fitting of the Times

While The Simpsons and Family Guy have become caricatures of their earlier season selves, with BoJack Horseman (one of the best-written shows of all time) having bitten the dust earlier this year, and...

May 23 , 2020

THE WILLOUGHBYS AND RICKY GERVAIS

The Willoughbys starts like most animated movies. Its opening scene is of a colourful city full of featureless skyscrapers and skinny, irregularly-shaped people with sharp and pointy faces. It appears...

May 2 , 2020

EXTRACTION, POLITICALLY PROBLEMATIC BUT BRILLIANT ACTION FLICK

Ever since TV became a common household product, everyone in the theatre industry has been counting the number of days when cinema would no longer appear on the big screen. Digital technology has grea...

Apr 17 , 2020

Binge-watching: Time Well Killed

The opportunity to binge watch shows rarely presents itself. But times are different now. Most of us, depending on the sanity of our respective governments, are under some type of lockdown, and movie...

Apr 12 , 2020

JOE EXOTIC'S EXOTIC SHOW

Anyone with sufficient access to an internet connection has heard of Netflix's trippy documentary, Tiger King. It is a strange film with strange people. Watching it is like smoking a cigarette. We...

Apr 4 , 2020

CONTAGION: A PROPHESY

Steven Soderbergh had been a prolific filmmaker who made movies on such a diverse range of subjects that he was at some point bound to predict the future. There will inevitably be a countless numbe...

Mar 28 , 2020

Enena Bete, Small but Innovative

In an ironic twist of fate, the best Ethiopian cinema has to offer is actually hidden from view, almost impossible to unearth and value. The likes of Teza and Lamb are lucky enough to find internation...

Mar 21 , 2020

TEZA: THE SON, THE MOTHER AND THE NATION

Good movies have a fascinating opening scene. Great movies have three of them. Teza opens with a dream-like sequence. There is a man, lost but determined. He seems to be taking his first steps towa...

Mar 14 , 2020

ONWARD: A RARE DISNEY ORIGINAL

Some movies build on simple concepts and manage to communicate more about family, life, and what is important than the bulkiest novels. One such movie is Onward, a film that exemplifies what Disney re...


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