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Wim Steytler, director of Haezer’s music video for Minted, has recently won the Young Director (Silver) Award at the Cannes Lions Award Ceremony in France.

Maleficent is here in all its spectacular awesomeness with Angelina Jolie at her wicked best. This year marks the 55th anniversary of the character who put a spell on young Sleeping Beauty in the animated feature released by Disney in 1959.

X-Men explodes on the big screen this weekend. The ultimate X-Men ensemble fights a war for the survival of the species across two time periods in X-Men: Days of Future Past as the beloved characters from the original X-Men film trilogy join forces with their younger selves from the past, X-Men: First Class, in order to change a major historical event and fight an epic battle that could save our future....

On the big screen this weekend the world’s most revered monster is reborn and unleashed in Godzilla.

The Cape Town Opera, accompanied by the Cape Town Philharmonic Orchestra, presents Show Boat at the Artscape Theatre from 16 to 18 May.

We’ve always known that Spider-Man’s most important conflict has been within himself: the struggle between the ordinary obligations of Peter Parker and the extraordinary responsibilities of Spider-Man. With The Amazing Spider-Man 2, both worlds collide as Parker confronts his greatest battle in a super-spectacular visual extravaganza loaded with action and first-rate kick-ass entertainment.

Die Windpomp gets my vote as one of the best films ever made in South Africa. Well done to writer-director Ettienne Fourie on an exceptional film: well scripted, directed, first-rate performances, brilliant cinematography and an excellent music score. It's inspiring to see a film of this calibre.

In the words of the Dreamgirls song You’re Gonna Love Me, there are films like Wes Anderson’s sublime The Grand Budapest Hotel that not only demand attention and adoration, but have swept local audiences off their feet. Since its release a month ago the film has played to full houses.

The three 2014 Jameson First Shot winners are preparing to fly to Los Angeles to bring their short film scripts to life with the expert help of Kevin Spacey, Uma Thurman and Trigger Street Productions, after winning this year’s competition.

From the inspirational story of courage, sacrifice, hope and redemption, Darren Aronofsky (Black Swan, The Wrestler, The Fountain) brings to the screen Noah, with Academy Award winner Russell Crowe as the man chosen by God to undertake a momentous mission of rescue before an apocalyptic flood destroys the world.

Captain America is definitely one of the coolest dudes in the Marvel universe! With the ultra-spectacular Captain America: The Winter Soldier, our defrosted superhero and world’s greatest soldier strikes an explosive blow for those seeking big-screen action of epical proportions that offers first-rate entertainment.

Thirty years after Blood Brothers made its debut, director David Kramer's adaptation became one of the theatrical highlights of 2013. Kramer first saw the Olivier Award-winning musical in the 1980s.

From secret food meets to trendy markets, original food trucks and award-winning restaurants; Cape Town continues to offer a rich variety of foodie experiences.

It has been announced that hip hop artist Mos Def is to deliver the keynote address at Music Exchange, the music, film and entertainment programme, which is returning to Cape Town City Hall on 7 and 8 March, 2014.

The Book Thief will make you smile, cry, laugh and then leave your heart broken with its haunting beauty. As a high-ranking member of the Book Snob Society I can find reasons why the film adaptation of this story does not do it justice, but those reasons are ultimately shallow because this adaptation is really good and captures the important themes of the book.