The black surf



award winning movie
OTELO Burning



Otelo Burning is an award winning movie that was nominated 13 times at the  Africa Movie Academy Awards Nominations and it Won Best SA Film Award.

Not only can black people swim, they can surf in this movie. The film is named after the main character Otelo Buthelezi, whose father does not like him going anywhere near the beach. The movie is a classic example of the saying  “hard work pays off” it certainly worked for them. The movie has already accomplished quite a lot in a short period of time.

It’s set in 1989, against a backdrop of brewing conflict between two political groups in Lamontville. The film follows the lives of four young men, Otelo Buthelezi, Ntwe, New-Year and Mandla Modise. The three young boys Otelo, Ntwe and New-Year are introduced to the world of surfing by Mandla, they grow to love the sport and see it as their way out of their township LAMONTVILLE.

The film makers decided on a young leading cast, they cast young up and coming actors and first time actor Tshepang Mohlomi. The movie plays around the topics of love, friendship, betrayal, death, hopes and desire. It is a much needed refreshing angle on making movies in South Africa, it took films were many not dare go, it came up with the concept of throwing a few black people in water and hope they don’t drown before you capture your shot.

This movie is an all-rounder it has all the elements needed to make a movie work, missing out on this one is your own loss and also lets support local films.

colour me grey



A MILLION COLOURS movie poster

A MILLION COLOURS is a movie based on true events that happened around the 1970’s. It follows the life of two young men, Muntu Ndebele and Norman Knox, the actors from the acclaimed South African movie “e’lollipop”. We are taken through how their lives changed when the country went into a state of emergency.

“A MILLION COLOURS” is about the ultimate triumph of friends over diversity. It is a true story of danger, hearth-ache, and triumphs. It is an epic documentation of the human condition and its trials. Muntu and Norman were great friends from when they appeared in the movie “e’lollipop” and they were torn apart by the apartheid system, we are taken through their how their relationship was strained and almost destroyed by the apartheid regime. They were forced to fight on different sides of the fence and miraculously they were re-united after struggle when Nelson Mandela became president in 1994.

This is a great movie to watch if you are one of those sentimental types who enjoy a good movie, it is bound to probably be a real tear jerker this one. The film makers decided to cast an almost unknown cast, most probably they were trying to make the movie seem as real as possible, I applaud them for that, nothing like a big well known actor to distract you from the reality of the film.
If you feel like a movie that has no CGI effects in it or constant muscle men testing their strengths on each other’s heads and if you want to learn something and leave the cinema fulfilled, then this is the movie for you. Check out imdb for more information about the movie.

Avenged



The Heroes of S.H.I.E.L.D



The Avengers is bound to be a crowd pleaser, it brings all, well most of the marvel superheroes you know and love and throws them into one action packed epic movie that would be impossible to fail.

It works around bringing all these different people together, with their differences, ticks, views & ideas and personalities to work towards a single goal to save the planet from LOKI (Thor’s brother) Tony Stalks’ ego, The Hulks anger issues, Thor’s thirst for battle and Captain America’s hard adjustment to the new world, all this things work well together in the within the Team, not at first of course.

The Avengers is a 2012 American superhero film produced by Marvel Studios and distributed by Walt Disney Pictures, based on a Marvels Comics superhero team of the same name. It boasts an ensemble cast of the likes of, Robert Downey Jr., Chris Evans, Mark Ruffalo, Chris Hemsworth , Scarlett Johansson, Jeremy Renner, Tom Hidelston, and Samuel L. Jackson.

Many people have high expectations of the AVENGERS, from the fans themselves to the producers, many fans have been itching at the thought of watching the movie, the AVENGERS movie movie is expected to gross just well over $100 million in its first three days at the cinema. I’m thinking I might have been a little too hasty when I said “BATTLESHIPS” is the most anticipated. The producers of the movie hinted towards there being a sequel to this movie at the New York Comic Con. In this movie adaptation of the cartoon series they left out “ANT MAN” maybe perhaps it would have been impossible to fit him into the movie, let’s hope he will be in the sequel. The Avengers movie is too big to fail. For a more detailed view of the movie visit crytical myth.