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Slow-burner: Mahershala Ali’s Latif is a single father to teenage daughter Fatiha, 10-year-old Qadir and newborn Aziza.

Mahershala Ali wrestles with faith and violence

Mahershala Ali delivers a captivating performance in Bassam Tariq's slow-burn thriller Your Mother Your Mother Your Mother, balancing hired violence with the domestic demands of…

Kibo Ngowi

Vengeance: Anaia and Racine are wrestling with questions of generational trauma and whether cycles of violence can ever be broken.

Why I couldn’t stop thinking about ‘Is God Is’

Aleshea Harris's adaptation of Is God Is offers an ambitious, visually striking allegory on generational trauma, even if its revenge-thriller plot falls short of greatness.

Kibo Ngowi

Psychological terror: Michael Johnston and Inde Navarette in Obsession. Photos: Supplied

Could these twenty-something YouTubers be the future of cinema?

A wave of YouTuber-turned box-office-record-breaking horror auteurs have Hollywood nervous and rethinking the filmmaking playbook

Kibo Ngowi

King of Pop: The highly anticipated Michael Jackson biopic, Michael, arrives in theatres this week covering roughly 22 years of his life from performing as part of the Jackson 5 to touring to promote the album Bad.

‘Michael’ plays the hits but avoids the hard questions

The long-awaited ‘Michael’ biopic dazzles with iconic recreations and a star-making performance but struggles to uncover the man behind the legend

Kibo Ngowi

Star-studded: A scene from Wes Anderson’s ‘Asteroid City’, which has his signature pastel palette and array of subplots and characters

Wes Anderson’s new film ‘Asteroid City’ is out of this world

A 1950s desert town is visited by friendly aliens and whimsical weirdos in the latest offering from director Wes Anderson

Kimberley Schoeman