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André Carl van der Merwe's autobiographical novel is the basis for this visceral, disturbing ride Author of the article: Chris Knight Publishing date: Apr 09, 2021  •  6 hours ago  •  3 minute read  •  Kai Luke Brummer stars as Nicholas van der Swart in Oliver Hermanus’ Moffie. Photo by IFC Films Reviews and recommendations are unbiased and products are independently selected. Postmedia may earn an affiliate commission from purchases made through links on this page. Article content If you think Moffie sounds like the title of an animated movie about a delightfully prec...

Held: 2½ NOMADLAND: What a long trip. Way back in September, it was the “people’s choice” at the Toronto film festival. Since then, it has been written about almost every week, won over 200 awards (including Golden Globes) and received six Academy Award nominations. (It’s often cited as the front-runner). So, finally it’s here — in a very few theatres that are actually open and streaming on Disney+. It has been worth the wait. This is a gentle, must-see film. It starts with images of a grim America and ultimately celebrates what used to be great about the country: The people and...

NETFLIX © 2021 This week, Netflix released a bombshell announcement that the streaming giant had secured the exclusive U.S. rights to stream Sony Pictures’ upcoming slate of releases including Venom: There Will Be Carnage and the upcoming The Falcon and the Winter Soldier. As for new releases of films available to stream and rent at home, we’ve got the much-delayed and finally released Biggie Smalls murder thriller City of Lies, Netflix’s new superhero buddy comedy Thunder Force starring Melissa McCarthy and Octavia Spencer, the intense homebound horror mystery thriller Held starr...

Kai Luke Brummer, center, in a scene from "Moffie." (IFC Films) Kai Luke Brummer in "Moffie." (IFC Films) Kai Luke Brummer in a scene from "Moffie." (IFC Films) South Africa, 1981. A few teenage soldiers, tanned, blond, just out of boyhood, enjoy a rare night out with a few female companions. Michael (Matthew Vey) drags on a cigarette and informs their new friends that, “we don’t feel a thing.” Later, he repeats himself back at camp, near the Angolan border, where the troops patrol for landmines and “communist” insurgents: “I feel nothing,” he reminds himself, as soldiers shoot ...

Listen • 3:47 Writer-director Oliver Hermanus created em Moffie /em from an autobiographical novel by André Carl van der Merwe — but he gives the film an air of lived experience. It's Capetown, 1981. A family gathers for what looks like a back-slapping birthday party — but is actually a farewell. In the South African drama Moffie, Nicholas, a teenager who's as subdued as his relatives are raucous, will head off in the morning for military service that's compulsory for boys between 16 and 20. White boys that is. This being the era of apartheid, brutal segregation...