Country: South Africa
MY DAUGHTER’S KEEPER
Deon Meyer
Deon Meyer used to be a journalist, a correspondent and an ad-writer before he started writing crime novels. His stories’ principal characters are mainly policemen who are faced with the complex realities of contemporary South Africa. In 2010, he wrote his first film script before writing and directing his first feature in 2013. This internationally… Continue reading Deon Meyer
FIVE FINGERS FOR MARSEILLES
They were five innocent kids, living in a township stuck to the city of Marseilles (South Africa). Fed up with police oppression in the middle of Apartheid, they defended themselves with harmless slingshots. Until the fatal day when one of them took a weapon and sent two white cops six feet underground. His name was… Continue reading FIVE FINGERS FOR MARSEILLES
HUNTING EMMA
Emma looks like a gentle, peace-loving, and caring woman. But when danger occurs, she gets possessed by the ghost of Bryan Mills (Liam Neeson’s character in Taken). “Danger” here means a group of six lunatic drug sellers, whom she saw killing a cop on duty. There remains but one thing to do : kill that… Continue reading HUNTING EMMA
FROM A HOUSE ON WILLOW STREET
Small time gangster Hazel and his three henchmen have set their sights on young Katherine, whose father is a rich diamond dealer. Given the size of their house on Willow Street, they probably wouldn’t mind loosing a million dollars or so for their precious girl. The actual kidnapping is as easy as pie, but the… Continue reading FROM A HOUSE ON WILLOW STREET
YOUNG ONES
It’s not easy to be young in the not so distant future. Together with their father and their sick mother, Mary (Elle Fanning) and Jerome (Kodi Smit-Mc Phee) are trying to make a living in an America where water is more precious that gold and where the dishes are cleaned with dust. It almost looks… Continue reading YOUNG ONES
THE PROFANE EXHIBIT
Deeply hidden in the seedy underbelly of Paris there’s a club which welcomes a secret order of repulsive individuals. At first sight, it looks like an ordinary sadomasochistic dungeon of pleasure and pain, but within the labyrinth of corridors and halls are a few catacombs. One of them is called The Chamber of Souls. It’s… Continue reading THE PROFANE EXHIBIT
RETRIBUTION by Mukunda Michael Dewil
After thirty years in the judiciary, a retired judge, at the prompting of his family, takes some time out to write his memoirs. Not wanting any distractions, he goes to the Overberg Mountains to stay in an isolated cabin to begin work on the book. The cabin is remote – a three-hour 4×4 drive from… Continue reading RETRIBUTION by Mukunda Michael Dewil