Matt Goldberg has been an editor with Collider since 2007. As the site's Chief Film Critic, he has authored hundreds of reviews and covered major film festivals including the Toronto International ...
When we last left Johannesburg, humans were oppressing aliens in District 9. Now that humans are back to fighting humans, life is even more grim. In South Africa's Gangster's Paradise: Jerusalema, ...
The story of a township boy-turned-slumlord millionaire, “Gangster’s Paradise: Jerusalema” is a South African crime epic with plenty of vigor, violence and vengeance, as one might expect from a ...
While unlikely to hit the box office bullseye of Russell Crowe's Robin Hood, this rob-from-the-rich drama might be even better. Riffing off Slumdog Millionaire, Goodfellas and especially Scarface, ...
Movie Review | 'Gangster’s Paradise: Jerusalema' By Mike Hale “Jerusalema,” in the awkward title “Gangster’s Paradise: Jerusalema,” has two meanings, neither of which involves the Middle East. It ...
While comic-book non-hero Scott Pilgrim battles his heartthrob's evil exes in cinemas in Scott Pilgrim vs The World, Kick-Ass (2010, Universal, 15) posits another bona-fide dweeb entering a ...
This is basically a Warner Brothers gangster movie of the 1930s, excitingly and excitedly transposed to the crime-ridden world of post-apartheid Johannesburg. The black antihero, Lucky Kunene, unable ...
Anchor Bay have just sent us this brand new hard hitting trailer for their new movie, Gangster’s Paradise: Jerusalema. Inspired by a true story, Gangsters Paradise: Jerusalema is an unflinching look ...
South Africa has come a long way – from being banned from the Olympics to hosting the World Cup, from no film industry to speak of to the Oscar winning Tsotsi, it’s clear that the country, badly ...