Policewoman Christina must solve a murder that evokes a brutal past.
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The genocide of the Herero people lives on in today’s Namibia and Perivi Katjavivi’s film illustrates this.
The 1994 movie ‘Clerks’ was one of many ‘Slacker films’ that were made in the 1990s.
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A range of films spanning different eras confronts viewers with the same question: ‘What if all that hard work isn’t really worth it?’
Basic Instinct.
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It may have had a plot full of holes and some excruciating dialogue, but Basic Instinct persists thanks to the sheer charisma and star power of Sharon Stone.
Humphrey Bogart as Sam Spade (1941).
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Sam Spade only appeared in one novel. But he left his mark, with the help of the Hollywood legend who portrayed him.
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Jo Nesbø’s bleak thriller featuring troubled hero Harry Hole, rings the changes in a genre recently dominated by female protagonists.