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Action / Adventure
Adaptation
A Haunting In Venice / All The Light We Cannot See / A Man Called Otto / All Quiet On The Western Front / Alone In Berlin / The Art Of Racing In The Rain / Beautiful Disaster / The Black Phone / Blue Beetle / The Boogeyman / Borderlands / The Crow / The Dark Tower / Dune / The Good House / Killers of the Flower Moon / Lady Chatterley’s Lover / Lion / Mean Girls / Mrs. Harris Goes To Paris / One True Loves / Pain Hustlers / Papillon / Peter Pan & Wendy / The Secret Garden / Toorbos / The Whale / The Wonderful Story Of Henry Sugar
Addiction
Animation
The Amazing Maurice / Elemental / Epic Tails / Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio / Headspace / Inspector Sun and the Curse of the Black Widow / Ladybug & Cat Noir: The Movie / Migration / Rally Road Racers / Ruby Gillman, Teenage Kraken / Strange World / The Wild Robot
AI – Artificial Intelligence
The Creator / 100 Years Of AI / The Threat Of AI To Writers
Animals
A Dog’s Purpose / The Art Of Racing In The Rain / Dog / Call Of The Wild
Classic Films / Vintage
Cinema Paradiso / One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest / Sunset Boulevard / The Artist / Amelie
Coming Of Age
Creatures
65 / Alien: Romulus / The Black Demon / Lyle, Lyle, Crocodile /
Crime
Bodies / The Killer / Killers of the Flower Moon / The Little Things / Reptile /
Dance
Documentary
Espionage / Spy
Bridge Of Spies / The Exception
Faith Based Stories
Fantasy
Avatar / Avatar: The Way To The Water / Beau is Afraid / Crimson Peak / Dune / Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves / Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio / Peter Pan & Wendy / Poor Things / Rebel Moon Part One / Strange World / The Watchers
Female Diven Narratives
Blonde / Call Jane / Emily / The Estate / The Favourite / Good Luck To You, Leo Grande / Joy Ride / MA / May December / Mean Girls / The Mother / Miracle Club /Mrs. Harris Goes To Paris / Nanny / Parallel Mothers / Poor Things / She Said / Women Talking
Film Culture
The Greatest Films Of All Time / How to Read a Film: The Language of Film / Film – A Popular Art Form / Film Appreciation Course/ A steady diet of celluloid
Franchise
After / Ant-Man and The Wasp: Quantumania / Creed III / Fast & Furious 10 / Halloween Ends / The Hunger Games: The Ballad Of Songbirds & Snakes / Insidious / Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny / Mission: Impossible –Dead Reckoning Part One / Missing / My Big Fat Wedding 3. / Searching / Transformers: Rise of the Beasts / Saw /
Games
Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves / Five Nights at Freddy’s
Gangster
Gay Themed
All Of Us Strangers / Green Book / Bros / Die Stropers (The Harvest) / Good Grief / The Ignorant Angels / Heartstopper / Inxeba: The Wound / The Inspection / Kanarie / Lonesome / Moffie / Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story / My Policeman / Nyad / Pain and Glory / Punch / Rafiki / Red, White & Royal Blue / The Whale
Gothic Romance
Heist /Hostage Stories
Holocaust
Horror
The Exorcism / Knock At The Cabin / MA / Malignant / Never Let Go / Speak No Evil / Talk To Me / Thanksgiving / Saw X
Independent Filmmaking
Inspired By
Air / The Amazing Maurice / Babylon / Barbarian / Barbie / Cocaine Bear / C’mon C’mon / Death On The Nile / Dog / Empire of Light / Haunted Mansion / Murder On The Orient Express / No Hard Feelings / The Lost King / Notre-Dame on Fire / The Pale Blue Eye / The Pope’s Exorcist / Professor Marston & The Wonder Women / Renfield / Shotgun Wedding / Those Who Wish Me Dead / The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent
Interviews
Writer-director Gavin Hood talks about Oscar-winning Tsotsi / Tertius Kapp discusses the ecological horror fantasy Gaia / Johnny Breedt talks about Die Ontwaking / Christiaan Olwagen, talks about Poppie Nongena / Sallas de Jager on Dominie Tienie, Jonathan & Free State /Writer-director Gareth Edwards talks about what it takes to be a Filmmaker / Interviews with South African writers / Writer-director Etienne Kallos / Producer Jason Blum talks about The Exorcist: Believer
Murder Mystery
A Haunting In Venice / Death On The Nile / Murder On The Orient Express /
Musicals
The Color Purple / Greatest Days / The Greatest Showman / The Little Mermaid / Mean Girls / West Side Story / Wonka
Origin Stories
Alien: Romulus / The Last Voyage of the Demeter / Wonka
Original Stories
65 / Asteroid City / The Banshees of Inisherin / Barbie / Don’t Worry Darling / Emily / The Estate / Hypnotic / Joy Ride / The Little Things / Master Gardener / The Mother / Plane / Polite Society / Tár
Prejudice / Racism
The Color Purple / Killers of the Flower Moon /
Prison
Reimagining History
Babylon / The King / The Lost King / Medieval / The Northman / Outlaw King / 1960 / The Woman King
Romance
A Ghost Story / A Rainy Day In New York / Anyone But You / Beautiful Disaster / Good Luck To You, Leo Grande / It Ends With Us / Lady Chatterley’s Lover / The Last Duel / Master Gardener / Love Again / Past Lives / Redeeming Love / Titanic
Satire
Dream Scenario / El Conde / The Menu / Rock the Kasbah / Triangle Of Sadness
Sequels
Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom / Beetlejuice Beetlejuice / Black Panther: Wakanda Forever / Book Club: The Next Chapter / Magic Mike’s Last Dance / Shazam! Fury of the Gods / Top Gun: Maverick
Serial Killers
The Killer / Midnight In The Switchgrass
Sexuality
Blink Twice / Cat Person / Good Luck To You, Leo Grande / May December / No Hard Feelings / Poor Things
South African Filmmaking
Alison /Angeliena / Gaia / Headspace / Interviews with South African writers / Die Ontwaking / The Recce / Toorbos / Die Verhaal Van Racheltjie de Beer / Sew The Winter To My Skin / Vaselinetjie / 1960
Sports
Big George Foreman / Next Goal Wins / The Survivor
Storytelling
James Cameron’s 3 Levels Of Storytelling
Superheroes
Andor / Black Adam / Black Panther / Black Panther: Wakanda Forever / The Flash / The Green Knight
Supernatural
A Ghost Story / A Haunting In Venice / All Of Us Strangers / Dear David / Encounters / The Exorcist: Believer / The Gallows / M3GAN / Nanny / A Quiet Place / The Pope’s Exorcist / Scouts vs Zombies
Survival / Disaster
The End We Start From / Leave No Trace / Leave No Trace / Leave The World Behind / Notre-Dame on Fire / One Life / Society Of The Snow
Television Series / Teleplay
All The Light We Cannot See /Bodies / Cabinet of Curiosities / The Crown / Disclaimer / Justified: City Primeval /
Trilogies
Guardians of the Galaxy Vol.3.
True Life Stories
About My Father / A Hidden Life / Air / Belfast / Big George Foreman / Blonde / Breathe / Bridge Of Spies / Call Jane / Dear David /Empire of Light / The Fabelmans / The Favourite / Ferrari / Golda / Gran Turismo / The Inspection / I Wanna Dance With Somebody / Kandahar / Killers of the Flower Moon / Life (James Dean Story) / Legend / Lion / Loving Vincent / Money Monster / Napoleon / The Old Man & The Gun / Oppenheimer / Pain Hustlers / Punch / Professor Marston & The Wonder Women / Run Rabbit Run / She Said / Society Of The Snow / Sound Of Freedom / Spinning Gold / The Survivor / Till / The Walk / Widow Clicquot
War
All Quiet On The Western Front / A Hidden Life / Bridge Of Spies / The Exception / Hounds Of War / Mile 22
Wild & Wacky
Bad Times at the El Royale / Beau is Afraid / Everything Everywhere All at Once / The Menu / Nightmare Alley / Run / Smile / The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent / Violent Night
Writers
Genius / Pain and Glory / Rebel In The Rye
The WORLD of FILM
The WORLD of FILM
