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You got the timer? Ready? And… go. Okay, so this is a comedy about a murder mystery game night that turns into a real…
Meet Triggerfish: Cape Town’s Oscar-nominated animation studio
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Why is South Africa not watching South African movies?
You hear it all the time (at least in the hipster parts of Cape Town): support local. Wear locally-made clothes, buy fruit and veg…
SA’s box office: this week was boring so I made stuff up
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Last week in trailers: Saoirse Ronan, John Cena, Tommy Wiseau & more
It’s this writer’s last trailer roundup here on Memeburn, so of course that means the marketing world dried up and delivered a host of just…
3 online games that teach you to identify fake news
Nobody is safe from the pull of “fake news”. Even those who should be most informed (looking at you, Western Cape Premier Helen Zille) have…
TWR: Sexy ice dancers, Gigaba’s startup fund & a Land Rover phone
Welcome to The Weekly Roundup where we discuss the latest in tech and startup news! This week, Andy Walker hosts Daniel Mpala and Julia…
Three Billboards appropriates black and female struggles for the white man
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri tells a universal tale of women abandoned by the justice system sworn to protect them. In South Africa, this…
Let’s go down the Tessa Virtue/Scott Moir rabbit hole one last time
Canadians Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir are record-breaking ice dancers who have wowed the skating world since forming a team in 1997. The pair…
8 feel-good shows on Netflix to help escape the world’s suck
Life is hard. Problems barrel at us at a steady pace, and social media has allowed us all direct access to almost every human…
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