Jennifer Steyn – MRQE

Black Butterflies

Sun, 24 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Confronted by Apartheid and a father who was Minister of Censorship, Ingrid Jonker searched for a home, searched for love. With men like Jack Cope and André Brink she found much love, but no home. Later, in his first speech to the South African Parliament Nelson Mandela read her poem “The Dead Child of Nyanga” and addressed her as one of the finest poets of South Africa.

The Fragile King

Fri, 22 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Gerald King, who is closer to death than life gets dumped with his 15 -year-old grandson, when the child’s mother dies in a drunken car crash. Both the boy and grandfather are shocked into a new reality.

Slumber Party Massacre

Fri, 22 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Dana, daughter of the only survivor of a massacre in 1993, is going on a weekend trip with her friends. After their car breaks down in the very same town where her mother once fought the Driller Killer, Dana and her friends must come face-to-face with the man who has haunted her mothers life for the past 30 years.

White Lion

Sun, 24 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

According to the legend of the Shangaan, white lions are the messengers of the gods, but it has been years since one has been seen in their remote African valley. When a white lion is miraculously born into that valley, a young Shangaan named Gisani, finds himself destined to protect this rare and magnificent creature at all costs. This young lion, whom will be known as Letsatsi, is cast from his pride and forced to embark upon a perilous journey of survival.

Master Harold… and the Boys

Sun, 24 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

This movie is of Hally, an adolescent white South African. He is stuck between his intolerant father’s outlook of him and those of his caretaker, Sam. Sam is a black waiter and Hally’s friend and teacher. Hally is required to laugh at his father’s racist jokes, by contrast, Sam exposes Hally to uplifting experiences. One day Hally was terribly humiliated by his father and Sam shows Hally how to be proud of something he can achieve.

Duma

Mon, 25 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

An orphaned cheetah becomes the best friend and pet of a young boy living in South Africa.

Cry, the Beloved Country

Tue, 26 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

A South-African preacher goes to search for his wayward son who has committed a crime in the big city.

Demon Keeper

Sat, 23 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

For Remy Grilland the world of the occult is nothing more than a way to swindle rich old ladies out of their money. A parlor trick. But when an expert of the supernatural comes to his seance, Remy feels obliged to summon a real spirit. In his ignorance, he brings forth a most vicious and evil demon. one known to spread misery by infiltrating the mind, playing on weakness, and leading its prey to murder. Now, locked in the house for the night, each person must find a way to evade the Demon’s powers. Only the light of day will bring mercy.

Curse III: Blood Sacrifice

Sat, 23 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

When an American plantation owner’s wife and her sister interrupt an African death ritual to save the sacrificial goat, the witch doctor places a curse on them, summoning a god from the sea to slaughter them and anyone in its way with a panga, a curved, African machete.

Pure Blood

Fri, 22 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Combining a new age black maid, blood-drinking zombie racists and a plot to poison the town with blood cakes, what ensues is a dark comedy that pits the forces of fascism against the redeeming power of true love and home cooking