Kenyan cinema has grown steadily in confidence since Nairobi Half Life became the country's first submission for the Academy Awards in 2012, putting local storytelling firmly on the map. Films like Supa Modo show a knack for grounding big emotional ideas in everyday Kenyan life, warm and specific without ever feeling small. Browse Macca's reviews below.
Rating: 3.5★
John le Carré spent the better part of five decades writing about the moral rot that accumulates quietly inside institutions, and The Constant Gardener, his 2001 novel, ranks among his most pointed indictments. Where many of his earlier books trained their scepticism on the intelligence services, this one aimed squarely
Rating: 3.0★
Somali piracy became one of the defining news stories of the late 2000s and early 2010s, filling broadsheet column inches and television bulletins with images of armed men on skiffs, ransomed supertankers, and naval patrols in the Gulf of Aden. Hollywood's response was largely to frame it as
Rating: 4.0★
Tourism, as an industry, generates somewhere in the region of ten per cent of global GDP and employs one in ten people on the planet. Those are staggering numbers, and yet the conversation about what mass tourism actually does to the places it touches, the communities it displaces, the ecosystems
Genre Drama
★★★ — Supa Modo (2018)
Genre Drama
★★★ — Nairobi Half Life (2012)
Genre Documentary
★★ — Men in the Arena (2017)
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