FAR FROM the ghetto streets of Soweto, the South African drama “Tsotsi” resonates with a raw freshness and immediacy and an almost mythic sense of reclamation and redemption. The 2005 Oscar winner in ...

Some worthy pictures–“Syriana” being an example–work better the second time, which doesn’t help you the first time, but there it is. Other films do their job effectively, owing more to reasons of ...

The movie “Tsotsi,” directed by Gavin Hood and based on the novel by Athol Fugard, is about a criminal’s redemption. It is about the transformation in a person and the faith that helped. “Tsotsi” was ...

Far from the ghetto streets of Soweto, the South African drama “Tsotsi” resonates with a raw freshness and immediacy and an almost mythic sense of reclamation and redemption. Still basking in the ...

Gavin Hood is a white South African who recalls being raised by a Zulu housekeeper and befriending her young son. But as boys grew older, they were separated. Because of apartheid and segregation, ...

Athol Fugard, the Blood Knot, Master Harold… and the Boys and Tsotsi writer who is widely regarded as South Africa’s greatest ever playwright, has died. He was 92. According to AP, the South African ...

Far from the ghetto streets of Soweto, the South African drama "Tsotsi" resonates with a raw freshness and immediacy and an almost mythic sense of reclamation and redemption. A foreign-language ...

He may not have won the Super Bowl, but the 20-year-old South African actor is making a victory lap of sorts, thanks to his title role in "Tsotsi." Nominated for a best foreign language film Oscar and ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The Christian Science Church, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The Church publishes the Monitor ...

A hardened young South African gang leader steals a woman's car -– then finds out her baby is in the back seat. So starts the South African film Tsotsi, which is up for an Academy Award for best ...