SHAKING A FIST AT SPOILERS
By Richard Steyn
The British are always at their most amusing when running each other down or bellyaching about the state of their nation. This highly entertaining exercise in vituperation singles out the 50 people (55 in the updated paperback edition)...

UPS AND DOWNS
By Peter Wilhelm
Up in the air is exactly where we encounter Jason Reitman's smooth, charming, yet profoundly compromised moral antihero: Ryan Bingham (George Clooney), a "termination consultant" as he is described once. Ryan's job - which in the past ...

TAKING ON HUMAN NATURE
By David Williams
Most rugby men agree that the biggest problem in the game at the moment is the way referees interpret what happens after a player is tackled. This is not a new problem, but it has become much worse as the pace of the game has increa...

RANDALL ABRAHAMS' PICKS

TAMMY WYNETTE: The Essential (Sony) A number of labels, including Ace Records from the UK and Rhino Records, have done a superb job of compiling genres such as soul, beat, ska and all sorts of odds and ends . For the music geek these...

LET THEM EAT MEAT
By JUSTICE MALALA
What a day Friday the 29th of January was! The sun was out, traffic flowed smoothly in Johannesburg and I felt safe as houses. Well, as safe as houses in a walled, secure estate with gun-toting guards, anyway. The police were nowhere in ...