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Naomi Ackie, Taylour Paige and Keke Palmer in I Love Boosters. Photo: Neon/Focus Features/Universal Pictures
ALEJANDRO INARRITU

This year in cinema

Get ready for a year of daring filmmaking, epic adventures and unforgettable performances, from Boots Riley’s surreal satire to Nolan and Villeneuve’s epic visions

  • Kibo Ngowi
8 min read
Security Officers are working dressed in outfit from the series of Squid Game to attract visitors in mall in Jakarta, on November 4, 2021. The malls, shopping center, and also traditional market in Jakarta resumed to fully operated after Jakarta govenment ease Covid-19 restriction due to the decrease of coronavirus cases. (Photo by Aditya Irawan/NurPhoto via Getty Images)
FROZEN

Merchandising is a cash cow for films — and that’s where Netflix is heading with ‘Squid Game’

Netflix has filed applications to register the Squid Game trademark in several countries for a wide range of merchandise

  • Rachel Sikwane
2 min read
Aesthetically menacing: Audi has pulled out all the stops to produce a matchless ride, which will be the envy of all who don’t yet own it.
AUDI

Audi Q8: Perfectly cool

The Audi Q8 is designed to be the king in the elite SUV class. But is it a victim of its own success?

  • Luke Feltham
4 min read
Kanye West (L) and Kim Kardashian (R) pose for a photograph with Uganda’s President Yoweri Museveni when they paid a courtesy call at State House, Entebbe, Uganda (Presidential Press Unit/Handout via Reuters)
BLACK PANTHER

When Ye met Yoweri, and worlds collided

Uganda, Wakanda…it’s an easy mistake to make

  • Simon Allison
4 min read
African business school need to achieve a tricky balance between local realities and global demands.
BLACK PANTHER

Avengers: Infinity capitalism

Over and over old tropes are trotted our in films, with modern and “civilised” always triumphing. But what is the new definition of “civilised”?

  • Andy Kasrils
8 min read