admin‘The Artist’ wins best-produced film
LOS ANGELES. – “The Artist” continued its love affair with American cinema after winning best-produced film on Saturday at the Producers Guild Awards (PGA), boosting its chances for an Oscar nod ahead of the Academy Award nominations next week. The silent black-and-white French comedy, starring Jean Dujardin and Berenice Bejo, is a homage to the pre-talkie era
‘How to Steal 2 Million’ highly recommended
Film: How to Steal 2 Million
Cast: Menzi Ngubane, Rapulana Seiphemo, Terry Pheto, John Kani, Helubi Mboya, Charlie Vundla, Sello Motloung, Carlo
Meryl Streep tipped for ‘Iron Lady’ Oscar
Bookies have made Meryl Streep (62), odds-on favourite to win the Best Actress gong for her performance in The Iron Lady.
The Mamma Mia! star – who has two Oscars already – received huge critical acclaim for playing Lady Thatcher, who was British prime minister from 1979 to 1990. Three British actors were yesterday nominated for an Academy Award at the glittering
Circus gets new lease of life
Entertainment Reporter
Those in the know about Harare’s clubbing scene will tell you that clubs are seasonal, one day it’s this club and the next day it’s another club that’s running the show. It appears there is one club that has stayed the test of time not because it’s special but that
Uncle Harry, the living piano legend
Richard Kohola Music Ride
“Johann Sebastian Bach, Bela Bartok, Ludwig van Beethoven, Pierre Boulez, John Cage, Fryderyk Chopin, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Modest Petrovich”. All these are some of the world’s famous composers of classical music whose names are
Mavado gets ball rolling tonight
Richmore Tera Arts Correspondent
TOP Jamaican dancehall artiste Mavado – real name David Constantine Brooks – becomes the first top billing international artiste to perform in Zimbabwe this year when he has a romance with Zimbabwean dancehall music lovers at two shows
Tonight’s the night!
Ruth Butaumocho Entertainment Editor
Harare will tonight reverberate to sounds of good music, when four of Zimbabwe’s prominent musicians hold a musical fiesta at the City Sports Centre. Tonight’s gig literally opens the entertainment musical floodgates that had been temporarily shut
Runde running out of water
George Maponga eatures Writer
Five teenagers emerge from the luxuriant bushes on the left side of the giant river and start removing their clothes before diving into a huge pool that is perched in swathes of sand. A few metres down the river, a group of women are busy washing
Talks with prospective Airzim partner collapse
Talks between the Government and a strategic partner interested in taking over Air Zimbabwe have collapsed, a senior Government official has said. The Government announced late last year that it was engaged in negotiations with a potential suitor to take over the struggling parastatal, which is among 10 entities earmarked for privatisation and commercialisation.
Commission wants utility charges reduced
From Tawanda Musarurwa in Vumba
ZIMBABWE’S utility service charges should be reduced to match the declining level of service provision, the Competition and Tariff Commission has said. This would buck the current trend where utility charges have been noted to be very high.