Ramolao Makhene Movies
It's off to Africa for a former B-ball player who'd like to find a top-notch basketball recruit to help him become a successful coach. Kevin Bacon has the lead in this Paul Glaser-directed film. ~ All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Kevin Bacon
- 1993
- R
Burly British actor John Rhys-Davies forsakes the good-guy motions he'd gone through in Raiders of the Lost Ark and TV's The Untouchables to play the villain in 1993's Cyborg Cop. If you've guessed that this is Robocop redux, you're on the money. The title character has been converted from man to machine on a remote Caribbean island. Unfortunately, Cyborg Cop is as evil as his mentor (Rhys-Davies), so it's up to the mechanical man's DEA-agent brother to straighten him out. Lovely scenery, some exciting scenes, lots of grade-A ham from the redoubtable Rhys-Davies. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- David Bradley, John Rhys-Davies, (more)
- 1993
Alisa (Kimberleigh Stark) has arrived in South Africa from America. When she forms a romantic relationship with B.T., she finds that her dreams of happiness in South Africa are likelier to become nightmares. It turns out that B.T. (Sello Ke Maake-Ncube) is inextricably involved in a corrupt car theft ring, despite his best efforts to get out of it. He inadvertently involves Alisa when he gives her one of the stolen cars and she is arrested. This prompts him to make more vigorous efforts to leave the ring, and leads his nefarious employers to make equally vigorous (and shocking) efforts to frame him. ~ Clarke Fountain, All Movie Guide
- 1991
- PG
Advertised as a comedy in the style of The Gods Must Be Crazy, the crime farce Oddball Hall bears little actual resemblance to that film but for the fact that it is set in a remote African village and centers on cross-cultural differences between the natives and a quartet of jewel thieves who have been hiding out for a few years waiting for the cops to give up their search so they can fence their loot and move to Rio. The crooks are allowed to stay because they have convinced the people that they are members of the fraternal order, Oddball Hall and have magical powers. These powers are put to the test when a naive native youth, the son of a chieftain shows up and they mistake him for the real leader of the Oddballs. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide
- 1986
- PG
It took many years of filmmaking in South Africa before this first anti-apartheid drama saw the light of the silver screen. Commendable for its ground-breaking message, its scenes of suffering at the hands of white oppressors are well-integrated with a completely realistic storyline. After a black farmhand is driven to stealing a chicken to help feed his family, he is beaten to death by his white farm boss. Gracie (Gcina Mhlophe) wants to bring the farm boss to justice for the death of her brother and ultimately finds some assistance in a reporter (James Whylie) who has been sent to the area to cover the fighting that is going on. The local priest warns the reporter not to get involved, but his advice is not taken, and further confrontations result. ~ Eleanor Mannikka, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- James Whyle, Gcina Mhlophe, (more)
