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Cary Darling April 5, 2021Updated: April 5, 2021, 11:30 am
Kai Luke Brummer as Nicholas in Oliver Hermanus’ “Moffie.” Photo: IFC Films
“Moffie,” a derogatory Afrikaans term for “gay,” is dismissive shorthand for everything that the young men in the harrowing film of the same name, from South African director Oliver Hermanus, don’t want to be. Set amid a group of freshly arrived white army conscripts who will be sent to fight communist guerrillas along the Angolan border in apartheid-era South Africa, it’s a riveting portrait of a particular time and place while also being a broader assault on the type of pressure-cooker masculinity where torture, cruelty, humiliation and racism are the coins of the realm.
Three men charged with the targeted shooting death of a pregnant woman more than three years ago entered pleas Friday to a lesser charge than the first-degree murder count they
Three men charged with the targeted shooting death of a pregnant woman more than three years ago pleaded guilty Friday to a lesser charge than the first-degree murder they had