On January 22nd, 1879, Zulu tribesmen slaughtered British forces at the Battle of Isandlwana, in present-day South Africa.Zulu Dawn, a 1979 film that dramatizes the events, stars Peter O’Toole and ...

Sixteen years after Zulu, this sturdy but inferior battle movie flips that film’s stalwart heroics on their head to study the make-up of a towering defeat rather than last ditch victory. Despite all ...

The Anglo-Zulu War was fought in 1879 between the British Empire and the Zulu Kingdom. Following the British North America Act of 1867 for the federation in Canada, by Lord Carnarvon, it was thought ...

As a child, Sheldon Hall was taken with a group of friends to the pictures at the Carlton in Front Street, Tynemouth. The cinema has long gone, replaced by an estate agent's office, but the memory of ...

The combination of Pettigrew and Van Rensburg have good strike rate, while Fortune and Domeyer can keep it in the family. Smart punters try to sniff out jockey-trainer combinations with good strike ...

Smart punters try to sniff out jockey-trainer combinations with good strike rates – even if the individuals involved are not near the top of championship logs. These lucrative partnerships can fly ...

Xpress' 6th grade reviewer offers her thoughts on Pixar's latest gem. Seen today, it’s not only a startling indictment of British imperialism, but it seems a remarkably forward-thinking work. It’s ...

When Sheldon Hall first saw the film Zulu it so stirred his schoolboy imagination that, years later, he has written the full story of the making of the movie. He talks to Steve Pratt. As a child, ...

I don't like crowds as a rule, but in the scorching heat of a typical December day in the hills of KwaZulu Natal Province, South Africa, I find myself totally surrounded by thousands of people. Dead ...