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BOHEMIAN RHAPSODY Award-Winning Celebration of the Legendary Rock Band, Queen Your In-Flight Entertainment Planner To A Fulfilled And Relaxed Flight FEB 2019 #ISSUE2 BOHEMIAN RHAPSODY award-winning celebration of the legendary rock band, Queen Plug into this month’s film & series collection! Be Entertained IN THE FEBRUARY ISSUE South African Airways is proud to offer its passengers a wide selection of movies, TV programmes and music tunes to keep you entertained throughout your flight. Young or old, you will enjoy the latest comedy shows and fun kids programming, while for the more discerning tastes, we offer a fine variety of Wildlife, Business and Sport reports with a mix of our Worldwide and Asian titles. Besides the latest Blockbusters and old favourites, SAA continuously expands the African choice to support our local talent and provide other nationals with a glimpse into the heart of our nation. We invite you to sit back and relax while we take care of everything else. Refer to the inside back cover for assistance using your remote. 06 12 04 CONTENTS 14 Asian Collection 03 FebruaryHighlights 15 TV Series 04 Interview 16 TV Features 06 New Releases 17 Music 08 African Choice 18 Radio Features 09 Film Collection 19 Audio On Demand 12 Kids’ Choice 20 Remotes 08 23 13 Worldwide Games AIRSCAPE | 2 FEBRUARY HIGHLIGHTS Great to meet you month two of 2019, also known as the month of WE RECOMMEND: Snuggling up love due to Valentine’s Day. If the with the latest addions to our sight of stores heavily drenched in New Releases category during red and white is enough to drive you your longhaul flight. Instant insane, we urge to at least keep the Family, Wildlife, Johnny English spirit of love going this month. For Strikes Again, A Simple Favor, us, this issue is particularly exciting Bohemian Rhapsody, Can You because we caught up with one of Ever Forgive Me? as well as Cars South Africa’s greatest and youngest 3 for the little travellers. musicians, Shekhinah Donell whose musical prowess became public knowledge during the 2012 talent search competition Idols SA. Given the curse often associated with Idols winners in South Africa — their careers are said to seldom thrive beyond one album, many people were quietly relieved when she didn’t make it to the finals. Well, look at her career now! Her debut album, released in August last year, went platinum within weeks of its release probably because she’s the first artist to bring a uniquely South African flavour to pop music. Pardon us for rambling on about this 24-year-old musical genius in the making. Check out our interview with her on page 4. What we’re looking forward to this month: The 91st Academy Awards, otherwise known as the Oscars, will be taking place on the 24th of this month. Movie enthusiasts and critics are going insane trying to guess which of 2018’s film titles will be the biggest winners. At the moment, Roma, A Star is Born, Green Book, The Favourite, BlacKkKlansman, Vice and Black Panther have been eyed as 2019’s biggest winners. May the most deserving title win! Avengers: Infinity War To this day, the late was 2018’s best performing Katharine Hepburn is still DID YOU film, grossing a whopping leading the Oscars winners’ $2, 048,803,724 list with 4 wins and 12 KNOW? at the worldwide box office! nominations AIRSCAPE | 3 THE STORY After giving her debut studio album a thorough listen in our Audio Section, you’ll agree that the multi award-winning Shekhinah is certainly a rare gem Durban is said to be home to some of South Africa’s best vocalists, and 24-year-old Shekhinah Donell bears testament to this theory. She made the Top 32 list of M-Net’s Season 7 of SA Idols in 2011 and returned a year later sans anxiety and armed with confidence. ManyIdols SA fans were gutted when the the judges sent the then 18-year-old packing when she reached the Top 6 of Season 8 of SA Idols, saying she was still young and would, without a shadow of doubt, make a superb musician someday. True to their word, Shekhinah returned to the music scene in 2015 with two hit singles Back To The Beach featuring Kyle Deutsch and Let You Know featuring Sketchy Bongo, which became instant radio and club favourites. “I like to cater to people’s emotions as well as our frustrations. So when I went home, Durban, for the holidays all I wanted to do was chill and stay at the beach,” she told Live Mag in 2016. Since then, the humble muso has been dropping pop hit after hit, and it doesn’t seem like she will be slowing down anytime soon. Some have described her brand of pop sound as uniquely South African with its thumping beats, while others believe her simple lyrics accompanied by her angelic vocals are what sets her apart from the rest. AIRSCAPE | 4 AMONG SOME OF HER MUSICAL ACCOLADES ARE A 2016 METRO FM However you relate to her music, we can all agree that she MUSIC AWARD, A 2016 is gliding in her own lane in a local music industry that is obsessed with a uniform sound. On what inspired the lyrics on MTV MUSIC AWARD AND her impeccably produced 2018 debut studio album Rose Gold, the three-time South African Music Awards (SAMAs) winner TWO ALL AFRICA MUSIC told Channel 24 that: “People, everybody, relationships, uhm mostly, because we’re young you know. Still trying to find that AWARDS. special somebody . so it’s mostly inspired by love and how we feel and a lot of women empowerment, obviously.” Needless to say, Rose Gold far surpassed the diamond status in less than Shekhinah cites New Zealand singer-songwriter Lorde as her a year of being released. With hers, Dj Maphorisa and Mae N. favourite musician as well as Cape Town singer Nonku Phiri, Maejor’s producing skills combined, this achievement came as adding that she would love to collaborate with the latter artist. no surprise. “She is not a conventional South African black girl in the type of music she makes. She is not flashy. She does not collaborate Prior to what became one of her biggest nights at the 2018 with the usual South African house music DJs for example, she SAMAs, when asked if she looked forward to scooping all does her own thing,” she said in an interview with Live Mag. five awards in the categories that she’s been nominated in, Shekhinah told Sunday World that: “I would like to win all of Among some of her musical accolades are a 2016 Metro Fm them and that’s only because I think the fans would appreciate Music Award, a 2016 MTV Music Award and two All Africa it. For me the wins will mean that the fans get the credit because Music Awards. Onwards and upwards to this new Queen of South without them I wouldn’t be around.” African pop. AIRSCAPE | 5 NEW RELEASES BOHEMIAN Emmy Award-winning Egyptian-American actor, RamiRhapsody Malek, on playing Freddy Despite this musical offering first receiving split reviews for Mercury and the criticism surrounding the film: “It’s an arduous thing to tell its depiction of lead vocalist Freddy Mercury’s sexuality, the someone’s life in just two hours. What’s the nature of celebrating a life? Definitely allegations against its initial director Bryan Singer as well as the not avoiding Freddy Mercury’s death in any way, or what caused his death, which blatant misrepresentation of some of the facts (isn’t this always the is the Aids virus. But I think if you don’t celebrate his life, and his struggles, and how complicated he was, and how transformative he was – and wallow instead case with all biographical titles, though?), the film still went on to in the sadness of what he endured and his ultimate death – then that could be become a roaring success at the box office. a disservice to the profound, vibrant, radiant nature of such an indelible human being.” According to Andrew Cripps, Fox’s president of International Theatrical Distribution, since November 2, 2018, fans have been Drama, Biography — 134 minutes flocking to the movies for repeat viewings of this stellar production, Language: English, Braz Portuguese, Japanese resulting in global box office numbers which were sitting at $497.8 Subs: English Closed Captions million by December 1, last year. With it’s late debut in Italy, the Cast: Rami Malek, Gwilym Lee, Joseph Mazzello, Lucy Boynton, Aidan Gillen, numbers were billed to reach the $600 million. Tom Hollander, Ben Hardy, Allen Leech, and Aaron McCusker Fans the world over have lauded the film for its underlying life lessons, cleverly embedded in the storyline. One of them being how difficult a time misfits have accepting their inner turmoil. Secondly, that despite that inner conflict, it is important to still forge ahead. An exemplary scene of Queen’s 1985 reunion at the charity concert Live Aid — one that’s often referred to as Mercury’s greatest performances of all time — takes centre stage in the film, a befitting moment as this took place at the height of the band’s stardom. Bohemian Rhapsody was sold as a Queen biopic, but honestly ended up focusing largely on Mercury’s life and other personal affairs. Certain elements in the film were strategically rearranged, supposedly, to help conceal the band’s real behind-the-curtain- Bohemian Rhapsody, the two-time Golden Globe award-winning biopic follows of-fame moments.
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