5/18/2023 0 Comments Catch a fire![]() ![]() My girlfriend ordered the 4-ounce "Dreamsicle," a light, vanilla/orange Kölsch as well as a personal-sized veggie pizza brushed with roasted garlic & olive oil and topped with Kalamata olives, goat cheese, Peppadew peppers, artichokes and spinach. I also ordered six wood-fired chicken wings with Jerk sauce. I chose 4-ounce servings of the dark "Gnarly Brown" ale and "Thundersnow" beer, along with an order of "Taters:" slices of roasted red-skinned potatoes topped with bacon, creme fraiche, onion and gorgonzola. We started off with a variety of MadTree beers and Catch-a-Fire appetizers. They've also partnered with Catch-a-Fire, a wood-fired pizza company that had started off with a food truck parked at the brewery but now sports a permanent kitchen (at least until MadTree moves to Madison Road). MadTree typically offers about 15 different varieties of beer, available by the glass, growler or as 4 oz beer flights. A wave of malty, yeasty aromas hit me as the six of us stepped into their large tap room for some lunch and brew. We arrived shortly after their doors had opened one early weekend afternoon to meet some friends for a birthday celebration. Change must and will come, for Patrick and his family, and for South Africa itself.Only recently had we first stepped into MadTree's Kennedy Avenue brewery, as the place is so ragingly popular that one would be hard-pressed to find good parking on any given day. He ultimately envisions a formidable and dangerous follow-up strike against the Secunda refinery, risking his own life and future. He leaves his family to join up with the ANC.īecoming a rebel fighter and political operative, Patrick is radicalized on behalf of his people and his country. Although he and Precious are soon released from custody, Patrick is stunned into action and completely reorients his sense of self and purpose. As Vos further insinuates himself into the lives of the Chamussos, to Patrick's shock and shame, Precious herself is jailed and tortured. But he is ill-prepared to withstand brutal interrogations by Vos' men. His alibi is compromised, and Patrick is desperate to shield Precious from a past indiscretion and keep his job. ![]() …until the innocent Patrick comes under suspicion and is arrested (in June 1980) for sabotage of the Secunda oil refinery. He and his family live a world away from the Chamusso family… Vos is also concerned for the safety of his wife and two daughters. ![]() The shrewd and charismatic Vos strives to maintain order in volatile situations, which have become more and more frequent as the outlawed activist organization African National Congress (ANC) rallies blacks against apartheid. Carefully toeing the hard line imposed on blacks by apartheid, Patrick is completely apolitical.Īcademy Award winner Tim Robbins plays Nic Vos, a Colonel in the country's Police Security Branch. In his spare time, Patrick coaches a local boys' soccer team. He works as a foreman at the centrally located Secunda oil refinery, which is a symbol of South Africa's self-sufficiency at a time when the world was protesting the country's oppressive apartheid system. Patrick is a charming and loving husband to his wife Precious (Bonnie Henna), and a caring father to his two young daughters. The political thriller takes place during the country's turbulent and divided times in the early 1980s, and in the new South Africa of today.ĭerek Luke portrays real-life hero Patrick Chamusso. Powerfully telling the story of a South African hero's journey to freedom, Catch a Fire is the new film from director Phillip Noyce ( The Quiet American, Rabbit-Proof Fence). ![]()
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