Green’s Dictionary of Slang

(S.Afr.) dramatic, exciting.

1963		R. Rive ‘Rain’ in Malan (1994) 15: ‘What’s ’e trouble outside?’ ‘Real bioscope, Solly, [...] A fight in ’e blooming rain.’.
1969		A. Fugard Boesman and Lena Act II: It was bioscope, man! And I watched it [...] the way it happened. I saw it.