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Information correct at time of going online: Information received from South African distributors United International Pictures, Ster Kinekor and Nu Metro.
Showing from February 17
Chronicle New technologies and social communities allow us to record, post and comment on every second of our lives, sharing our every emotion and opinion with the world, no matter how mundane. For three high school classmates who suddenly gain superpowers from a mysterious substance, the chronicle of their ordinary lives is about to take on extraordinary turn. Initially they use their powers to play innocent pranks on each other and people around them, but soon they gain confidence and learn to control their powers better to take on more difficult tasks. Their newfound sense of immortality and impunity will force them to evaluate their own morality to ultimately decide where to draw the line about how far they should go.
Material Riaad Moosa plays the lead character in the film, a young Muslim man who works in his father's fabric shop in Fordsburg, Johannesburg. In the family tradition Riaad, as the only son, is expected to take over the family business from his father. Riaad is a respectful son and has certainly not considered any alternatives; this is his life and his destiny. Until one night, through a series of coincidences, he lands up doing an open mike session at a local comedy club. He discovers a hidden talent for comedy; a passion is sparked within him like nothing previously in his life. He is encouraged to carry on with the comedy a path that brings him into conflict, not only with his father but other family members and some elements of his community. This is essentially the story of a family grappling with universal issues like, identity, responsibility and duty.It will be a heart-warming film that ultimately emphasises the importance of family. It will be a movie for the whole family, will contain no profanity, and should be able to be enjoyed by people of all ages both in South Africa and the rest of the world. Although the story focuses on a Muslim family the film will deal with issues that exist in every family in every country in the world.
My Week With Marilyn ***** Early in the summer of 1956, American film star Marilyn Monroe set foot on British soil for the first time. On honeymoon with her husband, the celebrated playwright Arthur Miller, Monroe came to England to shoot The Prince and the Showgirl - the film that famously united her with Sir Laurence Olivier, the British theatre and film legend who directed and co-starred in the film. That same summer, 23-year-old Colin Clark set foot on a film set for the first time in his life. Newly graduated from Oxford, Clark aspired to be a filmmaker and found a job as a lowly production hand on the set of The Prince and the Showgirl. Forty years later, he recounted his experiences of the six-month shoot in a diary-style memoir entitled The Prince, the Showgirl and Me. But one week in Clark's account was missing. It wasn't until years later that Clark revealed why. In a follow-up memoir entitled My Week with Marilyn, he recounted the true story of one magical week he spent alone with the world's biggest star… the week he spent with Marilyn. By turns comic and poignant, the film offers an uncommonly intimate look at the Hollywood icon, charting the brief, charged connection she forged with a young man who came to understand her better than anyone. It stars Michelle Williams (Blue Valentine, Shutter Island, Brokeback Mountain) as Marilyn Monroe and Tony Award winner Eddie Redmayne (The Other Boleyn Girl, The Good Shepherd) as Colin Clark. The film also stars Kenneth Branagh (Valkyrie, "Wallander") as Sir Laurence Olivier and Academy Award winner Judi Dench (Quantum of Solace, Shakespeare in Love, Nine) as Dame Sybil Thorndike. It is directed by Simon Curtis, who directed the BAFTA and Emmy-winning series, Cranford and the screenplay is by Adrian Hodges (Tom and Viv, The Ruby in the smoke, David Copperfield).
Semi-Soet *** Workaholic Jaci (Anel Alexander) will go to any lengths to protect the boutique advertising agency she works for from being bought and dismantled by a ruthless businessman known as 'The Jackal' (Nico Panagio). Hope exists in the form a huge contract for a prestigious wine farming family. But winning this contract won't be simple. Jaci needs to convince the farm owner that she lives up to his company's ideals of family values and commitment by proving that she is in a loving, long term relationship.Desperate to appear to be living the balanced life she has long discarded, Jaci decides to hire a model to pretend to be her fake fiancé for the day. At the pitch meeting the facade seems to have worked until the client insists her and her fake fiancé come away for the weekend to experience the wine farm before she pitches for the contract. Things start to get very complicated, very quickly for poor Jaci, especially since the man she has hired to be her stand-in-fiancé, is the very 'Jackal' himself who is trying to sink her company. The film is in Afrikaans with English subtitles and directed by Joshua Rous (Discreet)
Showing from February 24
Elite Squad 2: The Enemy Within **** The sprawling slum that surrounds Rio De Janeiro is one of the most dangerous places on earth, so as the head of Rio's Special Police Operations Battalion (BOPE), Captain Nascimento has seen his share of intense situations. When BOPE mission to stop a jail riot ends in the violent death of a gang leader, Nascimento finds himself accused of a massacre…but the citizens of Rio, tired of the crime and drugs that plague their city, embrace him as a national hero. Instead of being fired he finds himself promoted. In his powerful new position, Nascimento brings the gangs that rule the slum to their knees, but quickly discovers that he's only made things even easier for the dirty cops and corrupt politicians that are truly running the game. Now, Nascimento must confront his true enemies, who are much more dangerous…and sitting just down the hall.
Ghost Rider 2: Spirit of Vengeance (3 D) As Johnny Blaze hides out in Eastern Europe, he is called upon to stop the devil, who is trying to take human form
Jekyll & Hyde (Broadway) Broadway Worldwide captured its third Broadway musical, the Frank Wildhorn and Leslie Bricusse musical Jekyll & Hyde, starring David Hasselhoff. Being the longest-running show in the history of Broadway's Plymouth Theatre, the production broke the house record at the Plymouth Theatre on three occasions and ran for over 1,500 performances. Additionally, the show has won a legion of repeat visitors, dubbed by the press as "Jekkies", with some hardcore fans having seen the show hundreds of times. Jekyll & Hyde also stars Coleen Sexton as Lucy, Andrea Rivette as Emma, George Merritt as Mr. Utterson and Barrie Ingham as Sir Danvers. The production features Martin Van Treuren and Corinne Melancon, with Juan Betancur, David Chaney, Sheri Cowart, Bill E. Dietrich, John Treacy Egan, Robert Jensen, Peter Johl, Stuart Marland, Brandi Chavonne Massey, Frank Mastrone, Kelli O'Hara, Joel Robertson, John Schiappa, Bonnie Schon, Sally Ann Tumas and Russell B. Warfield. Jekyll & Hyde debuted at Houston's Tony Award-winning Alley Theatre, breaking box office records and playing to sold-out houses. A recording based upon this production was released and yielded the songs "Someone Like You" and "This is the Moment". Jekyll's success story gained momentum when stars such as Liza Minnelli and The Moody Blues started performing and recording songs from the show. Atlantic Records then recorded a new version of the complete score. Jekyll & Hyde yielded its third recording with the release of the original Broadway cast album, also on Atlantic Records. The three recordings have collectively sold more than 750,000 copies to date. The score from Jekyll & Hyde remains popular with recording artists, with Johnny Mathis featuring "Once Upon a Dream" on his album Mathis on Broadway.Written by Leslie Bricusse (Book & Lyrics) and Frank Wildhorn (Music), Jekyll & Hyde was directed for Broadway Worldwide by Emmy winner Don Roy King and was conceived for the stage by Stephen Cuden and Frank Wildhorn.
Journey 2: The Mysterious Island In this follow-up to the 2008 worldwide hit "Journey to the Center of the Earth," the new 3D family adventure "Journey 2: The Mysterious Island" begins when young Sean Anderson (Josh Hutcherson, reprising his role from the first film) receives a coded distress signal from a mysterious island where no island should exist. It's a place of strange life forms, mountains of gold, deadly volcanoes, and more than one astonishing secret. Unable to stop him from going, Sean's new stepfather, Hank (Dwayne Johnson), joins the quest. Together with a helicopter pilot (Luis Guzman) and his beautiful, strong-willed daughter (Vanessa Hudgens), they set out to find the island, rescue its lone inhabitant and escape before seismic shockwaves force the island under the sea and bury its treasures forever. It is directed by Brad Peyton ("Cats & Dogs: The Revenge of Kitty Galore"). It also stars Michael Caine as Sean's grandfather, Alexander Anderson, and Kristin Davis as Sean's mom, Liz Anderson.
This Means War Two of the world's top secret agents (Chris Pine, Tom Hardy) are best friends who never let anything come between them -- until they inadvertently fall for the same woman (Reese Witherspoon). It's all-out war between them, as the two spies battle each other with high-tech surveillance, advanced tactics, and an arsenal capable of bringing down a small country. At the same time, she struggles with the difficult task of choosing between two very different, but equally attractive romantic propositions.
War Horse ***** Magnificently astounding! From director Steven Spielberg comes an epic adventure, a tale of loyalty, hope and tenacity set against a sweeping canvas of rural England and Europe during the First World War. "War Horse" begins with the remarkable friendship between a horse named Joey and a young man called Albert, who tames and trains him. When they are forcefully parted, the film follows the extraordinary journey of the horse as he moves through the war, changing and inspiring the lives of all those he meets--British cavalry, German soldiers, and a French farmer and his granddaughter--before the story reaches its emotional climax in the heart of No Man's Land. The First World War is experienced through the journey of this horse--an odyssey of joy and sorrow, passionate friendship and high adventure. "War Horse" is one of the great stories of friendship and war-- a successful book, it was turned into a hugely successful international theatrical hit that is currently on Broadway. It now comes to screen in an epic adaptation by one of the great directors in film history.
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