It is going to be a very wet weekend for Jozi and Cape Town, according to the latest weather forecasts.
If you are planning to head out to the cinemas, take care on the roads. We do have a superb film lineup, starting tomorrow.
The highly anticipated How To Train Your Dragon finally hits our shores, while Kevin Hart will win over your, well, heart, in The Upside. There's something for the horror fans too.
Highlights this week:
Movie: How To Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World
Synopsis: What began as an unlikely friendship between an adolescent Viking and a fearsome Night Fury dragon has become an epic trilogy spanning their lives. In this next chapter, Hiccup and Toothless will finally discover their true destinies: The village chief, as ruler of Berk, alongside Astrid, and the dragon as leader of his own kind. As both ascend, the darkest threat they've yet faced—as well as the appearance of a female Night Fury—will test the bonds of their relationship like never before.
Runtime: 105 minutes
Cast: Cate Blanchett, Gerard Butler, Jay Baruchel, Kristen Wiig, T.J. Miller, America Ferrera, Djimon Hounsou, Craig Ferguson.
Age Restriction: 7 – 9 PG V
Genre: Animated, Adventure, Family, Children's, Comedy.
IMBd Rating: 8.1
Release date: 1 February 2019 at Ster Kinekor and NuMetro cinemas.g
Movie: The Upside
Synopsis: A comedic look at the relationship between a wealthy man with quadriplegia and an unemployed man with a criminal record who's hired to help him.
Runtime: 125 min
Cast: Kevin Hart, Bryan Cranston, Nicole Kidman, Aja Naomi King, Jahi Di'Allo Winston, Genevieve Angelson, Tate Donovan.
Age Restriction: 13 D L
Genre: Comedy, Drama.
Release date: 1 February 2019 at Ster Kinekor and NuMetro cinemas.
IMBd Rating: 6.2
Movie:The Possession of Hannah Grace
Synopsis: A shocking exorcism spirals out of control, claiming the life of a young woman. Months later, Megan Reed is working the graveyard shift in the morgue when she takes delivery of a disfigured cadaver. Locked alone inside the basement corridors, Megan begins to experience horrifying visions and starts to suspect that the body may be possessed by a ruthless demonic force.
Runtime: 125 min
Cast: Shay Mitchell, Grey Damon, Kirby Johnson, Stana Katic.
Age Restriction: 16 H L V
Genre: Horror
IMBd Rating: 5.1
Release date: 1 February 2019 at Ster Kinekor and NuMetro cinemas.
Movie: Vice
Synopsis: The epic story of how a bureaucratic Washington insider quietly became the most powerful man in the world—as Vice President to George W. Bush—reshaping the U.S. and the globe in ways that are still felt today.
Runtime: 134 min
Cast: Christian Bale, Amy Adams, Steve Carell, Sam Rockwell, Tyler Perry
Age Restriction: 16 D L P V
Genre: Comedy, Drama.
IMBd Rating: 7.1
Release date: 1 February 2019 at Ster Kinekor and NuMetro cinemas.
