The biggest movie releases in South Africa this week

August 16, 2016

It’s been a quiet couple of the weeks at the cinema, but things are starting to pick up as we begin to to see the next batch of the US summer movies roll in.

Check out this week’s biggest movie releases below:

Bad Moms

Age restriction: 13 LND

Run time: 101 minutes

Starring: Annie Mumolo, Christina Applegate, Jada Pinkett Smith, Kathryn Hahn ,Kristen Bell, Mila Kunis

Directed by: Jon Lucas, Scott Moore

Synopsis:

Amy Mitchell has a seemingly perfect life: a great marriage, over achieving kids, a beautiful home and a career.

However, she’s over-worked,over-committed and exhausted to the point that she’s about to snap.Fed up, she joins forces with two other over-stressed moms, Kiki and Carla , on a quest to liberate themselves from conventional responsibilities.

Nerve

Age restriction: 16 VL

Run time: 96 minutes

Starring: Brian Marc, Colson Baker, Dave Franco, Emily Meade, Emma Roberts,

Directed by: Henry Joost & Ariel Schulman

Synopsis:

A high school senior finds herself immersed in an online game of truth or dare, where her every move starts to become manipulated by an anonymous community of “watchers.”

Kubo and the two strings

Age restriction: PG

Run time: 101 minutes

Starring: Art Parkinson, Charlize Theron, Matthew McConaughey, Rooney Mara

Directed by: Travis Knight

Synopsis:

A young boy named Kubo must locate a magical suit of armor worn by his late father in order to defeat a vengeful spirit from the past.

Cell

Age restriction: 16 V

Run time: 98 minutes

Starring: Isabelle Fuhrman, John Cusack, Samuel L. Jackson

Directed by: Tod Williams

Synopsis:

Clay Riddell, an artist, witnesses a mysterious and diabolical cell phone signal broadcast over the global cellular network that turns most humans into aggressive, mindless animals.

Determined to reunite with his young son in New England, he and a few survivors navigate the chaos in order to stop ‘the pulse’ and those controlling it.

Pele

Age restriction: PG

Run time: 107 minutes

Starring: Kevin de Paula,Rodrigo Santoro,Vincent D’Onofrio

Directed by: Jeff Zimbalist, Michael Zimbalist

Synopsis:

Pele’s meteoric rise from the slums of Sao Paulo to leading Brazil to its first World Cup victory at the age of 17 is chronicled in this biographical drama.