The biggest movie releases in South Africa this week

4 October 2016

It’s another big movie release week with music, suspicious woman on trains, and even some peculiar children taking up the spotlight.

Check out this week’s biggest movie releases below:


Cafe Society

Age restriction: 10-12

Run time: 1hr 35min

Starring: Jesse Eisenberg, Kristen Stewart, Steve Carell

Directed by: Woody Allen

Synopsis: 

Set in the 1930s, Bobby, a young man from the Bronx finds himself in Hollywood with a little help from his powerful uncle Phil, an agent to the likes of Ginger Rogers and Fred Astaire.

He meets and falls for Vonnie, his uncle’s beautiful secretary, before returning to New York where he immerses himself in the razzle-dazzle of high society night club life.


The Girl on the Train

Age restriction: TBA

Run time: 1hr 15min

Starring: Emily Blunt, Laura Prepon, Rebecca Ferguson

Directed by: Tate Taylor

Synopsis: 

Rachel’s still getting over a painful divorce, which she’s reminded of every day she passes her old house on a train to work in New York City.

Trying to shift her focus, she starts watching a couple a few houses down, creating a dream life for Megan and Scott. After witnessing a shocking incident only to wake up, battered and suffering from a horrible hangover, she discovers Megan is missing and takes it upon herself to find out what actually happened.


Ms Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children

Age restriction: PG 13

Run time: 2h 7min

Starring: Ella Purnell, Eva Green, Samuel L. Jackson

Directed by: Tim Burton

Synopsis: 

A 16-year-old boy named Jacob Portman discovers clues to a mystery that spans worlds and times when he begins working for a woman named Miss Peregrine at a home on a mysterious island. Helping and getting to know the group of peculiar, orphaned children imbued with strange powers and traits, he soon learns of the horrible creatures, who are out to destroy them.


Hillsong – Let Hope Rise

Age restriction: PG

Run time: 1hr 43min

Starring: Adam Crosariol, Matt Crocker, Michael Guy Chislett

Directed by: Michael John Warren

Synopsis: 

A documentary on the Australia-based band Hillsong and their rise to prominence as an international church.


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  1. Wurnman
    04.10.2016 at 13:40

    Miss Bennet, mmm

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