Your weekend cinema guide at a glance
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(6) BEN-HUR:Timur Bekmambetov’s spry and streamlined Ben-Hur doesn’t reinvent the chariot wheel – but it comes kitted out with enough scythes and spikes to satisfy all. RC (Hemingways, Boardwalk, Walmer Park, Baywest)
(6) VIRAL: A young woman's worst nightmare becomes reality after a parasitic outbreak wipes out half of the human population and disrupts her peaceful suburban existence. (Boardwalk)
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(6) BRIDGET JONES’S BABY: Bridget Jones’s “happily ever after” hasn’t gone to plan. Now in her 40s and single again, she shifts her focus to her career. But a dashing suitor enters the fray and she finds herself smitten . . . , and pregnant. (Boardwalk, Walmer Park, Hemingways, Baywest)
(8) SULLY: The story of American pilot Chesley “Sully” Sullenberger, whose heroism captured the world’s attention when he landed US Airways Flight 1549 by gliding the plane along the water in the Hudson River off Manhattan in New York City. (Hemingways, Baywest IMAX) (7) SAUSAGE PARTY: Frank is a sausage, whose peaceful existence among various groceries in a supermarket is interrupted when he and his friends are picked by a customer. (Hemingways)
(8) STAR TREK BEYOND: Beyond is really back to basics. The Enterprise crew are whisked away on a rescue mission, supposedly to attend to shipwrecked survivors on a stony planet the other side of an unstable nebula. (Baywest)
(6) MECHANIC: RESSURECTION: Arthur Bishop, the world’s most dangerous hitman, is ready to retire and put his murderous past behind him. But the love of his life is kidnapped by a formidable foe, forcing him to carry out three assassinations. (Boardwalk, Walmer Park, Hemingways, Bridge, Baywest)
(7) THE SHALLOWS: A great white shark the size of a Volvo estate, lured by a whale carcass bobbing near the mouth of the cove, is prowling the waters for fresh flesh – and finds it in the shape of Nancy, who becomes locked in a day-long struggle for survival.( Bridge)
(3) NINE LIVES: Kevin Spacey plays an egotistical Richard Branson-like billionaire whose cognitive function is transmitted into the mind of a cat called Mr Fuzzypants, when the pair simultaneously fall through a window during a lightning storm. (Hemingways, Bridge Baywest)
(NO RATING AVAILABLE) DIS KOUE KOS, SKAT: When food writer Clara Brand decides to make a fresh start in Cape Town, she begins a journey of healing and revenge. Based on the novel by Marita van der Vyver. (Walmer Park)
(7) BAD MOMS: Fed-up mother Amy Mitchell joins forces with two over-stressed moms, Kiki and Carla, on a quest to liberate themselves. This puts them on a collision course with PTA queen Bee Gwendolyn. (Boardwalk, Walmer Park, Hemingways, Baywest)
(8) PETE’S DRAGON: The adventures of an orphaned boy named Pete and his dragon friend Elliot. (Walmer Park, Baywest, Bridge)
(7) ALISON: Raped. Disembowelled. Nearly decapitated. Dumped on the outskirts of Port Elizabeth, dead . . . or so they thought. This is local heroine Alison’s tale of monsters, miracles and hope. (Walmer Park)
(6) MIKE AND DAVE NEED WEDDING DATES: Two delinquent brothers appear on a TV show after their ad to find dates for their sister’s upcoming wedding in Hawaii goes viral. (Bridge)
(2) SUICIDE SQUAD: This superhero film is crushingly puerile. Even the use of big names such as Jared Leto, Ben Affleck and Margot Robbie does not help. (Boardwalk, Walmer Park, Baywest, Bridge)
(6) ICE AGE – COLLISION COURSE: Scrat’s legendary pursuit of the acorn finds him in space, where he sparks off cosmic events that threaten the planet. (Boardwalk, Bridge)
(Ratings are out of 10)