Your weekend cinema guide at a glance
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(6) ABSOLUTELY FABULOUS: THE MOVIE: Was Absolutely Fabulous of its time, or blazingly ahead of it? These days in the British sitcom pantheon it’s a beloved comebacks-and-charity-specials case – now with its own obligatory spin-off film. But during its original run from 1992 and 1996, Ab Fab was something weirder and spikier – an absurd fashion-industry satire which belonged neither to the Thatcher years that preceded it, nor the Cool Britannia era that followed. RC (Hemingways)
(6) BLAIR WITCH: A group of adventurous college students embark on a hiking trip in a remote forest. While they start with high spirits, they soon discover the woods are watching. Something sinister is lurking in the darkest reaches of the living forest. (Hemingways, Bridge)
(7) MAGNIFICENT SEVEN. An Old West town is besieged by industrialist Bartholomew Bogue, forcing the desperate residents to hire the services of seven gun men, headed by bounty hunter Sam Chisolm. (Walmer Park, Baywest, Baywest IMAX)
(5) I.T. Mike Regan has everything he could ever want, a beautiful family and a smart house. The company he owns is on the verge of changing flight leasing forever. That is, until the relationship with his closest advisor turns nasty. (Bridge)
ALSO SHOWING
(6) BEN-HUR: See review on this page.
(6) VIRAL: A young woman's worst nightmare becomes reality after a parasitic outbreak wipes out half of the human population. (Boardwalk)
(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 in New York City. (Baywest ) (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, Bridge)
(6) MECHANIC: RESSURECTION: Arthur Bishop, the world’s most dangerous hitman, is ready to retire. But the love of his life is kidnapped by a formidable foe, forcing him to carry out three assassinations. (Boardwalk, Walmer Park, Bridge, Baywest)
(7) NOEM MY SKOLLIE: (CALL ME THIEF): The film, set in the Cape Flats and in Pollsmoor prison, is based on the life of scriptwriter John W Fredericks. It tells the story of four teenagers who grow up in the impoverished ganglands of the Cape Flats in the 1960s. ( Bridge)
(3) NINE LIVES: Kevin Spacey plays an egotistical 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. (Boardwalk, Walmer Park, Hemingways, Baywest)
(8) PETE’S DRAGON: The adventures of an orphaned boy named Pete and his dragon friend Elliot. (Walmer Park)
(2) SUICIDE SQUAD: This superhero film is crushingly puerile. Even the use of big names such as Jared Leto and Margot Robbie does not help. (Boardwalk, Walmer Park, 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) Reviewers: R C– Robbie Collin; TR – Tim Robey; TS Tim Stanley