Your weekend cinema guide at a glance
NEW RELEASES
(6) KEEPING UP WITH THE JONESES: A suburban couple becomes embroiled in an espionage plot when they discover their seemingly perfect new neighbours are spies. (Boardwalk, Walmer Park, Hemingways, Bridge)
(8) THE ACCOUNTANT: As a math savant uncooks the books for a new client, the US Treasury Department closes in on his activities. (Walmer Park, Hemingways, Baywest)
(7) SHEPHERDS AND BUTCHERS: Advocate Johan Webber takes on the case of a young warden, Leon Labuschagne, in South Africa in the late 1980s. (Walmer Park)
ALSO SHOWING
(7) TROLLS: See review on this page. (Boardwalk, Walmer Park, Hemingways, Bridge, Baywest)
(7) JACK REACHER: NEVER GO
BACK: Four years on, Jack Reacher returns to the headquarters of his old military unit. Instead of a salute, he’s shrouded in suspicion after being accused of a 16-year-old homicide, opening old wounds and leading him on the trail of a dark conspiracy. (Boardwalk, Walmer Park, Hemingways, Bridge, Baywest IMAX ) (NO RATING YET) TYLER PERRY’S BOO! A MADEA HALLOWEEN: Madea winds up in the middle of mayhem when she spends a haunted Halloween fending off killers, paranormal poltergeists and zombies while keeping a watchful eye on some teens. (Boardwalk, Baywest)
(6) MASTERMINDS: David Ghantt is an ordinary guy driving an armoured vehicle. Then he’s lured into planning a huge bank heist . . . that is, if he can survive his team of halfwits. (Boardwalk, Hemingways)
(8) DON’T BREATHE: Rocky, a teen delinquent, wants to run away with her daughter and boyfriend. To raise cash for their new life the young thieves plot to burgle a wealthy blind war veteran. (Bridge) (7) MISS PEREGRINE’S HOME FOR PECULIAR CHILDREN: A boy named Jacob discovers clues to a mystery that spans worlds and times when he begins working for Miss Peregrine at a home on a mysterious island. (Walmer Park, Baywest)
(8) THE GIRL ON THE TRAIN: Rachel Watson is an unreliable narrator and an unreliable person. At first, she seems to be a high-functioning alcoholic – then she exposes a series of disturbing truths about herself. TR (Walmer Park, Hemingways, Baywest)
(7) HILLSONG: LET HOPE RISE: Documentary on the Australian band Hillsong and their rise to prominence. (Bridge)
(7) THE SECRET LIFE OF PETS: An animated animal odyssey through New York City, in which a loveable gang of house-trained critters – Jack Russell terrier Max, fur-ball mongrel Duke and tabby cat Chloe foremost among them – slip out of their owners’ apartments during working hours and get up to mischief. RC (Boardwalk, Walmer Park, Hemingways, Bridge, Baywest)
(6) SY KLINK SOOS LENTE: Ben, a mechanic, meets Linda, a beautiful auditor, in a bar. There are immediate sparks, but when Linda asks Ben what he does for a living, he lies and tells her he’s the lead singer in a band. (Walmer Park)
(6) BRIDGET JONES’S BABY: Bridget Jones’s “happily ever after” has not 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 pregnant. TR ( Walmer Park)
(6) MECHANIC: RESSURECTION: Hitman Arthur Bishop is ready to retire. Then the love of his life is kidnapped by a formidable foe. (Bridge)
(7) NOEM MY SKOLLIE: (CALL ME THIEF): Set in the Cape Flats and Pollsmoor prison, this film is based on the life of John W Fredericks and tells the story of four teenagers who grow up in the ganglands of the Cape Flats in the 1960s. (Bridge)