The Herald (South Africa)

Your weekend cinema guide at a glance

- (Ratings are out of 10) Reviewers: RC – Robbie Collin; TR – Tim Robey

NEW RELEASES

(8) STORKS: See review on this page. (Hemingways, Bridge, Baywest)

ALSO SHOWING

(8) DOCTOR STRANGE: Strange starts out as a brilliant surgeon who is the toast of New York, until a car accident nearly kills him. Left with mangled hands, he forsakes medicine for magic. TR (Boardwalk, Walmer Park, Hemingways, Bridge, Baywest, Baywest IMAX)

(4) WHEN THE BOUGH BREAKS: John

and Laura are a young couple desperate for a baby. After exhausting all other options, they hire Anna to be their surrogate – but as she gets further along in her pregnancy, so too does her psychotic and dangerous fixation on John. (Boardwalk, Bridge)

(7) EINTLIK NOGAL BAIE: Jay van Niekerk is a young, attractive and career-driven comic book animator. Although he is advancing in almost every aspect of his personal and profession­al life, his one true desire is furthest from reach. This brings him to a crossroad in his life. (Walmer Park)

(6) KEEPING UP WITH THE

JONESES: A suburban couple become 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 maths savant uncooks the books for a new client, the US treasury department closes in on his activities. (Walmer Park, Hemingways, Baywest)

(7) TROLLS: Princess Poppy and Branch live in a colourful, wondrous world where infectious­ly upbeat Trolls always feel a song coming on . . . only to find their optimistic way of life under threat. ( Walmer Park, Hemingways, Bridge, Baywest)

(7) JACK REACHER: NEVER GO BACK: Four years on, Jack 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, leading him on the trail of a dark conspiracy. (Boardwalk, Walmer Park, Hemingways, Bridge, Baywest )

(5) 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)

(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, but their plan goes horribly wrong. (Bridge)

(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) 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 teens who grow up in the ganglands of the Cape Flats in the 1960s. (Bridge)

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