Your weekend cinema at a glance
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(8) STAR TREK BEYOND: See review on this page. (Walmer Park, Baywest IMAX).
(6) MECHANIC: RESSURECTION: Arthur Bishop, the world's most dangerous hitman, is ready to retire his status as a contract killer and put his murderous past behind him. But the love of his life is kidna pped by a formidable foe, forcing him to carry out three impossible assassinations and make them look like accidents. (Boardwalk, Walmer Park, Hemingways, Bridge, Baywest)
(7) THE SHALLOWS Young pro surfer Nancy is left stranded on a giant rock a few hundred metres from shore following an attack by a shark. After surviving every surfer's worst nightmare once, the seemingly short journey to safety will challenge her mentally and physically. (Boardwalk, Hemingways)
(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. RC (Hemingways, 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. Following a brutal betrayal, she experiences the different phases of her recovery process with dignity, humour and delicious food. Based on the novel by Marita van der Vyver. (Walmer Park, Bridge)
(NO RATING AVAILABLE) DORA’S PEACE:Dora, a Hillbrow prostitute, shields a gifted young boy from the violent clutches of organised crime. In the process she might just discover aspects of her own lost humanity. (Bridge)
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(7) BAD MOMS: Fed-up mother Amy Mitchell joins forces with two over-stressed moms, Kiki and Carla, on a quest to liberate themselves from conventional responsibilities. This puts them on a collision course with PTA Queen Bee Gwendolyn. (Boardwalk, Walmer Park, Hemingways, Baywest)
(6) NERVE: Emma Roberts plays a risk-averse A-student called Vee, in New York, who is strong-armed by her best friend to live a little. Following in the latter’s footsteps, she agrees to an escalating series of dares for cash rewards. The game is called Nerve, and its pitch is roughly the 1997 Michael Douglas film The Game – “They make your life fun” – reconceived as a swipe-happy smartphone app. TR (Baywest)
(4) THE CELL: Artist Clay Riddell witnesses a diabolical cellphone signal broadcast that turns most humans into aggressive, mindless animals. Determined to reunite with his young son, he and a few survivors navigate the chaos. (Bridge)
(8) PETE’S DRAGON: The adventures of an orphaned boy named Pete and his best friend Elliot, who just so happens to be a dragon. RC (Walmer Park, Hemingways, Baywest)
(7) FLORENCE FOSTER JENKINS: The story of US socialite Florence Foster Jenkins, a New York heiress who realised her dream of becoming an opera singer, despite her poor singing ability. (Walmer Park)
(7) ALISON: Raped. Disembowelled. Nearly decapitated. Dumped on the outskirts of Cape Recife Nature Reserve in 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. (Boardwalk)
(2) SUICIDE SQUAD: This superhero film is crushingly puerile comic-book pornography. Even the use of big names such as Jared Leto, Ben Affleck Ben Affleck and Margot Robbie to play classic characters such as the Joker, Batman, Harley Quinn and more does not help to redeem this overhyped onslaught. Marvel Comics could have done better.RC (Boardwalk, Walmer Park, Hemingways, Baywest, Bridge)
(7) JASON BOURNE: Successful in hiding for all these years, our hero is dragged back into the fray when his old analyst ally Nicky Parsons (Julia Stiles) triggers a security breach, digging out new information about the defunct programme Treadstone, that originally trained him. TR ( Hemingways, Bridge).
(7) GHOSTBUSTERS: This 2016 update with an all-female lead team speaks to its time with the same withering comic accuracy and hot-air-balloon-sized sense of fun as the 1984 original. RC (Bridge)
(7) THE LEGEND OF TARZAN: Myth wrestles with history in the mud, eventually shaking hands for an awkward truce. TR (Bridge)
(6) ICE AGE – COLLISION COURSE: Scrat’s legendary pursuit of the acorn finds him in space, where he causes a series of cosmic events that threaten the planet. (Boardwalk, Baywest, Bridge)
(Ratings are out of 10)