What’s showing at the movies this weekend

THERE’S something for everyone this weekend as a new crop of movies hit local cinemas. Check out what grabs your fancy and book your tickets now!

When the Bough Breaks

She’s carrying more than just a secret. John and Laura Taylor are a young, professional couple, and they desperately want a baby. After exhausting all other options, they finally hire Anna, the perfect woman to be their surrogate, but, as she gets further along in her pregnancy, so too does her psychotic and dangerous fixation on the husband. The couple becomes caught up in Anna’s deadly game and must fight to regain control of their future before it’s too late.

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Hatchet Hour

You can’t bury karma. A fiery lawyer mistakenly believes her gardener Amos to be an assailant, and shoots him dead. Belle decides not to report the accident and take her chances avoiding the legal system. She thinks that her brilliant career, as well as that of her legendary lawyer father, will be ruined if the courts find against her and charge her with manslaughter. She must get rid of the body and all evidence of the crime. She turns to her best friend to help her destroy Amos’ body. Their actions set in motion a destructive chain of events that spiral out of control.

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Hell or High Water

A story about the collision of the Old and New West, two brothers—Toby, a straight-living, divorced father trying to make a better life for his son; and Tanner, a short-tempered ex-con with a loose trigger finger—come together to rob branch after branch of the bank that is foreclosing on their family land. The hold-ups are part of a last-ditch scheme to take back a future that powerful forces beyond their control have stolen from under their feet. Vengeance seems to be theirs until they find themselves in the crosshairs of a relentless, foul-mouthed Texas Ranger looking for one last triumph on the eve of his retirement. As the brothers plot a final bank heist to complete their plan, a showdown looms at the crossroads where the last honest lawman and a pair of brothers with nothing to live for except family collide.

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Eintlik nogal baie

Jay van Niekerk is a young, attractive and career driven comic book illustrator. Although he is advancing in almost every aspect of his personal and professional life, his one true desire seems to be the one furthest from reach. This has brought him to a crossroad in his life. Does he give up and keep fully focused on his career or does he finally open his heart to fulfill his deep longing for love and set out to meet the woman of his dreams? He wants someone funny, someone bright, who will appreciate his love of comics and embrace his eccentric lifestyle.

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Doctor Strange [4DX]

The impossibilities are endless. After a horrific car accident, neurosurgeon Dr. Stephen Strange discovers the hidden worlds of magical alternative dimensions.

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Storks

Storks deliver babies…or at least they used to. Now they deliver packages for a global internet retail giant. Junior (Andy Samberg), the company”s top delivery stork, is about to be promoted when he accidentally activates the Baby Making Machine, producing an adorable and wholly unauthorized baby girl. Desperate to deliver this bundle of trouble before the boss gets wise, Junior and his friend Tulip, the only human on Stork Mountain, race to make their first-ever baby drop — in a wild and revealing journey that could make more than one family whole and restore the storks” true mission in the world.

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Jack Reacher: Never go back

Jack Reacher (Tom Cruise) returns with his particular brand of justice in the highly anticipated sequel Jack Reacher: Never go back. When Army Major Susan Turner (Cobie Smulders), who heads Reacher”s old investigative unit, is arrested for Treason, Reacher will stop at nothing to prove her innocence and to uncover the truth behind a major government conspiracy involving soldiers who are being killed. Based upon JACK REACHER: NEVER GO BACK, author Lee Child’s 18th novel in the best-selling Jack Reacher series, that has seen 100 million books sold worldwide.

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