Captain America: The Winter Soldier
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Just two years after the disastrous events during The Avengers, Steve Rogers lives in Washington DC, struggling to embrace and adapt to modern society. When a SHIELD agent is murdered, Steve must team up with Natasha Romanoff (Black Widow), to uncover the assailant’s plan, while also battling a threat from his past: the Winter Soldier from Soviet Russia.
Agent 2000
Genre: Adventure, Afrikaans
In this Afrikaans-language adventure film, secret superhero Agent 2000, otherwise known as teenager Walter du Toit, is running short on time. He needs to unmask the school bully (The Executioner) before the end of the school year’s hazing period. Should he fail, the school principal will be fired, his reputation as a secret agent will be gone, and he will lose both his best friend and the girl of his dreams.
Muppets Most Wanted
Genre: Comedy, Family
While the Muppets go on a world tour of the biggest cities in Europe, they find themselves in the middle of a conflict headed by none other than the biggest criminal in the world, Constantine, who’s a dead ringer for Kermit the Frog. Helped by his sidekick, Dominic, Constantine forcefully switches places with Kermit. Meanwhile, Kermit is mistaken for the criminal and sent to jail. Constantine joins the gang without any of them realising he’s not Kermit for a time, but soon their suspicions are raised.
Four Corners
Genre: Afrikaans, Crime, Drama
Four lives will change forever as the destinies of a reformed prison general, a local cop, a charismatic gang leader and a surgeon back from London intersect with a young boy’s coming of age, in the sub culture of the urban youth gangs of South Africa’s Cape Flats.
Philomena
Genre: Drama
Based on the celebrated book by Martin Sixsmith, this drama, directed by Stephen Frears (The Queen, Dangerous Liaisons) centres on Philomena Lee, who, along with many other unwed women, was forced by Catholic authorities in 1950s Ireland to give up her child for adoption. After 50 years of searching for her son without any luck, Philomena convinces a recently unemployed and unapologetically cynical journalist named Martin Sixsmith to help her. Their long search takes them from Ireland to the US, where they come face-to-face with some long-buried secrets.
