Your weekly dose of cinema entertainment: September 4

Hitman: Agent 47

Action

Starring: Ciaran Hinds, Thomas Kretschmann, Rupert Friend, Zachary Quinto and Hannah Ware.

Hitman: Agent 47 is an action spy thriller which is based on the fictional character Agent 47 from the Hitman video game series. A young woman named Katia van Dees teams up with Agent 47 in order to find her father and her true ancestry. They discover that Katia is a genetically engineered assassin just like 47. Together they fight the syndicate to find Katia’s father.

Mistress America

Comedy

Starring: Seth Barrish, Juliet Brett and Michael Chernus

Tracy, a lonely college freshman in New York, is rescued from her solitude by her soon-to-be stepsister Brooke, an adventurous gal about town who entangles her in alluringly mad schemes. Mistress America is a comedy about dream-chasing, score-settling, makeshift families, and cat stealing.

Ricki and the Flash

Drama

Starring: Meryl Streep, Kevin Kline, Sebastian Stan, Mamie Gummer, Audra McDonald and Rick Springfield.

Ricki is an aging rock star who abandoned her family to chase fame and stardom. The sacrifice delivered the stardom she craved, but it cost her a relationship with her family. After years of rocking with her band, the Flash, her life is interrupted by a call from her ex-husband. She discovers their estranged daughter is going through a tough situation and decides to head back home. Given the opportunity to reconcile and make things right, Ricki must again choose between the music she loves and the family she lost.

Southpaw

Drama

Starring: Naomie Harris, Forest Whitaker, Jake Gyllenhaal, Rachel McAdams, Rita Ora and Victor Ortiz

One-time champion boxer Billy Hope is a shadow of his former self since his wife was killed in an accident, and his resultant self-destructive behaviour causes Child Protection Services to remove his young daughter Leila from his care. Now, in a last ditch effort to get Leila back, his last hope is returning to the world of boxing with the help of trainer Titus “Tick” Wills for one last shot at redemption.

Tell me sweet something

Comedy

Starring: Thomas Gumede, Maps Maponyane and Nomzamo Mbata.

Tell me sweet something is the story of Moratiwa, an aspiring writer who owns and runs a bookstore in the heart of Johannesburg. The bookstore, like her love life, is not experiencing much success. This all changes when she meets and falls in love with the unlikeliest candidate in the world, Nat, a male model, who has never read a book in his life and is desperate to be loved for his mind not his body. Against the odds, they become romantically involved but then Sashi, Nat’s now pregnant ex-girlfriend, shows up and sets off a chain of romantic complications into motion.

Welcome back

Bollywood

Starring: John Abraham, Anil Kapoor, Nana Patekar, Paresh Rawal, Shiney Ahuja and Dimple Kapadia.

Welcome back is another movie which is regarded to be a sequel to Welcome, which was released in 2007 and was then a huge hit, prompting the producers to plan for the sequel.