What’s new at the movies?

Will Smith returns to Nu Metro cinemas in Pretoria this weekend with a cutting-edge action-thriller Gemini Man.

He takes the lead as an elite assassin battling his younger clone in the blockbuster jam-packed with high-octane action, awesome special effects and jaw-dropping stunts.

Nu Metro will be showcasing a special HFR (high frame rate) version of the film in their 3D and Xtreme cinemas: levelling up on clearer, crisper screen quality, to give you a definite above-par cinema experience.

Gemini Man is also the new release in the multi-sensory 4DX theatre at Nu Metro Menlyn Park. Speed down the street with pulse-racing action and feel the bullets flying past you in the revolutionary 4DX motion seats – amplified by advanced in-cinema effects such as water, wind, air shots, fog, lightning and lots more. 4DX brings you closer to the explosive action like no other cinema can.

Get ready to snap your fingers! The first family of Halloween, The Addams Family, returns to cinemas as well.

Or, add some home-grown spice to your movie fun with the must-see romantic comedy, Zulu Wedding.

Travel around the world with the first in a series of award-winning films from Asia being screened at select Nu Metro cinemas. Parasite (Korean with English subtitles) is the critically-acclaimed new film, which took top honours at this year’s Cannes Film Festival, winning the prestigious Palme d’Or (Golden Palm). It is also Korea’s official entry in the “Best Foreign Language Film” category for next year’s Academy Awards.

Ladies, bookings are now open for you to enjoy another spectacular Girls’ Night Out at Nu Metro Menlyn Park on 17 October, featuring a special pre-release screening of Maleficent: Mistress of Evil – drinks, snacks, goodie bags and Hollywood Premiere-style glamour included. Be one of the first to see Angelina Jolie continuing the adventure-filled fantasy-saga of Disney’s most notorious villain in the month of Halloween.

Gemini Man (13 LV)

Showing at all Nu Metro cinemas

Henry Brogan is an elite assassin who’s suddenly targeted and pursued by a mysterious young operative who seems to be able to predict Brogan’s every move. Gemini Man is an innovative action-thriller starring Will Smith in the new film from Academy Award-winning director Ang Lee.

The Addams Family (10-12PG HPV)

Showing at Nu Metro Menlyn Park, Parkview and Woodlands

Funny, outlandish, and completely iconic, the Addams Family is the kookiest family on the block, redefining what it means to be a good neighbour. They are back on the big screen in the first stop-motion animated version of Charles Addams’ series of cartoons about a peculiar, ghoulish family.

Zulu Wedding (13 DLS)

Showing at Nu Metro Mams Mall (Mamelodi) and Menlyn Park

Lu left South Africa and her Zulu-Sotho heritage behind to become a dancer in America, and when she falls in love with Tex, she knows he’s the man to marry. But when she brings Tex home to meet her family, she discovers she’s been promised since birth to a Zulu king. Caught between two men, two families, and two countries, Lou has to come to terms with who she is so she can fight for what she wants. This new movie headlines local stars such as Nondumiso Tembe, Darrin Dewitt Henson, Carl Payne, Pallance Dladla, Lorcia Cooper, Sthandiwe Kgoroge, DJ Tira, Kelly Khumalo and other top names.

Parasite (16 DLSV)

Showing at Nu Metro Menlyn Park

Director Bong Joon Ho brings his singular mastery home to Korea in this pitch-black modern fairy-tale. Jobless, penniless, and, above all, hopeless, the unmotivated patriarch, Ki-taek, and his equally unambitious family—his supportive wife, Chung-soo; his cynical 20-something daughter, Ki-jung, and his college-aged son, Ki-woo—occupy themselves by working for peanuts in their squalid basement-level apartment. Then, by sheer luck, a lucrative business proposition paves the way for an insidiously subtle scheme as Ki-woo summons up the courage to pose as an English tutor for the teenage daughter of the affluent Park family. Now, the stage seems set for an unceasing winner-takes-all class war. How does one get rid of a parasite?

COMPETITION:

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