No surprise. As it’s a long holiday weekend in South Africa, the cinema chains are bumping up their new offerings. In addition to two solo music documentaries (centred on K-Pop stars and BTS members J-Hope and Suga, respectively), and three-hour Bollywood epic Adipurush, there are four new movies debuting locally tomorrow.
After decades in development, a solo movie for The Flash is finally here, directed by It and Mama’s Andy Muschietti, and starring Ezra Miller as DC’s speediest superhero. Worlds collide when Barry Allen uses his superpowers to travel back in time to save his parents from tragedy – an event that inadvertently alters the universe. With the Earth’s annihilation looming, our hero must coax a very different Batman (Michael Keaton) out of retirement and rescue an unexpected Kryptonian (Sasha Calle).
Read our full review of The Flash here.
Elemental is the latest from animation pioneers Pixar and Disney, and leans more into romantic comedy territory than usual. The film provides an anthropomorphic look at the four elements (fire, water, land and air), who live and work in Element City, with events centred on the unlikely pairing of fiery Ember (Leah Lewis) and go-with-the-flow Wade (Mamoudou Athie). Venturing out of their comfort zone, the couple discover how much they actually have in common, despite the culture clash of their families.
Asteroid City is the latest quirky all-star comedy from writer-director Wes Anderson. Set in a fictional American desert town in 1955, a Junior Stargazer/Space Cadet convention is spectacularly disrupted by world-changing events. The film only gets more meta from there. Just a few names from the dazzling ensemble cast include Jason Schwartzman, Scarlett Johansson, Tom Hanks, Jeffrey Wright, Tilda Swinton, Bryan Cranston, Edward Norton, Adrien Brody, Maya Hawke, Steve Carell, Hong Chau, and Willem Dafoe.
Feelgood jukebox musical Greatest Days is the cinematic adaptation of Take That-themed stage show The Band, from the writer of Calendar Girls. The British film follows a group of friends who have the night of their lives seeing their favourite boy band in concert in the 1990s. Twenty-five years later, having lost touch, the group reunite for one more epic show by their beloved band, which relights their friendship and helps them realise their greatest days are ahead of them.