That’s it. That’s a wrap on the third month of 2025. Well, almost. This weekend is the last one of March, and South African cinema chains have yet another eclectic set of movie and special screening choices for locals.
In addition to the three feature film releases below, you can also check out Bollywood action thriller Sikandar; documentary Ernest Cole: Lost and Found, about South Africa’s first freelance black photographer during Apartheid; a 4DX showing of K-Pop concert Seventeen [Right Here] World Tour in Cinemas (on 2 April); more screenings of Beethoven’s Fidelio, performed by the Metropolitan Opera; and even family classic Babe as the week’s Throwback Cinema offering.
Jason Statham reunites with his The Beekeeper director David Ayer (who also made End of Watch, Fury, and Bright) for this action thriller co-written by Sylvester Stallone, and adapted from a novel by Chuck Dixon. In A Working Man, ex-Royal Marines commando Levon Cade leads a simple life as a construction worker. Then his boss’s daughter is kidnapped by human traffickers, forcing Levon back into action. In the process he uncovers a disturbing conspiracy. Also with David Harbour, Michael Peña and Jason Flemyng.
Night Of The Zoopocalypse is a new animated comedy horror film born out of a Canadian-Belgium-French collaboration. Based on a tale by Clive Barker(!), the movie sees the animals of Colepepper Zoo forced to contend with an alien virus that transforms the infected into slobbering zombies. Wolf Gracie (Gabbi Kosmidis), mountain lion Dan (David Harbour) and various other critters, like a movie-obsessed lemur, fiery capybara, fabulous ostrich and treacherous monkey, must work together to restore order.
Originally released back in 2020, South African supernatural horror Tokoloshe: The Calling is receiving a fancy new re-release, with improved cut, grade and sound design. From filmmaker Richard Green, this Shining-esque tale sees a writer (Arish Sirkissoon) head off to an abandoned Transkei hotel with his wife and adopted daughter to finish his next novel. There, strange things occur. At the same time, a teacher (Sibongiseni Shezi) must face her gruesome past, linked to the same hotel.