After a dry few weeks in South African cinemas, we finally have some new releases on the big screen! This week, there’s an animated comedy from the DC universe, and a documentary about the first-ever Zimbabwe team to compete in the World Wine Blind Tasting Championships.
DC League of Super-Pets
Krypto the Super-Dog and Superman are inseparable best friends, sharing the same superpowers and fighting crime in Metropolis side by side. When Superman and the rest of the Justice League are kidnapped, Krypto must convince a rag-tag shelter pack—Ace the hound, PB the potbellied pig, Merton the turtle, and Chip the squirrel—to master their own newfound powers and help him rescue the superheroes.
Featuring the voices of Dwayne Johnson, Kevin Hart, Kate McKinnon, John Krasinski, Vanessa Bayer, Natasha Lyonne, Diego Luna, Marc Maron, Thomas Middleditch, Ben Schwartz, and Keanu Reeves, DC League of Super-Pets comes from veteran writer/consultant on the LEGO® movies, Jared Stern.
Blind Ambition
Joseph, Tinashe, Marlvin, and Pardon are part of a wave of Zimbabweans who left their economically-hit homeland for a better life elsewhere. After their perilous journey, they arrive in South Africa, get jobs in restaurants, develop an interest in the intricacies of wine, become sommeliers, meet and bond with one another, and are encouraged to form the first-ever Zimbabwe team to compete in the World Wine Blind Tasting Championships—the Olympics of the wine world.
Held in France and primarily made up of western European teams, the championship requires them to sample twelve different wines and guess the country, winery and vintage—a challenge for any oenologist. Their sampling skills take them a long way, but it is their connection to their country, underscored by the comments and encouragement of parents, grandparents and children they left back home that provide the motivation and backbone