Spring film festival feast
Spring is here, and it’s time to leave the comfort of our homes and the television, and experience some fantastic shows coming up on the big screen. There is some action, comedy, animation and romance – something for everyone this week.
Turbo
Releases on September 6. Animation, Family, SK Kids.
All his life, Theo the garden snail has lived a slow lane life with dreams of speed at the Indy 500. Suddenly, a freak mishap gives him the ability to move at super speed, which puts Theo and his brother at a failing strip mall.
They are discovered by Tito, a goofy fast food worker, and his crew of racing snails, and a wild idea is born for Theo to race with his heroes in Indianapolis.
Now, this gang of misfits are travelling to that city to dare pursue the impossible dream, which will require all of Theo’s speed, as Turbo, to have any shot at achieving victory.
We’re The Millers
Releases on September 6. Comedy.
A veteran pot dealer creates a fake family as part of his plan to move a huge shipment of weed into the US from Mexico.
Kick Ass 2
Releases on September 6. Action, Comedy, Crime.
The costumed high-school hero Kick-Ass joins with a group of normal citizens who have been inspired to fight crime in costume. Meanwhile, the Red Mist plots an act of revenge that will affect everyone Kick-Ass knows.
Bakgat 3
Releases on September 6. South African Comedy.
Wimpie and his fiancée, Katrien, immigrate to England where he has been offered a contract to play rugby. But happy endings are not so easy to come by and the two of them quickly discover that London is not as cool as they thought. Their London apartment is anything but a mansion and Wimpie’s English teammates give him a hard time. Wimpie’s earlier nemesis, Werner, is also in Wimpie’s team, and together they start a proudly South African rugby team.
The players they manage to round up are not really winning material and they have little hope of winning the league.
By some miracle, the unlikely team manages to achieve some success and, as they draw closer to the final match, it seems as if Wimpie and Katrien’s happy ending will depend on the success of the team.
Shuddh Desi Romance
Releases on September 6. Bollywood, Romance.
The film is the journey of three restless young people who ignore society’s syllabus for finding love and decide to follow their own hearts.
When their lives crisscross, their beliefs are challenged, and their loves tested.
Great Expectations
Releases on September 7. Page to screen, Romance.
For the very first time, the Dickens classic Great Expectations will be staged in London’s West End, and audiences around the world will be able to share the historic opening night at their local cinema.
Although Great Expectations has been adapted for film on two separate occasions, once by David Lean in 1946 and most recently by Mike Newell, it has never been produced for the West End or Broadway, widely believed to be too difficult to translate to stage.
However, this Jo Clifford adaptation has been universally acclaimed as a triumph on its sell-out tour of the UK, ahead of its West End debut.
