Movie of the Week

Hotel Artemis

A secret hospital exclusively for criminals. What could go wrong?

Hotel Artemis is a cyberpunk thriller film set in 2028 about an agoraphobic nurse (Jodie Foster) and her complicated business: running a criminals-only, luxury hospital in the abandoned hotel. Two brothers get involved in a botched bank heist where one gets shot. Waikiki (Sterling K. Brown) takes his brother, Honolulu (Brian Tyree Henry), to Hotel Artemis for treatment, but something very valuable is taken during the heist and the owner comes to claim it back.

Published

1 month ago

Dec 12, 2018

Bryan Turner

Bearing in mind that this is Foster’s first feature film in close to half a decade, she pulls off the role of the seemingly organised nurse who’s deathly afraid of going outside. Writer and director Drew Pierce set the story to have many twists and executed them brilliantly, as he did with Iron Man 3. The film features four actors who played roles in the Marvel Comic Universe: Sterling K. Brown (The Black Panther), Dave Bautista (Guardians of the Galaxy), Kenneth Choi (Captain America: The First Avenger), and Jeffrey Goldblum (Thor Ragnarok). – Bryan Turner

* Hotel Artemis is available on DVD from most entertainment retail outlets. It is supplied by Ster Kinekor Home Entertainment.

Movie of the Week

Valley of the Boom:
How The Web Was Won

A 6-part series from National Geographic – Valley of the Boom – delivers the drama of Silicon Valley’s Internet pioneers during the dot-com boom and bust.

Silicon Valley spawned some of the world’s most influential people and recognisable brands during the 1990s and attracted geniuses and charlatans alike. It is also where the new phenomenon of the overnight tech millionaire was born. Using a blend of narrative devices and interviews with the real subjects and experts woven into scripted drama, showrunner, creator, director and executive producer Matthew Carnahan (“House of Lies”) charts the meteoric rise and cataclysmic burst of the dot-com bubble.

Click through to watch the trailer and to read more about the series.

Published

2 days ago

Jan 14, 2019

Bryan Turner

From STX Entertainment, Valley of the Boom is also executive produced by Arianna Huffington and is set to premiere on National Geographic on 20 January. The series features an unconventional hybrid of scripted storytelling and documentary interviews with the key players whose stories are dramatised in the show.

The series follows the turbulent ride of three different companies whose founders were trying to change the world using the new technology of the internet. Before Google, Netscape pioneered the first commercial web browser and launched the “browser wars” with Microsoft. Before Facebook, theglobe.com was a rapidly expanding social networking site built by dreamers on a university campus. And before YouTube, a con artist on the run from the FBI reinvented himself in Silicon Valley to start a streaming video company called Pixelon, resulting in an entrepreneurial rise and fall almost too insane to be believed.

Valley of the Boom stars an ensemble cast led by two-time Emmy award-winning actor Bradley Whitford (“Get Out,” “The Post,” “The West Wing”), Steve Zahn (“War of the Planet of the Apes,” “Dallas Buyers Club”) and Lamorne Morris (“Game Night,” “New Girl”).

Details:

National Geographic channel – DSTV Channel 181

Sundays, 20:00 & 20:50. 20, 27 January & 3 February (6 x 60 minutes) – Double bills

Movie of the Week

Bird-Box: Psych horror gets 45m views

Malorie (Sandra Bullock) is a single mom trying to save her children’s lives after a mysterious force invades the Earth, which causes people to kill themselves if they merely look at the phenomenon. As survivors navigating the post-apocalyptic world, everyone must wear blindfolds to stay alive.

Just one week after the release of Bird Box, the psychological horror film has been streamed 45-million times in a single week, according to Netflix. It said in a tweet that this was the “best first 7 days ever for a Netflix film”.

Published

2 weeks ago

Jan 2, 2019

Bryan Turner