Movie of the Week

Mayfair

Zaid is on a quest for spiritual discovery. As an international aid worker, he lives far away from his father, Aziz Randera, a successful import-exporter, and occasional money launderer and loan shark. But when he is fired from his job in a refugee camp for ignoring the rules and actually doing good rather than shuffling papers, Zaid returns to South Africa and to Mayfair for the first time in years.
At home, everything has changed. Business has been tough; his father is in over his head as a result of a soured deal with ruthless Somalis. Smelling blood, young turks are circling the family business. Zaid remains reluctant to become involved but when Ameena, his first love, and Faiza, his baby sister, are kidnapped after a failed cash drop to resolve the Somali deal, will he finally get off the fence and choose between saving his family or preserving his faith?

Published

4 months ago

Oct 29, 2018

Sean Bacher

Movie of the Week

Fyre: The Greatest Festival That Never Happened

Netflix provides a behind the scenes look at the infamous unravelling of the Fyre music festival. Created by Billy McFarland and rapper Ja Rule, Fyre was promoted as a luxury music festival on a private island in the Bahamas featuring bikini-clad supermodels, A-List musical performances and posh amenities. Guests arrived to discover the reality was far from the promises.

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

Published

6 days ago

Feb 12, 2019

Bryan Turner

What was possibly the worst event in Billy McFarland and Ja Rule’s lives and the failed promises that lead up to it can now be streamed in Netflix’s latest documentary, Fyre: The Greatest Party That Never Happened.

The film’s director, Chris Smith, details the music festival that was supposed to be a luxury affair for affluent kids, turning into one of the biggest jokes in the history of Twitter.

The documentary is available to stream now on Netflix and features video directly from the festival grounds, as well as first-hand accounts from those who just wanted to have fun.

Movie of the Week

Alita: Battle Angel

Award-winning filmmakers James Cameron (Avatar) and Robert Rodriguez (Sin City) have brought the heroine of the cyberpunk-themed manga comic Battle Angel: Alita to the big screen, with the title slightly transposed. The live action movie incorporates Avatar-level computer graphics, drawing on Cameron’s vast experience – and several Oscars – in this field.

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Published

3 weeks ago

Jan 31, 2019

Bryan Turner

Alita: Battle Angel is set a few centuries in the future. An abandoned Alita (Rosa Salazar) is found in the scrapyard of Iron City by Ido (Christoph Waltz), a compassionate cyber-doctor who takes the unconscious cyborg to his clinic. When Alita awakens, she has no memory of who she is, nor does she have any recognition of the world in which she finds herself.

As she learns to navigate her new life and the dangerous streets of Iron City, Alita is shielded from her mysterious past by Ido. Her street-smart new friend, Hugo (Keean Johnson), offers to help trigger her memories. Determined to uncover the truth behind her origins, Alita sets out on a journey that will see her take on the injustices of this dark, corrupt world, and discover that one young woman can change the world in which she lives.

The film will be released on 14 February in Nu Metro cinemas.