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Top Movie Releases in South Africa - January 2020 

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Top Movie Releases in South Africa - January 2020
Take a look at the latest Movies & Showtimes hitting cinemas in South Africa this January.
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Top Movie Releases in South Africa - January 2020

Take a look at the latest Movies & Showtimes hitting cinemas in South Africa this January.
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Top Movie Releases in South Africa - January 2020
Take a look at the latest Movies & Showtimes hitting cinemas in South Africa this January.

We have been waiting patiently for a line up like this one! This January will see some masterpieces taking up the big screens. Grab some astros and a slushie before taking up your seats as you do not want to miss a second of the action!

Chhapaak | 10 Jan

Chhapaak is an upcoming Indian Hindi-language drama film.

The trials and triumphs of Malti, an acid attack survivor. From the investigation of the attack to the court proceedings, the medical treatment to the emotional healing. Chhapaak is the story of the unquashable human spirit.

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  • Directed by: Rupert Goold
  • Cast: Renée Zellweger, Jessie Buckley, Finn Wittrock, Rufus Sewell, Michael Gambon
  • Running Time: 120 min

Judy | 10 Jan

Judy is a 2019 biographical drama film about American singer and actress Judy Garland.Winter 1968 and showbiz legend Judy Garland arrives in Swinging London to perform a five-week sold-out run at “The Talk of the Town.”

It’s 30 years since she shot to global stardom in ‘The Wizard of Oz,’ but, while her voice may have weakened, its dramatic intensity has grown. As she prepares for the show, charms musicians, battles with management, and reminisces with friends and adoring fans, her wit and warmth shine through.

Even her dreams of love seem undimmed as she embarks on a whirlwind romance with Mickey Deans, her soon-to-be-fifth husband. Featuring some of her best-known songs, the film celebrates the voice, the capacity for love, and the sheer pizzazz of “the world’s greatest entertainer.”

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  • Directed by: Paul Dano
  • Cast: Carey Mulligan, Jake Gyllenhaal, Ed Oxenbould, Bill Camp
  • Running Time: 118 min

Underwater | 10 Jan

Underwater is an upcoming 2020 American science fiction horror film.

7 miles below the ocean surface, something has awakened. A crew of underwater researchers must scramble to safety after an earthquake devastates their subterranean laboratory.

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  • Directed by: William Eubank
  • Cast: Kristen Stewart, Vincent Cassel, Jessica Henwick, John Gallagher, Jr., Mamoudou Athie, Gunner Wright, T. J. Miller
  • Running Time: 95 min

1917 | 17 Jan

1917 is a epic war film directed, co-written and produced by Sam Mendes.

At the height of the First World War, two young British soldiers, Schofield and Blake are given a seemingly impossible mission. In a race against time, they must cross enemy territory and deliver a message that will stop a deadly attack on hundreds of soldiers—Blake's own brother among them.

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  • Directed by: Sam Mendes
  • Cast: George MacKay, Richard Madden, Dean-Charles Chapman, Mark Strong, Andrew Scott, Richard Madden, Claire Duburcq, Colin Firth, Benedict Cumberbatch
  • Running Time: 119 min

The Grudge | 17 Jan

The Grudge is a 2004 Supernatural Horror Film.

After a young mother murders her family in her home, Muldoon, young detective who’s a single mother, tries to solve the case. Later, she discovers that the house is cursed by a vengeful ghost who dooms those who enter the house—with a violent death. Now, the detective must save herself and her son from demonic spirits.

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  • Directed by: Nicolas Pesce
  • Cast: Andrea Riseborough, Demián Bichir, John Cho, Betty Gilpin, Lin Shaye, Jacki Weaver
  • Running Time: 92 min

Jojo Rabbit | 17 Jan

Jojo Rabbit is a 2019 American Comedy-Drama film.

A lonely German boy named Jojo’s world view is turned upside-down when he discovers that his single mother is hiding a young Jewish girl in their attic. Aided only by his idiotic imaginary friend, Adolf Hitler, Jojo must confront his own blind nationalism.

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  • Directed by: Taika Waititi
  • Cast: Roman Griffin Davis, Thomasin McKenzie, Taika Waititi, Sam Rockwell, Scarlett Johansson, Rebel Wilson, Alfie Allen, Stephen Merchant, Sitara Attaie...
  • Running Time: 108 min

Just Mercy | 17 Jan

Just Mercy is a 2019 American legal drama film. This is about all of us.

After graduating from Harvard, Bryan had his pick of lucrative jobs. Instead, he heads to Alabama to defend those wrongly condemned or who were not afforded proper representation, with the support of local advocate Eva Ansley.

One of his first, and most incendiary, cases is that of Walter McMillian, who, in 1987, was sentenced to die for the notorious murder of an 18-year-old girl, despite a preponderance of evidence proving his innocence and the fact that the only testimony against him came from a criminal with a motive to lie.

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  • Directed by: Destin Daniel Cretton
  • Cast: Michael B. Jordan, Jamie Foxx, Brie Larson
  • Running Time: 136 min

Les Misérables | 17 Jan

Les Misérables is a 2019 French drama film.

Stephane, only just arrived from Cherbourg, joins the anti-crime squad of Montfermeil in a sensitive district of the Paris suburbs. Paired up with Chris and Gwada, whose methods are sometimes “special,” he rapidly discovers the tensions between the various neighbourhood groups. When an arrest starts to get out of hand, a drone is filming every move they make.

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  • Directed by: Ladj Ly
  • Cast: Damien Bonnard, Alexis Manenti, Djebril Zonga, Issa Perica, Al-Hassan Ly, Steve Tientcheu, Almamy Kanoute, Nizar Ben Fatma
  • Running Time: 103 min

Arctic Justice | 25 Jan

Arctic Dogs is a 2019 computer animated comedy film. Swifty the Arctic fox works in the mailroom of the Arctic Blast Delivery Service, but dreams of one day becoming one of the Top Dogs. To prove himself worthy of the Top Dog role, Swifty secretly commandeers one of the sleds and delivers a package to a mysterious location.

He stumbles upon a secret fortress where he comes face-to-face with Otto Von Walrus, a blubbery evil genius who walks around on mechanical legs and commands a loyal army of oddly polite puffin henchmen. Swifty soon discovers Von Walrus' plan to melt the polar ice caps and flood the world in order to reign supreme.

Now, Swifty has to enlist the help of his friends: PB, a concerned polar bear, Lemmy, a scatterbrained albatross, Bertha and Leopold, two conspiracy theorist otters and Jade, a worldly fox. This ragtag group of Arctic misfits has to band together to stop Von Walrus' sinister plans and save the day.

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  • Directed by: Aaron Woodley
  • Cast: Jeremy Renner, Heidi Klum, James Franco, John Cleese, Omar Sy, Michael Madsen, Laurie Holden, Anjelica Huston, Alec Baldwin
  • Running Time: 93 min

Bombshell | 24 Jan

Bombshell is a 2019 American Biographical drama film.

A revealing look inside one of the most powerful and controversial media empires on the planet—Fox News—and the explosive true-life story of the women who brought down its infamous founder, Roger Ailes.

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  • Directed by: Jay Roach
  • Cast: Charlize Theron, Nicole Kidman, Margot Robbie, Alanna Ubach, Alice Eve, Nazanin Boniadi, Kate McKinnon, Brooke Smith, Connie Britton...
  • Running Time: 108 min

Bad Boys for Life | 24 Jan

Bad Boys for Life is an upcoming American buddy cop action comedy film.

Mike Lowrey and Marcus Burnett are back together for one last ride. Marcus is now a police inspector and Mike is in a midlife crisis. They unite again when an Albanian mercenary, whose brother they killed, promises them an important bonus.

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  • Directed by: Adil El Arbi, Bilall Fallah
  • Cast: Will Smith, Martin Lawrence, Vanessa Hudgens, Alexander Ludwig, Charles Melton, Paola Nunez, Kate Del Castillo, Nicky Jam, Joe Pantoliano
  • Running Time: 124 min

Dark Waters | 31 Jan

Dark Waters is a 2019 American legal thriller film. The truth has a man on the inside.

A tenacious attorney uncovers a dark secret that connects a growing number of unexplained deaths to one of the world's largest corporations. In the process, he risks everything—his future, his family, and his life—to expose the truth.

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  • Directed by: Todd Haynes
  • Cast: Mark Ruffalo, Anne Hathaway, Tim Robbins, Bill Camp, Victor Garber, Mare Winningham, Bill Pullman
  • Running Time: 126 min

A Hidden Life | 31 Jan

A Hidden Life (formerly titled Radegund) is a 2019 historical drama film.

An unsung hero, Franz Jägerstätter, refuses to fight for the Nazis in World War II. When this Austrian peasant farmer is faced with the threat of execution for treason, it is his unwavering faith and his love for his wife, Fani, and children that keeps his spirit alive.

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  • Directed by: Terrence Malick
  • Cast: August Diehl, Valerie Pachner, Michael Nyqvist, Matthias Schoenaerts, Jürgen Prochnow, Bruno Ganz, Alexander Fehling...
  • Running Time: 174 min

Like a Boss | 31 Jan

Like a Boss is an upcoming American comedy Film.

Best friends Mia and Mel are living their best lives running their own cosmetics company that they’ve built from the ground up.

Unfortunately, they’re in over their heads financially, and the prospect of a big buyout offer from a notorious titan of the cosmetics industry, Claire Luna, proves too tempting to pass up. This puts Mel and Mia’s lifelong friendship in jeopardy.

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  • Directed by: Miguel Arteta
  • Cast: Tiffany Haddish, Rose Byrne, Jennifer Coolidge, Salma Hayek
  • Running Time: 83 min

Mosley | 31 Jan

There is something noble inside of you! Mosley and his family of four-legged Thoriphants live a worker’s life on an isolated farm owned by Simon, a sullen and mean-spirited farmer. One evening, after ploughing all day, Mosley’s son, Rue, comes bounding over to his father telling him he has discovered something magical in the woods near the farm.

Bera, Mosley’s pregnant wife, encourages Mosely to go with Rue. Although Mosley is tired, he follows his young son into the woods and discovers the reason for Rue’s excitement—it’s a cave with large and ancient drawings on the walls. Drawings of Thoriphants similar to Mosley and Rue, except they stand upright!

- Is this what the Thoriphant race used to be?

- What happened to cause them to become hunched over creatures without hands?

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  • Directed by: Kirby Atkins
  • Cast: Kirby Atkins, Rhys Darby, Lucy Lawless, Temuera Morrison, Leah Atkins, John Rhys-Davies
  • Running Time: 97 min

Poppie Nongena | 31 Jan

Poppie Nongena tells the moving story of an isiXhosa mother whose life revolves around finding stability for her family during a period of insufferable upheaval in the country, as African women are forced, by arrests, fines and forced removal, to leave their homes and resettle in remote areas designated as black homelands.

When her husband, Stone, becomes too ill to work, Poppie was deemed by the law to be an “illegal” resident in a neighbourhood of her own country. She engaged in a desperate struggle, using every means at her disposal to remain with her children.

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  • Directed by: Christiaan Olwagen
  • Cast: Clementine Mosimane, Anna-Mart van der Merwe, Nomsa Nene, Chris Gxalaba

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