I love me some good old fashion Westerns.
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The Long Walk
Cinema Release | 12 September
Adapted from master storyteller Stephen King’s first-written novel and directed by Francis Lawrence, the visionary director behind The Hunger Games film franchise, this intense, chilling, and emotional thriller film challenges audiences to confront a haunting question – how far could you go?
A group of teenage boys compete in an annual contest known as “The Long Walk,” where they must maintain a certain walking speed or get shot.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt10374610/
Based on the first novel King wrote while still in college in 1966. He eventually published The Long Walk in 1979 under his Richard Bachman pseudonym.
Honey Don’t
Cinema Release | 22 August
Honey Don’t! is a dark comedy about Honey O’Donahue, a small-town private investigator, who delves into a series of strange deaths tied to a mysterious church.
Starring Margaret Qualley, Aubrey Plaza, Charlie Day, and Chris Evans. A new comedy from Ethan Coen. Only in theaters August 22!
This looks great, and enjoy many of the Stephen King adaptations.
The Old Guard 2
Netflix | 2 July
Andy (Charlize Theron) and her team of immortal warriors are back, with a renewed sense of purpose in their mission to protect the world. With Booker (Matthias Schoenaerts) still in exile after his betrayal, and Quynh (Veronica Ngô) out for revenge after escaping her underwater prison, Andy grapples with her newfound mortality as a mysterious threat emerges that could jeopardize everything she’s worked towards for thousands of years.
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F1: The Movie
Cinema Release | 25 June
Dubbed “the greatest that never was,” Sonny Hayes (Brad Pitt) was FORMULA 1’s most promising phenom of the 1990s until an accident on the track nearly ended his career. Thirty years later, he’s a nomadic racer-for-hire when he’s approached by his former teammate Ruben Cervantes (Javier Bardem), owner of a struggling FORMULA 1 team that is on the verge of collapse. Ruben convinces Sonny to come back to FORMULA 1 for one last shot at saving the team and being the best in the world.
He’ll drive alongside Joshua Pearce (Damson Idris), the team’s hotshot rookie intent on setting his own pace. But as the engines roar, Sonny’s past catches up with him and he finds that in FORMULA 1, your teammate is your fiercest competition—and the road to redemption is not something you can travel alone.
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Superman
Cinema Release | 11 July
Superman must reconciles his alien Kryptonian heritage with his human upbringing as reporter Clark Kent. As the embodiment of truth, justice and the human way he soon finds himself in a world that views these as old-fashioned.
“Superman,” DC Studios’ first feature film to hit the big screen, is set to soar into theaters worldwide this summer from Warner Bros. Pictures. In his signature style, James Gunn takes on the original superhero in the newly imagined DC universe with a singular blend of epic action, humor and heart, delivering a Superman who’s driven by compassion and an inherent belief in the goodness of humankind.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5950044/
A bald Nicolas Hoult as Lex Luthor? Cameos from Nathan Fillion and Alan Tudyk? Uh, yes please!
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Nobody 2
Cinema Release | 15 August
Sometimes the most dangerous place for a dad is a family vacation.
Bob Odenkirk returns as suburban husband, father and workaholic assassin Hutch
Mansell in the new chapter to Nobody, the hit 2021 bare-knuckle action-thriller that
opened at number one at the U.S. box office.Four years after he inadvertently took on the Russian mob, Hutch remains $30 million in debt to the criminal organization and is working it off with an unending string of hits on international thugs.
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Looking forward to this indeed. I’ve got Nobody on my rewatch list, so this will be a welcome addition.
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Oh. What. Fun.
Prime Video | 3 December
Claire Clauster (Michelle Pfeiffer) is the glue that holds her chaotic, lovable family together every holiday season. From perfectly frosted cookies to meticulously wrapped gifts, no one decks the halls quite like Claire. But this year, as her grown kids and distracted husband get swept up in their own seasonal dramas, they make one crucial mistake: they forget their mom.
By the time they realize she’s missing, Claire’s already set off on a festive adventure of her own - one that doesn’t involve cooking, cleaning, or coordinating anyone else’s chaos. As her family scrambles to find her and salvage their Christmas, Claire rediscovers what the holidays mean when you’re finally free to put yourself first.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt31998881/
This has got to be a one of the earliest Christmas promos ever. Every year they start arriving earlier than before. They’re calling it a “Sneak Peek”, but we all know it’s a trailer.
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Off The Grid
Cinema & On Demand Digital | 27 June
A brilliant scientist vanishes into the wilderness to prevent his groundbreaking invention from being weaponized. His former research partner leads a high-stakes mission to locate him and retrieve the elusive experiment.
Jurassic World Rebirth
Cinema Release | 2 July
Five years after the events of Jurassic World Dominion, the planet’s ecology has proven largely inhospitable to dinosaurs. Those remaining exist in isolated equatorial environments with climates resembling the one in which they once thrived. The three most colossal creatures across land, sea and air within that tropical biosphere hold, in their DNA, the key to a drug that will bring miraculous life-saving benefits to humankind.
Caught Stealing
Cinema Release | 29 August
He was just supposed to watch the cat. Now he’s running for his f**king life.
Burned-out ex-baseball player Hank Thompson unexpectedly finds himself embroiled in a dangerous struggle for survival amidst the criminal underbelly of 1990s New York City, forced to navigate a treacherous underworld he never imagined.
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Guns Up
Cinema Release | 30 May
Guns Up follows Ray Hayes, an ex-cop and devoted husband and father who leads a dangerous double life as a mob henchman. On the brink of leaving “The Family” and making his dream of opening a diner with his wife Alice a reality, his final job goes off the rail.
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Good Fortune
Cinema Release | 17 October
In GOOD FORTUNE, a well-meaning but rather inept angel named Gabriel (Keanu Reeves) meddles in the lives of a struggling gig worker (Aziz Ansari) and a wealthy venture capitalist (Seth Rogen).
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Semi-Soeter
Netflix | 20 June
Wat gebeur wanneer jy en jou lewensmaat die perfekte kamma-ouers moet speel vir ‘n Aanbieding?
My faves, Jaci and JP, are faced with this dilemma, and we have to see what happens next! Semi-Soeter premieres 20 June, only on Netflix.
Semi-Soeter is the much anticipated sequel to the beloved 2012 Afrikaans film Semi-Soet.
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Frankenstein
Netflix | November
Only monsters play God.
Oscar-winning director Guillermo del Toro adapts Mary Shelley’s classic tale of Victor Frankenstein, a brilliant but egotistical scientist who brings a creature to life in a monstrous experiment that ultimately leads to the undoing of both the creator and his tragic creation.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1312221/
Netflix’s 2025 Oscar push starts now…
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This was definitely not on my 2025 announcements bingo card.
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The Lost Bus
Apple TV+ | 2025
A determined bus driver and a dedicated school teacher battle to save 22 children from a deadly wildfire. Starring Matthew McConaughey & America Ferrera, The Lost Bus is based on a true story.
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Project Hail Mary
Cinema Release | 20 March 2026
11.9 Light-years from home. 6th grade science teacher. 1 chance to save us all.
Set in the near future, it centers on junior high (middle) school-teacher-turned-astronaut Ryland Grace, who wakes up from a coma afflicted with amnesia. He gradually remembers that he was sent to the Tau Ceti solar system, 12 light-years from Earth, to find a means of reversing a solar dimming event that could cause the extinction of humanity.
Based on Andy Weir’s award-winning novel. After The Martian, this is the second Weir novel to be adapted to film. The third Weir novel, Artemis, is also being adapted.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt12042730/
Have been looking forward to this. Guess I can wait another nine months.
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