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Despicable Me

2010 | PG | 1h 35m | Animation,

Adventure, Comedy

Director: Pierre Coffin,

Chris Renaud

Stars: Steve Carell, Jason Segel,

Russell Brand

Gru, a criminal mastermind, adopts three orphans as pawns to carry out the biggest heist in history. His life takes an unexpected turn when the little girls see the evildoer as their potential father.

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Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle

2017 | PG-13 | 1h 59m | Action,

Adventure, Comedy

Director: Jake Kasdan

Stars: Dwayne Johnson, Karen Gillan, Kevin Hart

Four teenagers are sucked into a magical video game, and the only way they can escape is to work together to finish the game.

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Death of a Whistle Blower

2023 | 2h 7m | Drama, Thriller

Director: Ian Gabriel

Stars: Noxolo Dlamini, Irshaad Ally,

Kathleen Stephens

Investigative journalist Luyanda Masinda's life is thrown into shock when her one-night lover, renowned editor Stanley Galloway, is hijacked and killed in front of her in a busy Johannesburg street. When it becomes clear that Stanley's death was engineered by unknown forces in high places

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The Falling

2014 | 1h 42m | Thriller, Drama, Mystery

Director: Carol Morley

Stars: Maxine Peake, Maisie Williams, Florence Pugh

It's 1969 at a strict English girls' school where charismatic Abbie and intense and troubled Lydia are best friends. After a tragedy occurs at the school, a mysterious fainting epidemic breaks out threatening the stability of all involved.

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Mozart's Le Nozze di Figaro

Opera Ballet Vlaanderen | 2023

Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Director: Tom Goossens

The story starts with an apparently simple desire – Susanna and Figaro want to get married – and soon degenerates into an intrigue comedy that takes us, in one crazy day, through doors, out a window, to the army, through a courtroom and into the garden. The count appears to have designs on Susanna; The countess misses the count; Marcellina demands Figaro; Bartolo is out for revenge.

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Roadmap to Apartheid

2012 | 1h 35m | Documentary, History, News

Director: Eron Davidson, Ana Nogueira

Stars: Alice Walker

In this award-winning documentary, the first-time directors take a detailed look at the apartheid analogy commonly used to describe the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

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Once Upon a Time in Hollywood

Picked by RG Snyman

2019 | R | 2h 41m | Comedy, Drama

Director: Quentin Tarantino

Stars: Leonardo DiCaprio, Brad Pitt,

Margot Robbie

A faded television actor and his stunt double strive to achieve fame and success in the final years of Hollywood's Golden Age in 1969 Los Angeles.

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Paprika

Picked by Pulp Film Society

2006 | R | 1h 30m | Animation, Drama, Fantasy

Director: Satoshi Kon

Stars: Megumi Hayashibara, Tôru Emori, Katsunosuke Hori

When a machine that allows therapists to enter their patients' dreams is stolen, all hell breaks loose. Only a young female therapist, Paprika, can stop it.

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The Conjuring 2

2016 | R | 2h 14m | Horror, Mystery, Thriller

Director: James Wan

Stars: Vera Farmiga, Patrick Wilson,

Madison Wolfe

Ed and Lorraine Warren travel to North London to help a single mother raising four children alone in a house plagued by a supernatural spirit.

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Long walk to freedom

2013 | PG-13 | 2h 21m | Biography, Drama, History

Director: Justin Chadwick

Stars: Idris Elba, Naomie Harris, Terry Pheto

A chronicle of Nelson Mandela's life journey from his childhood in a rural village through to his inauguration as the first democratically elected president of South Africa.

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