Independent Cinema Releases From Ster-Kinekor Entertainment Opening 3 August 2018

Opening Friday 3 August 2018 in South African cinemas

Hotel Artemis

Age Restriction: 16 DLV
Run time: 94 Mins
Cast: Jodie Foster, Sofia Boutella, Dave Bautista, Sterling K. Brown
Director: Drew Pearce

Synopsis:

It’s a Wednesday night in the year 2028, and the streets of downtown Los Angeles are impassable. With the most violent riot in L.A. history in its third night, the city’s privatised police force is pummelling blue war-painted protesters whose only demand is clean water. Amidst this chaos, four men clad in skull masks find themselves in the middle of a failed bank heist. After turning the situation around, Sherman Atkins (STERLING K. BROWN, “This Is Us”) leads his brother Lev Atkins (BRIAN TYREE HENRY, “Atlanta”) and their two cohorts out of the bank –right into a fire fight with the cops. Injured and seeing no other option, Sherman leads them to their only hope for survival…

Mary Shelley

Age Restriction: 16 DS
Run time: 120 Mins
Cast: Elle Fanning, Maisie Williams, Douglas Booth, Stephen Dillane
Director: HaifaaAl-Mansour

Synopsis:

Mary Shelley tells the story of Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin -author of one of the world’s most famous Gothic novels ‘Frankenstein’ -and her fiery, tempestuous relationship with re-nowned romantic poet Percy Bysshe Shelley. The pair are two outsiders constrained by po-lite society but bound together by a natural chemistry and progressive ideas that are beyond the boundaries of their age and time. Mary and Percy declare their love for each other and much to her family’s horror they run away together, joined by Mary’s half-sister Claire. In the midst of growing tension within their relationship during their stay at Lord Byron’s house at Lake Geneva, the idea of Frankenstein is conceived when a challenge is put to all house guests to write a ghost story. An incredible character is created, which will loom large in popular culture for centuries to come, but society at the time puts little value in female authors. At the tender age of 18, Mary is forced to challenge these preconceptions, to protect her work and to forge her own identity.

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