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Our celebration of strong female leads with heartfelt stories, sci-fi adventure, record-breaking superheroes and gripping local drama continues this week in Spotlight.
Sometimes the best way to live is to stop worrying about surviving. In Sunny Dancer, cancer survivor Ivy heads to a summer camp for teenagers affected by cancer, where new friendships, rule breaking and a little romance help her discover a new perspective on life. Written and directed by George Jaques and starring Bella Ramsey, Neil Patrick Harris and Daniel Quinn-Toye, this heartfelt coming-of-age story is now showing at cinemas.
A mysterious cosmic event tears an ordinary suburban street from Earth and transports it to somewhere completely unknown in the sci-fi adventure The End of Oak Street. With danger coming from every direction, sticking together may be the only way to survive. Directed by David Robert Mitchell and starring Anne Hathaway, Ewan McGregor, Maisy Stella and Christian Convery, this thrilling adventure is showing at cinemas, IMAX, 4DX and ScreenX.
Spider-Man: Brand New Day has swung straight to the top of the global box office, with South African audiences helping deliver the biggest opening weekend in local box office history by earning more than R44m. Globally the film has crossed the $1bn (R16.15bn) mark, becoming the second-fastest film ever to reach the billion-dollar milestone. The web-slinging blockbuster continues to climb and is at cinemas nationwide.
When family and justice collide there are no easy choices in the gripping new South African drama Umthetho. Nqobile “Nunu” Khumalo stars as a young prosecutor who discovers her supposedly dead brother is alive and running a prison syndicate, forcing her to choose between blood, loyalty and the law. The seven-part series also stars Lorcia Cooper-Khumalo, Tony Kgoroge and Given Stuurman, and is streaming on Netflix.
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