Hi all I'm busy fixing broken links etc on the site, which may at times break something unexpectedly. If that happens please start again at the home page. Well the BAFTAs are behind us and La La Land did rather well, if not a clean sweep. We've got the Razzies and Oscars next week. In the meantime another contender opens today for your viewing pleasure. http://www.moviesite.co.za/news/bafta.htm The big release is Matt Damon in China, but this is aimed at a different market to Oscar lovers.. :-) Something I found interesting is that both Fifty Shades Darker and The LEGO Batman Movie were released here and the USA and UK last week.. in both overseas markets Batman clobbered Fifty Shades at the box office, but here in SA it was Fifty Shades that came out on top (!) while Batman only managed to get to number 3. The rest of this week's lineup is a bit of a mixed bag, from a Fast-and- Furious style thriller to a rather creepy institutional thriller. Rounding out the lineup is an historic biracial love story, a rom-com from India, and the Teluga version of S3. Enjoy :-) M O V I E S Released 17 February 2017 * Collide (13 V) * The Great Wall (13 V) * The Great Wall (3D) (13 V) * The Great Wall (3D)(IMAX) (13 V) * A Cure for Wellness (16 NVH SV) * Fences (PG10-12) * Loving (PG7-9) * The LEGO Batman Movie (4DX) * Running Shaadi * Yamudu 3 http://www.moviesite.co.za/new.htm SA Top Tens (commercial, Nouveau, best and worst movies on circuit) http://www.moviesite.co.za/topten.htm The US and UK Top Tens. Industry news updated daily. http://www.moviesite.co.za/news/newsitem.htm Showtimes (all Ster-Kinekor, Nu Metro, MovieZone, CineCentre, Movies@, Labia) http://www.moviesite.co.za/where.htm Forthcoming attractions for 17 February http://www.moviesite.co.za/4thcome.htm Updated the pic and quote on the home page http://www.moviesite.co.za/ This Week's pinup http://www.moviesite.co.za/pinup.html (full HD wallpaper) Pick of the Week http://www.moviesite.co.za/pick.htm All the previews. Remember to check with the cinema first. http://www.moviesite.co.za/where/previews.htm List of all movies showing http://www.moviesite.co.za/reviews.htm Same list sorted by Age Restriction http://www.moviesite.co.za/showingbyage.htm Top Ten and Worst Ten Movies by Critical Rating http://www.moviesite.co.za/topten.htm Remember you can support the site by reading the ads... :-) Cheers, Ian --------------------------------------------------------------------------- A woman awakes during the night to find that her husband was not in their bed. She puts on her dressing gown and goes downstairs to look for him. She finds him sitting at the kitchen table with a hot cup of coffee in front of him. He appears to be in deep thought, just staring at the wall. She watches as he wipes a tear from his eye and takes a sip of his coffee. 'What's the matter, dear?' she whispers as she steps into the room, 'Why are you down here at this time of night?' The husband looks up from his coffee, 'I am just remembering when we first met 20 years ago and started dating. You were only 16. Do you remember back then?' he says solemnly. The wife is touched to tears thinking that her husband is so caring, so sensitive. 'Yes, I do' she replies. The husband pauses. The words were not coming easily. 'Do you remember when your father caught us in the back seat of my car?' 'Yes, I remember!' said the wife, lowering herself into a chair beside him. The husband continues. 'Do you remember when he shoved the shotgun in my face and said, 'Either you marry my daughter, or I will send you to jail for 20 years?' 'I remember that too' she replies softly. He wipes another tear from his cheek and says... 'I would have been released today.' --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Finding one of her students making faces at others on the playground, Ms. Smith stopped to gently reprove the child. Smiling sweetly the teacher said, "Johnny, when I was a child, I was told if I made ugly faces it would stay like that." Little Johnny looked up and replied, "Well you can't say you weren't warned." --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Fake news... A jogger, running down a country road, is startled as a horse yells at him, "Hey! Come over here, buddy!" The jogger runs over to the fence where the horse is standing and asks, "Are you talking to me?" The horse replies, "Sure am! Listen, I've got a problem. I won the Kentucky Derby a few years ago, but then this farmer bought me, and now all I do is pull a plow. I'm sick of it. Why don't you run up to the house and offer him $5,000 to buy me? I'll make you some real money, 'cause I can still run." "A talking horse!" thinks the jogger to himself. Dollar signs go off in the jogger's head. So he runs up to the farmhouse, where he finds the old farmer sitting on the porch. The jogger says, "Say, old man, I'll give you $5,000 for that old, broken-down nag you've got out in the field." "Son," says the farmer, "you can't believe everything you hear. That horse ain't never even been to Kentucky!" --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Recently, while I was working in the flower beds in the front garden, my neighbours stopped to chat as they returned home from walking their dog. During our friendly conversation, I asked their 12 year old daughter what she wanted to be when she grows up. She said she wanted to be Prime Minister some day. Both of her parents - Socialists - were standing there, so I asked her, "If you were Prime Minister what would be the first thing you would do?" She replied, "I'd give food and houses to all the homeless people." Her parents beamed with pride! "Wow! What a worthy goal!" I said. "But you don't have to wait until you're Prime Minister to do that!" I told her. "What do you mean?" she replied. So I told her, "You can come over to my house and mow the lawn, pull weeds, and trim my hedge, and I'll pay you £50. Then you can go over to the grocery store where the homeless chap hangs out, and you can give him the £50 to use toward food and a new house." She thought that over for a few seconds, then she looked me straight in the eye and asked, "Why doesn't the homeless man come over and do the work, and you can just pay him the £50?" I said, "Welcome to the Tory Party." Her parents aren't speaking to me. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- A government survey has shown that 91% of illegal immigrants come to Britain so that they can see their own doctor. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- A bar called Drummond's (in Mt Vernon, Texas) began construction on an expansion of their building, hoping to "grow" their business. In response, the local Southern Baptist Church started a campaign to block the bar from expanding - petitions, prayers, etc. About a week before the bar's grand re-opening, a bolt of lightning struck the bar and burned it to the ground! Afterward, the church folks were rather smug - bragging about "the power of prayer". The angry bar owner eventually sued the church on grounds that the church ... "was ultimately responsible for the demise of his building, through direct actions or indirect means." Of course, the church vehemently denied all responsibility or any connection to the building's demise. The judge read carefully through the plaintiff's complaint and the defendant's reply. He then opened the hearing by saying: "I don't know how I'm going to decide this, but it appears from the paperwork that what we have here is a bar owner who now believes in the power of prayer, and an entire church congregation that does not."