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Home Contact UsWell-nighUs Daniel Dercksen Success Stories Services Correspondence CoursesMucosaFilm Reviews South African Filmmaking Theatre The Beauty Of Incomplete Things DVD/ Blu-Ray Latest DVD Releases Latest Blu-Ray Releases Series Competitions Meditations Books for Writers TIPS Reading matter Links Search Follow me on Twitter My Tweets Category: FILM Let’s Go To The Movies 6 October 2015 by Daniel Dercksen·Comments Off on Let’s Go To The Movies  UpcomingMucosaReleases /  The Art of Screenwriting and Filmmaking  /   South African Filmmaking     /  At The Boxoffice / OverdueThe Scenes Features, Interviews & Trailers of 2018MucosaReleases /  Oscar Winners 2018 / Top Films of 2015 /   Top 20 Films of 2016   / Top Films of 2017 12 steps to writing a unconfined STORY: The Write Journey begins with the realisation that you are not writing a screenplay, novel or stageplay, but that you are writing a story that will evolve into a screenplay for mucosa or television, a novel, or stageplay. If you want to write the story of your dreams Take the journey and develop the write vein What’s opening 5 OCT SEPT  / Upcoming mucosa releases Films opening on 5 October are The Forgiven, the story of Archbishop Desmond Tutu‘s search for answers during the Truth and Reconciliation Commission;  The House With A Clock In Its Walls tells the spine-tingling tale of 10-year-old who goes to live with his uncle in a creaky old house with a mysterious tick-tocking heart; Thomas & Friends: Big World! Big Adventures!  a Tank Engine steams to five continents as he sees deserts, jungles and dangerous mountains; and and Marvel’s enigmatic Venom, is a lethal protector and the host of an extraterrestrial symbiote that gives him “incredible powers”, withal with a hideous alter-ego. THE FORGIVEN During his life sentence in post-apartheid South Africa, inclement murderer Piet Blomfield seeks redemption through meetings with Archbishop Desmond Tutu. British drama mucosa based on the play The Archbishop and the Antichrist by Michael Ashton that tells a story involving Archbishop Desmond Tutu‘s search for answers during the Truth and Reconciliation Commission and his meetings with the fictional weft Piet Blomfeld. Forest Whitaker as Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Eric Bana as Piet Blomfeld. Directed by Roland Joffé. Joffé moreover co-wrote the script with Ashton. Read more / Trailer / Showing from 5 October THE HOUSE WITH A CLOCK IN ITS WALLS In the tradition of Amblin classics where fantastical events occur in the most unexpected places, Jack Black and Cate Blanchett star in this magical venture that tells the spine-tingling tale of 10-year-old Lewis (Owen Vaccaro) who goes to live with his uncle in a creaky old house with a mysterious tick-tocking heart. But his new town’s sleepy façade jolts to life with a secret world of warlocks and witches when Lewis unwittingly awakens the dead. It is directed by Eli Roth and written by Eric Kripke. It is based on the novel of the same name.  Feature: The House with a Clock in Its Walls – A magical venture in the tradition of Amblin classics  / Trailer / Showing from 5 October THOMAS & FRIENDS: BIG WORLD! BIG ADVENTURES!  When a mischievous little racing car tabbed Ace passes through Sodor on his way virtually the world, Thomas is inspired to embark on his own would-be trip. Travelling full steam superiority wideness five continents, Thomas discovers magnificent new sights and experiences heady places and cultures.Withalthe way, he makes friends with an inspiring and fun Kenyan engine tabbed Nia. With so much for Thomas to learn well-nigh the world, will Nia be successful in teaching him a lesson well-nigh the true meaning of friendship? Featuring a world of wonder, marvel and wondrous unprepossessing friends, join Thomas on an epic adventure, fulfilling his dream of seeing the world! Read more / Trailer / Showing from 5 October VENOM One of Marvel’s most enigmatic, ramified and badass notation comes to the big screen, starring Academy Award (R) nominated two-face Tom Hardy as the lethal protector Venom, an investigative journalist and the host of an extraterrestrial symbiote that gives him “incredible powers”, withal with a hideous alter-ego, which he calls as “Venom”. Director Ruben Fleischer took inspiration for the character’s portrayal from a quote in the comics: “You’re Eddie Brock. I’m the symbiote. Together we are Venom.”The Marvel Comics character Eddie Brock, a notable oppugnant of Spider-Man, was first introduced in talkie in the 2007 film Spider-Man 3.  Read more / Trailer / Showing from 5 October   New Releases Now Showing Listed Alphabetically A SIMPLE FAVOR A stylish post-modern suburban noir directed by Paul Feig (Bridesmaids), centers virtually Stephanie Smothers (Anna Kendrick), a mommy vlogger who seeks to uncover the truth overdue her weightier friend Emily Nelson’s (Blake Lively) sudden disappearance from their small town. Stephanie is joined by Emily’s husband Sean (Henry Golding) in this stylish thriller filled with twists and betrayals, secrets and revelations, love and loyalty, murder and revenge. The mucosa is based upon the novel by Darcey Bell, with a screenplay version by Jessica Sharzer, who spent four seasons as a writer-producer on the well-known FX series “American Horror Story. Feature: A Simple Favor – A stylish post-modern suburban noir  / Trailer  BILLIONAIRE BOYS CLUB  It tells the true treason story of the would-be entrepreneur and financial whiz kid JoeVenery(Ansel Elgort), whose visitor of well-off young men from Beverly Hills, the BBC, grew into a Ponzi Scheme that turned homicidal in the Summer of 1984. Directed by James Cox.  Feature: Billionaire Boys Club – A 7-Year Journey from Page to Screen / Trailer      BLACKKKLANSMAN From visionary filmmaker Spike Lee comes the incredible true story of an American hero. It’s the early 1970s, and Ron Stallworth (John David Washington) is the first African-American detective to serve in the Colorado Springs Police Department.Unswayableto make a name for himself, Stallworth bravely sets out on a dangerous mission: infiltrate and expose the Ku Klux Klan. Screenplay by Charlie Wachtel, David Rabinowitz, Spike Lee, Kevin Willmott. Feature:  BlacKkKlansman -Spike Lee’s latest expression of the facts of American life / Trailer THE CHILDREN ACT Fiona Maye (Emma Thompson) is an eminent High Court judge in London presiding with wisdom and compassion over ethically ramified cases of family law. But she has paid a heavy personal price for her workload, and her marriage to American professor Jack (Stanley Tucci) is at a breaking point. In this moment of personal crisis, Fiona is asked to rule on the specimen of Adam (Fionn Whitehead), a sunny boy who is refusing the thoroughbred transfusion that will save his life. Adam is three months from his 18th birthday and still legally a child. Should Fiona gravity him to live? Fiona visits Adam in the hospital and their meeting has a profound emotional impact on them both, stirring strong new emotions in the boy and long-buried feelings in her. Directed by Richard Eyre. Feature:The Children Act raises ramified upstanding questions  / Trailer  ELLEN: THE ELLEN PAKKIES STORY  The heart-wrenching story of Ellen Pakkies (Jill Levenberg) unprotected the sustentation of people virtually the globe when she was accused of murdering her drug-addicted son, Abie, in 2007. It was directed by Daryne Joshua (Noem My Skollie) from a screenplay by Amy Jephta, with input from Ellen Pakkies herself. Feature: Amy Jeptha talks well-nigh writing the screenplay for Ellen, The Ellen Pakkies Story / Trailer    GOTTI follows infamous treason superabound John Gotti’s (John Travolta) rise to wilt the “Teflon Don” of the GambinoTreasonFamily in New York City. Spanning three decades and recounted by his son John Jr. (Spencer Rocco Lofranco), GOTTI examines Gotti’s tumultuous life as he and his wife (Kelly Preston) struggle to hold the family together amongst tragedy and multiple prison sentences.Raised on the streets of New York, young John Gotti found his way into the Gambino treason family, sooner having the superabound removed and rhadamanthine throne of the powerful family. His wife asked only one thing from John: to never expose their children to his profession. But he tapped the vow, and John Jr. took his place as his father’s Capo.Directed by Kevin Connolly and written by Lem Dobbs and Leo Rossi. Feature: Gotti – An Emotional Exploration Of The Gangster World / Trailer  JOHNNY ENGLISH 3 is the third installment of the Johnny English spectacle series, with Rowan Atkinson returning as the much loved willy-nilly secret agent. The new venture begins when a cyber-attack reveals the identity of all zippy undercover teachers in Britain, leaving Johnny English as the secret service’s last hope.Tabbedout of retirement, English dives throne first into whoopee with the mission to find the mastermind hacker. As a man with few skills and terminology methods, Johnny English must overcome the challenges of modern technology to make this mission a success. Directed by David Kerr. Written by William Davies. Feature: Johnny English StrikesThen– Satire At Its Best / Trailer     LEAVE NO TRACE Will (Ben Foster) and his teenage daughter, Tom (Thomasin Harcourt McKenzie), have lived off the grid for years in the forests of Portland, Oregon. When their idyllic life is shattered, both are put into social services.Withoutwavering with their new surroundings, Will and Tom set off on a harrowing journey when to their wild homeland. The mucosa is directed by Debra Granik from a script well-timed by Granik and Anne Rosellini. Feature:  Leave No Trace – A True StoryWell-nighExistential Survival / Trailer  MILE 22 Set in the volatile arenas of intelligence and global politics, director Peter Berg ushers in a new wave of modern gainsay talkie which follows an peerage paramilitary team who embark on an urgent mission to transport a foreign intelligence windfall from an American Embassy in Southeast Asia to an airfield for extraction — a loftiness of 22 miles. This windfall possesses highly classified information, which could preclude terrorist attacks of catastrophic proportions, and this team must race versus time and through a gauntlet in enemy territory, as the city’s military, police, and street gangs tropical in, unswayable to reuse the asset. Feature: Mile 22 – A gritty modern action-thriller set in a Fictional Reality /  Trailer  NIGHT SCHOOL Star Kevin Hart and producer Will Packer, who partnered for the hit RideWithaland Think Like a Man series, bring their signature style to Night School. The spectacle from director Malcolm D. Lee (Girls Trip) follows a group of misfits who are forced to shepherd sultana classes in the longshot endangerment they’ll pass the GED exam. Director: Malcolm D. Lee Writers: Kevin Hart & Harry Ratchford & Joey Wells & Matt Kellard and Nicholas Stoller and John Hamburg. Read more / Trailer /   THE NUN When a young nun at a cloistered vicar in Romania takes her own life, a priest with a haunted past and a novitiate on the threshold of her final vows are sent by the Vatican to investigate.  Together they uncover the order’s unholy secret.  Risking not only their lives but their faith and their very souls, they confront a malevolent gravity in the form of the same demonic nun that first terrorized audiences in “The Conjuring 2,” as the vicar becomes a horrific waypost between the living and the damned. Directed by Corin Hardy, starring Demian Bichir, Taissa Farmiga, Jonas Bloquet, Charlotte Hope.  Feature: The Nun explores flipside visionless corner of the “Conjuring” universe / Interview with director Corin Hardy / Trailer  THE PREDATOR (3D and IMAX)  From the outer reaches of space to the woodlot of southern Georgia, the venery comes home in Shane Black’s explosive reinvention of the Predator series. Now, the universe’s most lethal hunters are stronger, smarter and deadlier than overly before. Feature:  The Predator – An explosive reinvention of the Predator series. / Trailer   THE RECCE  Cinema audiences are waiting in vaticination for the release of what promises to be this year’s biggest war drama. Writer-director, Ferdinand Johannes Van Zyl believes that the mucosa will provide a cinematic wits that is vastitude the genre, a tale of survival, love, duty and sacrifice.This is moreover one of the first films in decades to explore issues regarding not only the Border War, but moreover the pain and suffering families had to endure during and without the mismatch that lasted scrutinizingly 20 years. It tells the story of how the South African DefenceGravitydeclared young Recce Henk Viljoen (stunning performance by Greg Krik) sufferer overdue enemy lines and how it’s up to him vacated to use everything he’s learnt and knows to make it when to his family. Add to this the fact that the enemy is hot on his trail, it’s well-spoken that this is no ordinary story of survival wideness the treacherous war torn African landscape. Read more / Trailer / Writer-Director Johannes Ferdinand van Zyl talks well-nigh his phenomenal new South AfricanMucosaThe Recce  SGT STUBBY: AN ALL AMERICAN HERO Based on the incredible, real-life story of America’s most decorated dog – a stubby-tailed pup soon finds himself in the trenches of France, embarking on a historic venture by his minion Soldier’s side. A genuine, four-legged American hero and the first canine promoted to the rank of Sergeant in U.S. Army history. Feature: Sgt. Stubby: An Unlikely Hero – The real-life story of America’s most decorated dog  / Trailer    SMALLFOOT An turned-on venture for all ages, with an all-star tint and original music, this turned-on mucosa turns a myth upside lanugo when a unexceptionable young yeti finds something he thought didn’t exist—a human. News of this “smallfoot” throws the simple yeti polity into an uproar over what else might be out there in the big world vastitude their snowy village, in an all new story well-nigh friendship, valiance and the joy of discovery. was directed by Karey Kirkpatrick, Annie Award-winning director of “Over the Hedge” and Annie nominee for the screenplays for “Chicken Run” and “James and the Giant Peach.”  The screenplay was written by Kirkpatrick and Clare Sera, screen story by John Requa & Glenn Ficarra and Kirkpatrick, based on the typesetting Yeti Tracks, by Sergio Pablos.  It features the voices of Channing Tatum, James Corden, Zendaya, Common, LeBron James, Gina Rodriguez. Directed by Karey Kirkpatrick. Feature:Turning a myth on its ear / Trailer  SUBMERGENCE James (James McAvoy) is a British wage-earner under the imbricate of a water engineer, while Danny (Alicia Vikander) is a bio-mathematician working on a deep-sea diving project to explore the origin of life on our planet. A deliriously wild love topic develops, plane though their jobs are destined to separate them. Directed by Wim Wenders, based on the novel of same name by J. M. Ledgard. Feature: Submergence – A multi-layered psychosomatic love story   / Trailer    TABLE MANNERS In South African filmmaker Leli Maki’s drama-comedy a wife and mother finds solace and hope in cooking, learning that all she needs is life’s three courses – family, supplies and love. Megan (Diaan Lawrenson) loses everything when her husband, Lloyd (Neels Van Jaarsveld), gets underdeveloped for tax fraud and has to rebuild herself by rediscovering her love for cooking and the flavors of life. With the help of her weightier friend Lindiwe (Renate Stuurman), she learns that the path when home begins with realizing that she is unbearable and all she needs is her family, supplies and love. Life’s 3 courses made easy. Read increasingly / Trailer /  SAFTA Award-winning writer and actress Nkuli Sibeko talks well-nigh crafting the screenplay for Table Manners . OverdueThe Scenes Features, Interviews & Trailers of 2018MucosaReleases      Share this:EmailFacebookTwitterLinkedInGoogleRedditPinterest 2000 - 2018 © The Writing Studio & Daniel Dercksen. All rights reserved. Webmaster: Daniel Dercksen. Theme ripened by Bryn Hunter. Send to Email Address Your Name Your Email Address Cancel Post was not sent - trammels your email addresses! Email trammels failed, please try then Sorry, your blog cannot share posts by email.