THE WILD ROBOT

Based on Peter Brown’s bestseller, The Wild Robot tells the story of Roz, a robot shipwrecked on an uninhabited island, who must learn to adapt to the harsh surroundings. Gradually, Roz builds relationships with the animals on the island, becoming the adoptive parent of an orphaned gosling.

Rotten Tomatoes’ best animated movie of 2024, The Wild Robot was nominated for three Oscars, including Best Animated Feature Film, having won the category at the Annie and Critics Choice Awards.  

Kenyan Oscar winner Lupita Nyong’o voices Roz, leading a stacked cast that includes Emmy nominees Pedro Pascal and Ving Rhames, Emmy winners Mark Hamill, Catherine O’Hara and Kit Connor, Oscar nominees Bill Nighy and Stephanie Hsu, and BAFTA winner Matt Berry. 

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FURIOSA: A MAD MAX SAGA

Rotten Tomatoes’ fourth Best Movie of 2024, Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga returns us to George Miller’s iconic dystopian vision that began more than 40 years ago with the seminal Mad Max films and won six Oscars for 2015’s Mad Max: Fury Road.

Years before the events of Fury Road, a young Furiosa is snatched from the Green Place of Many Mothers and falls into the hands of a great Biker Horde led by the Warlord Dementus. Sweeping through the Wasteland, they come across the Citadel, presided over by Immortan Joe. While the two tyrants war for dominance, Furiosa must survive until she can find her way home. 

Emmy nominee Anya Taylor-Joy (The Queen’s Gambit) steps into the title role originated by Charlize Theron in Fury Road, with People’s Choice winner Chris Hemsworth (Marvel’s Thor) as Dementus. 

Furiosa has won numerous awards, with nominations at the 2025 Critics Choice Awards (Best Young Actress for Alyla Browne) and Saturn Awards (Best Science Fiction Film and Best Actress for Taylor-Joy). It has a 90% critics’ rating on Rotten Tomatoes. As the audience consensus there says, “Come for Anya Taylor-Joy and stay on the edge of your seat for the CGI-heavy action. Furiosa does not disappoint fans of the franchise and welcomes newcomers to jump onto the thrilling Mad Max ride.”

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TRANSFORMERS ONE 

Transformers One is the untold origin story of Optimus Prime and Megatron. Now known as sworn enemies, they were once friends, bonded like brothers, who changed the fate of Cybertron forever.

The first-ever fully CG-animated Transformers movie, the #1 box office hit features a star-studded voice cast, including People’s Choice winner Chris Hemsworth (aka Thor), Oscar nominees Brian Tyree Henry, Scarlett Johansson and Laurence Fishburne, and Emmy winners Keegan-Michael Key, Steve Buscemi and Jon Hamm. Henry’s been nominated for Black Reel and Annie Awards as Megatron. 

Directed by Josh Cooly, who won an Oscar for Toy Story 4, Transformers One has an 89% critics’ rating on Rotten Tomatoes and was nominated for Best Animated Film at the 2025 Saturn Awards, run by The Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror Films. 

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VENOM: THE LAST DANCE

Eddie and Venom are on the run in the Venom trilogy’s final instalment: The Last Dance –  the 11th highest-grossing movie of 2024 globally.

Hunted by both of their worlds, the duo are forced into a devastating decision that will bring the curtain down on Venom and Eddie’s last dance. 

Oscar nominee Tom Hardy (Mad Max: Fury Road, The Dark Knight) returns as Eddie/Venom. The stacked cast also includes  Oscar nominee Chiwetel Ejiofor (Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy), Emmy nominees Juno Temple (Fargo, Ted Lasso), Andy Serkis (Gollum in Lord of the Rings) and Reid Scott (Veep’s Dan Egan), BAFTA winner Rhys Ifans (House of the Dragon), and multiple BAFTA nominee Stephen Graham (Adolescence). 

The Last Dance was nominated for Best Science Fiction Film at the 2025 Saturn Awards, with IndieWire hailing the film as “the greatest love story ever told about a man and his symbiotic alien goo.”

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THE BIKERIDERS

After a chance encounter, headstrong Kathy is drawn to Benny, a member of Midwestern motorcycle club the Vandals. But as the club transforms into a dangerous underworld of violence, Benny must choose between Kathy and his loyalty to the club.

Oscar nominees Austin Butler and Tom Hardy play Benny and Johnny, with Emmy winner Jodie Comer (Killing Eve) as Kathy. Also look out for Oscar nominee Michael Shannon (Nocturnal Animals, Take Shelter), and BAFTA nominees Mike Faist (Challengers, West Side Story) and Norman Reedus (The Walking Dead). 

Inspired by Danny Lyon’s 1967 photo book of the same name, The Bikeriders is the passion project of Cannes winner Jeff Nichols (Take Shelter), who wrote and directed. The crime drama has an 80% critics’ rating on Rotten Tomatoes after ending at #2 on Indiewire’s Critics’ Poll of the Best Films Opening in 2024.

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THE GARFIELD MOVIE

Garfield, the world-famous, Monday-hating, lasagna-loving indoor cat, is about to have a wild outdoor adventure! After an unexpected reunion with his long-lost father – scruffy street cat Vic – Garfield and his canine friend Odie are forced from their perfectly pampered life into joining Vic in a hilarious, high-stakes heist.

Listen out for Chris Pratt as Garfield, Samuel L. Jackson as Vic, and Critics Choice nominee Harvey Guillén (Guillermo in What We Do In The Shadows) as Odie, not to mention Emmy-winning Ted Lasso favourites Brett Goldstein and Hannah Waddingham. Snoop Dogg has a cameo too – as a cat. 

The 26th biggest box office hit of 2024 globally, The Garfield Movie was nominated for the 2024 Kids Choice Award for Favourite Animated Movie.

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BOY KILLS WORLD

Boy Kills World stars Teen Choice nominee Bill Skarsgård (the IT films, John Wick: Chapter 4, Nosferatu) as “Boy”, who vows revenge after his family is murdered by the deranged matriarch of a post-apocalyptic dynasty, leaving him orphaned, deaf and voiceless. 

Driven by his inner voice (co-opted from his favourite childhood video game), Boy trains to become an instrument of death and is set loose on the eve of the annual culling of dissidents, falling in with a desperate resistance group as a bloody bedlam ensues.

The Daily Beast calls it, “Uniquely deranged,” RogerEbert.com “an action orgy,” and Daily Maverick, “a manic fever dream of over-the-top violence and humour… breathlessly brutal, utterly deranged and so much damned fun.”

Filmed in Cape Town, Boy Kills World was produced by the legendary Sam Raimi (Evil Dead, Spider-Man) and South African company Nthibah Pictures. The stacked cast includes Critics Choice Super Award nominee Andrew Koji (Bullet Train, Gangs of London, Warrior), Teen Choice nominee Famke Janssen (Phoenix in the X-Men movies), Emmy nominee Michelle Dockery (The Gentlemen, Downton Abbey), and a host of South African stars, including Sharlto Copley. 

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