6.6

Spud

2010, South Africa

• Actors: John Cleese, Tanit Phoenix, Jason Cope, Troye Sivan, Jeremy Crutchley, Alex McGregor, Genna Blair, Sven Ruygrok, Jamie Royal, Aaron McIlroy, Josh Goddard, Byron Langley, Tom Burne, Darren Frances, Lehasa Moloi, Chris Thomas, Sananda Klages, Stephen Embleton
• Genre: Comedy
• Director(s): Donovan Marsh
• Available languages:
  • English English.

It's South Africa 1990. Two major events are about to happen: The release of Nelson Mandela and, more importantly, it's Spud Milton's first year at an elite boys only private boarding school. John Milton is a boy from an ordinary background who wins a scholarship to a private school in Kwazulu-Natal, South Africa. Surrounded by boys with nicknames like Gecko, Rambo, Rain Man and Mad Dog, Spud has his hands full trying to adapt to his new home. Along the way Spud takes his first tentative steps along the path to manhood. (The path it seems could be a rather long road). Spud is an only child. He is cursed with parents from well beyond the lunatic fringe and a senile granny. His dad is a fervent anti-communist who is paranoid that the family domestic worker is running a shebeen from her room at the back of the family home. His mom is a free spirit and a teenager's worst nightmare, whether it's shopping for Spud's underwear in the local supermarket, or sneaking food into her handbag at school functions. Armed with only his wits and his diary, Spud takes us from illegal night swimming to the red-hot furnace of the cricket pitch, from ghostbusting to a catastrophic family vacation. He also invites us into the mind of a boy struggling to come to terms with a strange new world, a boy whose eyes are being opened to love, friendship and complete insanity.

  6.7

X-Men Origins: Wolverine

2008, USA

• Actors: Hugh Jackman, Liev Schreiber, Danny Huston, Will i Am, Lynn Collins, Kevin Durand, Dominic Monaghan, Taylor Kitsch, Daniel Henney, Ryan Reynolds, Tim Pocock, Julia Blake, Max Cullen, Troye Sivan, Michael-James Olsen, Peter O'Brien, Aaron Jeffery, Alice Parkinson, Philip A. Patterson, Anthony Gee, Adelaide Clemens, Karl Beattie, Tom O'Sullivan, Myles Pollard, Stephen Anderton, Chris Sadrinna, Septimus Caton, Matthew Dale, Nathin Butler, Peter Barry
• Genre: Action, Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Thriller
• Director(s): Gavin Hood
• Available languages:
  • English English.

Two mutant brothers, Logan and Victor, born 200 years ago, suffer childhood trauma and have only each other to depend on. Basically, they're fighters and killers, living from war to war through U.S. history. In modern times, a U.S. colonel, Stryker, recruits them and other mutants as commandos. Logan quits and becomes a logger, falling in love with a local teacher. When Logan refuses to rejoin Stryker's crew, the colonel sends the murderous Victor. Logan now wants revenge.