Cinemagoers can take a breath this week. Unless they’re in the South African city of Durban for the next ten days, where the 46th Durban International Film Festival, AKA DIFF, is under way. DIFF is not only the largest and longest running film festival in Southern Africa, it’s considered one of the most prestigious movie showcases on the entire African continent.
If you’re not hitting up the East Coast, though, and you’re not checking out tomorrow’s two new feature debuts, your choices include the Throwback Cinema rerelease of Home Alone 2: Lost in New York and a recording of Opera National De Paris performing ballet The Sleeping Beauty.
It’s not just Nineties/Noughties horror franchises Scream and Final Destination enjoying a nostalgic revival. I Know What You Did Last Summer is back too. In this slasher thriller with revenge overtones, a group of five friends inadvertently cause a deadly car accident, and cover it up. One year later, they must face the consequences of their actions in the form of a hooded, hook-wielding killer who knows what they did. As the teens are picked off one by one, they must turn to two survivors of a similar incident, the Southport Massacre of 1997, for help. That means Freddie Prinze Jr. and Jennifer Love Hewitt are back!
If the past few weeks at cinemas have been too noisy and overblown for you, you may prefer romantic drama Four Letters of Love starring Pierce Brosnan and Helena Bonham Carter. Young couple Nicholas and Isabel were made for each other, but as ghosts, fate and the sheer power of true love pull them together, so too does heartbreak and tragedy threaten to tear them apart.