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AVENGERS:ENDGAME

SCI-FIACTION.2019. 181 MIN.13LV.

Earth’smightiestheroesareina

seriousfunkafterintergalactic

fascistThanoswipesouthalfofall

livingcreatures.ThereturnofAnt-

Mananda crazyheistschemegive

ourheroeshopethatmaybethere’s

a chancetorestoretheworld.

AdecadeafterthereleaseofIron

Man(ROBERTDOWNEYJR), the

MarvelCinematicUniversewraps

upwithterrificcomedy,actionand

heart,andsetsupthepromiseof

manymoreadventurestocome.

UPGRADE

ACTION.2018. 100 MIN.16LV.

NOW ON DSTV BOX OFFICE

Grey (LOGAN MARSHALL-GREEN)

is paralysed and his wife is killed in

a botched robbery. He is given the

opportunity to regain control of his

body thanks to an implant, and

plots revenge against those who

murdered his wife.

Although it is quite gory at times,

Upgrade doesn’t disappoint with its

action set-pieces and fights. It’s one

of the more interesting action films

of the past year. – SANDRA VISSER

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52 | 22 AUGUST 2019 http://www.drum.co.za

It’sgettinghardertofind

starswhohaven’tyetbeen

inmoviesbasedoncomic

books,andthatlisthasjust

gottensmaller.

TiffanyHaddish,Melissa

McCarthyandElisabeth

Mossmightnotbeflying

aroundinspandexbuttheir

newmovie,TheKitchen,is

basedona 1970s-setcrime-

thrillercomic.

Thestorytakesplacein

Hell’sKitchen,a neighbour-

hood in New York City that

used to be poor and mostly

working class during the era

the flick is set in.

Tiffany, Melissa and

Elisabeth are the wives of

gangsters who have the run

oftheplaceuntiltheyget

arrestedandjailed,leaving

theirspousespenniless.

Thewivesdecidetotake

overwheretheirhusbands

leftoffandunlikelastyear’s

thrillerWidows,these

womenaren’tonlygood

atbeinggangsters,they

enjoyit too.

Thefilm’swriter

anddirector,Andrea

Berloff(shealso

pennedStraight

OuttaCompton),

was“excitedbytheidea

ofplacingwomenina posi-

tion and world in which we

don’t normally see them”,

she told Entertainment

Weekly.

Night School star Tiffany

plays Ruby, an outsider in

the neighbourhood’s Irish

community who “starts off

quiet and observant, and

then gets a little bossy and

gangster”, the actress said.

“She has a plan, she’s just

figuring out how to execute

ho do I team up

with? How do I get to

the money, power

and success that you

need in life?

“It’s about these

individuals instead of the

Mafia as an entity.”

“There was much more

humanity to it, which also

made it scarier,” added

Melissa.

The heat is on

Three mob wives turn gangster and take

over Hell’s Kitchen in this crime thriller

MOVIE

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THIS

SHE’SGOTAFRICANROOTS

HerfatherwasanEritrean

immigrantwholeftherfamily

whenshewasthree.InMay

theactressreceivedEritrean

citizenship.

“NowI gotmycitizenshipI can

comeandseemyfamilywhenI

wanttoseemyfamily.”

GROWINGUPWASHARD

Hermomhada traumaticbrain

injuryina carcrashandcame

homea differentperson,she

said.“I sworeshehada demonin

her.It’ssoscary.”

Hermotherwaslaterinstitu-

tionalised and Tiffany grew up in

foster homes. As a young

woman she was homeless three

times, often living in her car.

BRING BACK THE FUNNY

Her role in The Kitchen isn’t

a move away from comedy.

Tiffany’s new Netflix series,

They Ready, has just dropped..

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TIFFANY HADDISH