Five new films open in South African cinemas today, including 2 that are up for multiple awards at this year’s Academy Awards. Lincoln: Leading this year’s Oscar race with 12 nominations, and a ton of other awards, is this historical drama from director Steven Spielberg. Daniel Day-Lewis plays America’s greatest president in the last 4 months of his life – …

Love. Easily the most destructive emotion known to man, yet also it’s most exhilarating. And sometimes, when it’s practiced from behind high powered binoculars while perched in a tree, kind of creepy. Luckily Joe “Atonement”Wright chooses not to showcase that particular brand of love (phew) in his adaptation of Leo Tolstoy’s classic novel, Anna Karenina, but he certainly covers the first …

Fresh from his modern-day fairy-tale on crack, Hanna, director Joe Wright is now returning to the posh period pieces that made him famous (and earned him those Oscar noms), and he’s bringing along an old friend in the pouty-faced form of actress Keira Knightley. There’s no denying that the duo have made some beautiful looking films together though. Both Atonement and Pride …