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This week on DStv BoxOffice: Let’s Be Cops, Boyhood and more…

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Let’s look at the exciting new blockbusters this week on BoxOffice available on your DStv Explora.

Available from Monday, 12 January: 

Let’s Be Cops

When two pals dress as police officers for a costume party, they become neighbourhood sensations. When these new “heroes” get tangled in a real life web of mobsters and dirty detectives, they must put their fake badges on the line.

Starring:
Damon Wayans Jr., Jake Johnson, Rob Riggle
Director: Luke Greenfield



As Above, So Below

Since the 19th century, the Catacombs that lie beneath the streets of Paris have become a tourist attraction. But when a team of explorers venture into the uncharted maze of bones, they uncover a dark secret.

Starring:
Ben Feldman, Edwin Hodge, Perdita Weeks
Director:
John Dowdle



Adult World
 

A young woman has just come out of university, convinced she’s going to be a famous poet. Saddled with debt and unemployed she moves back in with her parents. Desperate, she takes a job working in an adult book store.

Starring: Emma Roberts, Evan Peters, John Cusack
Director:
Scott Coffey

 

Available from Tuesday, 13 January:

Boyhood

Filmed over 12 years with the same cast, this is a ground-breaking story of growing up as seen through the eyes of a child named Mason.

Starring:
Ellar Coltrane, Ethan Hawke, Patricia Arquette
Director: Richard Linklater



Oculus

As children, two siblings witnessed their parents’ harrowing descent into madness and murder. Convicted of the murder and incarcerated, Tim is now released and reunited with his sister who is trying to exonerate him.

Starring: Brenton Thwaites, Karen Gillan, Katee Sackhoff

Director: Mike Flanagan

Available from Wednesday, 14 January:

Good People

Discovering a cache of cash in their dead tenant’s apt, a couple in debt take the money and find themselves the target of a deadly adversary – the thief who stole it.

Starring: James Franco, Kate Hudson, Tom Wilkinson 
Director: Henrik Ruben Genz


Available from Friday, 16 January:

And So It Goes

Realtor Oren Little wants nothing more than to sell one last house and retire in peace and quiet—until his estranged son suddenly drops off a granddaughter he never knew existed and turns his life upside-down.

Starring: Diane Keaton, Michael Douglas
Director: Rob Reiner


Begin Again
Gretta and her boyfriend Dave decamp for New York when he lands a deal with a major record label. But his new-found fame soon tempts Dave to stray, and Gretta is left on her own. Her world takes a turn for the better when a disgraced record-label exec, stumbles upon her and is immediately captivated by her raw talent.

Starring: Keira Knightley, Mark Ruffalo
Director: John Carney

Check out other great titles on BoxOffice and spend movie night with your awesome DStv Explora

Asuquo Eton founded talkmediaafrica.com, now one of the most visited TV, music, tech and features website, in 2011. He is also a social media analyst, media and entertainment consultant.

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