Spotlight is our bite-sized entertainment snapshot featuring new releases in South Africa, exclusive film trailers and more. New episodes come out every Thursday on Sunday Times Lifestyle, Sowetan Entertainment and YouTube, plus you can follow Spotlight on Facebook.
This weeks edition of Spotlight delves into a Stephen King novel adapted for the big screen, an award-winning South African film pulling back the curtain on the complexities of generational masculinity and the new documentary series Beauty and the Bester.
Lace up your walking shoes and brace yourself for the dystopian horror thriller The Long Walk, which follows the contestants of a gruelling annual walking contest. Touted as the first novel from the pen of The King of Horror, King, though published later, the film is directed by Francis Lawrence The Hunger Games films. The gripping and haunting film on at cinemas features 50 teenage boys in a high-stakes contest: continuously walk or be shot by their military escort.