Local cinemas this week
It’s a remarkably strong week for arthouse and indie releases – all screening at Dendy Newtown Movie of the week: Galveston Roy Cady (Ben Foster, Hell or High Water) is an angry two-bit crim and violent hitman, […]
Movies
1985 movie giveaway
Having been gone for three years, closeted advertising executive Adrian (Cory Michael Smith) returns to his Texas hometown for the holidays during the first wave of the AIDS crisis. Burdened with an unspeakable tragedy in […]
Spanish Film Festival giveaway
This year Palace Cinemas’ popular Spanish Film Festival will be further enriched by the Cine Latino Film Festival sidebar, formerly a separate event in November. That means there now just too many highlights to list from […]
Breaking Habits giveaway
A higher calling… Writer-director Rob Ryan’s documentary about a weed-growing nun (huh? Say that again?) follows Christine Meeusen, a corporate exec-turned-cannabis-farmer who found her calling in medicinal marijuana. Cheated by her stealing, polygamist husband of […]
Local cinemas this week
Our Nic is bruised, battered and bad Movie of the week: Destroyer We’ve had plenty of male bad cops on screen before, but so far no female actors have been prepared to get down and dirty. […]
Burning giveaway
Based on a Haruki Murakami short story and starring Steven Yeun (The Walking Dead, Okja), BURNING is a gripping psychological study of thwarted love, ambition and obsession. Novelistic in scope, grandeur and impact, and featuring three […]
Galveston giveaway
Debt Collector and sometime-killer Roy (Ben Foster) senses that his boss, a dangerous, violent and pitiless loan-shark, wants him dead, and his next routine assignment is indeed a death-trap. Yet what the would-be killers do […]
Local cinemas this week
Yes, there is something else on other than that blonde white chick running about in a silly superman suit. Two very fine films indeed… Multiplex pick: Hotel Mumbai Aussie filmmaker Anthony Maras opens his gripping account of […]
Five French films that will really surprise you
Sure, the Alliance Française French Film Festival has its fair share of crowd-pleasing arthouse hits and light romantic comedies, but you can see them any time, right? So when the organisers offered a whole bunch of […]
Destroyer giveaway
Nicole Kidman – as you’ve never seen her before When a fresh case exposes history from a former investigation, LAPD detective Erin Bell (Nicole Kidman) is forced to face her demons in Destroyer – a […]