The Bookshop giveaway
Based on Penelope Fitzgerald’s novel of the same name, The Bookshop is set in 1959. Florence Green (Emily Mortimer), a free-spirited widow, puts grief behind her and risks everything to open up a bookshop – the […]
Movies
Never trust a politician
Two movies about the dark art of politics open in the local cinemas this week Chappaquiddick OMG, what was he thinking?!! That’s likely to be most people’s reaction to what Senator Ted Kennedy did after he drove […]
Two limited release movies not to miss
On Body And Soul Hungarian director Ildikó Enyedi is a bold and unique filmmaker who doesn’t play by any of the usual rules. Her first film in nearly 20 years is about two people who share […]
Local cinemas this week
Breath It’s a sobering thought that the best new Australian movie since, um… (I don’t know…. forever!) may not have even been made on these shores. That’s if author Tim Winton’s Nimby-ish instincts had held sway. […]
American Essentials Film Festival’s top 5
At first glance, a festival dedicated only to US films seems strange – isn’t every film at our multiplexes American, and half those at arthouses as well? True, but the American Essentials Film Festival sets out to […]
Local cinemas this week
Unsane Steven Soderbergh shot his latest new thriller entirely on an iPhone 7 in just over a week, something hailed as a breakthrough. “I think this is the future,” he’s been quoted as saying. Maybe… […]
Chappaquiddick giveaway
The untold true story of the scandal that changed the world Chappaquiddick is a piercing reexamination of the true murky events surrounding the most difficult seven days of Senator Ted Kennedy’s career. In the aftermath […]
Breath ticket giveaway
Based on Tim Winton’s award-winning novel of the same name, Simon Baker’s feature film directorial debut Breath follows two teenage boys, Pikelet (Samson Coulter) and Loonie (Ben Spence), growing up in a remote corner of […]
Tully ticket giveaway
Charlize Theron stars As Marlo in Tully, the smart new comedy-drama from Academy Award nominated director Jason Reitman (Juno and Up in the Air). When Marlo is gifted a night nanny by her brother (Mark Duplass) […]
On Body And Soul ticket giveaway
2018 Academy Award Nominee for Best Foreign Language Film, Winner of the 2017 Sydney Film Festival Award and the 2017 Berlinale Golden Bear, On Body and Soul is about the unconventional romance between two co-workers who discover that […]