Local cinemas this week
Movie of the week: The Insult It’s easy to see why this Beirut-based drama got its Academy Award nomination and then went on to win the Audience Award at this year’s Sydney Film Festival. Writer/director […]
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The Miseducation of Cameron Post giveaway
Winner of the Sundance Grand Jury Prize, Desiree Akhavan’s new feature stars Chloë Grace Moretz in a career-best performance as a young teen sent to a gay conversion therapy camp. Recently orphaned, Cameron looks the […]
You Were Never Really Here giveaway
Fresh from screenings at both the Sydney and Melbourne film festivals, two of the greatest cinema artists of our time, director Lynne Ramsay (We Need to Talk About Kevin) and actor Joaquin Phoenix unite in this masterpiece about a missing teenage […]
Local cinemas this week
Movie of the week: Leave No Trace Maybe it’s an indictment on the state of art-house programming – or something else (have you noticed how they’ve been all desperately discounting?) but this week’s only high-quality […]
The Italian Film Festival opens with a scandal!
Seduction, glamour, corruption, drugs and raucous poolside parties: the life and times of scandal-plagued Silvio Berlusconi have long-demanded a screen depiction, and who better to deliver it than Paolo Sorrentino. The Academy Award-winning director of […]
Loving Pablo DVD giveaway
Academy Award winners Javier Bardem and Penélope Cruz unite in this extraordinary story of the volatile love affair between Columbia’s most famous journalist, Virginia Vallejo and the world’s most feared drug lord, Pablo Escobar. As […]
Local cinemas this week
Movie of the week: C’est La Vie Olivier Nakache and Eric Toleando, the French pair who gave us the monstrous 2012 hit The Intouchables have come up with another brilliant crowdpleaser with this Altman-esque look […]
McQueen giveaway
You won’t need any special interest in fashion to be blown away by this handsomely photographed rise-and-fall story. Presently rating a rare 100% on Rotten Tomatoes, the critics are unanimous in their praise for McQueen […]
Luis and the Aliens family movie giveaway
Extra Terrestrial. Extra Trouble. Luis and the Aliens tells the story of an 12-year-old boy, Luis, who makes friends with three awkward little aliens who crash their little spaceship near his house. In return for […]
Local cinemas this week
Movie of the week: On Chesil Beach Ian McEwan’s Booker-nominated short novel was always going to be tough one to bring to the screen, but this adaption by theatre director Dominic Cooke seems to have […]