– Back of the Net – Only in cinemas from 11 April 2019 We have 5 family (admit 4) in-season passes thanks to Umbrella Entertainment. *(Tickets valid in Australia only)* Watch the trailer HERE For American teenager Cory Bailey (Sofia Wiley – star of The Disney Channel’s top rating show, Andi Mack), attending the Harold…
This is an endearing portrait of one of the world’s bravest young women. It is an insight into the world’s youngest Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Malala Yousafzai, who was targeted by the Taliban and severely wounded by a gunshot when returning home on her school bus in Pakistan’s Swat Valley. The then-15-year-old (she turned 18…
– The Fabulous Four – Only in cinemas from 1 August 2024 We have 10 double in-season passes thanks to Transmission Films. *(Tickets valid in Australia only)* Watch the trailer HERE If three’s a crowd, four’s a party! THE FABULOUS FOUR is an uproarious comedy about a group of life-long friends (Susan Sarandon, Megan Mullally,…
I’ve heard so many good things about Rashida Murphy’s book, The Historian’s Daughter, that I had to read it for myself. Here’s the blurb: In an old house with ‘too many windows and women’, high in the Indian hills, young Hannah lives with her older sister Gloria; her two older brothers; her mother – the Magician; a colourful…
In The Freedom of Emma Herwegh, author Dirk Kurbjuweit explores what for many readers will be a little-known period of German history. That is an attempted revolution led by a group of intellectuals following a failed French Revolution in 1848. Its focus is Emma Herwegh, the wife of a German poet and political agitator against…
If The Room isn’t the worst commercially released movie of all time, I don’t know what is. It’s badly acted and directed, and its script doesn’t make any sense. Against all expectations though, it has developed a cult following, with midnight screenings around the world selling out. Made for a reported US$6 million (of writer, director,…
This revisit of Halloween from the ‘70s features a good story – and it’s genuinely scary. \In this Halloween, Jamie Lee Curtis returns to her iconic role as Laurie Strode, as she comes to her final confrontation with Michael Myers. He of course is the masked figure who has haunted her since she narrowly escaped…
It is a shocking tale of displacement (being wrenched away from family), discrimination, institutionalisation, foster homes and police intimidation. As a result, there is acting up, trouble making, drinking, smoking and getting in with the wrong crowd. Then there is the opportunity to turn it all around, to create a lasting legacy and, with it,…
There’s never been an unconventional anti-hero quite like Deadpool, who wears a silly red bodysuit and full face mask. If you thought Robert Downey Jr. was his own man in Iron Man, you ain’t seen nothing yet. An inveterate chatterer with attitude, Deadpool’s trademark irreverence will make him much loved among those who clamour to…
The Wilds, which is the centrepiece of this year’s Rising cultural and artistic festival, is a sensory sensation that I would highly commend to you. You can readily complete a circuit around the “Bowl” in less than an hour. I chose to spend more time there, dwelling around certain installations and taking in the experience of the…
