– Paddington in Peru – Only in cinemas from 1 January 2025 We have 5 double in-season passes thanks to StudioCanal. *(Tickets valid in Australia only)* Watch the trailer HERE PADDINGTON IN PERU brings Paddington’s story back to Peru as he returns to visit his beloved Aunt Lucy, who resides at the Home for Retired…
If not from its 7pm start-time, the family-friendliness of Queensland Theatre’s highly anticipated Round The Twist The Musical is quite apparent from its first song’s farty final punctuation. Soon after, young Bronson (Luca Sero in a role shared with Edison Al and Sebastian Sero) is enjoying the fortress of solitude that is the iconic outhouse…
There’s Always Tomorrow is a bittersweet story about a family of six. The film is set in Rome in the mid-1940s, after the Liberation. But the war has left misery in its aftermath. The primary focus is on wife, Delia (played by Paola Cortellesi, who has co-written and directs the film). She and her family…
Multi-award winning indigenous American author Louise Erdrich has set her new novel The Mighty Red in the heartlands of the Ojibwe people (Erdrich herself is a member of the Turtle Band, a tribe of the Ojibwe). Set on the banks of the Red River in North Dakota, country used for growing sugarbeet but also subject…
A ghostlight is a theatre tradition. One light is left on in the theatre after all the others have been turned off. The image of one light shining in the darkness resonates through Ghostlight, the remarkable new indie film from Kelly O’Sullivan and Alex Thompson. Ghostlight marks the first directing collab between O’Sullivan and Thompson;…
Best in Show (2000) was a delightful hoot. Now, nearly a quarter of a century on, we have a beaut family movie that again involves canine and human competition. Runt is a full-hearted Aussie comedy concerning a little girl from a salt-of-the-earth country town and the stray she befriends. Runt – the dog – runs…
In the same way that Spider-Man transposed from live action back to animation so successfully, now Transformers has done the same. Transformers One is a high-octane adventure with umpteen twists and turns, and extremely well-realised. I’d also like to think that as with Spider-Man, the same will be the case for Transformers moving forward. This…
School holidays are once again upon us, and there are plenty of options for some family friendly films to enjoy with Harold and the Purple Crayon, the Australian film Runt, and the animated origin story of Transformers One. However, easily the best of the bunch is the superb animated The Wild Robot, which has been…
Accessibility and inclusion are at the heart of Fancy Long Legs. This sparkly, pastel, rainbow musical adventure for the young and young-at-heart is set in a spidery world under a crafter’s table. Based on Rachel Burke’s latest picture book of the same name, Fancy Long Legs was adapted by The Little Red Company Artistic Director…
Bookworm is the sophomore directorial feature from New Zealand filmmaker Ant Timpson, who is better known as a writer and producer on a number of weird and often gory horror film such as The Greasy Strangler and The ABCs of Death. Bookworm is more of a family friendly adventure and marks something of a change…
