month : 08/2020 32 results

Watch the trailer for Tenent – coming to Aussie cinemas August 27!

Armed with only one word—Tenet—and fighting for the survival of the entire world, the Protagonist journeys through a twilight world of international espionage on a mission that will unfold in something beyond real time.   //   Not time travel. Inversion. Tenet will be released in Australian cinemas August 27! www.facebook.com/roadshow

Win tickets to Bill & Ted Face The Music!

The stakes are higher than ever for the time-traveling exploits of William "Bill" S. Preston Esq. and Theodore "Ted" Logan. Yet to fulfill their rock and roll destiny, the now middle aged best friends set out on a new adventure when a visitor from the future warns them that only their song can save life as we know it.   //   Along the way, they will be helped by their daughters, a new batch of historical figures, and a few music legends - to seek the song that will ...

Cowboy, featuring a score from Ben Ely is coming to the Brisbane Festival!

From surfing trains to taming horses to wandering the desert, this work unpacks your ability to have a complete, genuine, and meaningful experience as an imagined self.   //   Saddle up and enter the world of Cowboy for a poignantly funny yet sensitive ride. Cowboy 4 – 6 September 2020 Metro Arts, West End www.brisbanefestival.com.au

Win a double pass to Palace Encore! Classic and Cult Cinema screening!

Some of the amazing films on offer include American Psycho, Fight Club, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon and The Big Lebowski. Head to www.palacecinemas.com.au/events/palace-encore/ for more information about the program. To enter this great competition simply fill out the form below. Please note – these tickets are for specific screenings at Barracks Palace Cinema and can not be exchanged or refunded. The winners will need to be available for their nominated screening and will be ...

Retro Movie Review – Baywatch

Getting the mixture of a cringe comedy just right is not an easy task as one person’s comic meal is another’s awful offal but Baywatch more than tickles the funny bone. It plays out just like bad American television, thin plot, thinner actors and The Rock. Mr Johnson gives good comedy and he and the cast look like they were having a right good time with the material.   //   Fans of bad cinema are out there and when you base a bad film comedy on a bad American ...

Retro Movie Review – T2 Trainspotting

The main players that lived through the first film are all back and Renton, Sick Boy, Spud and Begbie are as dysfunctional as ever. The story set twenty years later borrows heavily from the novels Trainspotting and Porno. Boyle’s technique of injecting scenes from the original work gives T2 a strong and believable link to the past. This continuity does author Irvine Welsh proud.   //   The story revolves around Renton (Ewan McGregor) returning to his old stomping ...

Watch the trailer for Saint Judy – in Aussie cinemas August 20!

In her first case, Judy represents a woman forced to flee her home country after being persecuted by the Taliban for opening a school for girls. While juggling her life as a single mother, Judy fights tenacious battles in and out of court, not only saving her client's life, but changing the Law of Asylum in the United States.   //   This case has saved the lives of thousands of other persecuted women around the world. Like ERIN BROCKOVICH, SAINT JUDY tells the story of a ...

Retro Movie Review – Crazy Heart

Bereft of luck and reduced to playing in bowling alleys and coffee shops, Bad Blake is in the twilight of his career and barely holding on. His alcoholic and stubborn ways have prevented him from enjoying the gilded life that many of his contemporaries are enjoying. This includes one of his earlier writing and performing partners, Tommy Sweet (Colin Farrell).   //   The film’s believability is greatly aided by the fact that Jeff Bridges can actually play and sing. The ...

Watch the trailer for Force of Nature starring Mel Gibson!

As disgraced cop, Cardillo (Emile Hirsch, INTO THE WILD) races to evacuate an apartment building, he comes across Dr. Troy (Kate Bosworth, SUPERMAN RETURNS), and her retired detective father Ray (Gibson).   //   When a murderous gang of thieves arrives to rob a wealthy tenant, they must join forces to battle the criminals and escape with their lives before the entire city is deep underwater. Force of Nature will be released in Australian cinemas August 13! www.face...

Deerskin Movie Review

It all starts when he pays seven thousand Euros (that's over eleven thousand Australian dollars) to buy a relic from the seventies, a fringed deerskin jacket, that doesn’t fit. The seller gives him a video camera during the transaction and seals Georges’ fate.   //   Through lies and happenstance, he meets and befriends Denise (Adèle Haenel) a barmaid with bigger plans. She helps Georges with his obsession by editing the clips that he has recorded while on his ...