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The Roses Movie Review

Their coming together was storybook and instantaneous, their tip into separation and animosities slow and grinding. Theo, through a building project disaster, loses his job and reputation and retires to raise their two children. At the same time, Ivy scales the heights, running a restaurant that becomes wildly successful and expands to become a thriving chain of locations.   //   The animosity that builds between the couple is played mostly for laughs, but the vitriol that ...

The Roses Preview Screenings are coming to Dendy Cinemas Portside!

Catch a sneak peek preview of the hilarious new comedy THE ROSES at the Dendy's RomComedy Night Preview on Friday, August 29 with a glass of sparkling on arrival. Or you can catch one of our Preview Screenings on 30 & 31 August.   //   From the director of Meet the Parents and starring Benedict Cumberbatch and Olivia Colman, The Roses is a reimagining of the 1989 classic The War of the Roses, in which Cumberbatch and Colman play the seemingly picture-perfect couple ...

The Phoenician Scheme Movie Review

The story is almost entirely built around the strange life of Zsa-zsa Korda (Benicio Del Toro) and he features in nearly every scene. He is a rich and powerful industrialist with a bent moral compass. Through a lifetime of questionable dealings with friends and foes alike, he has acquired a large number of enemies whose attempts to assassinate him drive the film’s comic overview.   //   Most of these attempts happen while in flight so it’s a given you wouldn’t want ...

Watch the first trailer for The Roses – starring Olivia Colman and Benedict Cumberbatch!

Life seems easy for picture-perfect couple Ivy (Olivia Colman) and Theo (Benedict Cumberbatch): successful careers, a loving marriage, great kids. But beneath the façade of their supposed ideal life, a storm is brewing – as Theo’s career nosedives while Ivy’s own ambitions take off, a tinderbox of fierce competition and hidden resentment ignites. The Roses is a reimagining of the 1989 classic film The War of the Roses, based on the novel by Warren Adler.   //   ...

Watch the trailer for The Phoenician Scheme – coming to cinemas May 29!

Starring Benicio del Toro as Zsa-zsa Korda, one of the richest men in Europe; Mia Threapleton as Liesl, his daughter/a nun; Michael Cera as Bjorn, their tutor.   //   With Riz Ahmed, Tom Hanks, Bryan Cranston, Mathieu Amalric, Richard Ayoade, Jeffrey Wright, Scarlett Johansson, Benedict Cumberbatch, Rupert Friend, Hope Davis. www.facebook.com/UniversalPicturesAU/

Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness Movie Review

Highlights include a classic cameo and some interesting universe graduates introduced and then dispatched rather quickly. There is also a great scene where two of the Doctors battle each other with music notes. This was very much enhanced by seeing the film in a theatre with a kick-butt sound system.   //   The storyline as it is makes little sense but that is almost beside the point by this moment in time. Suspend expectations and just revel in clever homages to some ...

Watch Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness’ new trailer!

In Marvel Studios’ “Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness,” the MCU unlocks the Multiverse and pushes its boundaries further than ever before. Journey into the unknown with Doctor Strange, who, with the help of mystical allies both old and new, traverses the mind-bending and dangerous alternate realities of the Multiverse to confront a mysterious new adversary. “Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness” stars Benedict Cumberbatch, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Elizabeth Olsen, ...

Watch the trailer for Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness!

“The Multiverse is a concept about which we know frighteningly little."   //   “Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness” opens in Australian cinemas on May 5, 2022. www.facebook.com/MarvelAUNZ/

Spider-Man: No Way Home Movie Review

It’s not the easiest film to review because there are so many moments of delightful surprise that to reveal even the slightest tidbit would do viewers a real disservice. Just suffice to say that there is an almost constant flow of elements that fill the theatre with loud and lusty cheers.   //   Picking up where Spider-Man: Far from Home left off with Quentin Beck (Jake Gyllenhaal) telling the world the true identity of Spider-Man, Peter Parker now has his hands full ...

Watch the new Spider-Man: No Way Home Return Of The Villains vignette!

When he enlists Doctor Strange’s help to restore his secret, the spell tears a hole in their world, releasing the most powerful villains who’ve ever fought a Spider-Man in any universe.   //   Now, Peter will have to overcome his greatest challenge yet, which will not only forever alter his own future but the future of the Multiverse. Starring Tom Holland, Zendaya, Benedict Cumberbatch, Jon Favreau, Jacob Batalon with Marisa Tomei, Spider-Man: No Way Home will be ...