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Watch the all new trailer for All Is True starring Kenneth Branagh, Judi Dench and Ian McKellen!

The year is 1613, Shakespeare is acknowledged as the greatest writer of the age. But disaster strikes when his renowned Globe Theatre burns to the ground, and devastated, Shakespeare returns to Stratford, where he must face a troubled past and a neglected family.   //   Haunted by the death of his only son Hamnet, he struggles to mend the broken relationships with his wife and daughters. In so doing, he is ruthlessly forced to examine his own failings as a husband and ...

Swimming with Men Seniors Preview Screening at Dendy Cinemas

Swimming with Men is a 2018 British comedy film starring Rob Brydon, Jane Horrocks, Rupert Graves, Daniel Mays, Thomas Turgoose, Jim Carter, Adeel Akhtar and Charlotte Riley. It was directed by Oliver Parker.   //   Inspired by the 2010 documentary, Men Who Swim, SWIMMING WITH MEN tells the story of Eric (Rob Brydon), an accountant in the throes of a mid-life crisis, who eventually finds new meaning to his life as part of an all-male, middle-aged amateur synchronised ...

Stan & Ollie Movie Review

This bittersweet tale is set in the latter part of their careers as they tour England after World War II. It shows two men that were creative partners for most of their adult lives but never really communicated in words or deeds their true feelings for each other.   //   Steve Coogan as Stan Laurel and John C. Reilly as Oliver Hardy are absolutely convincing in their roles. They are outstanding in showing the physical comedy side of their art with its strict timing and ...

Win a double pass to Sometimes Always Never starring Bill Nighy!

Sharp of both suit and vocabulary, Nighy (Love Actually, About Time, The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel), is winningly deadpan as Scrabble-obsessed Merseyside tailor Alan, whose eldest son Michael stormed out of the house after a particularly heated round of the popular board game, never to return. Years later, Alan and his other son Peter (Sam Riley, Maleficent) continue the search while trying to repair their own strained relationship.   //   Working from a witty and ...

If Beale Street Could Talk Movie Review

Set in seventies America, Alonzo 'Fonny' Hunt (Stephan James), a man of colour is falsely accused of rape and get chewed up by the system. It’s a slow grind for both the incarcerated and the viewer. Even the love and effort of both of his families, his and hers, cannot sway the outcome.   //   Filmed with subdued colour pallets and dimly lit scenes, we see the affection that Fonny feels for Clementine ‘Tish’ Rivers (KiKi Layne) but their young love is anything but ...

Watch the new trailer for Wild Rose – coming to cinemas soon!

Jessie Buckley delivers a finely tuned performance of triumph and tragedy in WILD ROSE, a beautifully crafted, heartfelt film in the style of British classics like Little Voice and Billy Elliott. Wild Rose will be in Austraian cinemas soon! www.facebook.com/UniversalPicturesAU

Arctic Movie Review

The film gives little backstory about the plane crash or Overgård’s life past or present but for those with attentive eyes and inquisitive natures, the clues are there. The mountain silhouette on the company logo on clothing and plane. Overgård’s obvious intelligence and the structure he applies to his barren life. This is a man with some working knowledge of the area.   //   Things come to a head when a mysterious helicopter crashes nearby and the sole survivor ...

Watch the new trailer for The Sun Is Also a Star – in cinemas this May!

Sparks immediately fly between these two strangers, who might never have met had fate not given them a little push. But will fate be enough to take these teens from star-crossed to lucky in love? With just hours left on the clock in what looks to be her last day in the U.S., Natasha is fighting against her family’s deportation as fiercely as she’s fighting her budding feelings for Daniel, who is working just as hard to convince her they are destined to be together.   // ...

Valentine’s Day Special Event – see If Beale Street Could Talk at Palace Barracks or Palace James Street!

A beautifully-crafted love story set in 1970s New York, If Beale Street Could Talk gives voice to a couple’s unbreakable bond and a family’s empowering embrace, as told through the eyes of 19-year-old Tish (KiKi Layne). Friends since childhood, Tish and Fonny (Stephan James) fall in love and are soon expecting their first child. But their plans for the future are derailed when Fonny is arrested for a crime he didn’t commit. Valentine’s Day Special Event A glass of premium red or ...

Watch the trailer for Academy Award Nominated film At Eternity’s Gate

Schnabel; his co-writers Jean-Claude Carrière and Louise Kugelberg, also the film’s editor; and cinematographer Benoît Delhomme strip everything down to essentials, fusing the sensual, the emotional, and the spiritual.   //   And the pulsing heart of At Eternity’s Gate is Willem Dafoe’s shattering performance: his Vincent is at once lucid, mad, brilliant, helpless, defeated, and, finally, triumphant. With Oscar Isaac as Gauguin, Rupert Friend as Theo, Mathieu ...