The male lead, Owen (Spike Fearn – he of heavy accent and bad Beatles bob), plays a hopeless romantic who comes into contact with Emily Raine (Angourie Rice), a psychology student trying her best to prove her thesis that love makes you crazy. Together, they try to find the mysterious Emily, a girl Owen met at a nightclub who gave him an incomplete phone number.

In their attempts to locate said girl, they shake a hornet’s nest and create an on-campus social media storm that pits student against student, with the faculty staying on the sidelines until things reach a fever pitch. Using the current social media landscape to prop up the story leads to some of the film’s most humorous moments, and these seem targeted to a younger audience.

Even though the final resolution is never in question, the journey is peppered with amusing side steps and even throws in a false finish or two. The rom-com classification is your strongest clue to what the film will deliver. If that sounds appealing, the time spent with this work will not disappoint.
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Remastered in 4K and released in IMAX for the first time ever, the film is making a triumphant comeback to cinemas in both Japanese with English subtitles and dubbed in English.

From the legendary Studio Ghibli, creators of Spirited Away, and Academy Award®-winning director Hayao Miyazaki, comes an epic masterpiece that has dazzled audiences worldwide with its breathtaking imagination, exhilarating battles, and deep humanity.

Inflicted with a deadly curse, the young warrior Ashitaka heads west in search of a cure. There, he stumbles into a bitter conflict between Lady Eboshi, the proud people of Iron Town, and the enigmatic Princess Mononoke, a young girl raised by wolves, who will stop at nothing to prevent the humans from destroying her home and the forest spirits and animal gods who live there. Featuring the voice talents of Gillian Anderson, Billy Crudup, Claire Danes, Minnie Driver, Jada Pinkett Smith, and Billy Bob Thornton.
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The illegitimate son of an African slave and a French plantation owner, Bologne (Kelvin Harrison Jr. in a tour de force performance) rises to improbable heights in French society as a celebrated violinist-composer and fencer, complete with an ill-fated love affair and a falling out with Marie Antoinette (Lucy Boynton) herself and her court.

Searchlight Pictures presents, a Stephen Williams film, Chevalier, starring Kelvin Harrison Jr., Samara Weaving, Lucy Boynton, Minnie Driver, Sian Clifford, Alex Fitzalan and Ronkẹ Adékoluẹjo. Directed by Stephen Williams, the film is written by Stefani Robinson and produced by Ed Guiney and Andrew Lowe at Element Pictures, Stefani Robinson, and Dianne McGunigle.

Production designer Karen Murphy, director of photography Jess Hall, composer Michael Abels, costume designer Oliver García, editor John Axelrad and set decorator Lotty Sanna round out the production team.

Chevalier will be released in Australian cinemas April 6, 2023!
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