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Theater Camp Movie Review

Joan Rubinsky (Amy Sedaris) and Rita Cohen (Caroline Aaron) run a theatre camp in upstate New York that has seen better days. Joan falls into a comp after an epileptic fit brought on by blinking stage lights. The camp them falls under the stewardship of Joan’s dropkick of a son Troy (Jimmy Tatro).   //   Troy’s continual cluelessness is played for laughs as is his inept interaction with social media. Elsewhere the camp’s main creative couple Amos Klobuchar (Ben ...

Watch the trailer for It Only Takes A Night – launching digitally September 20!

Launching in Australian cinemas later this month, IT ONLY TAKES A NIGHT tells the story of four best friends on a girl's night out who each end up on a path that they didn’t expect and learn that it really does only take one night to change your life.   //   Although set in London, the entire production was filmed in Perth during the pandemic, with streets and laneways in Perth CBD and Fremantle doubling as London. Starring Eliza Taylor (who has appeared in over 100 ...

Watch the trailer for Fool’s Paradise – releasing digitally September 6!

The story of a down-on-his-luck publicist, who gets lucky when he discovers that a man recently released from a mental health facility looks just like a difficult Hollywood star. With the help of a powerful producer, he helps the man become a star…but in a town full of crackpots, success isn’t all it’s cracked up to be.   //   With a wicked cast including Charlie Day, Ken Jeong (The Hangover, TVs Community), Kate Beckinsale (Underworld, Click, Total Recall), Ray ...

Strays Movie Review

Reggie (Will Ferrell), Bug (Jamie Foxx), Hunter (Randall Park) and Maggie (Isla Fisher) are the canines in question and they prove there are consequences to miss-treating man’s best buddy. Just ask that human dropkick Doug (Will Forte) who ends up paying a very heavy price for his bad behaviour.   //     Director Josh Greenbaum gets the raunch just right and keeps the profanity flowing. One would also hope that Jamie Foxx gets paid for every f-bomb he drops ...

Marvel Studios’ I Am Groot season 2 is coming to Disney+ this September!

This time, Baby Groot finds himself exploring the universe and beyond aboard the Guardians’ spaceships, coming face-to-face—or nose-to-nose—with new and colorful creatures and environments.   //   Vin Diesel is back as the voice of Groot in five all-new shorts. Kirsten Lepore, writer/director of season one, returns in the same capacity for season two. www.facebook.com/DisneyPlusAU/

Asteroid City Movie Review

That idiosyncratic nature plays out in the look of the sets and costumes, the colour palette and lighting, the dialogue and performance of the actors and the whimsical nature of the stories they tell. Seldom laugh-out-loud funny, the humour is too dexterous for that, this is the kind of mirth that builds most in remembrance.   //     Trying to reduce Asteroid City to a mere synopsis does it a disservice as it is a work filled with subtext, subversion and sublim...

Watch the new trailer for Strays – coming to cinemas August 7!

When Reggie (Will Ferrell), a naïve, relentlessly optimistic Border Terrier, is abandoned on the mean city streets by his lowlife owner, Doug (Will Forte; The Last Man on Earth, Nebraska), Reggie is certain that his beloved owner would never leave him on purpose. But once Reggie falls in with a fast-talking, foul-mouthed Boston Terrier named Bug (Oscar® winner Jamie Foxx), a stray who loves his freedom and believes that owners are for suckers, Reggie finally realizes he was in a toxic ...

Watch the new trailer or Only Murders in the Building Season Three!

Season three finds Charles, Oliver & Mabel (played by Steve Martin, Martin Short and Selena Gomez) investigating a murder behind the scenes of a Broadway show. Ben Glenroy (Paul Rudd) is a Hollywood action star whose Broadway debut is cut short by his untimely death. Aided by co-star Loretta Durkin (Meryl Streep), our trio embarks on their toughest case yet, all while director Oliver desperately attempts to put his show back together. Curtain’s up!   //     ...

Watch the new trailer for Disney’s frighteningly fun adventure Haunted Mansion – coming to cinemas on August 31!

Inspired by the classic theme park attraction, “Haunted Mansion” is about a woman and her son who enlist a motley crew of so-called spiritual experts to help rid their home of supernatural squatters. The film’s producers are Dan Lin and Jonathan Eirich, with Nick Reynolds and Tom Peitzman serving as executive producers.   //   Haunted Mansion will be coming to Australian cinemas August 31! www.facebook.com/DisneyAUNZ/

Watch the new trailer for The Miracle Club – coming to cinemas August 3!

When the opportunity arises for the women to win a pilgrimage to Lourdes, France, they jump at the chance. With their priest’s help, the women win the trip and embark on a journey that will change their lives.   //   Once in Lourdes, the women are tasked with helping the sick and disabled pilgrims who come to bathe in the town's healing springs. As they work, they reflect on their lives and search for personal miracles. However, when they are joined by Chrissie ...