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Win tickets to see To Leslie in cinemas March 9!

A West Texas single mother wins the lottery and squanders it just as fast, leaving behind a world of heartbreak.   //   Years later, with her charm running out and nowhere to go, she fights to rebuild her life and find redemption. Starring Andrea Riseborough, Andre Royo, Owen Teague, Stephen Root, James Landry Hebert, Marc Maron and Allison Janney, To Leslie will be released in Australian cinemas March 9! www.facebook.com/kismetmovies/ To enter this great compet...

Watch the official trailer for Air – in Aussie cinemas April 5!

This moving story follows the career-defining gamble of an unconventional team with everything on the line, the uncompromising vision of a mother who knows the worth of her son’s immense talent, and the basketball phenom who would become the greatest of all time.   //   Starring Matt Damon, Ben Affleck, Jason Bateman, Chris Messina, Matthew Maher, Marlon Wayans, Jay Mohr, Julius Tennon, with Chris Tucker and Viola Davis, Air will be released in Australian cinemas April ...

Women Talking Movie Review

A veterinarian from a neighbouring colony supplied some of the men in Manitoba with a spay anaesthetic which they used to sedate entire houses and then proceeded to rape the women in those households. The age of the victims ranged from 3 years old to 65.   //   In the film, the perpetrators are imprisoned temporarily and the women in the community get together to decide what to do before the men are released. This leads to an in-depth examination of their beliefs and ...

The Whale Movie Review

This film is never tranquil in its intent or its execution. It’s based on a play of the same name written by Samuel D. Hunter (who also penned the screenplay). It tells the story of Charlie a morbidly obese man who is so damaged by losing the one he loved, he is eating himself to death.   //   In his mind, his fate is sealed and in the last moments of his life, he tries to make a connection with his daughter Ellie, played with venomous intensity by Sadie Sink. She is ...

Magic Mike’s Last Dance Movie Review

Mike (Channing Tatum) hooks up with Max as she rebounds from a messy separation from her mega-rich husband and she carts him away to London for a mysterious job. The employment turns out to be revitalising a theatre that said husband used to own but that now belongs to Max. The night of passion with Mike has ignited feelings inside her not known before.   //   Once the film arrives in the United Kingdom. it shifts to being a theatre piece with all the bureaucratic ...

Spoiler Alert Movie Review

The film is based on the memoir, Spoiler Alert: The Hero Dies by Television Journalist Michael Ausiello. It chronicles his 13-year relationship with photographer Kit Cowan. It follows their meeting, falling in love and Kit’s eventual death in 2015 from a rare form of cancer.   //   Their partnership is presented as far from perfect and realistically portrays two souls that come together but struggle to fully unite. The serious subject matter is softened by the inject...

Watch the trailer for Daughter, to be released digitally from February 22!

As she navigates through this twisted dynamic, awful secrets about the past are revealed, leading to even darker implications about the future.   //   Staring Casper Van Dien, Vivien Ngo, Elyse Dinh and Ian Alexander, Daughter will be released digitally in Australia from February 22! www.facebook.com/walkdenentertainment

Win tickets to see Aftersun – in Aussie cinemas February 23!

The film features captivating performances by Paul Mescal (Normal People, The Lost Daughter), and possibly Britain’s new child star, Frankie Corio, this festival darling has recorded a stellar opening in the UK.   //   Aftersun is a delightful 90s flashback for high-quality cinema lovers, with nostalgia for family holidays and those moments that shape us. With exquisite flashbacks to a blistering summer vacation in Turkey, Frankie sees her father through the eyes of an ...

Watch the new trailer for Sam Mendes’ Empire of Light!

Set in and around a faded old cinema in an English coastal town in the early 1980s, it follows Hilary (Olivia Colman) a cinema manager struggling with her mental health, and Stephen (Micheal Ward), a new employee who longs to escape this provincial town in which he faces daily adversity.   //   Both Hilary and Stephen find a sense of belonging through their unlikely and tender relationship and come to experience the healing power of music, cinema, and community. Wri...

Tár Movie Review

Cate Blanchett is outstanding as the flawed Lydia Tár. She is a world-class composer-conductor as well as a celebrated author, but her life is one filled with pretension and manipulation. It’s fascinating to watch her hubris bring about her eventual downfall.   //   Field peppers the film with unusual artistic choices like running the closing credits first, having no music present during the first two reels and leaving out large chunks of exposition. This reductionism ...