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Win tickets to see Allelujah starring Jennifer Saunders and Judi Dench!

Allelujah is a warm, humorous, and deeply moving story about surviving old age. //   When the geriatric ward in a small Yorkshire hospital is threatened with closure, the hospital decides to fight back. Allelujah celebrates the spirit of the elderly patients whilst paying tribute to the deep humanity of the medical staff battling with limited resources and ever-growing demand. www.facebook.com/transmissionfilms/ To enter this great competition, just fill out the entry ...

ALLELUJAH – It’s a Seniors Morning Tea at Dendy!

Join us on Thursday, March 30 for our Seniors Morning Tea Preview screening of the warm and deeply moving ALLELUJAH with complimentary morning tea from 10am followed by the screening at 10:30am. Starring Jennifer Saunders, Derek Jacobi, and Judi Dench, this touching gem celebrates the spirit of the elderly whilst paying tribute to those who dedicate their life to care for them. //   Based on Alan Bennett’s celebrated play, ALLELUJAH follows the lives of those living and ...

Belfast Movie Review

In its simplest terms, it was a conflict between Protestants and Catholics in Northern Ireland that lasted about 30 years from the late sixties to the late nineties. The underlining cause was the factions in Northern Ireland that wanted to remain part of the United Kingdom and others that wanted to leave to the UK to form their own country.   //   The story is told through the eyes of nine-year-old Buddy (the transcendent newcomer Jude Hill) and his family who had to ...

Watch the new trailer for Belfast – in Aussie cinemas February 3!

At the center of the film is Buddy, a young boy on the cusp of adolescence, whose life is filled with familial love, childhood hijinks, and a blossoming romance.   //   Yet, with his beloved hometown caught up in increasing turmoil, his family faces a momentous choice: hope the conflict will pass or leave everything they know behind for a new life. Belfast stars Jamie Dornan, Caitriona Balfe, Judi Dench, Jude Hill and will be released in Aussie cinemas February ...

Watch the trailer for Kenneth Branagh latest flick – Belfast!

At the center of the film is Buddy, a young boy on the cusp of adolescence, whose life is filled with familial love, childhood hijinks, and a blossoming romance.   //   Yet, with his beloved hometown caught up in increasing turmoil, his family faces a momentous choice: hope the conflict will pass or leave everything they know behind for a new life. Belfast will be released in Australian cinemas January 13! www.facebook.com/UniversalPicturesAU/

Win tickets to Six Minutes to Midnight – in Aussie cinemas April 22!

In the summer of 1939, school teacher Thomas Miller (Eddie Izzard) takes a last minute role teaching English at the Augusta-Victoria College, Bexhill-on-Sea, a finishing school on the south coast of England. Despite the political storm clouds forming across Europe, daughters of influential families in Nazi Germany learn deportment, Shakespeare and how to be faithful members of Hitler’s League of German Girls. Under the watchful eye of their headmistress Miss Rocholl (Dame Judi Dench), ...

Retro Movie Review – The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel

It’s set in India and uses that colourful and frenetic local as an integral part of the storyline. It’s a tale of redemption amongst an older generation of Brits that are bucking against feeling like they have reached their used by dates. They end up at a hotel in India under false pretences and find that the luxury hotel the ads spoke about has been replaced by a run down complex run by Sonny (played with good humour by Dev Patel of Slumdog Millionaire).   //   The ...

Watch the trailer for Blithe Spirit

His picture-perfect new wife Ruth is doing her best to keep him focussed so they can fulfil her dream of leaving London for Hollywood. Charles’ quest for inspiration leads him to invite the eccentric mystic Madame Acarti (Judi Dench) to perform a séance in his home.   //   He gets more than he bargained for when Madame Acarti inadvertently summons the spirit of his first wife: the brilliant and fiery Elvira. Ready to pick up her life right where she left off, Elvira ...

Watch the trailer for Disney’s Artemis Fowl!

With the help of his loyal protector Butler, Artemis sets out to find him, and in doing so uncovers an ancient, underground civilization—the amazingly advanced world of fairies.   //   Deducing that his father’s disappearance is somehow connected to the secretive, reclusive fairy world, cunning Artemis concocts a dangerous plan—so dangerous that he ultimately finds himself in a perilous war of wits with the all powerful fairies. Artemis Fowl will be released in ...

Cats Movie Review

Oddest choice of all is not utilising the current state of the art for cinema sound with its amazing ability for massive soundscapes. Instead we often get thin eighties sounding synth line based music. Also very few of the cast members have strong voices, with the exception of Jennifer Hudson who gets to belt out the thrice repeated hit, Memories.   //   Keeping things very stagy, most of the cast is adapt at the sinuous physicality and dance movements needed to ply the ...