Week of 29 October – 4 November 2026
Primetime, Pressure and Crawlers open across the city this week, joined by Sundays, Gentle Monster, Everest: The Other Side and a 4K restoration of Ken Russell’s The Devils, while GOMA’s Australian Cinémathèque screens Gremlins, Return to Oz and Jim Henson’s experimental films.
New Releases
Primetime
29 October 2026
Cinebar Rosalie Village
Cineplex (Balmoral, Hawthorne Deluxe, Redbank, South Bank)
Dendy Cinemas (Coorparoo, Hamilton)
Event Cinemas (Brisbane City, Carindale, Chermside, Indooroopilly, Mount Gravatt, Springfield Central)
Five Star Cinemas (Brisbane City, Graceville, New Farm, Red Hill)
HOYTS (Stafford, Sunnybank)
James St Cinema
Palace Barracks Brisbane
Robert Pattinson stars as Chris Hansen, host of the controversial television series To Catch a Predator, in this rise-to-infamy drama set in 2006. Directed by Lance Oppenheim, with Phoebe Bridgers, Merritt Wever and Anna Faris.
Crawlers
29 October 2026
Event Cinemas (Brisbane City, Carindale, Chermside, Indooroopilly, Mount Gravatt, Springfield Central)
HOYTS (Stafford)
Tenants of the Paradiso Palms apartment complex fight a deadly spider invasion, with the overworked building manager Serena their best hope of survival. Directed by Ángel Gómez Hernández.
Pressure
29 October 2026
Cinebar Rosalie Village
Event Cinemas (Chermside, Mount Gravatt)
Five Star Cinemas (Brisbane City, Graceville, New Farm, Red Hill)
HOYTS (Stafford)
Palace Barracks Brisbane
In the 72 hours before D-Day, General Dwight D. Eisenhower (Brendan Fraser) and meteorologist Captain James Stagg (Andrew Scott) must decide whether the weather will allow the invasion to go ahead. Anthony Maras directs from David Haig’s stage play.
The Irregular at Magic High School: Yotsuba Succession Arc
29 October 2026
Event Cinemas (Brisbane City, Chermside, Indooroopilly, Mount Gravatt)
Feature-length instalment of the Japanese anime series, in which Miyuki and the other candidates gather to decide who will become the next head of the powerful Yotsuba clan. Japanese with English subtitles.
Sundays
29 October 2026
James St Cinema
Palace Barracks Brisbane
Spanish drama from Alauda Ruiz de Azúa in which devout 17-year-old Ainara (Blanca Soroa) shocks her family by announcing she is considering life as a cloistered nun. Patricia López Arnaiz co-stars as her aunt Maite.
Everest: The Other Side
29 October 2026
Five Star Cinemas (New Farm)
Documentary from Academy Award winners Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi and Jimmy Chin following ski mountaineers Jim Morrison and Hilaree Nelson as they attempt to climb and ski the direct north face of Mount Everest.
Gentle Monster
29 October 2026
Five Star Cinemas (Graceville, New Farm)
Concert pianist Lucy (Léa Seydoux) must protect her son and confront how little she knows her husband after a police raid and an unspeakable accusation upend their lives. Marie Kreutzer directs, with Catherine Deneuve and Laurence Rupp.
Ken Russell's The Devils
29 October 2026
Dendy Cinemas (Coorparoo, Hamilton)
Five Star Cinemas (Brisbane City, Graceville, New Farm, Red Hill)
A new 4K restoration of Ken Russell’s 1971 historical drama, with Oliver Reed as Urbain Grandier, a 17th-century French priest accused of witchcraft, and Vanessa Redgrave as the repressed nun obsessed with him.
Chha Maya Chhapakkai 2
29 October 2026
HOYTS (Stafford)
Nepali comedy-drama directed by Dipendra Lama, following a former political comrade whose past continues to haunt him after he leaves politics for married life. Deepak Raj Giri and Deepa Shree Niroula star.
Still Showing
Street Fighter
Angelika (Woolloongabba)
Bayside Cinemas (Wynnum)
Cinebar Rosalie Village
Cineplex (Balmoral, Redbank, South Bank)
Dendy Cinemas (Coorparoo, Hamilton)
Event Cinemas (Brisbane City, Carindale, Chermside, Indooroopilly, Mount Gravatt, Springfield Central)
Five Star Cinemas (Brisbane City, Red Hill)
HOYTS (Stafford, Sunnybank)
James St Cinema
Reading Cinemas (Jindalee, Newmarket)
United Cinemas Eldorado
Set in 1993, estranged fighters Ryu (Andrew Koji) and Ken Masters (Noah Centineo) are drawn back into combat when Chun-Li (Callina Liang) recruits them for the World Warrior Tournament. Kitao Sakurai adapts the Capcom game franchise, with David Dastmalchian as M. Bison.
Sense and Sensibility
Angelika (Woolloongabba)
Bayside Cinemas (Wynnum)
Cinebar Rosalie Village
Cineplex (Balmoral, Redbank, South Bank)
Dendy Cinemas (Coorparoo, Hamilton)
Event Cinemas (Brisbane City, Carindale, Chermside, Indooroopilly, Mount Gravatt, Springfield Central)
Five Star Cinemas (Brisbane City, Graceville, New Farm, Red Hill)
HOYTS (Stafford, Sunnybank)
James St Cinema
Palace Barracks Brisbane
Reading Cinemas (Jindalee, Newmarket)
United Cinemas Eldorado
Director Georgia Oakley (Blue Jean) adapts Jane Austen’s novel, following sisters Elinor and Marianne Dashwood (Daisy Edgar-Jones, Esmé Creed-Miles) as financial hardship and contrasting temperaments shape their experiences of love and heartbreak. Caitríona Balfe, George MacKay and Fiona Shaw co-star.
Whalefall
Angelika (Woolloongabba)
Bayside Cinemas (Wynnum)
Cinebar Rosalie Village
Cineplex (Hawthorne, Redbank, South Bank)
Dendy Cinemas (Coorparoo)
Event Cinemas (Brisbane City, Carindale, Chermside, Indooroopilly, Mount Gravatt, Springfield Central)
Five Star Cinemas (Brisbane City, New Farm)
HOYTS (Stafford, Sunnybank)
James St Cinema
Palace Barracks Brisbane
Reading Cinemas (Jindalee, Newmarket)
United Cinemas Eldorado
Following his father’s death, Jay Gardiner (Austin Abrams) dives into the California coast to search for his remains, only to be swallowed by an 80-foot sperm whale with one hour of oxygen left. Director Brian Duffield (No One Will Save You) makes this survival thriller based on Daniel Kraus’s novel, with Josh Brolin, Elisabeth Shue and Jane Levy.
Verity
Angelika (Woolloongabba)
Bayside Cinemas (Wynnum)
Cinebar Rosalie Village
Cineplex (Balmoral, Redbank, South Bank)
Dendy Cinemas (Coorparoo, Hamilton)
Event Cinemas (Brisbane City, Carindale, Chermside, Indooroopilly, Mount Gravatt, Springfield Central)
Five Star Cinemas (Brisbane City, Graceville, New Farm, Red Hill)
HOYTS (Stafford, Sunnybank)
James St Cinema
Palace Barracks Brisbane
Reading Cinemas (Jindalee, Newmarket)
United Cinemas Eldorado
Struggling writer Lowen Ashleigh (Dakota Johnson) is hired to ghostwrite for bestselling author Verity Crawford (Anne Hathaway) and uncovers disturbing confessions at the remote Crawford estate. Adapted from Colleen Hoover’s novel, with Josh Hartnett.
Digger
Angelika (Woolloongabba)
Dendy Cinemas (Coorparoo)
Event Cinemas (Chermside, Indooroopilly)
Five Star Cinemas (Brisbane City, Graceville, Red Hill)
James St Cinema
Alejandro González Iñárritu directs Tom Cruise as the most powerful man in the world, on a frantic mission to prove he is humanity’s saviour before the disaster he has unleashed destroys everything. Sandra Hüller, John Goodman and Jesse Plemons co-star.
Heart of the Beast
Angelika (Woolloongabba)
Bayside Cinemas (Wynnum)
Cinebar Rosalie Village
Cineplex (Balmoral, Redbank)
Dendy Cinemas (Hamilton)
Event Cinemas (Brisbane City, Carindale, Chermside, Indooroopilly, Mount Gravatt, Springfield Central)
Five Star Cinemas (Graceville)
HOYTS (Stafford, Sunnybank)
James St Cinema
Reading Cinemas (Jindalee, Newmarket)
United Cinemas Eldorado
After a plane crash, Special Forces officer James Belmont (Brad Pitt) and his combat dog Odin fight to survive deep in the Alaskan wilderness. Directed by David Ayer.
Resident Evil
Angelika (Woolloongabba)
Cineplex (Redbank, South Bank)
Dendy Cinemas (Coorparoo)
Event Cinemas (Brisbane City, Carindale, Chermside, Indooroopilly, Mount Gravatt, Springfield Central)
HOYTS (Stafford, Sunnybank)
James St Cinema
Reading Cinemas (Jindalee, Newmarket)
United Cinemas Eldorado
Zach Cregger (Weapons, Barbarian) reinvents the video game franchise, following medical courier Bryan (Austin Abrams) as a routine delivery to a remote hospital becomes a desperate fight for survival. Paul Walter Hauser and Zach Cherry co-star.
Other Mommy
Angelika (Woolloongabba)
Bayside Cinemas (Wynnum)
Cineplex (Redbank, South Bank)
Event Cinemas (Brisbane City, Carindale, Chermside, Indooroopilly, Mount Gravatt, Springfield Central)
HOYTS (Stafford, Sunnybank)
Reading Cinemas (Jindalee, Newmarket)
United Cinemas Eldorado
Eight-year-old Bela confronts a sinister entity in her closet that looks uncannily like her mother in this horror from Host director Rob Savage. Jessica Chastain stars in a dual role, with Jay Duplass and Arabella Olivia Clark.
The Social Reckoning
Angelika (Woolloongabba)
Cineplex (Hawthorne)
Event Cinemas (Chermside, Indooroopilly)
Five Star Cinemas (Graceville)
HOYTS (Sunnybank)
James St Cinema
Palace Barracks Brisbane
United Cinemas Eldorado
Aaron Sorkin writes and directs this companion piece to The Social Network, following Facebook whistleblower Frances Haugen and the Wall Street Journal investigation that became The Facebook Files. Mikey Madison, Jeremy Allen White and Jeremy Strong star.
Forgotten Island
Cineplex (Redbank)
Event Cinemas (Chermside, Indooroopilly, Mount Gravatt)
Animated adventure following best friends Jo and Raissa who stumble through a mysterious portal to the fantastical island of Nakali on their last night together before separation. Directed by Joel Crawford and Januel Mercado.
PAW Patrol: The Dino Movie
Cineplex (Hawthorne)
Event Cinemas (Carindale, Chermside, Indooroopilly, Mount Gravatt, Springfield Central)
HOYTS (Stafford, Sunnybank)
Reading Cinemas (Jindalee)
The PAW Patrol pups crash-land on an uncharted island of dinosaurs, where they meet stranded pup Rex and must stop Humdinger’s reckless mining from triggering a volcano.
Coyote vs. Acme
Cineplex (South Bank)
HOYTS (Stafford, Sunnybank)
United Cinemas Eldorado
After years of catastrophic product failures, Wile E. Coyote teams up with lawyer Kevin Avery (Will Forte) to sue the Acme Corporation, defended by slick counsel Buddy Crane (John Cena), in this live-action/animation hybrid.
Tad and the Magic Lamp
Cineplex (Hawthorne)
HOYTS (Stafford)
Animated adventure in which Tad, his girlfriend Sara and their friends Momia, Jeff and Belzoni set off on a quest after Tad accidentally unleashes an ancient spell. Directed by Enrique Gato.
Shaun the Sheep: The Beast of Mossy Bottom
Cineplex (Hawthorne)
HOYTS (Stafford)
The flock at Mossy Bottom Farm look forward to Halloween until the Farmer wrecks their pumpkin patch, and Shaun’s fix sends a wild beast roaming the woods. Animated adventure from Aardman.
Jailer 2
Event Cinemas (Chermside, Indooroopilly, Mount Gravatt, Springfield Central)
HOYTS (Stafford, Sunnybank)
Official sequel to the 2023 Tamil action hit Jailer, directed by Nelson Dilipkumar and starring Rajinikanth as a retired officer whose family is threatened by a dangerous criminal organisation. Vijay Sethupathi, Mohanlal, Vidya Balan and Shivarajkumar co-star.
Hadestown: The Musical
Dendy Cinemas (Coorparoo, Hamilton)
Event Cinemas (Brisbane City, Chermside, Indooroopilly, Mount Gravatt)
Five Star Cinemas (Graceville, New Farm)
HOYTS (Stafford)
James St Cinema
Palace Barracks Brisbane
A filmed performance of the Tony Award-winning Broadway musical reimagining the myth of Orpheus and Eurydice through the lens of Depression-era America, featuring the music of Anaïs Mitchell.
Spider-Man: Brand New Day
Cineplex (Redbank)
Event Cinemas (Chermside)
United Cinemas Eldorado
Peter Parker fights crime full-time as Spider-Man in a world that no longer remembers him, and a change within him may be the only thing that can stop a powerful new threat. Tom Holland, Zendaya and Sadie Sink star under director Destin Daniel Cretton.
The Odyssey
Five Star Cinemas (Brisbane City, Red Hill)
James St Cinema
Christopher Nolan’s mythic action epic, shot across the world on IMAX film, brings Homer’s foundational saga to the screen. Matt Damon, Tom Holland, Zendaya, Anne Hathaway and Robert Pattinson star.
Practical Magic 2
Event Cinemas (Chermside, Indooroopilly, Mount Gravatt)
Sandra Bullock and Nicole Kidman return as the Owens sisters, a family of witches who must confront a dark curse that threatens to unravel their family. Directed by Susanne Bier.
NAZA
Dendy Cinemas (Coorparoo)
Five Star Cinemas (New Farm)
Palace Barracks Brisbane
Filmed covertly at night on the rooftops of Tel Aviv, this documentary directed by Oscar-winning filmmakers Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor (No Other Land) includes testimony from 24 Israeli military insiders explaining the systems used to locate and kill targets in Gaza. The film won the Special Jury Prize at the 83rd Venice International Film Festival.
Mr. & Mrs. Pardon
Event Cinemas (Brisbane City, Mount Gravatt)
HOYTS (Sunnybank)
Mandarin-language comedy-drama about Shen Mo and Tian Yi, a middle-aged couple facing the seven-year itch for the third time as daily routine wears on their marriage.
Tenzing
Dendy Cinemas (Coorparoo)
Five Star Cinemas (New Farm)
Director Jennifer Peedom (Sherpa, Mountain) chronicles the life of Tenzing Norgay (Genden Phuntsok), who alongside Edmund Hillary (Tom Hiddleston) became the first climber to summit Mount Everest in 1953. The film explores Norgay’s journey from illiterate yak herder to international icon, with Willem Dafoe and Caitríona Balfe co-starring.
The History of Concrete
Dendy Cinemas (Coorparoo)
Five Star Cinemas (New Farm)
James St Cinema
John Wilson (How To with John Wilson) makes his first feature documentary, applying lessons from a Hallmark movie writing workshop to pitch a film about concrete and the people he meets along the way.
Go For Broke 2
HOYTS (Sunnybank)
Mandarin-language action film directed by Marc Ma in which Xila (Isabella Leong) loses her child to a criminal network operating in a foreign land where the powerful hold absolute control. She joins forces with Su Cheng (Wen Junhui), who suffered a similar loss, as they seek revenge against the masterminds Zuoman (Sammo Hung) and his son.
Clayface
Angelika (Woolloongabba)
Bayside Cinemas (Wynnum)
Cinebar Rosalie Village
Cineplex (Hawthorne, Hawthorne Deluxe, Redbank, South Bank)
Dendy Cinemas (Coorparoo, Hamilton)
Event Cinemas (Brisbane City, Carindale, Chermside, Indooroopilly, Mount Gravatt, Springfield Central)
Five Star Cinemas (Brisbane City, Graceville, New Farm, Red Hill)
HOYTS (Stafford, Sunnybank)
James St Cinema
Reading Cinemas (Jindalee, Newmarket)
United Cinemas Eldorado
Rising Hollywood star Matt Hagen (Tom Rhys Harries) is left disfigured and turns to an experimental treatment that lets his flesh reshape itself, sending him down a path of revenge in this DC body-horror thriller directed by James Watkins. Naomi Ackie and David Dencik co-star.
Wildwood
Angelika (Woolloongabba)
Cinebar Rosalie Village
Cineplex (Redbank)
Dendy Cinemas (Coorparoo, Hamilton)
Event Cinemas (Brisbane City, Carindale, Chermside, Indooroopilly, Mount Gravatt, Springfield Central)
HOYTS (Stafford, Sunnybank)
James St Cinema
Palace Barracks Brisbane
Reading Cinemas (Jindalee, Newmarket)
United Cinemas Eldorado
From the studio behind Coraline, a young girl ventures into a dangerous hidden forest to rescue her brother in this stop-motion fantasy adventure directed by Travis Knight. Peyton Elizabeth Lee, Jacob Tremblay, Carey Mulligan and Mahershala Ali lend their voices.
Klara and the Sun
Angelika (Woolloongabba)
Bayside Cinemas (Wynnum)
Cinebar Rosalie Village
Cineplex (Balmoral, Redbank)
Dendy Cinemas (Coorparoo, Hamilton)
Event Cinemas (Brisbane City, Carindale, Chermside, Indooroopilly, Mount Gravatt, Springfield Central)
Five Star Cinemas (New Farm, Red Hill)
HOYTS (Stafford, Sunnybank)
James St Cinema
Reading Cinemas (Jindalee, Newmarket)
United Cinemas Eldorado
Taika Waititi adapts Kazuo Ishiguro’s novel about Klara (Jenna Ortega), an Artificial Friend who is chosen by teenager Josie (Mia Tharia) and her mother (Amy Adams). Steve Buscemi and Natasha Lyonne co-star.
The Songs of John Farnham: A Living Legend
Cinebar Rosalie Village
Dendy Cinemas (Coorparoo, Hamilton)
Event Cinemas (Brisbane City, Carindale, Indooroopilly, Springfield Central)
HOYTS (Stafford, Sunnybank)
Reading Cinemas (Jindalee)
Concert film celebrating John Farnham’s legacy, with 120 Australian and international artists and musicians performing his music on stage. Screening in a limited cinema season.
Ali G: Who Iz I?
Cineplex (Redbank, South Bank)
Event Cinemas (Brisbane City, Chermside, Indooroopilly, Springfield Central)
Sacha Baron Cohen returns as Ali G, who heads to America after learning his long-term girlfriend is eight months pregnant. Morgana Robinson co-stars in the mockumentary comedy.
Udta Teer
Event Cinemas (Brisbane City, Chermside, Indooroopilly, Mount Gravatt)
HOYTS (Sunnybank)
Hindi-language spy comedy directed by Aakash Kaushik in which an agent accidentally turns the espionage game upside down. Ayushmann Khurrana, Sara Ali Khan and Rahul Bose star.
You Can't Leave
Event Cinemas (Chermside, Indooroopilly, Mount Gravatt)
United Cinemas Eldorado
A search for a missing friend leads a group into a dark forest, where an abandoned cabin conceals an ancient evil. Directed by Scott Windhauser.
Possible Love
Dendy Cinemas (Coorparoo)
Five Star Cinemas (Brisbane City, Graceville, New Farm)
Lee Chang-dong’s drama follows four strangers whose paths cross by chance, leading to emotional entanglements that challenge their relationships and force them to confront uncomfortable truths about love and commitment.
Always Yours, Never Mine
Event Cinemas (Chermside, Mount Gravatt)
Tagalog-language romance directed by Cathy Garcia-Sampana, following two people who keep crossing paths over thirty years until life offers a last chance to rewrite their story. Joshua Garcia and Julia Barretto star.
Henry's First Dates
Event Cinemas (Brisbane City, Indooroopilly)
Thai romantic comedy in which Lucy (Minnie) relives her first date again and again with Henry (Nadech Kugimiya), a kind-hearted animal lover who forgets each day as soon as he wakes. Directed by Mez Tharatorn.
Holy Cannoli
James St Cinema
Palace Barracks Brisbane
Italian comedy from writer-director Pif about a lonely, gluttonous real estate agent who meets his soulmate through their shared passion for Sicilian pastries.
Rose of Nevada
Five Star Cinemas (New Farm)
A mysterious boat returns to a fishing village 30 years after vanishing, and two men who join its crew find themselves transported back in time and mistaken for the original crew. Written and directed by Mark Jenkin.
La Bola Negra
Five Star Cinemas (Graceville, New Farm)
James St Cinema
Palace Barracks Brisbane
Drama from Spanish filmmakers Javier Ambrossi and Javier Calvo, unfolding across three timelines: Republican Spain in 1932, the Civil War in 1937 and contemporary Spain in 2017.
A Royal Wedding: A Royal in Paradise 3
Bayside Cinemas (Wynnum)
Olivia Perkins is finally about to marry her prince in the third instalment of the A Royal in Paradise romance series, directed by Adrian Powers.
Aa Bata Aama 2
Event Cinemas (Chermside, Indooroopilly)
Nepali-language drama directed by Chandra Pant, set against a rural backdrop and exploring family bonds, sacrifice and the price of ambition.
418
Event Cinemas (Indooroopilly, Mount Gravatt)
Telugu-language horror thriller directed by Kirtan Nadagouda.
Days of Being Wild
Event Cinemas (Brisbane City)
Re-release of Wong Kar Wai’s 1990 drama about a Hong Kong playboy who sets out to find his birth mother after the woman who raised him reveals the truth.
Ozzy & Black Sabbath: Back to the Beginning
Event Cinemas (Brisbane City, Chermside, Mount Gravatt)
Palace Barracks Brisbane
Concert documentary capturing Ozzy Osbourne’s farewell performance with Black Sabbath at Villa Park in Birmingham, filmed 17 days before his death, with performances from some of rock’s most influential names.
GOMA
Gremlins (1984)
30 October 2026
Joe Dante’s horror-comedy in which young Billy’s new pet Mogwai spawns a plague of destructive gremlins after the rules for its care are broken. Zach Galligan, Phoebe Cates and Hoyt Axton star; screening from a 35mm print.
Gremlins 2: The New Batch (1990)
30 October 2026
Gizmo is taken to a genetic engineering laboratory, where an accidental water spill spawns a new host of gremlins that begin sampling the lab’s genetic serums. Joe Dante directs Zach Galligan, Phoebe Cates and John Glover; screening from a 35mm print.
Les glaneurs et la glaneuse (The Gleaners and I) (2000)
31 October 2026
Agnès Varda’s documentary explores the world of modern-day gleaners, people who survive by foraging for what society throws away, with Varda casting herself as a gleaner of images and ideas. French with English subtitles.
The First Snow of Fraggle Rock (2025)
31 October 2026
When only a single snowflake arrives and Gobo cannot write the yearly holiday song, he journeys to the human world for inspiration in this Fraggle Rock special from The Jim Henson Company, directed by Jonathan A. Rosenbaum.
Youth (Spring) (2023)
31 October 2026
The first film in Wang Bing’s Youth trilogy, an intimate documentary filmed over five years among young garment workers in the factory town of Zhili, China. Mandarin with English subtitles.
The Adventures of Pinocchio (1996)
1 November 2026
Steve Barron’s live-action adaptation of Carlo Collodi’s tale of a wooden marionette who longs to be a real boy, with Martin Landau as Geppetto, Jonathan Taylor Thomas and Udo Kier.
Return to Oz (1985)
1 November 2026
Walter Murch’s adaptation of L. Frank Baum’s Oz books sends Dorothy (Fairuza Balk) back to a ruined Emerald City, with Brian Henson performing as Jack Pumpkinhead. Screening from a 35mm print.
Jim Henson Experimental Films (1961 – 1969)
1 November 2026
A program of Jim Henson’s early experimental shorts, including the Academy Award-nominated live-action film Time Piece and animated works made with jazz drummer Chico Hamilton.
The Human Factor: Factory Women (1962 – 1973)
4 November 2026
A curated selection of short films about the inner lives of women working in factories, including Márta Mészáros’s At the Lőrinc Spinnery, Gillian Armstrong’s One Hundred a Day and Věra Chytilová’s A Bagful of Fleas.
La classe operaia va in paradiso (The Working Class Goes to Heaven) (1971)
4 November 2026
Elio Petri’s political satire stars Gian Maria Volonté as a zealous Turin factory worker whose outlook changes after a workplace accident. Shared the top prize at Cannes in 1972; Italian with English subtitles.
Clayface, Wildwood, Klara and the Sun and The Odyssey continue their runs, while Days of Being Wild and Ozzy & Black Sabbath: Back to the Beginning give arthouse and music fans something extra.
