Saltburn
Cast: Barry Keoghan, Jacob Elordi, Rosamund Pike
Director: Emerald Fennell
Rating: MA 15+
Synopsis: Academy Award-winning filmmaker Emerald Fennell (Promising Young Woman) brings us a beautifully wicked tale of privilege and desire. Struggling to find his place at Oxford University, student Oliver Quick (Barry Keoghan) finds himself drawn into the world of the charming and aristocratic Felix Catton (Jacob Elordi), who invites him to Saltburn, his eccentric family’s sprawling estate, for a summer never to be forgotten.
Reviews
“The Promising Young Woman filmmaker is clearly having fun with our expectations … as is the stellar cast.”
ScreenHub Australia
“It’s sexy. It’s funny. It’s tragic. It’s Saltburn.”
The AU Review
Five Nights at Freddy’s
Cast: Josh Hutcherson, Mary Stuart Masterson, Lucas Grant
Director: Emma Tammi
Rating: M
Synopsis: Mike Schmidt, a night guard at a local diner, becomes troubled after confronting the truth about the animatronic costumes that reside: they aren’t just robots. They are alive. Will he be able to survive all five nights at this haunted diner? Or is something more sinister at play?
Reviews
“A competently made yet maddeningly dull attempt to bring the hit video game to the big screen makes for an instantly forgettable night at the movie.”
The Guardian
“Tonally jarring, lacking a severe sense of humour, and a film that feels like a victim to its lowered classification…”
The AU Review
The Marvels
Cast: Brie Larson, Samuel L. Jackson, Zawe Ashton
Director: Nia DaCosta
Rating: M
Synopsis: Carol Danvers AKA Captain Marvel has reclaimed her identity from the tyrannical Kree and taken revenge on the Supreme Intelligence. But unintended consequences see Carol shouldering the burden of a destabilised universe. When her duties send her to an anomalous wormhole linked to a Kree revolutionary, her powers become entangled with that of Jersey City super-fan Kamala Khan, aka Ms. Marvel, and Carol’s estranged niece, now S.A.B.E.R. astronaut Captain Monica Rambeau.
Reviews
“The latest MCU is chaotic romp with a female-led cast, a magic bangle and space cats.”
ABC News
“Follow-up to Captain Marvel pits Brie Larson, Teyonah Parris and Iman Vellani against Zawe Ashton for control of powerful ‘jump points'”
The Guardian
The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes
Cast: Rachel Zegler, Tom Blyth, Viola Davis
Director: Francis Lawrence
Rating: M
Synopsis: Coriolanus Snow at age 18, years before he would become the tyrannical President of Panem. Young Coriolanus is handsome and charming, and though the Snow family has fallen on hard times, he sees a chance for a change in his fortunes when he is chosen to be a mentor for the Tenth Hunger Games. Only to have his elation dashed when he is assigned to mentor the girl tribute from impoverished District 12.
Reviews
“For Hunger Games fans, it will be a must-see and newcomers will get something from it too.”
The Canberra Times
“The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes is a highly entertaining expansion of the young adult film franchise.”
ScreenHub Australia
Napoleon
Cast: Joaquin Phoenix, Vanessa Kirby, Tahar Rahim
Director: Ridley Scott
Rating: MA 15+
Synopsis: Napoleon is a 2023 epic historical drama film directed and produced by Ridley Scott and written by David Scarpa. It stars Joaquin Phoenix, Vanessa Kirby, Tahar Rahim, Ludivine Sagnier, and Rupert Everett.
The film takes a personal look at Napoleon Bonaparte’s origins, and his swift, ruthless climb to emperor viewed through the prism of his addictive, and often volatile, relationship with his wife and one true love, Josephine.
Reviews
“The impressive combat sequences pull you right in, but both the director and Joaquin Phoenix as Bonaparte struggle to show us what drove the military mastermind.”
The Guardian
“Joaquin Phoenix captivates in Ridley Scott’s portrait of the Emperor – but the film is not a painstakingly accurate history lesson.”
The Australian
RENAISSANCE: A FILM BY BEYONCÉ
Cast: Beyoncé, Jay-Z, Blue Ivy Carter
Director: Beyoncé
Rating: CTC
Synopsis: RENAISSANCE: A FILM BY BEYONCÉ accentuates the journey of RENAISSANCE WORLD TOUR, from its inception, to the opening in Stockholm, Sweden, to the finale in Kansas City, Missouri. It is about Beyoncé’s intention, hard work, involvement in every aspect of the production, her creative mind and purpose to create her legacy, and master her craft. Received with extraordinary acclaim, Beyoncé’s RENAISSANCE WORLD TOUR created a sanctuary for freedom, and shared joy, for more than 2.7 million fans.
Starts Friday, 1 December 2023
Godzilla Minus One
Cast: Ryunosuke Kamiki, Minami Hamabe, Yûki Yamada
Director: Takashi Yamazak
Rating: M
Synopsis: In postwar Japan, a new terror rises; Godzilla. Will the devastated people be able to survive… let alone fight back?
Starts Friday, 1 December 2023
Borromini and Bernini. The Challenge of Perfection
Director: Giovanni Troilo
Rating: E
Synopsis: Borromini and Bernini: The Challenge for Perfection is the story of an architectural revolution carried out by a solitary genius who changed the appearance of Rome forever, by taking up a personal challenge against convention and prejudice, by having the humility to learn from the past in order to invent the future, and the courage to pursue an idea by paying the price to the full.
Starts Saturday, 9 December 2023
Wonka
Cast: Timothée Chalamet, Calah Lane, Keegan-Michael Key
Director: Paul King
Rating: CTC
Synopsis: Focusing on a young Willy Wonka and how he came to meet the Oompa-Loompas on one of his earliest adventures.
Starts Thursday, 14 December 2023
Wish
Cast: Ariana DeBose, Chris Pine, Alan Tudyk
Director: Chris Buck, Fawn Veerasunthorn
Rating: CTC
Synopsis: Walt Disney Animation Studios’ “Wish” is an all-new musical-comedy welcoming audiences to the magical kingdom of Rosas, where Asha, a sharp-witted idealist, makes a wish so powerful that it is answered by a cosmic force—a little ball of boundless energy called Star. Together, Asha and Star confront a most formidable foe—the ruler of Rosas, King Magnifico—to save her community and prove that when the will of one courageous human connects with the magic of the stars, wondrous things can happen.
Starts Friday, 15 December 2023