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Samson and Delilah (MA)
As a non-indigenous Australian, watching Thornton’s stark, lyrical and forceful debut feature about two Aboriginal teens falling through the cracks of conflicting cultures is like being afforded a challenging window to your own backyard.
17 Again (PG)
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We are all young for a reason: to learn from our mistakes. But going back to your teens with adult knowledge has many pitfalls, as this comedy explores. A recurrent theme is appreciating what we have in life and not taking anything for granted.
Angels and Demons (M)
Angels and Demons was written before The Da Vinci Code, but the ideas in this adaptation are much more interesting than those in the first film. This time around Tom Hanks and Ayelet Zurer are a much more engaging screen coupling and the setting of the film — bustling anticipation of a new Pope — make the 138-minute screen time barely noticeable.
The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas (M)
The film encourages the viewer to see Bruno’s world through his eyes — its opening title suggests “Childhood is measured out by sounds and smells and sights, before the dark hour of reason grows” — and the film acts as a fable, like the similarly themed Life is Beautiful.
Camino (M)
Brilliant, moving and gruelling are three words that begin to describe Camino, Javier Fesser’s Goya-winning film about a young girl who finds her life beginning to end just as she was beginning to live.
Mary and Max (PG) - Interview with director Adam Elliot
Max, though exaggerated, is based on his real life pen pal, and Mary, though far more fictionalised, grows up in the same suburb as Elliot did, displaying many of the same introverted traits.
Every woman wants her wedding day to be special but when Susan Murphy is unexpectedly hit by a meteor full of outer space gunk she instantly grows 49 feet 11 inches, is labelled an outcast and “monster” and called Ginormica — yet all she really wants to be known as is Susan.
Dodgy plot device aside, it’s the engaging chemistry between Reynolds and Bullock that give the film its best laughs, making you wonder why they haven’t been paired together before.
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Mountain with Aaron
and Dan on Hope1032.
This is an edge-of-your-seat family adventure film that is competently directed and paced with enough action set pieces to keep the tweens happy and some bright young competent stars to pep it up.
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This re-boot is the best yet in a franchise that has often drowned in its own back-to-the-future psychobabble. Lean storytelling and a genuinely interesting origin story for Kirk and Spock open up many new possibilities – wide-eyed wonder and adventure that goes where no one has gone before.
A titanic Cain and Abel-type struggle has Logan and Victor pitted against each other. Victor now works for General Stryker (Huston) of the Weapon X program and Logan has left a life of violence for a normal life with the love of his life Kayla Silverfox (Lynn Collins).