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A sexy comedy of errors about a very modern family. The Allgoods are a close family experiencing life's typical ups and downs: 18-year-old daughter Joni (Mia Wasikowska) is heading off to Stanford University and starting to distance herself from her parents; 14-year-old Laser (Josh Hutcherson) is hanging out with a deadbeat friend who constantly leads him into trouble. The only difference is that this family has two mums. Jules (Julianne Moore) and Nic (Annette Bening) have been together for years, deeply in love, and had both children through artificial insemination.
This loving but strained home life is thrown into comic disarray when the kids track down their biological donor-Dad, Paul (Mark Ruffalo), and invite him home for dinner. Paul is a bachelor whose sudden longing for a family introduces an interesting sexual dynamic to the not-quite-ordinary equation of the Allgoods. At first Joni is so happy to have a cool, handsome dad like Paul. But soon enough she comes to realise that Paul is fun loving but lacks self-control and when he starts sleeping with one of her mums chaos reigns. |
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The year is 1984, and on the rural East Coast of New Zealand "Thriller" is changing kids' lives. Boy (James Rolleston) is a dreamer who loves Michael Jackson. He lives with his brother Rocky (Te Aho Aho Eketone-Whitu), a tribe of deserted cousins and his Nan (Mavis Paenga). Boy's other hero, his father, Alamein (Taika Waititi), is the subject of Boy's fantasies, and he imagines him as a deep sea diver, war hero and a close relation of Michael Jackson (he can even dance like him). In reality he's "in the can for robbery". When Alamein returns home after 7 years away, Boy is forced to confront the man he thought he remembered, find his own potential and learn to get along without the hero he had been hoping for. Winner - Audience Award for Fiction Feature Film at the 2010 Melbourne International Film Festival Winner - Audience Award for Fiction Feature Film at the 2010 Sydney Film Festival |
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| Renowned director Michael Winterbottom (Genova) returns with a haunting thriller based on the distinguished novel by Jim Thompson. Prompting none other than director Stanley Kubrick to call it "the most chilling and believable first-person story of a criminally warped mind I have ever encountered", The Killer Inside Me stars Casey Affleck as Lou Ford, a young Sherrif in a small middle-American town. Seemingly a regular fellow leading an unremarkable existence with his girlfriend Amy (Kate Hudson), Lou is actually a cunning and depraved sociopath. When a case warrants the arrest of a beautiful young prostitute (Jessica Alba) living on the outskirts of town, Lou can’t restrain his urges and soon falls into a tangle of darkness, lust and deceit that may call into question which side of the jail bars this lawman should be on. A stylish and chilling 1950's companion-piece to Bret Easton Ellis' first-person serial killer thriller American Psycho, this is amongst Winterbottom's best films. |
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| Gregoire Canvel has everything a man could want: a wife he loves, three delightful children and a dream job as a film producer. Discovering talented filmmakers and developing films that fit his conception of the cinema, Gregoire devotes almost all of his time and energy to his work. Although he spends weekends with his family at their house in the country, even these precious moments are regularly interrupted by demanding directors and concerned investors. While Gregoire's very presence commands admiration and his exceptional charisma leads many to believe he is invincible, the future of his prestigious production company is in doubt due to too many productions, risks and debts. Gregoire soon realises that he's made one gamble too many, triggering a series of events that will change the lives of his family forever. |
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Matching Jack is a powerful emotional drama from award winning director Nadia Tass, about the unbreakable bond between parent and child. At the same time Marisa Hagen (Jacinda Barrett) discovers that her child (Tom Russell) is seriously ill, she also finds out that her husband (Richard Roxburgh) has been unfaithful for years. Marisa goes on a bizarre search in an attempt to turn her husband's serial affairs into a positive – an illegitimate child could save her son's life. A chance encounter with another parent, Connor (James Nesbitt) & his son Finn (Kodi Smit-McPhee), leads them on an unpredictable journey of love and hope. |
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Director Ruba Nadda (Sabah) again explores cross-cultural romance with Juliette (Patricia Clarkson), a magazine editor, who travels to Cairo to meet her husband, a UN official working in Gaza, for a three week vacation. When he is unavoidably delayed, he sends his friend Tareq (Alexander Siddig), who had been his security officer for many years, to escort her throughout the beautiful and exotic city. They find themselves in the middle of a brief affair that catches them both unawares. **Cairo Time Comp**
Cairo Time during its theatrical season at Cinema Paradiso and go in the draw to win a fabulous Egyptian themed prize pack valued at over $800 including Gift Vouchers to Cleopatra's Temple and Ra's Bazaar, movie passes and Paramount Pictures DVD's! |
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| Could there be a more hot-button topic than terrorism these days? Although it is usually the subject of serious films, British comedian Chris Morris (The Day Today, Brass Eye) finds the humour (and ultimately the humanity) in this extremist world. Four Lions tells the story of a group of British jihadists who push their abstract dreams of glory to the breaking point. As the wheels fly off, and their competing ideologies clash, what emerges is an emotionally engaging (and entirely plausible) farce. In a storm of razor-sharp verbal jousting and large-scale set pieces Four Lions is a comic tour de force; it shows that - while terrorism is about ideology - it can also be about idiots. |
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Lateshows exclusive to Luna Leederville every Saturday night. Written, directed and starring Tommy Wiseau, The Room (M) is like no other film you've seen. Johnny (Tommy Wiseau) seems to have it all; a beautiful fiancée, Lisa, great friends and a job with a promotion in the works. But Lisa, (Juliette Danielle) isn't who she seems. Manipulative and restless, Lisa sets her sights on Johnny's best friend Mark (Greg Sestero) and they start a torrid affair and Johnny’s perfect world starts to crumble.
The Room has garnered a massive cult following, selling out sessions across the US, leaving audiences stunned and wondering “how can so bad, be so good?” "What makes viewing The Room attractive is the chance for Perth audiences to gleefully ignore cinema etiquette while attending the weekly late-night screenings. Patrons are encouraged to make witty interjections, heckle, holler and hurl projectiles (plastic spoons) at the screen. It's the good-natured, interactive viewing experience that ensures, quite miraculously, that this deliriously incompetent piece of film-making winds up providing five-star entertainment." Gavin Bond, Sunday Times Entertainment (Perth) Late show screenings from Sat 21 August hosted by roomie fan James Palm |
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The Ghost Writer stars Ewan McGregor as just that, an aspiring scribe turned reluctant hack for hire. He agrees to complete the memoirs in progress of former UK Prime Minister Adam Lang (Pierce Brosnan), following the suspected suicide of the former ghost writer. Director Roman Polanski (who won Best Director Prize at the last Berlin Film Fest.) has woven a moody gothic political thriller riddled with hidden messages, about a dubious autobiography of a prominent public figure in exile. Lots of parallels with his own life there. Based on the novel by Robert Harris (Enigma, Fatherland). |
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New York 1937 - a young high school student (Zac Efron) happens upon the Mercury Theatre and is noticed by its mercurial founder, Orson Welles (the amazingly good Christian McKay). The man lands a bit part in Julius Caesar, the production that catapulted Welles to the top, and spends the next week learning about life - and love - with the help of Claire Danes. This is a wonderfully nostalgic charmer from always reliable filmmaker Richard Linklater (Dazed & Confused, Before Sunrise). |
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The year is 1927, and the setting is South Solitary Island, off the coast of Tasmania - a remote lighthouse island which is cold, rainy, and directly in the path of the Roaring Forties. Meredith (Miranda Otto), arrives with her uncle, (Barry Otto), the replacement Head Keeper of the lighthouse. She is a chin up! sort of a girl, and she needs to be in these circumstances. Meredith tries to make the best of a bad situation by attempting to make friends with the few occupants of the island, including Assistant Keeper, Fleet (Marton Csokas). South Solitary is a gentle romantic drama about the gradual coming together of these two lonely characters in this isolated setting and is the long-awaited new film from Shirley Barrett (Love Serenade). |
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| A family embraces the positive and negative sides of new freedoms that fate has brought their way in this drama from filmmaker Luca Guadagnino. Edoardo Recchi Sr. (Gabriele Ferzetti) is the patriarch of a wealthy Italian family who've amassed a significant fortune over the years through shrewd investments in manufacturing. Edoardo has a beautiful wife, Allegra (Marisa Berenson), and they have four grown children -- Tancredi (Pippo Delbono), Edoardo Jr. (Flavio Parenti), Gianluca (Mattia Zaccaro), and Elisabetta (Alba Rohrwacher). The family gathers for a reunion at Edoardo and Allegra's villa in Milan, with Tancredi's wife, Emma (Tilda Swinton), and Antonio (Edoardo Gabbriellini), a chef planning on going into business with Edoardo, also in attendance. But the happy gathering takes a somber turn when Edoardo suddenly dies while having lunch with the family. The death takes the family by surprise, and causes nearly everyone to reassess themselves and their lives. |
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