THE WAITING CITY plus MOTHER AND CHILD
MONDAY SEPTEMBER 6 - 7.30pm - LEEDERVILLE
The Waiting City tells the story of an outwardly happy Australian couple (Radha Mitchell and Joel Edgerton) who journey to India to collect their adopted baby. The intoxicating mystic power of Calcutta pulls them in separate and unexpected directions and the vulnerability of their marriage begins to reveal itself. (M) 100mins plus Mother and Child is a striking drama centred around three women whose paths will cross and change them forever: Karen (Annette Bening) a reserved 50-year old nurse, who was forced to give up her daughter Elizabeth (Naomi Watts) for adoption 35 years ago and has now grown into a single-minded career woman; and Lucy (Kerry Washington), desperate to adopt a child of her own. (MA15+) 125mins

THE HEDGEHOG plus ME & ORSON WELLES
MONDAY SEPTEMBER 13 - 7.30pm - LEEDERVILLE
In this moving story about love, life and the beauty of unexpected friendships, Renée (Josiane Balasko) is the concierge of a grand Parisian apartment building. One of her tenants is the precocious 11-years-old Paloma (Garance Le Guillermic) from a Parisian bourgeois family that she despises. But unknown to them both, a sudden acquaintance with the elegant and enigmatic new neighbour, Mr Ozu (Togo Igawa), will change their lives forever. (PG) 100mins plus New York 1937 - a young high school student (Zac Efron) happens upon the Mercury Theatre and is noticed by its mercurial founder, Orson Welles (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. (PG) 114mins

INCEPTION plus THE HURT LOCKER
MONDAY SEPTEMBER 20 - 7.00pm - LEEDERVILLE (Early Start)
Two of the best films of the year together on the giant Luna screen!
Leo DiCaprio stars in this mindbending thriller from writer/director Christopher Nolan (Memento, Dark Knight) set in a world where technology exists to enter the human mind through dream invasion to steal ideas - Industrial espionage in a Blade Runner-like world. (M) 142mins plus The Hurt Locker has the impact of the explosive devices at the heart of its plot: Forced to play a dangerous game of cat-and-mouse in the chaos of war, an elite Army bomb squad unit works in Baghdad where everyone is a potential enemy and every object could be a deadly bomb. Worse still - their new commander (Jeremy Renner) seems suicidal. Winner of 6 Oscars (incl. Best Film). (MA15+) 131mins

FOUR LIONS plus THE WAITING CITY
MONDAY SEPTEMBER 27 - 7.30pm - LEEDERVILLE
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 is a comic tour de force; it shows that - while terrorism is about ideology - it can also be about idiots. (M) 101mins plus The Waiting City tells the story of an outwardly happy Australian couple (Radha Mitchell and Joel Edgerton) who journey to India to collect their adopted baby. The intoxicating mystic power of Calcutta pulls them in separate and unexpected directions and the vulnerability of their marriage begins to reveal itself. (M) 108mins

THE DISAPPEARANCE OF ALICE CREED plus THE KILLER INSIDE ME
MONDAY OCTOBER 4 - 7.30pm - LEEDERVILLE
In the first ten (wordless) minutes, Alice Creed has already proven itself an economical debut thriller on par with Danny Boyle's Shallow Grave - with which it’s often been compared. Prepping for an abduction with ruthless efficiency, ex-cons Vic (Eddie Marsan) and Danny (Martin Compston) get their prey, Alice (Gemma Arterton), trussed and shackled in a soundproofed room. Yet the more meticulously one plans the perfect crime, the less effort it takes for things to go very awry. (tba) 100mins plus Director Michael Winterbottom (24 Hour Party People) has adapted the haunting thriller by Jim Thompson (The Grifters, The Getaway) to the screen. Casey Affleck is Lou Ford, a young Sheriff in a small middle-American town who seems like a regular with a nice girlfriend (Kate Hudson) but Lou is actually a cunning and depraved sociopath. When a case warrants the arrest of a beautiful young prostitute (Jessica Alba), Lou can’t restrain his urges and soon falls into a tangle of darkness, lust and deceit. (MA15+) 98mins

CAIRO TIME plus THE WHITE RIBBON
MONDAY OCTOBER 11 - 7.30pm - LEEDERVILLE
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. When he is unavoidably delayed, he sends his friend Tareq (Alexander Siddig) to escort her throughout the beautiful and exotic city. They find themselves in the middle of a brief affair that catches them both unawares. (M) 90mins plus A staunchly Protestant village in northern Germany in World War I is plagued by a series of mysterious accidents - the doctor tumbles from his horse, a farmer's wife falls to her death from a barn loft - which become increasingly more sinister and brutal. Neighbour turns against neighbour, even as the cruelty pervading the village breeds fresh atrocities. This latest thriller from Michael Haneke (Funny Games, Hidden) was last year's Palme D'Or (Cannes) winner. (M) 144mins

I'M STILL HERE: JOAQUIN PHOENIX plus LEONARD COHEN: I'M YOUR MAN
MONDAY OCTOBER 18 - 7.30pm - LEEDERVILLE
It must be Casey Affleck Fortnight - because here's his debut as a director. I'm Still Here is a striking portrayal of a tumultuous year in the life of internationally acclaimed actor Joaquin Phoenix. With remarkable access, it follows the Oscar-nominee as he announces his retirement from a successful film career in the fall of 2008 and sets off to reinvent himself as a hip hop musician. Sometimes funny, sometimes shocking, and always rivetting. (tba) 108mins plus Songwriter. Poet. Counter-culture icon. Leonard Cohen has inspired generations with his unique personality and haunting music, becoming one of the most original and enduring artists to emerge from the 1960s. Now, celebrate Cohen's legacy with an intimate look at the songs, poetry and life of one of music's most celebrated and influential troubadours. (MA15+) 105mins

THE GHOST WRITER plus THE RUNAWAYS
MONDAY OCTOBER 25 - 7.30pm - LEEDERVILLE
Ewan McGregor plays an aspiring writer turned reluctant hack for hire. He agrees to complete the memoirs-in-progress of the former UK Prime Minister (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 based on the novel by Robert Harris (Enigma, Fatherland). (MA15+) 128mins plus Kristen Stewart and Dakota Fanning star in this music-fueled story of the ground-breaking, all girl, teenage rock band of the 1970s: The Runaways. The film follows two friends, Joan Jett and Cherie Currie, as they rise from rebellious Southern California kids to rock stars of the now legendary group that paved the way for future generations of girl bands. One of the standout characters is rock impresario (and the man behind KISS) Kim Fowley (played by Michael Shannon), who turns the group into an outrageous success and afamily of misfits. (MA15+) 106mins

THE RELUCTANT INFIDEL plus THE LAST STATION
MONDAY NOVEMBER 1 - 7.30pm - LEEDERVILLE
Life for Mahmud Nasir (Omid Djalili), a UK Muslim cabbie, has had its challenges. Just as he’s learning to live with the suspicious looks and snide comments, he is about to discover something that will turn his world upside down! Not only is he adopted, but he's Jewish... With the help of Lenny Goldberg (Richard Schiff), a Jewish cab driver, he discovers his roots in the most unorthodox manner. However he finds his identity crisis more than he can handle. A tongue-in-cheek swipe at religion, family and the absurdity of racism, The Reluctant Infidel is a British farce for the modern age. (MA15+) 105mins plus Young idealist Valentin (James McAvoy) is sent to assist the aging author Leo Tolstoy (Christopher Plummer) who lives with his wife Sofya (Helen Mirren), his family and a band of Tolstoyan followers. Witnessing a battle over Tolstoy's legacy between Sofya and follower Vladimir Chertkov (Paul Giamatti), Valentin cannot help but question the true meaning of his leader’s teachings. (M) 112mins

BOY plus THE TREE
MONDAY NOVEMBER 8 - 7.30pm - LEEDERVILLE
The year is 1984. Thriller tops the charts. Boy (James Rolleston) is a dreamer who lives on the East Coast of New Zealand and who loves Michael Jackson. His other hero, his father, Alamein (writer/director 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. In reality he’s in prison for robbery. Boy is a funny, sweet, heartbreaking film that’s become the highest grossing N.Z. film ever - as well as winning the audience prizes at both Sydney and Melb. Film Festivals. (M) 88mins plus This lyrical film about dealing with loss is set in stunning rural Queensland and is based on a book by Aussie author and former Circus Oz performer Judy Pascoe. A young child - played with range and precision by newcomer Morgana Davies - becomes convinced her dead father is whispering to her through the leaves of a Morton Bay fig tree on the family property. Also starring Charlotte Gainsbourg (Antichrist) and Aden Young. (M) 101mins

PLEASE GIVE plus CHLOE
MONDAY NOVEMBER 15 - 7.30pm - LEEDERVILLE
Kate (Catherine Keener) has a lot on her mind. There's the ethics problem of buying furniture on the cheap at estate sales and marking it up at her trendy Manhattan store. And how much markup can she get away with? There's the marriage problem of sharing a partnership in parenting, business, and life with her husband Alex (Oliver Platt) but sensing doubt nibbling at the foundations. Plus, there's the neighbours: cranky, elderly Andra and the two granddaughters who look after her. (M) 91mins plus Atom Egoyan (Exotica) has remade the French film Nathalie, and delivers a steamy Hitchcockian thriller that investigates sexual jealousy. Catherine (Julianne Moore) is suspicious of her husband’s fidelity (Liam Neeson) so she hires a much younger call-girl (Amanda Seyfried) to entrap him. When her husband fails the test she has set him, Catherine finds herself unexpectedly enthralled by the vivid accounts of his dalliances - and so begins a sexual journey of experiments, lies and revelations. (MA15+) 96mins

THE GIRL WHO PLAYED WITH FIRE plus I AM LOVE
MONDAY NOVEMBER 22 - 7.30pm - LEEDERVILLE
Mikael Blomkvist (Michael Nyqvist), publisher of Millennium magazine, has made his living exposing the crooked and corrupt practices of establishment Swedish figures. So when a young journalist approaches him with a meticulously researched thesis about sex trafficking in Sweden and those in high office who abuse underage girls, Blomkvist immediately throws himself into the investigation but soon finds that Lisbeth Salander (Noomi Rapace) is accused or the crime. (MA15+) 129mins plus The story of a wealthy Milanese family, whose lives are undergoing sweeping changes. Eduardo Sr. surprises everyone when chosing a successor by splitting power between his son Tancredi, and grandson Edo. But Edo dreams instead of opening a restaurant with his friend Antonio, a handsome and talented chef. At the heart of the family is Tancredi's wife Emma (Tilda Swinton), a Russian immigrant who has adopted the culture of Milan. An adoring and attentive mother, her existence is shocked to the core when she a chance encounter ignites long repressed passions and sets her on a journey of sexual awakening. (MA15+) 120mins

LET ME IN plus BURIED
MONDAY NOVEMBER 29 - 7.30pm - LEEDERVILLE
Let The Right One In now has a well-crafted US remake. This is the haunting story of a young boy who is frequently bullied and a young girl who moves in next door (Kodi Smit-McPhee, Romulus My Father and Chloe Moretz who rocked in Kick-Ass as Hit Girl) along with her caretaker (Richard Jenkins). This girl becomes his only friend. She's 12 years old, and has been for the last 200 years. Vampire, perhaps? A story of innocent love entangled in murder, mystery, and horror. (tba) plus You won’t sleep tonight after our 2nd claustrophobic thriller. Paul (Ryan Reynolds), truck driver and family man, wakes up buried alive in an old wooden coffin. Not knowing who might have put him there or why, his only chance to escape from this nightmare is a cell phone. Poor reception, battery and lack of oxygen are his worst enemies in a race against time: Paul has only 90 minutes to be rescued. (tba) 95mins

THE KIDS ARE ALL RIGHT plus GAINSBOURG
MONDAY DECEMBER 6 - 7.30pm - LEEDERVILLE
Two teenaged children get the notion to seek out their biological father and introduce him into the family life that their two mothers have built for them. Jules (Julianne Moore) and Nic (Annette Bening) have been together for years, deeply in love, and had both children through artificial insemination. Once the donor (Mark Ruffalo) is found, the household will never be the same, as family ties are defined, re-defined, and re-re-defined. (MA15+) 104mins plus French singer-songwriter Serge Gainsbourg (Eric Elmosnino) is regarded as one of the world’s most influential popular musicians - an artistic icon and a provocateur. His life has been brought to the screen in a fascinating and evocative portrait by director and graphic novelist Joann Sfar. The legend of Serge Gainsbourg is very much alive - from his adored songs, his hard-living showmanship and his notoriety for glamourous lovers including Brigitte Bardot and Jane Birkin. (tba) 125mins

THE TOWN plus THE DEPARTED
MONDAY DECEMBER 13 - 7.30pm - LEEDERVILLE
Doug MacRay (Ben Affleck) is an unrepentant criminal, the de facto leader of a group of ruthless bank robbers who pride themselves in stealing what they want and getting out clean. With no real attachments, Doug never has to fear losing anyone close to him. But that all changed on the gang’s latest job, when they briefly took a hostage - bank manager, Claire Keesey (Rebecca Hall). Though they let her go unharmed, Claire is nervously aware that the robbers know her name... and where she lives. But she lets her guard down when she meets an unassuming and rather charming man named Doug....not realising that he is the same man who only days earlier had terrorised her. The instant attraction between them gradually turns into a passionate romance that threatens to take them both down a dangerous, and potentially deadly, path. (tba) 125mins plusThe Departed is a thoroughly engrossing thriller from Martin Scorcese which follows two infiltrators - one in Boston’s toughest Irish crime gang and the other in the Boston police - both trying to identify the other. It's Scorsese's best-reviewed film since GoodFellas and features Jack Nicholson, Leonardo DiCaprio and Matt Damon. Many critics think it betters its source material (the Hong Kong thriller Infernal Affairs). (MA15+) 151mins

WILD TARGET plus RED
MONDAY SEPTEMBER 6 - 7.30pm - LEEDERVILLE
Victor Maynard (Bill Nighy) is a hitman - not just any hitman, but the number one hitman in the country. His father was a hitman and Victor learned the family business from him. His latest target, a thief (Emily Blunt), so captivates him that he lets her live. Through a series of misunderstandings Victor also ends up with new "apprentice" Tony (Rupert Grint) who thinks he's actually landed a job with a private detective. (tba) 100mins plus Frank (Bruce Willis), Joe (Morgan Freeman), Marvin (John Malkovich) and Victoria (Helen Mirren) used to be the CIAs top agents but the secrets they know just made them the Agency's top targets. Categorised as: Retired - Extremely Dangerous. Now framed for assassination, they must use all of their collective cunning, experience and teamwork to stay one step ahead of their deadly pursuers and stay alive. (tba) 125mins