Films showing on Monday, 30th June

Academy Award-winning director Danny Boyle and Academy Award-nominated writer Alex Garland reunite for 28 YEARS LATER, a terrifying new story ... more

RESTORATION! The classic anime cyberpunk action film from 1988 returns to the cinema screen fully remastered and remixed. Set in ... more

Monday, 30th June

From Academy Award winning director Steven Soderbergh (Sex, Lies and Videotape), BLACK BAG is a high-stakes mystery starring Cate Blanchett and Michael Fassbender alongside Regé-Jean Page, Marisa Abela, Naomie Harris, Tom Burke and Pierce Brosnan. ... more

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Winner of over 13 Audience Awards around the world, director Tracie Laymon's acclaimed comic-drama BOB TREVINO LIKES IT is inspired by a true story. Eager ... more

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Australian brothers Danny and Michael Philippou (Talk to Me) return with the year’s most intense film, starring Sally Hawkins (Paddington) in her most wicked and disturbing performance to-date. ... more

From acclaimed director Edward Berger (All Quiet on the Western Front) comes all-star dramatic thriller following one of the world’s most secretive and ancient events – selecting a new Pope. ... more

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Pierre Niney leads a stellar cast in Matthieu Delaporte and Alexandre de La Patellière’s thrilling new adaptation of Alexandre Dumas’ epic adventure ... more

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30TH ANNIVERSARY! Jordan White (James Duval) and Amy Blue (Rose McGowan), two troubled teens, pick up an adolescent drifter, Xavier ... more

Monday, 30th June

WHAT THE FEST! Classic Americana and avant-garde European sensibilities collide with Zen Buddhism and the Bible in Alejandro Jodorowsky's cult classic EL TOPO. ... more

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Australian musician Warren Ellis takes us on a guided tour through his world and one very special animal sanctuary with the fly-on-the-wall documentary ELLIS PARK. A key member of iconic bands The Dirty Three and Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, multi-instru ... more

Monday, 30th June

From the boundless imagination of the award-winning Gints Zilbalodis (Away) comes a thrilling animated spectacle as well as a profound meditation on the fragility of the environment and the spirit of friendship and community. ... more

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With an undeniable tour-de-force performance from Jessica Lange (All That Jazz, King Kong), and starring Kathy Bates (Misery) and Pierce Brosnan (Black Bag, Mamma Mia!), THE GREAT LILLIAN HALL is a powerful and poignant embrace of life and art. ... more

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The directorial debut of Laura Piani, JANE AUSTEN WRECKED M ... more

Featuring an array of outstanding performances led by Raúl Briones and Academy Award nominee Rooney Mara, LA COCINA is a gripping, exhilarating and truly cinematic new film from acclaimed director Alonso Ruizpalacios. Amidst the lunchtime rush of The Gri ... more

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A subversive take on J.S. Le Fanu's gothic sensation novel, LIES WE TELL shrouds a chilling mystery inside of an Irish period thriller. Ireland, 1864. When her father suddenly dies, the 18-year-old Maud (Agnes O’Casey) inherits his grand and rem ... more

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Academy Award nominated director of Past Lives, Celine Song, once again draws from her own past with this tale of a N ... more

After seven decades filming every aspect of the natural world, David Attenborough delivers his greatest message of hope in a spectacular new film, OCEAN WITH DAVID ATTENBOROUGH. ... more

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From Oscar winner Kevin Macdonald (The Last King of Scottland) and Sam Rice-Edwards (Meet Me in the Bathroom) comes ONE TO ONE: JOHN AND YOKO, an insightful and expansive look at John Lennon and Yoko Ono' ... more

Monday, 30th June

From one of the world's most beloved filmmakers, Wes Anderson (The Grand Budapest Hotel), comes a comic thriller of a wealthy industrialist targeted by nefarious individuals and shady organisations as he sets out to realise his most ambitious project of h ... more

WHAT THE FEST! Winner of the Cannes Grand Prix in addition to Best Actress and Best Actor for its two leads, Michael Haneke’s psychological drama has become a staple of his filmography, and a film that still dominates discussion today. ... more

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Based on Raynor Winn's 2018 titular memoir, nature, and travel book, THE SALT PATH is a touching and profound story of love, loss, and hope. An honest and life-affirming true story of the healing power of the natural world, Marianne Elliott's di ... more

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From one of the most exciting new voices in filmmaking, Ryan Coogler's (Creed, Black Panther) SINNERS is an adventerous, mystifying, and unpredictable supernatural horror set 1930s Mississippi. ... more

Monday, 30th June

Returning to the screen for his first role since his Oscar-winning performance in Oppenheimer, Cillian Murphy is outstanding in this adaptation of Claire Keegan's Booker Prize nominated novel, SMALL THINGS LIKE THESE. Christmas 1985. Bill Furlong (Murphy ... more

Monday, 30th June

Premiering at the Cannes Film Festival, THE SURFER is a new psychological thriller featuring a trademark sanity-questioning performance from Nicolas Cage (Pig, Mandy, Dream Scenario). ... more

Monday, 30th June

WHAT THE FEST! A commercial disappointment upon its release, John Carpenter's adaptation of John W. Campbell Jr's Who Goes There has since become one of cinema's most influential films, referenced in Sinners, Together, Stranger Things, The Hateful Eight a ... more

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The directorial debut of Samoan-born, Aotearoa-based Miki Magasiva, TINĀ is an uplifting and inspiring story of love and perseverance. ... more

Monday, 30th June

Matthew Rankin’s absurdist triptych UNIVERSAL LANGUAGE was the winner of major awards at Cannes, Toronto, and Melbourne Film Festivals! ... more

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WHAT THE FEST! Rex and Saskia are enjoying a holiday in France. When the pair stop for fuel, Saskia disappears without a trace... Praised upon release, George Sluizer's psychological thriller THE VANISHING descends into the mind of a serial killer, buildi ... more

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Co-Written and co-directed by Alex Garland (Civil War), WARFARE is a visceral, boots-on-the-ground thriller told like never before: in real time and based on memory. ... more

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Adapted from Ang Lee's classic cross-cultural comedy, director Andrew Ahn (Spa Night) and screenwriter James Schamus put a fresh spin on THE WEDDING BANQUET, starring comedic sensation Bowen Yang (Wicked), Oscar nominee Lily Gladstone (Killers of the Flow ... more

Monday, 30th June

Isabella Tree and her husband, Charlie Burrell, bet on nature for the future of their failing, four-hundred-year-old estate. Battling entrenched tradition, the duo dares to place the fate of their farm in the hands of nature. ... more

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