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    HONEY DON’T!

    Rating: CTC
    Duration: 90 mins
    Director: Ethan Coen
    Cast: Margaret Qualley, Aubrey Plaza, Charlie Day, Billy Eichner
    Genre: Comedy, crime
    Opens: AUG 28

    Ethan Cohen, director of classics Fargo and No Country for Old Men, is back with a sumptuous treat. Uber cool Margaret Qualley is Honey O’Donahue, a click clackin’ small-town private investigator, delving into a series of strange deaths tied to a mysterious church, with the help of Aubrey Plaza. Chris Evans is the larger than life Pastor taking a few too many liberties… check out the trailer, it oozes sass.

    KANGAROO

    Rating: PG   (Mild themes and violence)
    Duration: 107 mins
    Director: Kate Woods
    Cast: Lily Whiteley, Ryan Corr, Rachel House, Brooke Satchwell
    Genre: Comedy, adventure, family
    Opens: SEP 18

    Kangaroo is a heart-warming family comedy about ex TV personality, Chris Masterman, who becomes stranded in an outback town outside Alice Springs. There, he teams up with 12-year-old Indigenous girl Charlie and form an unlikely friendship and work together to rescue and rehabilitate orphaned joeys in the remote but stunning Outback community – an endeavour that proves to be life-changing for them both.

    Inspired by the life of Chris ‘Brolga’ Barns, founder of The Kangaroo Sanctuary, Alice Springs.

    ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER

    Rating: CTC
    Duration: 170 mins
    Director: Paul Thomas Anderson
    Cast: Leonardo DiCaprio, Benicio Del Toro, Sean Penn, Wood Harris, Regina Hall
    Genre: Drama, thriller, comedy
    Opens: SEP 25

    PTA is back and this might be his most fun film ever – Leo, Benicio and Sean Penn turn in crazy, over the top performances…. When their evil nemesis resurfaces after 16 years, a band of ex-revolutionaries reunite to rescue the daughter of one of their own. Mayhem and hilarity ensue. Huzzah.

    A BIG BOLD BEAUTIFUL JOURNEY

    Rating: CTC
    Duration: 139 mins
    Director: Kogonada
    Cast: Colin Farrell, Margot Robbie, Lily Rabe, Jodie Turner-Smith, Phoebe Waller-Bridge
    Genre: Drama
    Opens: SEP 18

    What if you could open a doorway and walk through it to re-live a defining moment from your past? Sarah (Margot Robbie) and David (Colin Farrell) are single strangers who meet at a mutual friend’s wedding and soon, through a surprising twist of fate, find themselves on A Big Bold Beautiful Journey – a funny, fantastical, sweeping adventure together where they get to re-live important moments from their respective pasts, illuminating how they got to where they are in the present…and possibly getting a chance to alter their futures.

    Michael Smith
    Michael Smith
    Michael Smith is a proud Westie, adventurer, passionate film fan and owner of the Sun Theatre

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