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Creed ✪✪✪ (opens 26th November most cinemas)
It’s pretty much same old same old
in this seventh Rocky outing. It doesn’t
have the heart of the Rocky films, but it does have Stallone. If you are
sentimental for the old films, then you will enjoy this. I think it needed a
little tightening around the edges to the same degree Stallone has had his face
tightened. Most of the reviewers with me enjoyed this more than me. Don’t think
it’s because I’m female, I like my fight films as much as the rest of them, particularly
Southpaw
earlier this year, which I think was a superior film. And I am a Rocky fan. Most at my screening seemed
to enjoy this. I think this is one you need to see yourself to make up your own
mind. If you’re desperate to go a few rounds with Rocky again, and you don’t
mind clichés, then jump in the ring.
Film Blurb
The former World Heavyweight
Champion Rocky Balboa serves as a trainer and mentor to Adonis Johnson, the son
of his late friend and former rival Apollo Creed.
Hotel Transylvania 2 ✪✪✪
(Opens 26th November showing at most cinemas)
My Thoughts

Film Blurb
Dracula and his friends try to bring out the monster
in his half human, half vampire grandson in order to keep Mavis from leaving
the hotel.
Love The Coopers ✪✪✪ (Opens
26th November at most cinemas)
My
Thoughts

Don’t take your kids. I saw poor man walk in
with a couple of kids about eight and ten. Same man left about half way through
with kids in tow. Stars Diane Keaton, Marisa Tomei, John Goodman, Ed Helms, Amanda
Seyfried, Alan Arkin, Olivia Wilde, Anthony Mackie.
Film Blurb
When
four generations of the Cooper clan come together for their annual Christmas
Eve celebration, a series of unexpected visitors and unlikely events turn the
night upside down, leading them all toward a surprising rediscovery of family
bonds and the spirit of the holiday.
SPECIAL
EVENTS
Hollywood
Retro Film Festival 2015
Date:
Opens 26th November– 16th December
Time: Various Times
Location:
Windsor
Cinema Nedlands Details
and Booking
Oh, my gosh, how fabulous are these films? I’m taking
my kids on Saturday to see It’s A Wonderful Life, my very favorite film ever. My two
kids are named after the characters in this film. My eldest is Bailey named
after Jimmy Stewart’s character George Bailey, and my second son Harry, named after
George Bailey’s brother.
Highlights this week:
Frank
Capra’s It
Happened One Night 1934 (Clark Gable, Claudette Colbert)
All About Eve 1950 (Betty Davis) Nominated for 14 Academy Awards
How Green Was My Valley 1941 (Walter Pidgeon, Maureen O'Hara)
Sabrina 1954 (Audrey Hepburn, Humphrey Bogart)
Frank
Capra’s It’s
A Wonderful Life 1946 (Jimmy Stewart, Donna Reed, Lionel Barrymore)
Gone With The Wind 1939 (Clark Gable, Vivian Leigh)
Citizen Kane 1941 (Orson Welles)
The Ghost & Mrs. Muir 1947 (Gene Tierney, Rex Harrison)
Sunset Boulevard 1947 (Gloria Swanson, William Holden)
Singing In The Rain 1952 (Gene Kelly, Donald O'Connor, Debbie Reynolds)
Maltese Falcon 1941 (Humphrey Bogart as Sam Spade)
Margaret Pomeranz announces the first ever
HOLLYWOOD RETRO FILM FESTIVAL
Many of
the 20 films haven’t been seen on a big screen in decades and will look
terrific in HD digital.
Titles include SUNSET BOULEVARD, THE BEST
YEARS OF OUR LIVES, THE GRAPES OF WRATH, CASABLANCA, THE APARTMENT, THE
SEARCHERS, 12 ANGRY MEN, HOW GREEN WAS MY VALLEY, ON THE WATERFRONT, SINGIN’ IN THE RAIN, GONE
WITH THE WIND, CAMILLE ,THE RAZOR’S EDGE
and SPARTACUS.
There’s no substitute for seeing
these wonderful films on the big screen with an audience so I hope that you can
see some, or all of these classic films in this special MARGARET POMERANZ
HOLLYWOOD RETRO FILM FESTIVAL starting November 26.
Looking
For Grace
(Q & A with RAdha Mitchell, Sue Brooks Director/writer &
WA Cast and Crew)
Date: 1st December
Time: 6:45pm
Location:
Luna
Leederville Details
and Booking
OFFICIAL SELECTION – 2015
VENICE INTL. F.F. – IN COMPETITION
OFFICIAL SELECTION – 2015
TORONTO INTL. F.F. – IN COMPETITION
OFFICIAL
SELECTION – 2015 ADELAIDE INTL. F.F. – IN COMPETITION
The only Australian film of the year to receive Official Competition
selection at both the 2015 Venice and Toronto International Film Festivals,
LOOKING FOR GRACE is an intimate, funny and profoundly moving story about the
complexities of family life.
When rebellious 16-year-old Grace (Odessa Young) takes off, her
exasperated mum and dad (Radha Mitchell and Richard Roxburgh) enlist the help
of a close-to-retirement detective (Terry Norris), and begin the long drive
from Perth out to the Western Australia Wheatbelt to try to find her. On the
journey, the two must confront the realities of their changing relationship to
one another, and to their daughter.
Another
Country with David Gulpilil
(Q & A with RAdha Mitchell, Sue Brooks Director/writer &
WA Cast and Crew)
Date: 26th November
Time: Various times
Location:
Luna
Leederville Details
and Booking
OFFICIAL SELECTION – 2015
VENICE INTL. F.F. – IN COMPETITION
OFFICIAL SELECTION – 2015
TORONTO INTL. F.F. – IN COMPETITION
OFFICIAL
SELECTION – 2015 ADELAIDE INTL. F.F. – IN COMPETITION
Australian legend David
Gulpilil tells the story of when his people's way of life was derailed by ours. Molly Reynolds' Another
Country is the stunning culmination of the critically acclaimed Country suite
(featuring her Still Our Country – Reflections on a Culture; and Rolf de Heer's
Charlie's Country). Narrated and guided by Gulpilil himself, Another Country is
an attempt to make sense of the contradictions of the modern Indigenous
experience – a sobering, searing though often humorous account of a people
forced to change too fast and too far, and then left to fade by those who had wrought
that change.
OUTDOOR
CINEMAS
Rooftop
Movies
Date: Runs to April
Time: Doors open at 6.00pm Film commences 8pm
Location: City of Perth Roe St car park LEVEL
6 NORTHBRIDGE
Films of note this week:
Straight Outta Compton (Thursday 26th November)
Mistress America (Friday night 27th November)
Bridge of Spies (Sunday 29th November)
LOTTERY
WEST FILM FESTIVAL
Date: 23rd November
to 10th April
Time: Doors open at 6.00pm Film commences 8pm
Location: Sommerville UWA & ECU Joondalup
Pines
Films this week:
In Harmony (French)
UWA Somerville: Monday 23rd November-—29th
November
ECU Joondalup: Tuesday 1st December—Sunday 6th
December
This simmering
romantic drama set in the golden fields of rural northern France is the ninth
feature by writer-director Denis Dercourt (The Page Turner, 2007 PIAF). It
reunites French acting luminaries and Orchestra Seats (2007 PIAF) co-stars
Albert Dupontel (A Very Long Engagement) and Cécile De France (The Kid with a
Bike). They play Marc, a taciturn stunt actor hurt in a riding accident, and
Florence, who works for Marc’s insurer. This is classic French drama with a
terrific script, great music and exceptional acting.
A Perfect
Day (Spain)
ECU Joondalup: Tuesday 24th November – 29th
November
UWA Somerville: Tuesday 1st December—Sunday 6th
December
Oscar-winners Benicio del
Toro (The Usual Suspects, Sicario) and Tim Robbins (The Shawshank Redemption)
shine in this witty Balkans-set comedic drama that has proved a hit with
audiences worldwide.
The year is 1995 and a group of humanitarian aid workers, led
by world-weary veterans del Toro and Robbins, are nearing the end of their tour
in mountainous Bosnia. A village’s water supply has been contaminated and amid
the mayhem the workers’ seemingly straightforward quest for a rope soon becomes
quite the ordeal.