Regal Graceville. Preview Screening: Sun 23 August. A sweeping yet deeply intimate portrait of family, inheritance, and the fragile ties that shape identity. When world-renowned but reclusive novelist Andrew Dyer (Bill Nighy) summons his estranged children to New York, the reunion sparks a collision of grief, memory, and long-buried secrets. As the brothers navigate their father’s towering shadow, questions of legacy, love, and belonging rise to the surface with piercing urgency. Anchored by Nighy’s elegant and layered performance, the film is elevated by a remarkable ensemble: George MacKay, Noah Jupe, and Johnny Flynn embody the fractured sons with unflinching vulnerability, capturing the raw ache of rivalry and reconciliation. Imelda Staunton brings depth and warmth as Isabel Platt, a figure who threads together past and present, while Dominic West delivers a quietly riveting turn that hints at hidden truths within the Dyer family. With luminous cinematography and a score that resonates long after the final frame, & Sons is a stirring meditation on the stories we inherit—and the ones we choose to write anew.

35mm Screening. New Farm Cinemas: Fri 11 Sept. Newly paroled ex-con and former U.S. Ranger Cameron Poe finds himself trapped in a prisoner transport plane when the passengers seize control.

REAL FILM. REAL CINEMA. At Tower Cinemas, we keep 35mm film alive. In a world of digital projection and shrinking formats, celluloid is becoming rare, and we think that matters. We hunt down original 35mm prints, often unseen for years, and put them back where they belong: on the big screen. This is cinema with depth, texture, and impact. The way it was meant to be experienced. WHY 35MM? Digital runs at 2K or 4K. 35mm? Closer to 8K. That means sharper detail, richer contrast, and deeper, more natural colour. Film simply looks and feels different—more alive. And it’s not just the format—it’s the craft. Every session is run by a real projectionist, presenting the film with care and precision. Sure, digital is consistent. Film isn’t—and that’s the point. Every print carries a history. Slight imperfections, subtle wear—that’s character. That’s warmth. That’s cinema. Three film students travel to Maryland to make a student film about a local urban legend... The Blair Witch. The three went into the woods on a two day hike to find the Blair Witch, and never came back. One year later, the students film and video were found in the woods. The footage was compiled and made into a movie. The Blair Witch Project.

New Farm Cinemas. 35mm screening: Fri 2 October. When a group of teenagers inadvertently kill his only son, Ed Harley seeks the powers of a backwoods witch to bring the child back to life. About 35mm: In a world of digital projection and shrinking formats, celluloid is becoming rare — and we think that matters. We hunt down original 35mm prints — often unseen for years — and put them back where they belong: on the big screen. This is cinema with depth, texture, and impact. The way it was meant to be experienced.

The monstrous spirit of a slain janitor seeks revenge by invading the dreams of teenagers whose parents were responsible for his untimely death.

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This disturbing Japanese thriller follows Aoyama (Ryo Ishibashi), a widower who decides to start dating again. Aided by a film-producer friend (Miyuki Matsuda), Aoyama uses auditions for a fake production to function as a dating service. When Aoyama becomes intrigued by the withdrawn, gorgeous Asami (Eihi Shiina), they begin a relationship. However, he begins to realize that Asami isn't as reserved as she appears to be, leading to gradually increased tension and a harrowing climax.

New Farm Cinemas & Tower Cinemas Newcastle. Time is running out for octopuses in the Mediterranean, where illegal fishing is decimating their populations. In Greece, a passionate frontline led by Sea Shepherd Global, is fighting back! Working alongside local fishermen, scientists, and authorities, they haul thousands of illegal traps from the sea providing what may be the last stand for octopuses in the region. With every life saved, a fragile hope remains.

DE PALMAGEDDON at Tower Cinemas: Sun Oct 4 While recording sound effects for a slasher flick, Jack Terry stumbles upon a real-life horror: a car careening off a bridge and into a river. Jack jumps into the water and fishes out Sally from the car, but the other passenger is already dead — a governor intending to run for president. As Jack does some investigating of his tapes, and starts a perilous romance with Sally, he enters a tangled web of conspiracy that might leave him dead.

DE PALMAGEDDON at New Farm & Tower Cinemas: Fri Oct 9 A young actor's obsession with spying on a beautiful woman who lives nearby leads to a baffling series of events with drastic consequences.

New Farm Cinemas (Brisbane Exclusive) & Tower Cinemas (Newcastle Exclusive). Rock icon Marianne Faithfull's six-decade journey through music, fame and reinvention unfolds in an intimate documentary, blending reality and imagination as she makes her final artistic statement.

A notorious mafia hitman and a young Black FBI agent team up to investigate the murders of civil rights leaders in 1966 Mississippi.

DE PALMAGEDDON at New Farm & Tower Cinemas: Fri Oct 16 After a shortened prison sentence, Carlito Brigante promises to stay away from crime. However, when he finds himself unexpectedly caught in a drugs deal, he is forced to reconsider his decision.

DE PALMAGEDDON at New Farm & Tower Cinemas: Thur Oct 15 Withdrawn and sensitive teenager Carrie White faces bullying from classmates and abuse from her fanatically pious mother. When she begins to suspect that she has supernatural powers, things take a dark and violent turn.

New Farm Cinemas: Sun 4 October. In this seminal noir from 1975, Jack Nicholson is unforgettable as private eye Jake Gittes, living off the murky moral climate of sunbaked pre-war Southern California. Hired by a beautiful socialite (Faye Dunaway) to investigate her husband’s extra-marital affair, Gittes is swept into a maelstrom of double dealings and deadly deceits as he uncovers a web of personal and political scandals that come crashing together in one unforgettable night.

New Farm Cinemas & Regal Graceville: Sat 19 September. In the slums of Rio, two kids' paths diverge as one struggles to become a photographer and the other a kingpin.

After enduring years of catastrophic product failures at the hands of ACME, Inc., Wile E. Coyote (Genius) finally fights back. Teaming up with billboard accident lawyer Kevin Avery (Will Forte), he takes on slick corporate counsel Buddy Crane (John Cena) and ACME, Inc., the profit-obsessed conglomerate behind every one of the Coyote’s chaotic catastrophes. Also, there’s a roadrunner. And dynamite.

New Farm Cinemas: Sat 3 Oct When a novelist loses her man to a movie star and former friend, she winds up in a psychiatric hospital. Years later, she returns home to confront the now-married couple, looking radiant. Her ex-husband's new wife wants to know her secret, and discovers that she has been taking a mysterious drug which grants eternal life to the person who drinks it. The actress follows suit, but discovers that immortality has a price.

“Don’t Look Back In Anger” charts Liam and Noel Gallagher’s triumphant reunion tour, Oasis Live ‘25, one of the most anticipated rock ‘n’ roll comebacks of our time. The film is an unapologetically uplifting account of the biggest musical event of 2025, capturing the experience and emotions of the band and their fans across the world. The unique perspective includes rehearsal, backstage, and onstage access as well as the first joint interviews with Noel and Liam in over 20 years. Alongside the band’s sold-out world tour, the film also explores the profound emotional impact of this phenomenal global cultural moment and what their music means to audiences and generations worldwide. Steven Knight says, “The Oasis world tour united generations, cultures and countries and spoke to a broken world about reconciliation. ‘Don’t Look Back In Anger’ is not only your ticket to the show – it’s a backstage pass and a seat at the table when Liam and Noel sit down together for the first time in 15 years and tell it how it is and how it was.” Featuring unprecedented access and never-before-seen footage, the film is a Magna Studios production, presented by Sony Music Vision in association with Sony Music Entertainment UK. The producers are Sam Bridger (“Lewis Capaldi: How I’m Feeling Now,” “Meet Me in the Bathroom”) and Guy Heeley (“Peaky Blinders: The Immortal Man”). The executive producers include Kate Shepherd, Marisa Clifford, Davud Karbassioun, Tom Mackay, Krista Wegener, Isabel Davis, and Tim O’Shea, with Oscar®-winning sound mixers James Mather (“Top Gun: Maverick,” “Belfast”) and Tarn Willers (“The Zone of Interest”), cinematographer Haris Zambarloukos (“Belfast,” “Beetlejuice Beetlejuice”), and editors George Cragg and Martina Zamolo leading the creative technical team.

DE PALMAGEDDON at New Farm & Tower Cinemas: Sun Oct 11 After witnessing a mysterious woman brutally slay a homemaker, prostitute Liz Blake finds herself trapped in a dangerous situation. While the police thinks she is the murderer, the real killer is intent on silencing her only witness.

New Farm Cinemas: Sat 12 Sept. In a small Minnesota town, the annual beauty pageant is being covered by a TV crew. Former winner Gladys Leeman wants to make sure her daughter follows in her footsteps; explosions, falling lights, and trailer fires prove that. As the Leemans are the richest family in town, the police are pretty relaxed about it all. Despite everything, main rival (but sweet) Amber Atkins won't give up without a fight.

New Farm Cinemas: Sat 3 October. Presented in partnership with Container: Brisbane Film Society and the Institute of Modern Art (IMA). A Plainwater Films release. QLD PREMIERE. When sports photographer Lisa vanished, she was working on an assignment documenting ramshackle football fields across the country. She has left behind a letter for her parents in Tbilisi instructing them not to follow her – a request that her father, Irakli (played by the filmmaker’s own father, David Koberidze), disregards. He attempts to retrace her cross-country path together with her colleague Levan – who, like many of the characters in this gentle and transfixing saga, happens to be invisible – but theirs is destined to be a sublimely digressive quest, punctuated by curious encounters. Shot entirely on an old Sony Ericsson camera phone and unfolding across an epic timescale, Alexandre Koberidze’s latest feature – winner of both a Competition Special Mention and the FIPRESCI Prize at Locarno Film Festival – combines the sense of melancholic whimsy that distinguished his previous feature, 'What Do We See When We Look at the Sky?', with its daring formal gambit, giving its images of the Georgian countryside a surprising, pixelated beauty at times verging on abstraction.

Ashley Williams travels to a secluded cabin in the woods with his girlfriend Linda where they find a tape recording of a professor and a book of evil. This unleashes a bunch of evil spirits that constantly terrorize Ash. Meanwhile a journalist comes to the area to study the book of evil. Ash and her end up having to survive this swarm of evil until morning comes.

New Farm Cinemas. 35mm screening: Fri 18 September. In order to foil an extortion plot, an FBI agent undergoes a facial transplant surgery and assumes the identity and physical appearance of a terrorist, but the plan turns from bad to worse when the same terrorist impersonates the FBI agent. About 35mm: In a world of digital projection and shrinking formats, celluloid is becoming rare — and we think that matters. We hunt down original 35mm prints — often unseen for years — and put them back where they belong: on the big screen. This is cinema with depth, texture, and impact. The way it was meant to be experienced.

Overwhelmed by her sister Hunter's death, Jax (Slater) connects with Luce (Thomas), Hunter's fearless friend. To heal, they attempt the infamous plank walk of Mount Kwan in Thailand. After a sudden rockslide leaves them stranded on a fragile plank 3000 feet in the air, Jax must confront her deepest fears and fight for survival to find closure.

New Farm Cinemas: Fri 25 September Lost souls reach out for human connection amidst the glimmering night world of Hong Kong in Wong Kar Wai’s hallucinatory, neon-soaked nocturne. This hyper-cool head rush plays like the dark, moody flip side to Wong’s breakout feature 'Chungking Express' as it charts the subtly interlacing fates of a handful of urban loners, including a coolly detached hitman (Leon Lai) looking to go straight, his business partner (Michelle Reis) who secretly yearns for him, and a mute delinquent (Takeshi Kaneshiro) who wreaks mischief by night. Swinging between hardboiled noir and slapstick lunacy with giddy abandon, Fallen Angels is both a dizzying, dazzling city symphony and a poignant meditation on love, loss, and longing in a metropolis that never sleeps.

New Farm Cinemas & Tower Cinemas Newcastle. Encore 6.30pm Wednesday 7 October. Professional climber Emily Harrington has summited Everest, 8000-meter peaks, and dominated the competition circuit but, her greatest challenge extends beyond the physical. To cement her legacy in the male dominated world of elite rock climbing, she sets her sights on a career-defining 24-hour ascent of Yosemite’s El Capitan. Caught between the pursuit of personal ambition and the ticking biological clock of life, a near-fatal fall forces Emily to reckon with what she’s willing to risk. Equal parts gripping survival story and intimate portrait, Girl Climber isn’t just about breaking records, it’s about breaking barriers. Amongst Yosemite’s legendary boy’s club, Emily isn’t proving she is the best *Girl Climber-- she's proving she is one of the best. Period.

New Farm Cinemas: Sat 26 September. The true story of Henry Hill, a half-Irish, half-Sicilian Brooklyn kid who is adopted by neighbourhood gangsters at an early age and climbs the ranks of a Mafia family under the guidance of Jimmy Conway.

Newcastle: Friday 30 October. A young man inadvertently breaks three important rules concerning his new pet and unleashes a horde of malevolently mischievous monsters on a small town.

New Farm Cinemas & Tower Cinemas Newcastle. The live theater capture of the hit musical Hadestown, which won eight Tony Awards in 2019 including Best Musical and the 2020 Grammy Award for Best Musical Theater Album, featuring the five original principals of the Broadway company. The genre-defying new musical blends modern American folk music with New Orleans-inspired jazz to reimagine a sweeping ancient tale. Following two intertwining love stories — that of young dreamers Orpheus and Eurydice, and that of King Hades and his wife Persephone —Hadestowninvites audiences on a hell-raising journey to the underworld and back.

New Farm Cinemas & Tower Cinemas Newcastle. Fifteen years after murdering his sister on Halloween night 1963, Michael Myers escapes from a mental hospital and returns to the small town of Haddonfield to kill again.

New Farm Cinemas. Join us for an extra-special HALLOWEEN MYSTERY MOVIE. Trust us if ye dare! On Halloween night: Sat 31 October, you'll be in for a surprise. The movie will remain a secret until the house lights go down! Caution: This film contains sequences that may not be suitable for individuals who suffer with photosensitive epilepsy. Our Halloween Mystery Movie will be a film not previously screened in the past two years at New Farm Cinemas. --- Content Advice: As these films are a mystery, we aren't able to provide specific ratings / guidance on the film's content. We strongly advise that you take this into consideration before purchasing a ticket. Refunds are not permitted.

After a harrowing plane crash, Special Forces officer James Belmont (Brad Pitt) and his combat dog, Odin, find themselves stranded deep in the Alaskan wilderness. Together, they are forced into a brutal fight for survival against the elements. From acclaimed filmmaker David Ayer, Heart of the Beast is an intense adventure thriller that explores the unbreakable bond between a man and his best friend as they face their greatest battle yet.

New Farm Cinemas, Regal Graceville & Tower Cinemas Newcastle. Limited sessions. An amazingly courageous hen is the star of this beguiling survival drama by György Pálfi (Taxidermia). An animal protagonist to rank alongside the heroes of Red Dog, EO and Babe, Hen begins life as a black-feathered outcast in an ocean of golden chicks bound for slaughter. Capturing the personality of this creature with a skill that makes us feel like we know exactly what she is thinking, Pálfi charts the funny adventures and hair-raising escapes that lead her to a run-down taverna on the Greek coast. But this is anything but a straightforward ‘animal picture’. As the humans around Hen come into focus, Pálfi delivers a sobering study in human nature and a provocative commentary on burning social and political issues. Made without CGI, animatronics or AI, Hen is technically brilliant and boldly innovative.

New Farm Cinemas: Thu 17 Sep. We follow 24 hours in the life of a being moving from life to life like a cold and solitary assassin moving from hit to hit. In each of these interwoven lives, the being possesses an entirely distinct identity: sometimes a man, sometimes a woman, sometimes youthful, sometimes old. By turns murderer, beggar, company chairman, monstrous creature, worker, family man.

Reinforcements have been diverted to battle wildfires and all communication has been cut off. Hope’s police outpost chief Bum-seok and officer Sung-ae struggle to defend a village of the elderly, while in the mountains, Sung-ki and the locals who set out to track the beast find themselves hunted instead. What begins as ignorance plants the seed of disaster, escalating through human conflict into a tragedy of cosmic proportions.

New Farm Cinemas Sat 10 Oct, 6:30pm – Q&A with Kevin Mitchell and Arlo (director). Hosted by Jason ‘Jabba’ Davis. Newcastle Sat 17 October, 6:30pm – Q&A with Ness and Arlo (director) This is the story of a band that grew up but never grew apart. Jebediah's thirty-year journey is a celebration of friendship, creativity, and staying connected against the odds.

An enduring masterpiece of cinema starring Academy Award®-winner Vanessa Redgrave and Oliver Reed, KEN RUSSELL’S THE DEVILS is a prescient epic of obsession and corruption — and a defining work of art from seminal filmmaker Ken Russell. Assembled from the original camera negative, this new 4K restoration presents Ken Russell’s definitive vision of THE DEVILS by referencing the edit he privately constructed in 2004. KEN RUSSELL’S THE DEVILS is the uncut and unfiltered theatrical experience that Russell always envisioned – and the first time the film will be presented restored and in 4K.

New Farm Cinemas and Tower Cinemas Newcastle. The hardest part of ending is starting again. After a seven-year hiatus following the devastating loss of their beloved bandmate Chester Bennington, LINKIN PARK’S remaining members struggle to find their way forward. Their shared history and enduring friendship, combined with the fresh perspective of two new band members spark a renewed creative energy that leads them on a transformative journey of artistic reinvention. Following the band from intimate 2022 studio sessions through their explosive FROM ZERO album release and concert in São Paulo, the film UNSHATTER weaves together rare vault footage, electrifying performances from sold-out shows, and candid interviews with band members and fans—capturing the raw, honest story of what it means to start over.

DE PALMAGEDDON at Tower Cinemas: Fri Oct 2 Based on the hit T.V. series. Jim Phelps was sent to Prague for a mission to prevent the theft of classified material. His wife Claire and his trusted partner Ethan Hunt were members of Phelps' team. Unfortunately, something went horribly wrong and the mission failed, leaving Ethan Hunt the lone survivor. After he reported the failed mission, Kettridge the head of the agency suspects Ethan of being the culprit for the failed mission. Now, Ethan uses unorthodox methods (Which includes the aid of an arms dealer going by the name "Max") to try to find who set him up and to clear his name.

New Farm Cinemas: Thu 10 Sept. In the near future, Fox (Christopher Walken, King of New York) and X (Willem Dafoe, Light Sleeper) are industrial spies who are hired by corporations to bring sought after employees to the highest bidder, leaving their current employers in the dust. When they are hired to help move Hiroshi (played by anime artist Yoshitaka Amano), a brilliant scientist, from a German company back to Japan, they enlist the help of a call girl named Sandii (Asia Argento, Boarding Gate) to seduce him. The actions of Fox, X and Sandii result in a play of power, sex and violence that takes them around the globe, not knowing who either can trust.

DE PALMAGEDDON at New Farm & Tower Cinemas: Thur Oct 8 A disfigured composer sells his soul for the woman he loves so that she will perform his music. However, an evil record tycoon betrays him and steals his music to open his rock palace, The Paradise.

See It First - Ladies Night Previews Wednesday 9 September. Starring Sandra Bullock and Nicole Kidman, Practical Magic 2 returns to a world steeped in moonlit mischief and powerful ancestral magic, as the Owens sisters must confront the dark curse that threatens to unravel their family once and for all in a must-see cinematic event of fun, magic and mayhem.

RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK 45th anniversary screenings. Father's Day Sunday 6th September. The year is 1936. An archeology professor named Indiana Jones is venturing in the jungles of South America searching for a golden statue. Unfortunately, he sets off a deadly trap but miraculously escapes. Then, Jones hears from a museum curator named Marcus Brody about a biblical artifact called The Ark of the Covenant, which can hold the key to humanly existence. Jones has to venture to vast places such as Nepal and Egypt to find this artifact. However, he will have to fight his enemy Rene Belloq and a band of Nazis in order to reach it.

In Resident Evil, a deadly virus outbreak in a secret underground laboratory forces Alice and a team of commandos to fight zombies, mutants, and a rogue AI to prevent a global catastrophe.

New Farm Cinemas: Thu 24 September. Join us for a survival-horror video game adaptation double feature. Screening alongside Silent Hill (2006). Based on the popular video game, Milla Jovovich and Michelle Rodriguez star as the leaders of a commando team who must break into "the hive," a vast underground genetics laboratory operated by the powerful Umbrella Corporation. There, a deadly virus has been unleashed, killing the lab's personnel and resurrecting them as the evil Un-dead. The team has just three hours to shut down the lab's supercomputer and close the facility before the virus threatens to overrun the Earth.

A mysterious video has been linked to a number of deaths, and when an inquisitive journalist finds the tape and views it herself, she sets in motion a chain of events that puts her own life in danger.

New Farm Cinemas and Newcastle on Sat 12 Dec.Restored 4K Director’s Cut version. Detroit... in the near future. A cop who dies in the line of duty is transformed into a chrome-plated, indestructible, crime-fighting cyborg by the corporation which now runs the police department. The only hitch: this "perfect" cop still seeks revenge on the sadistic creeps who mutilated him. A film by Paul Verhoeven (Starship Troopers, Showgirls).

Hank Malone (Ritchson), a high-end courier, has three hours to transport an organ to save a seven-year-old girl in need of an immediate transplant. The seemingly simple mission turns deadly when the leader of a notorious crime syndicate becomes hell-bent on claiming the organ.

New Farm Cinemas: Sun 4 October. Toshiro Mifune swaggers and snarls to brilliant comic effect in Kurosawa's tightly paced, beautifully composed "Sanjuro." In this companion piece and sequel to "Yojimbo," jaded samurai Sanjuro helps an idealistic group of young warriors weed out their clan's evil influences, and in the process turns their image of a proper samurai on its ear.

DE PALMAGEDDON at Tower Cinemas: Screens Thursday 1st October. After getting a green card in exchange for assassinating a Cuban government official, Tony Montana (Al Pacino) stakes a claim on the drug trade in Miami. Viciously murdering anyone who stands in his way, Tony eventually becomes the biggest drug lord in the state, controlling nearly all the cocaine that comes through Miami. But increased pressure from the police, wars with Colombian drug cartels and his own drug-fueled paranoia serve to fuel the flames of his eventual downfall.

Advanced Screenings this Father's Day. The new adventure sees the residents of Mossy Bottom Farm looking forward to Halloween - until the clumsy Farmer trashes the Flock's beloved pumpkin patch. When Shaun turns mad scientist to fix the problem, things rapidly spiral out of control, leading to a wild beast roaming the woods.

After #MeToo broke the cultural silence on gendered violence, survivors swiftly found themselves facing a new kind of silencing and fear as defamation laws became weaponised by alleged perpetrators against women for speaking out. In the wake of this defamation avalanche, international human rights lawyer and free speech defender Jennifer Robinson is fighting for the rights of victims of gender violence to tell their story. Robinson takes audiences inside the courtroom and behind the headlines to reveal how the legal system is used to discredit, re-victimise and financially ruin survivors. SILENCED brings unrivalled access to the women and journalists at the centre of high-profile legal battles across the globe, including Brittany Higgins, Australian former political staffer, survivor and advocate against gender violence, Catalina Ruiz-Navarro, journalist and co-founder of the feminist magazine Volcánicas, and Amber Heard, Hollywood actor and advocate who found herself at the centre of one of the most high-profile defamation battle in in recent history. From International Emmy Award-winning filmmakers Selina Miles and Blayke Hoffman, SILENCED is a powerful, emotional and urgent documentary that challenges the devastating flaws maintaining the status quo within the justice system.

New Farm Cinemas: Thu 24 September. Join us for a survival-horror video game adaptation double feature. Screening alongside Resident Evil (2002). Rose, a desperate mother, takes her adopted daughter, Sharon, to the town of Silent Hill in an attempt to cure her of her ailment. After a violent car crash, Sharon disappears, and Rose embarks on a horrific journey to get her back and begins to uncover the truth behind the apocalyptic disaster that burned the town 30 years earlier.

Tower Cinemas Newcastle: Thursday 29 October. Bill Whitney is worried that he is different to his sister and parents. They mix with other upper-class people while Bill is more down to earth. Even his girlfriend seems a bit odd. All is revealed when Bill returns home to find a party in full swing.

After Doomsday, Peter Parker tries to focus on college and leave Spider-Man behind. But when a new threat endangers his friends, he must break his promise and suit up again, teaming with an unexpected ally to protect those he loves.

Q&A screenings. Tower Cinemas Newcastle: Tue 17 August. New Farm Cinemas: Mon 7 September. STORM BIRD is a character driven comedy-drama that follows Richard Hollingsworth, a once-revered classical musician, now reclusive nihilist, living out his final months in tropical North Queensland. When Jack, a crass, working-class neighbour facing jail time, saves him from a sudden heart attack, their lives unexpectedly intertwine. Together with Carla, a sharp New York author documenting Richard’s life, the three unlikely companions spend a transformative weekend together, journeying deep into the rainforest and forging unexpected bonds across social divides, whilst confronting the sobering reality that each of their lives is about to change drastically.

New Farm Cinemas: Mon 28 September. Q&A with Manu Peni. The Sepik River is the mother line for Papua New Guinea communities. Winding through mountains and rainforests, she is the crucial vertebrae connecting and supporting the region’s rare biodiversity and spiritual consciousness. But her livelihood and her communities are threatened by the proposal of a copper-gold mine being built near her waters, which could extract, erode and pollute an environment that she has sustained for millennia. The children of this river, led by Manu Peni, create a grassroots campaign to stop the mine from being built, resisting the forces of colonial bureaucracy and Western narratives of ‘development’ by invoking the Spirit of the river and indigenous knowledge. Sukundimi Walks Before Me explores this existential fight through lyrical expressions of existence, resistance and life along the mother river.

New Farm Cinemas: Sun 13 Sep In this humorous paean to the joys of food, a pair of truck drivers happen onto a decrepit roadside shop selling ramen noodles. The widowed owner, Tampopo, begs them to help her turn her establishment into a paragon of the "art of noodle-soup making". Interspersed are satirical vignettes about the importance of food to different aspects of human life.

New Farm Cinemas. Direct from winning the Queer Palm at Cannes, Hannah Einbinder and Gillian Anderson electrify in this equally camp and bloody psychosexual thriller from queer maverick Jane Schoenbrun (I Saw the TV Glow). After years of slapdash sequels and waning fandom, the Camp Miasma slasher franchise is handed over to an enthusiastic young director (Einbinder, Hacks) for resurrection. But when she visits the original movie’s star (Anderson, The X-Files), a now-reclusive actress shrouded in mystery, the two women fall into a blood-soaked world of desire, fear, and delirium.

New Farm Cinemas: Sun 20 September. We are proud to present a rare screening of master Ukrainian filmmaker Kira Muratova's magnum-opus 'The Asthenic Syndrome', newly restored in stunning 4K. Widely considered Kira Muratova’s masterpiece, 'The Asthenic Syndrome' is also Soviet cinema’s grand avant-comic opus, a deconstructive portrait of the nation in the final, frenzied stages of the communist experiment. For its first forty minutes, shot in black and white, Syndrome tells the story of a grieving widow (Olga Antonova) at wit’s end, lashing out at strangers on the street, impulsively quitting her nursing job, and sleeping with random men. Cut to a disastrous post-screening Q&A with Antonova: we’ve just watched a film-within-a-film as slept through by Nikolai (Sergei Popov, one of Muratova’s co-screenwriters), a narcoleptic schoolteacher whose subsequent wanderings lead to encounters (between sudden naps) with an expansive cross section of the failing Soviet Union’s beleaguered citizenry—digressive vignettes at once bizarre, disturbing, and hilarious. Deftly applying dizzying metafiction to her inimitable brand of humanistic farce, The Asthenic Syndrome is an ingenious fractal puzzle that captures the delirious death throes of an entire epoch.

New Farm Cinemas: Fri 30 October. A man brutally murdered comes back to life as an undead avenger of his and his fiancée's murder.

Set in a post-apocalyptic world in which a virus has wiped out most of humanity, with survivors being terrorized by roaming scavengers called "Reapers." The protagonist is Hig, a pilot who survived the flu that killed everyone he knew, his wife included. He lives in the hangar of a small abandoned airport with his dog, his only neighbor a gun-toting ex-Marine. Hig sometimes heads off in his 1956 Cessna, where he can fish and pretend things are how they used to be. When a random transmission somehow beams through his radio, the voice ignites a hope deep inside him that a better life might exist if he flies a bit further. He risks it all. to chase a possible haven in Grand Junction.

Director's Cut, restored in 4K. 12-year-old Regan MacNeil begins to adapt an explicit new personality as strange events befall the local area of Georgetown. Her mother becomes torn between science and superstition in a desperate bid to save her daughter, and ultimately turns to her last hope: Father Damien Karras, a troubled priest who is struggling with his own faith.

A brilliant but eccentric scientist begins to transform into a giant man/fly hybrid after one of his experiments goes horribly wrong. A film by David Cronenberg.

New Farm Cinemas & Tower Cinemas Newcastle. Limited event screenings: October 9 & 10 featuring a very special pre-recorded post screening Q&A between director John Wilson and Australian comedian and film critic Alexei Toliopoulos. Tickets also include a special collectible A3 poster and a bag of “make your own concrete” mix. Following the finale of his TV series, filmmaker John Wilson looks to the bedrock of his beloved New York City for inspiration and structure. Concrete, the world's most widely used building material, appears as an ever-present life force, and John sets out to make the definitive documentary on the matter. To tell this seemingly drab story, he decides to use the industry-approved Hallmark formula to increase his movie's appeal. But his foundation soon begins to crumble—literally and figuratively—as he struggles to balance artistic freedom with the realities of the modern film industry.

Defy the Gods. In a visionary reimagining of Homer’s timeless epic, Academy Award-winning auteur Christopher Nolan brings a masterful fusion of myth and spectacle in THE ODYSSEY. Starring Matt Damon as the indomitable Odysseus, this highly anticipated adaptation chronicles the hero’s treacherous journey home after the Trojan War. With a gripping ensemble of talent, Nolan crafts a mesmerizing tale of survival, sacrifice, and defiance. Joining Damon in this star-studded cast are Tom Holland as Telemachus, Anne Hathaway as Penelope, Zendaya as Athena, and Robert Pattinson as Antinous. Charlize Theron, Lupita Nyong’o, Jon Bernthal, and Mia Goth round out the A-list ensemble. After the dust of the Trojan War has settled, Odysseus (Damon), the legendary king of Ithaca, embarks on a perilous odyssey across the seas to reunite with his beloved wife, Penelope, and son, Telemachus. But the gods of Olympus - led by the vengeful Poseidon - have other plans, and each step he takes brings him deeper into a world where the boundaries between man and myth blur. Torn between loyalty, love, and vengeance, Odysseus must confront not only the supernatural horrors that lurk at every turn but also the depths of his own soul. With breathtaking visuals, relentless pacing, and Nolan’s signature exploration of the human condition, THE ODYSSEY is a cinematic tour de force and a journey through the ancient world that is as audacious and ambitious as the hero at its centre.

New Farm Cinemas: Sun 6 Sep. In this enchanting fairy tale, the beautiful Princess Buttercup and the dashing Westley must overcome staggering odds to find happiness amid six-fingered swordsmen, murderous princes, Sicilians and rodents of unusual size. But even death can’t stop these true lovebirds from triumphing. Featuring swordplay, giants, an evil prince, a beautiful princess, and yes, some kissing (as read by a kindly grandfather).

Join us on Halloween Saturday 31st October at 12AM MIDNIGHT for a wild, interactive midnight screening of The Rocky Horror Picture Show! Expect outrageous fun, audience participation, and all the cult-classic chaos you love. Costumes encouraged. Energy required. Don’t dream it… be it. We would like, if we may, to take you on a strange journey. Dress for a trip to Transylvania with our sing-along, dance-along screening of this timeless cult classic.

Last Friday of the month. Written, directed and starring Tommy Wiseau, The Room 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. Featured on Adult Swim’s Tim and Eric, Awesome Show, Great Job! 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?” Bring your plastic spoons!

New Farm Cinemas: Thu 29 October. Young FBI agent Clarice Starling is assigned to help find a missing woman to save her from a psychopathic serial killer who skins his victims. Clarice attempts to gain a better insight into the twisted mind of the killer by talking to another psychopath: Hannibal Lecter, who used to be a respected psychiatrist. FBI agent Jack Crawford believes that Lecter, who is also a very powerful and clever mind manipulator, has the answers to their questions and can help locate the killer. However, Clarice must first gain Lecter's confidence before the inmate will give away any information.

When Sally hears that her grandfather’s grave may have been vandalised, she and her paraplegic brother, Franklin, set out with their friends to investigate. After a detour to their family’s old farmhouse, they discover a group of crazed, murderous outcasts living next door. As the group is attacked one by one by the chainsaw-wielding Leatherface, who wears a mask of human skin, the survivors must do everything they can to escape.

Advance Screening Wednesday 16 September. When Samuel (Hawke) is torn from his daughter and sent to a brutal prison, Warden Clancy (Crowe) offers a high-stakes proposition: smuggle gold out of a remote mine with a dangerous crew of prisoners and he’ll win his freedom. But as the group journeys into the unforgiving wilderness, the real threat isn’t the terrain - it’s the betrayal and violence festering within their ranks. Surrounded by greed, suspicion, and danger, Samuel must risk everything to reunite with his child.

A young boy stumbles onto a witch convention and must stop them, even after he has been turned into a mouse.

A 19-year-old Anthony Bourdain travels to Provincetown and stumbles into the chaotic world of a restaurant kitchen, setting off a summer that will shape the course of his life.

New Farm, Elizabeth, Red Hill, Regal Graceville & Tower Cinemas Newcastle: Father's Day (Sun 6 September). Yatala Drive-In: The evening before Father's Day (Sat 5 September). To celebrate the 40th anniversary; it’s time to be called back to TOP GUN, the Naval Fighter Weapons School where the best of the best train to refine their elite flying skills. When hotshot fighter pilot Maverick is sent to the school, his reckless attitude and cocky demeanour put him at odds with the other pilots, especially the cool and collected Iceman.

New Farm, Elizabeth, Red Hill, Regal Graceville & Tower Cinemas Newcastle: Father's Day (Sun 6 September). Yatala Drive-In: The evening before Father's Day (Sat 5 September). After more than thirty years of service as one of the Navy’s top aviators, Pete “Maverick” Mitchell (Tom Cruise) is where he belongs, pushing the envelope as a courageous test pilot and dodging the advancement in rank that would ground him. When he finds himself training a detachment of Top Gun graduates for a specialized mission the likes of which no living pilot has ever seen, Maverick encounters Lt. Bradley Bradshaw (Miles Teller), call sign: “Rooster,” the son of Maverick’s late friend and Radar Intercept Officer Lt. Nick Bradshaw, aka “Goose”. Facing an uncertain future and confronting the ghosts of his past, Maverick is drawn into a confrontation with his own deepest fears, culminating in a mission that demands the ultimate sacrifice from those who will be chosen to fly it.

As the president of a trashy TV channel, Max Renn is desperate for new programming to attract viewers. When he happens upon “Videodrome,” a TV show dedicated to gratuitous torture and punishment, Max sees a potential hit and broadcasts the show on his channel. However, after his girlfriend auditions for the show and never returns, Max investigates the truth behind Videodrome and discovers that the graphic violence may not be as fake as he thought.

New Farm Cinemas: Sun 4 October A crafty ronin comes to a town divided by two criminal gangs and decides to play them against each other to free the town.