2001: A Space Odyssey is BACK at New Farm Cinemas. Sat 30 November. When Dr. Dave Bowman (Keir Dullea) and other astronauts are sent on a mysterious mission, their ship's computer system, HAL, begins to display increasingly strange behavior, leading up to a tense showdown between man and machine that results in a mind-bending trek through space and time. One of the most influential of all sci-fi films - and one of the most controversial - Stanley Kubrick's 2001 is a delicate, poetic meditation on the ingenuity and folly of mankind.

Mismatched cousins David and Benji reunite for a tour through Poland to honor their beloved grandmother. The adventure takes a turn when the odd-couple's old tensions resurface against the backdrop of their family history.

New Farm Cinemas: Friday 7 Dec. Released in 1988 but set in Neo-Tokyo, dystopian 2019, AKIRA follows a secret military project that endangers Kaneda and his friends when it turns a biker gang member into a rampaging monster that only two teenagers and a group of psychics can stop.

New Farm, Red Hill, Regal Graceville & The Elizabeth. Celebrate Christmas in cinemas with André Rieu’s festive spectacular: Gold and Silver, from December 7! Join André and the Johann Strauss Orchestra on the big screen for an enchanting concert that captures the warmth and magic of the holiday season. Let the glow of chandeliers and your favorite Christmas classics fill your heart with festive cheer! Tickets are now on sale – book yours today.

New Farm Cinemas. Virtual Q&A with writer/director Sean Baker: Mon 9 December. Additional Advance Screening: Fri 13 December. Anora (a phenomenal Mikey Madison), a young sex worker from Brooklyn, meets and impulsively marries the son of an oligarch. Once the news reaches Russia, her fairytale is threatened as the parents set out for New York to get the marriage annulled. Winner of the prestigious Palme d'Or at Cannes, and the first American film to do so since The Tree of Life, Sean Baker's wildly hilarious and emotional drama introduces once of the most interesting characters of the decade in ANORA.

New Farm Cinemas - Brisbane Friday 29 NOVEMBER at 7pm. WRITTEN & DIRECTED BY TOMMY WISEAU – THE CREATOR OF CULT CLASSIC THE ROOM! Three firefighters must save New Orleans from a shark attack.

New Farm Cinemas: Thu 5 December. "If this picture doesn't make your skin crawl... it's on TOO TIGHT." As winter break begins, a group of sorority sisters, including Jess (Olivia Hussey) and the often inebriated Barb (Margot Kidder), begin to receive anonymous, lascivious phone calls. Initially, Barb eggs the caller on, but stops when he responds threateningly. Soon, Barb's friend Claire (Lynne Griffin) goes missing from the sorority house, and a local adolescent girl is murdered, leading the girls to suspect a serial killer is on the loose. But no one realizes just how near the culprit is.

Advance Screenings: Dec 7 (Red Hill), Dec 8 (New Farm) & Dec 15 (Regal, Elizabeth). 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.  Cardinal Lawrence (Ralph Fiennes) is tasked with running this covert, centuries-old process after the unexpected death of the beloved Pope. Once the Catholic Church’s most powerful leaders have gathered from around the world and are locked together in the Vatican halls, Lawrence finds himself at the centre of a conspiracy and discovers a secret that could shake the very foundation of The Church.  Featuring an all-star ensemble cast including Stanley Tucci, Isabella Rossellini, Sergio Castellitto and John Lithgow, CONCLAVE is a lavish and complex tale of ambition, morality and the structures of power.

New Farm Cinemas: Fri 13 December. John McClane, officer of the NYPD, tries to save his wife Holly Gennaro and several others that were taken hostage by German terrorist Hans Gruber during a Christmas party at the Nakatomi Plaza in Los Angeles.

New Farm Cinemas. Advance Screening: Sat 14 December, 7:30 PM. From renegade auteur Jacques Audiard comes Emilia Pérez, an audacious fever dream that defies genres and expectations. Through liberating song and dance and bold visuals, this odyssey follows the journey of four remarkable women in Mexico, each pursuing their own happiness. The fearsome cartel leader Emilia (Karla Sofía Gascón) enlists Rita (Zoe Saldaña), an unappreciated lawyer stuck in a dead-end job, to help fake her death so that Emilia can finally live authentically as her true self. Winning the Jury Prize Award & a triple Best Actress for Gascón, Saldaña, Selena Gomes & Adriana Paz at the 2024 Cannes Film Festival 2024, Emilia Perez in a swaggering musical crime thriller of genre-bending fascination that is also an unapologetically trans story.

New Farm Cinemas: Sat 23 November. On the run from a bank robbery that left several police officers dead, Seth Gecko (George Clooney) and his paranoid, loose-cannon brother, Richard (Quentin Tarantino), hightail it to the Mexican border. Kidnapping preacher Jacob Fuller (Harvey Keitel) and his kids, the criminals sneak across the border in the family's RV and hole up in a topless bar. Unfortunately, the bar also happens to be home base for a gang of vampires, and the brothers and their hostages have to fight their way out.

Advance Screenings: Wed 13 November. Book Now! After his home is conquered by the tyrannical emperors who now lead Rome, Lucius is forced to enter the Colosseum and must look to his past to find strength to return the glory of Rome to its people.

Written and directed by Scott Beck and Bryan Woods (A Quiet Place), HERETIC follows two young missionaries as they knock on the door of the charming yet diabolical Mr. Reed (played by Hugh Grant). Whilst Mr. Reed engages them in conversations of religion and the promise of a blueberry pie, the girls start to suspect they might have knocked on the wrong door… What follows is a deadly game of cat-and-mouse designed to test the bounds of their faith and make them question everything they thought to be true.

New Farm Cinemas. Fri 29 November. A group of explorers make use of a newly discovered wormhole to surpass the limitations on human space travel and conquer the vast distances involved in an interstellar voyage.

When a Belfast schoolteacher crashes into the orbit of two unpredictable and raucous best-friends, the needle drops on a hip-hop act like no other. Liam Óg Ó hAnnaidh, Naoise Ó Cairealláin, and JJ Ó Dochartaigh leap onto the screen to play themselves in this heightened comedy-drama about the anarchic group, Kneecap, who become unlikely figureheads of a civil rights movement to save their mother tongue. Armed with a blend of native Irish and English verses and furious, politically charged rhymes, the trio must overcome police, paramilitaries and politicians trying to silence their defiant ketamine-fuelled sound. In this fiercely original sex, drugs and hip-hop biopic, also starring Michael Fassbender, KNEECAP is a rollicking trip into the meaning of pure defiance.

Oscar winner Kate Winslet stars in this fascinating portrait of the great American war correspondent Lee Miller, whose singular talent and ferocious tenacity gave us some of the 20th century’s most indelible images. A former model, Lee is now tired of being viewed through a lens and by men, and focusses on her own work as a photographer. As the threat of war looms, everything about their daily lives changes completely, almost overnight. Frustrated by the restrictions placed on female photographers at the time, who are limited to documenting life on the home front, Miller urges her female boss at British Vogue, to request permission for Lee to go to the frontline. With a profound understanding and empathy for women and for the voiceless victims of atrocious crimes, her images feature both the fragility and ferocity of the human ability to survive, exist, fight, defend and live. Directed by award winning cinematographer Ellen Kuras, and featuring superb supporting performances from Marion Cotillard, Andrea Riseborough, Andy Samberg and Alex Skarsgard, the film is a vivid reminder of the bold women who fought to penetrate male-dominated spaces — making great sacrifices and ultimately changing the way we see the world.

New Farm Cinemas. Screening as part of the Lebanese Film Festival. To find her stolen scooter, Arze drags her son on an adventurous journey across Beirut, navigating the city’s web of sectarianism with wit and courage while revealing to her son a long- overdue family secret. The film is Mira Shaib’s debut feature.

New Farm Cinemas. Screening as part of the Lebanese Film Festival. Five year-old Syrian refugee Abboud, with a vivid imagination, meets Wissam, a troubled young Lebanese man. Their unexpected friendship not only transforms Wissam’s life but also begins to heal his deep-seated wounds. Together, they unknowingly alter each other’s destinies.

New Farm Cinemas: Sun 1 Dec. Featuring a loaded cast, with the likes of Hugh Grant, Colin Firth, Keira Knightly, and Andrew Lincoln, Love Actually tells nine intertwined stories examining the complexities of the one emotion that connects us all: love.

New Farm Cinemas. Greek Film Festival presents a special New Year's Day Advance Screening of MARIA. From Pablo Larraín, director of SPENCER and JACKIE, comes MARIA starring Angelina Jolie as the world's greatest female opera singer, Maria Callas. Angelina Jolie unveils new highs within her emotional register in Pablo Larraín's Maria, the tumultuous, beautiful and tragic story of the life of the world’s greatest female opera singer, relived and reimagined during her final days in 1970s Paris.

Featuring the voices of Auli‘i Cravalho as Moana and Dwayne Johnson as Maui, Walt Disney Animation Studios’ epic animated musical MOANA 2 takes audiences back to the ocean on an expansive new voyage with Moana, Maui and a brand-new crew of unlikely seafarers. After receiving an unexpected call from her wayfinding ancestors, Moana must journey to the far seas of Oceania and into dangerous, long-lost waters for an adventure unlike anything she’s ever faced. With music composed by Grammy® winners Abigail Barlow and Emily Bear, Grammy nominee Opetaia Foa’i, and three-time Grammy winner Mark Mancina, MOANA 2 promises to deliver a soundtrack of unforgettable new songs that are sure to become instant Disney classics.

Advance Screening: Wed 18 December. “Mufasa: The Lion King” enlists Rafiki to relay the legend of Mufasa to young lion cub Kiara, daughter of Simba and Nala, with Timon and Pumbaa lending their signature schtick. Told in flashbacks, the story introduces Mufasa as an orphaned cub, lost and alone until he meets a sympathetic lion named Taka - the heir to a royal bloodline. The chance meeting sets in motion an expansive journey of an extraordinary group of misfits searching for their destiny - their bonds will be tested as they work together to evade a threatening and deadly foe.

New Farm Cinemas. Thurs 28 November. The epic conclusion to the groundbreaking anime series finally ascends to the big screen! Teenagers Shinji, Rei, and Asuka pilot cyborg mecha called Evangelion for the paramilitary organisation NERV, defending the city of Tokyo-3 against otherworldly monsters called Angels. SEELE, a powerful shadowy council, is planning to bring about a cosmic event that will wipe out all life on earth and merge all souls into one: The Third Impact. Shinji’s father Gendo, commander of NERV, wishes to twist this for his own goals, others like Misato, head of NERV operations, strive to prevent it at all costs. Ultimately, everything lies in the hands of young Shinji; traumatised, depressed and in the midst of a debilitating existential crisis as Tokyo-3 is attacked by SEELE.

New Farm Cinemas. Advance Screening: Tue 19 November. One of the most important films of the year and winner of both the ‘Best Documentary’ and ‘Audience’ awards at the 2024 Berlin Film Festival, NO OTHER LAND is a sobering yet inspiring look at Palestinian resistance under occupation. Basel Adra, a young Palestinian activist and lawyer from Masafer Yatta - a group of Palestinian villages in the southern West Bank - has been fighting his community’s mass expulsion by the Israeli occupation since childhood - the largest single act of forced displacement ever carried out in the occupied West Bank. Striking up an unlikely friendship with Israeli investigative journalist Yuval Abraham, who lives a starkly different life to Adra, the two with the help of an Isreali-Palestinian filmmaking collective commit themselves to documenting and protesting the demolition of Palestinian communities in the West Bank. Filmed as the IDF destroys everything from homes, schools and playgrounds to ceiling up drinking wells in order to make a military training ground. One of the front-runners for the Best Documentary Oscar and an audience award winner at an assortment of festivals worldwide, NO OTHER LAND is a vital and inspiring testament to the resilience of the Palestinian people.

PADDINGTON IN PERU brings the beloved bear to South America as he returns to visit his beloved Aunt Lucy, who now resides at the Home for Retired Bears. With the Brown Family in tow, a thrilling adventure ensues when a mystery plunges them into an unexpected journey through the Amazon rainforest and up to the mountain peaks of Peru.

Spice up your life at New Farm Cinemas: Sun 24 November. Hang on to your knickers, pump up your platforms and fasten your seat belts, because the Spice Girls - Emma Bunton (Baby Spice), Geri Halliwell (Ginger Spice), Melanie Brown (Scary Spice), Melanie Chisholm (Sporty Spice) and Victoria Addams (Posh Spice) - are taking center stage in their feature film debut "Spice World," a roller coaster ride which will spice up your life and open your eyes very wide!

New Farm Cinemas: Fri 6 December. In the colourful future, a cab driver unwittingly becomes the central figure in the search for a legendary cosmic weapon to keep evil and Mr Zorg at bay.

New Farm Cinemas. Last Friday of every month, next screening Friday 29 NOVEMBER 2024. 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! and beloved by comic actors such as David Cross and Alec Baldwin, 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!

Advance Screenings: Fri to Sun, Dec 20-22. Ingrid (Julianne Moore) and Martha (Tilda Swinton) were close friends in their youth, when they worked together at the same magazine. Ingrid went on to become an autofiction novelist while Martha became a war reporter. Eventually, they were separated by the circumstances of life. After years of being out of touch, they meet again in an extreme but strangely sweet situation.

Have you ever dreamt of a better version of yourself? You. Only better in every way. You should try this new product, The Substance. IT CHANGED MY LIFE. Demi Moore delivers the performance of her career according to critics in Coralie Fargeat’s audacious Cannes Film Festival Best Screenplay award-winning body horror, THE SUBSTANCE. Elisabeth Sparkle (Moore), renowned for an aerobics show, faces a devastating blow on her 50th birthday when she is unceremoniously fired. Amid her distress, a laboratory offers her a black-market substance which promises to transform her into an enhanced version of herself (a ferocious Margaret Qualley). A frenzied and satirical body horror that's as clever as it is gory, THE SUBSTANCE adds a timely and viscerally confronting feminist spin on ageism and the toll of vanity.

New Farm Cinemas: Sat 14 December. 'Tis the season in Satoshi Kon's TOKYO GODFATHERS, a comedic-drama which follows a pairing of convenience into a chosen family - an unexpectedly cozy film from the director of Perfect Blue and Paprika. Middle-aged alcoholic Gin, teenage runaway Miyuki, and former drag queen Hana are a trio of homeless people surviving as a makeshift family on the streets of Tokyo. While rummaging in the trash for food on Christmas Eve, they stumble upon an abandoned newborn baby in a trash bin. With only a handful of clues to the baby's identity, the three misfits search the streets of Tokyo for help in returning the baby to its parents.

After two decades as one of the most beloved and enduring musicals on the stage, Wicked makes its long-awaited journey to the big screen as a spectacular, generation-defining cinematic event this holiday season. Wicked, the untold story of the witches of Oz, stars Emmy, Grammy and Tony winning powerhouse Cynthia Erivo (Harriet, Broadway’s The Color Purple) as Elphaba, a young woman, misunderstood because of her unusual green skin, who has yet to discover her true power, and Grammy-winning, multi-platinum recording artist and global superstar Ariana Grande as Glinda, a popular young woman, gilded by privilege and ambition, who has yet to discover her true heart. The two meet as students at Shiz University in the fantastical Land of Oz and forge an unlikely but profound friendship. Following an encounter with The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, their friendship reaches a crossroads and their lives take very different paths. Glinda's unflinching desire for popularity sees her seduced by power, while Elphaba's determination to remain true to herself, and to those around her, will have unexpected and shocking consequences on her future. Their extraordinary adventures in Oz will ultimately see them fulfill their destinies as Glinda the Good and the Wicked Witch of the West. The film also stars Oscar® winner Michelle Yeoh as Shiz University’s regal headmistress Madame Morrible; Jonathan Bailey (Bridgerton, Fellow Travelers) as Fiyero, a roguish and carefree prince; Tony nominee Ethan Slater (Broadway’s Spongebob Squarepants, Fosse/Verdon) as Boq, an altruistic Munchkin student; Marissa Bode in her feature-film debut as Nessarose, Elphaba’s favored sister; and pop culture icon Jeff Goldblum as the legendary Wizard of Oz.

New Farm Cinemas. Wicked Open Caption Screening Saturday 23 November at 3.45pm. After two decades as one of the most beloved and enduring musicals on the stage, Wicked makes its long-awaited journey to the big screen as a spectacular, generation-defining cinematic event this holiday season. Wicked, the untold story of the witches of Oz, stars Emmy, Grammy and Tony winning powerhouse Cynthia Erivo (Harriet, Broadway’s The Color Purple) as Elphaba, a young woman, misunderstood because of her unusual green skin, who has yet to discover her true power, and Grammy-winning, multi-platinum recording artist and global superstar Ariana Grande as Glinda, a popular young woman, gilded by privilege and ambition, who has yet to discover her true heart. The two meet as students at Shiz University in the fantastical Land of Oz and forge an unlikely but profound friendship. Following an encounter with The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, their friendship reaches a crossroads and their lives take very different paths. Glinda's unflinching desire for popularity sees her seduced by power, while Elphaba's determination to remain true to herself, and to those around her, will have unexpected and shocking consequences on her future. Their extraordinary adventures in Oz will ultimately see them fulfill their destinies as Glinda the Good and the Wicked Witch of the West. The film also stars Oscar® winner Michelle Yeoh as Shiz University’s regal headmistress Madame Morrible; Jonathan Bailey (Bridgerton, Fellow Travelers) as Fiyero, a roguish and carefree prince; Tony nominee Ethan Slater (Broadway’s Spongebob Squarepants, Fosse/Verdon) as Boq, an altruistic Munchkin student; Marissa Bode in her feature-film debut as Nessarose, Elphaba’s favored sister; and pop culture icon Jeff Goldblum as the legendary Wizard of Oz.