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.

Tower Cinemas Newcastle: Saturday 18 July. Directors Cut "They mostly come at night, mostly..." Ellen Ripley (Sigourney Weaver) is rescued by a deep salvage team after being hypersleep for 57 years. The moon that the Nostromo visited has been colonized, but contact is lost. This time, colonial marines have impressive firepower, but will that be enough?

Introductions at New Farm Cinemas with the writer & director for some sessions, and a Q&A at Tower Cinemas Newcastle 4pm 20th June. A sequel to the cult Brisbane film 'All My Friends Are Leaving Brisbane', we are pleased to present a Brisbane-exclusive season of director Louise Alston's long-awaited sequel 'All My Friends Are Back in Brisbane'. After being dumped by her fiancé in London, a lawyer returns home to Brisbane and finds herself working with the now-married ex-boyfriend she left a decade earlier. Shot in-and-around the city and suburbs, including Brunswick St, this follow-up to one of Brisbane's most iconic films can't be missed.

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This year, André Rieu celebrates a spectacular milestone — the 20th anniversary of his iconic summer concerts on the magnificent Vrijthof square. Captured live in his beloved hometown, this brand-new cinema event marks two decades of music and unforgettable magical summer nights. Viva Maastricht! is a joyful tribute to the city where it all began. Joined by his world- renowned Johann Strauss Orchestra and a vibrant ensemble of artists, André brings the spirit, culture, and warmth of his hometown to life in a dazzling new concert filled with emotion and wonder. From timeless waltzes to soul-stirring classics, this landmark anniversary concert promises an evening of passion, joy, and togetherness. Be part of this historic celebration as the Vrijthof once again transforms into a breathtaking open-air ballroom — only in cinemas this summer.

New Farm Cinemas. Bleak Week: cinema of despair. August 24-28. Mon 24 August: Threads (1994) Tue 25 August: Dogville (2001) Wed 26 August: Man Bites Dog (1992) Thu 27 August: Happiness (1998) Fri 28 August: Autumn Sonata (1978) Fri 28 August: Lilya 4-ever (2002) After a seven-year absence, Charlotte Andergast travels to Sweden to reunite with her daughter Eva. The pair have a troubled relationship: Charlotte sacrificed the responsibilities of motherhood for a career as a classical pianist. Over an emotional night, the pair reopen the wounds of the past. Charlotte gets another shock when she finds out that her mentally impaired daughter, Helena, is out of the asylum and living with Eva.

The BACKROOMS extended cut with 15 minutes of extra footage! A strange doorway appears in the basement of a furniture showroom. Inspired by the viral YouTube short films Parsons created in his teens under the alias Kane Pixels, this feature film adaptation boasts an all-star cast led by Oscar winner Chiwetel Ejiofor (12 Years a Slave) and Oscar-nominatee Renate Reinsve (Sentimental Value), BACKROOMS will have you on the edge of your seat.

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.

Q&A Screening - New Farm Cinemas: Sat 25 July, 7 PM. Bobby goes on a final drinking bout with his only friend Steve before he flies home to Canada. The last lonely teardrop of a friendship. Featuring STEVE HANSON ROBERT VAGG Directed by ADAM C. BRIGGS

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: Sat 19 Septembr. In the slums of Rio, two kids' paths diverge as one struggles to become a photographer and the other a kingpin.

New Farm Cinemas: Tue 11 August (Public Holiday Eve). A cab driver finds himself the hostage of an engaging contract killer as he makes his rounds from hit to hit during one night in Los Angeles.

Sat 1 August: Brisbane premiere + live Q&A with director Kane Guglielmi and special guest Gerard Rennick. Tue 4 August: Newcastle premiere + live Q&A with director Kane Guglielmi. Common Wealth is an intimate yet globally minded documentary that follows filmmaker Kane Guglielmi on a personal journey to question the economic and political systems that shape modern life. Raised within a conservative, capitalist worldview, Guglielmi travels across eight countries, including Switzerland, Australia, Norway, Mexico, Singapore, the UK, Italy and the USA, exploring alternative models that prioritise compassion, fairness, community and shared prosperity. What begins as a search for answers evolves into a thoughtful exploration of how societies might build greater unity and equity in an increasingly divided world. Gentle in spirit yet ambitious in scope, Common Wealth is both a deeply personal story and a hopeful call to reimagine the structures that define how we live together.

If you found out we weren’t alone, if someone showed you, proved it to you, would that frighten you? This June, the truth belongs to seven billion people. We are coming close to … Disclosure Day.

New Farm Cinemas. Bleak Week: cinema of despair. August 24-28. Mon 24 August: Threads (1994) Tue 25 August: Dogville (2001) Wed 26 August: Man Bites Dog (1992) Thu 27 August: Happiness (1998) Fri 28 August: Autumn Sonata (1978) Fri 28 August: Lilya 4-ever (2002) A woman on the run from the mob is reluctantly accepted in a small Colorado community in exchange for labor, but when a search visits the town, she learns that their support has a price.

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.

Evil Dead Burn unleashes the franchise’s most savage and terrifying ride to date, blazing onto big screens with an all-new chapter of carnage and demonic mayhem. After the loss of her husband, a woman seeks solace with her in-laws in their secluded family home. As one by one they are transformed into Deadites—turning the gathering into a family reunion from hell—she comes to discover that the vows she took in life... live on even in death.

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.

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.

Five Star Cinemas - New Farm Cinemas, QLD Thursday, Aug 20 from 7 pm to 9:30 pm The Fly Fishing Film Tour (F3T) is proud to celebrate its 20th anniversary in 2026, marking two decades of unforgettable stories, breathtaking landscapes, and a community bound by a passion for fly fishing. This milestone year promises to be a landmark event, as the tour kicks off with a fresh collection of the finest fly fishing films from across the globe.

New Farm Cinemas: Tues 11 Aug Join us for a FREE screening of Free Solo, the Academy Award-winning documentary that captivated audiences around the world. Free Solo follows climber Alex Honnold as he attempts to scale Yosemite's El Capitan without ropes or safety equipment, capturing a feat many believed impossible. The film combines breathtaking cinematography with deeply human storytelling, transforming America's natural landscape into a central character in one of the most gripping films of recent decades. Before the screening, hear from a film expert discussing the film's cinematic innovation and the role of National Geographic in bringing this remarkable story to audiences around the world. Presented as part of America 250

New Farm Cinemas & Tower Cinemas Newcastle. 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.

Tower Cinemas 28th May. In postwar Japan, a new terror rises; Godzilla. Will the devastated people be able to survive... let alone fight back?

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.

New Farm Cinemas: Thu 3 September. Before the release of Cristian Mungiu's Palme d'Or winner 'Fjord', join us for a special 10th Anniversary screening of his 2016 Cannes Best Director winner 'Graduation.' After his first Palme d'Or winner: '4 Months, 3 Weeks & 2 Days', and the Cannes Best Actress winner 'Beyond the Hills', Mungiu returns with a masterful exploration of moral compromise and bureaucratic corruption, told through a captivating and intricately plotted family drama that grips like a thriller. Romeo (Adrian Titieni), a physician living in a small mountain town in Transylvania, has raised his daughter Eliza (Maria Dragus) with the idea that once she turns 18, she will leave to study abroad in the UK. But on the day before Eliza’s first entrance exam to university, she is assaulted in an attack that could jeopardise her entire future. Now Romeo has a decision to make: there are ways of solving her predicament, but not without betraying the moral principles that he, as a father, has taught Eliza throughout her life. Widely acclaimed as one of the best international films of 2016, Graduation is a stunningly crafted morality play from one of European cinema’s most revered auteurs. Executed with intricate formal precision and Mungiu’s characteristically raw and authentic form of naturalism, Graduation is the mark of a filmmaker at the height of his powers.

New Farm Cinemas. Bleak Week: cinema of despair. August 24-28. Mon 24 August: Threads (1994) Tue 25 August: Dogville (2001) Wed 26 August: Man Bites Dog (1992) Thu 27 August: Happiness (1998) Fri 28 August: Autumn Sonata (1978) Fri 28 August: Lilya 4-ever (2002) The lives of several individuals intertwine as they go about their lives in their own unique ways, engaging in acts society as a whole might find disturbing in a desperate search for human connection.

New Farm Cinemas & Regal Graceville. Advance Screenings: Sun 26 July. In 1970s New Zealand, young Brian is devastated by the loss of his mother and determined to stop his dad from marrying the woman he sees as her replacement. Convinced he can reach his mother through prayer and penance, Brian finds refuge at a run-down convent with three delightfully eccentric elderly nuns. But when he overhears plans to shut the convent down and split the sisters apart, sending the most vulnerable to a terrifying institution, Brian sparks an unlikely mission: escape to the Southern Alps to find a former nun-turned-lawyer who might just save them all. For Brian, it’s more than a legal battle—he believes this is the miracle he’s been praying for, a chance to reunite with his mother atop the sacred mountain, Aoraki. What follows is a wild, hilarious, and heartwarming road trip as a boy and three nuns face down their fears, outwit crooked officials, lose a sister to fishmongers, and even cash a bet shop win, all while racing against time to save their beloved convent. With its soul firmly planted in faith, family, and fierce loyalty, Holy Days is a joyful comedy packed with heart, humour, and high-speed hijinks. It’s a story about letting go, holding on, and finding home in the most unexpected places.

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.

New Farm Cinemas: Fri 10 & Tue 14 July. Ahead of the release of 'Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma', we're pleased to present limited sessions of 'I Saw the TV Glow'. Plus, don't miss Jane Schoenburn's first film, the criminally under-seen 'We're All Going to the World's Fair' screening the same dates, and the upcoming New Farm Queer Film Festival, featuring the QLD Premiere of 'Camp Miasma' on July 30. Teenager Owen is just trying to make it through life in the suburbs when his classmate introduces him to a mysterious late-night TV show a vision of a supernatural world beneath their own. In the pale glow of the television, Owen's view of reality begins to crack.

New Farm Cinemas: Fri 14 Aug. Dom Cobb is a skilled thief, the absolute best in the dangerous art of extraction, stealing valuable secrets from deep within the subconscious during the dream state, when the mind is at its most vulnerable. Cobb's rare ability has made him a coveted player in this treacherous new world of corporate espionage, but it has also made him an international fugitive and cost him everything he has ever loved. Now Cobb is being offered a chance at redemption. One last job could give him his life back but only if he can accomplish the impossible, inception. Instead of the perfect heist, Cobb and his team of specialists have to pull off the reverse: their task is not to steal an idea, but to plant one. If they succeed, it could be the perfect crime. But no amount of careful planning or expertise can prepare the team for the dangerous enemy that seems to predict their every move. An enemy that only Cobb could have seen coming.

Johnny Knoxville and the gang return for one final fling at the big screen. Featuring all-new stunts and stupidity along with the greatest hits and biggest laughs from the past, jackass: best and last is a joyously raucous celebration of all the mischievous camaraderie that you’ve come to love and expect from these idiots over the past 25 years. So, grab your dumb little buddies, raise your glasses, and come experience the cinematic event that promises to be the last time you’ll ever laugh this hard in a theatre.

New Farm Cinemas: Wed 15 July - Q&A screening with director Adrian Chiarella & actor Joe Bird. First, second & third sessions SOLD OUT - 4th session added (9:00pm). Teenage boys Naim (Bird) and Ryan (Stacy Clausen) strike up an unexpected connection. But when their bond draws the attention of their community, a ritual is performed on them, releasing a violent entity. An entity that takes the form of its victim's truest desire.

New Farm Cinemas. Bleak Week: cinema of despair. August 24-28. Mon 24 August: Threads (1994) Tue 25 August: Dogville (2001) Wed 26 August: Man Bites Dog (1992) Thu 27 August: Happiness (1998) Fri 28 August: Autumn Sonata (1978) Fri 28 August: Lilya 4-ever (2002) In a struggling post-Soviet community, Lilya a teenage girl is abandoned when her mother moves to the United States with her boyfriend. Facing neglect and poverty, she meets Andrei, who offers her a job in Sweden, giving her hope for a better life — and a journey that will change everything.

New Farm Cinemas: Sat 2 December, 7 PM. From Bong Joon-ho, the Academy Award-winning director behind Parasite, Okja, and The Host, comes this suspenseful thriller based on the first serial killings in Korea, unsolved at the time the film was released in 2003. In a small Korean province in 1986, three detectives struggle with the case of multiple young women being found murdered by an unknown culprit.

This is the rambunctious, ridiculous and totally true story of how the Minions conquered Hollywood, became movie stars, lost everything, unleashed monsters onto the world and then banded together to try and save the planet from the mayhem they had just created.

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.

In Disney’s live-action adaptation of the beloved Oscar®-nominated animated adventure, Moana (Catherine Lagaʻaia) answers the Ocean’s call and, for the first time, voyages beyond the reef of her island of Motunui with the infamous demigod Maui (Dwayne Johnson) on an unforgettable journey to restore prosperity to her people. The film is directed by Emmy® and Tony Award® winner Thomas Kail (“Hamilton”); produced by Dwayne Johnson, Dany Garcia, Beau Flynn, Hiram Garcia and Lin-Manuel Miranda; and executive produced by Thomas Kail, Scott Sheldon, Charles Newirth and Auliʻi Cravalho, who voiced Moana in the animated features “Moana” and “Moana 2.”

New Farm Cinemas. Join us for our next MYSTERY MOVIE. Trust us if ye dare! On Sat 5 Sep, 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 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.

New Farm Cinemas: Wed 12 Aug (Public Holiday). This cornerstone of 1970s American moviemaking from Robert Altman is a panoramic view of the country’s political and cultural landscapes, set in the nation’s music capital. Nashville weaves the stories of twenty-four characters—from country star to wannabe to reporter to waitress—into a cinematic tapestry that is equal parts comedy, tragedy, and musical. Many members of the astonishing cast wrote their own songs and performed them live on location, which lends another layer to the film’s quirky authenticity. Altman’s ability to get to the heart of American life via its eccentric byways was never put to better use than in this grand, rollicking triumph, which barrels forward to an unforgettable conclusion.

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.

See it first at the 5th New Farm Queer Film Festival: July 30 - August 8. After attempting suicide, a young woman (Amira Casar) makes a startling proposition to the gay man (Rocco Siffredi) who rescued her: she will pay him to watch her naked body over the course of four nights as long as he provides “impartial” commentary about what he sees. Thus ensues Anatomy of Hell, one of the most controversial films of Catherine Breillat’s career—a singularly daring meditation on the pleasures and horrors of the flesh. Buoyed by the two leads’ fearless performances, Anatomy of Hell is as much a philosophical treatise on the hidden traumas of sexuality as it is an increasingly unsettling battle of the sexes, with Breillat using a hushed chamber-play setup to show the spectator no quarter throughout the transgressive proceedings. The result is like nothing else, even within the director’s audacious oeuvre: her deepest expression of anguish over the unspeakable ecstasies and degradations of the body erotic. Content Warning: ANATOMY OF HELL features depictions and discussions of subject matters that may distress some viewers. Viewer discretion is advised.

See it first at the 5th New Farm Queer Film Festival: July 30 - August 8. AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE. When fetish camboy Aaron Eagle (Kieron Moore) visits a client in exchange for $50,000, he discovers a masked man (Reed Birney) with a camera and a series of increasingly probing questions. But when the man reveals a disturbing connection to Aaron’s past, the two drop their personas and gradually reveal their true desires in a seductive thriller being called "one of the most daring American films of recent vintage.” Content Warning: BLUE FILM features depictions and discussions of subject matters that may distress some viewers. Viewer discretion is advised.

See it first at the 5th New Farm Queer Film Festival: July 30 - August 8. QLD PREMIERE. A cop goes undercover in Sydney's neon-lit gay nightlife, but danger lurks when he falls for a seductive bartender. A slick erotic thriller featuring Paul Capsis (Head On). Disgraced cop Aiden (Tim Pocock) is sent deep undercover into Sydney's pulsing gay nightlife – a world of neon haze, sweat and shifting loyalties. There he meets Cody (Tom Rodgers), a younger bartender whose charm quickly complicates his mission. But Cody answers to Fat Frankie, a commanding drag queen, brought fabulously to life by Capsis, who pulls Aiden into a web of crime and danger. The film also features an unforgettable performance from Sacha Horler (The Dressmaker). Director Dean Francis (Drown) delivers a bold, stylish film with impressive visuals, charged performances and a moody energy that gives this erotic thriller a raw edge.

See it first at the 5th New Farm Queer Film Festival: July 30 - August 8. QLD PREMIERE. An abridged version of Castration Movie Anthology iii. Izzy (Avalon Fast, Drinking and Driving) seeks out everything in her power to stop her partner from transitioning. Meanwhile, Michaela (Louise Weard, also in Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma) tries her best to be a good person. You think you're ready for this, and you might be. Another piece of cinema lightning. "rejects conventional wisdom around representational politics, form or even what a movie is" -Sight and Sound “as daring and revolutionary an indie film as any crafted this decade” -The Wrap “this is what I’ve been craving from queer indie cinema my entire life” -Indiewire

See it first at the 5th New Farm Queer Film Festival: July 30 - August 8. QLD PREMIERE. Departures draws immediate comparisons to great 90's British features Trainspotting and Human Traffic, from Danny Boyle and his compatriots. It's instant chemistry when Benji encounters Jake at an airport departures gate. Benji and Jake’s relationship unfolds through Amsterdam trips and intimacy, revealing complex power dynamics. A must-see British comedy-drama that dissects a toxic relationship with humour and raw emotion.

See it first at the 5th New Farm Queer Film Festival: July 30 - August 8. The beautiful final work of the late Palme d'Or winner Laurent Cantet ('The Class'), brought to the screen by his longtime collaborator Robin Campillo ('BPM'), ENZO is a tender meditation of adolescent longing, and the quiet rebellions that shape us. 16-year-old Enzo (extraordinary newcomer Eloy Pohu) has everything: a sun-drenched luxury home overlooking the Mediterranean, loving parents (Pierfrancesco Favino and Élodie Bouchez), and a future mapped toward privilege. Yet something unnameable pulls him to a different path, and he commences a masonry apprenticeship, among people who work not because they choose, but because they have to. On site he meets Vlad, a charismatic Ukrainian labourer who is facing pressure to return and fight in his country’s war against Russia. Vlad’s easy masculinity and uncertain future awaken something in the young man: he’s everything Enzo wishes he was. As their unlikely friendship deepens, Enzo will be forced to confront questions bigger than desire: about class, about duty, and about true courage. Shot through with Campillo's sensual eye and Cantet's abiding compassion for the not-yet formed and searching, this is an enormously moving portrait of a teen stumbling toward himself. ENZO’s world premiere as the Opening Film of Cannes Directors’ Fortnight was rapturously received by both audiences and critics.

See it first at the 5th New Farm Queer Film Festival: July 30 - August 8. QLD PREMIERE. Charli xcx gives an impressively raw and real performance in this tale of messy modern relationships, following a couple’s getaway to Warsaw gone awry. When her boyfriend Rob whisks her away to Warsaw, Bethany (Charli xcx) suspects he’s about to propose. He’s perfectly nice but is that enough? Uncertain, Bethany abandons Rob’s carefully laid itinerary and seeks out old friend/flame Nel (Lena Góra), a Polish florist. The pair share an explosive past – every time they meet, a volcano erupts somewhere in the world. Shot on the fly during Brat summer and written in collaboration between director Pete Ohs and the lead cast, Erupcja has an irresistibly spontaneous energy. Amplified by the star power of Charli xcx, who brings her party-girl persona and a convincing, stripped-back naturalism to the role, it’s a relatable and chaotic study of disrupted destiny.

See it first at the 5th New Farm Queer Film Festival: July 30 - August 8. QLD PREMIERE. When Parisian gay gym-queen-supreme Jim contracts a virus that will turn him and others straight, his only hope for a cure is a shy fanboy twink. A hilariously camp, animated, musical romp direct from Cannes. Jim Parfait, with his sculpted 24-pack abs and legion of gym junkie followers, is the hottest influencer and king (or queen) of the Paris gay scene. But when Jim contracts Heterosis, the symptoms are quick to set in – he starts losing his abs, develops an attraction to the opposite sex, and has a sudden desire to settle in the suburbs. As Jim’s queer status and identity vanishes, the community turn their backs on him. But his salvation can be found through Lucien, a closeted, soft-spoken twink (and Jim’s number one fan), who is committed to saving him from his fate by finding the mysterious Chloroqueer remedy. Bombastic and irreverent, Jim Queen is a riotous satire and instant cult classic.

Join us for the Closing Night of the 5th New Farm Queer Film Festival: Sat 8 August. Tickets include a glass of sparkling on arrival. Arrivals from 6:30pm for a 7pm film screening. QLD PREMIERE. Direct from the Cannes Film Festival, where it won the Best Director award. This stirring, decades-spanning exploration of queer desire in Spain is one of the most exuberant, sensual and dazzling films of the year, featuring Penelope Cruz, Glenn Close and Julio Torres (Problemista QFF23). Set across three time periods (1932, 1937, and 2017), La Bola Negra (The Black Ball) opens in 1937 during the rise of fascism in Spain. We follow Sebastián, whose village is destroyed before he is conscripted into the fascist army, where he forms a bond with an enemy prisoner. In the second story, set five years earlier, a young scion is black-balled and denied entry into his father’s social club because of rumours about his sexuality. And in the third instalment, set 85 years later, gay historian Alberto is informed he has inherited something from a grandfather he never knew. These three separate stories connect in unexpected ways in this extremely clever and well-constructed film. The images, meticulous and inventively composed, are unforgettable. With extraordinary performances by the ensemble, this sensual drama brings its multiple storylines together to deliver a deeply moving emotional climax.

See it first at the 5th New Farm Queer Film Festival: July 30 - August 8. QLD PREMIERE. A smouldering romance ignites between two Mexican drug dealers while evading cartels and the law in this gay-love thriller produced by Diego Luna. Winner of Best Film at the 2025 Venice Film Festival (Orizzonti) and the Queer Lion award. Down on his luck drifter and sex worker Veneno (Victor Prieto) moves from one pitstop to the next, hustling for a quick buck or pushing stock. Swindled one too many times, he accepts protection from an older truck driver Muñeco (Osvaldo Sanchez) for a cut of his sales. What begins as a transactional relationship in time blossoms into an unlikely romance as they ride the highs of sex and selling drugs on the road. But when an unfortunate altercation goes awry, gears shift into a deadly game of cat and mouse. Award-winning Mexican writer-director David Pablos delivers a raw, genre blend that is not only dark and gruesome but surprisingly tender and vulnerable.

See it first at the 5th New Farm Queer Film Festival: July 30 - August 8. QLD PREMIERE. In 1974, acclaimed photographer Peter Hujar describes the routines and rituals that define an artist's life to his friend, the writer Linda Rosenkrantz, capturing a single day's activities in touching and funny detail: from interactions with cultural icons of the day, including Allen Ginsberg, William S. Burroughs and Susan Sontag, to the texture and energy of downtown New York in its heyday. Ben Whishaw (Passages QFF23) and Rebecca Hall (Vicky Cristina Barcelona) star in the elegant and intimate new piece from filmmaker Ira Sachs (The Man I Love, also screening at the festival) — a dazzling showcase for the two performers at its centre — that is both a masterful portrait of a time & place and a captivating film about the way art emerges from the intimate details of everyday life.

See it first at the 5th New Farm Queer Film Festival: July 30 - August 8. QLD PREMIERE. Sandra Hüller won the Berlinale Silver Bear for this towering performance as a 17th century soldier who claims an inheritance only to have his identity brought into question. Said to be the "true and twisted tale of a deceiver of land and folk, who, defying her birth as a woman, comported herself as a man and committed many a wicked deed," what follows is far more complex. Battle-worn, 'the soldier' (Hüller, Anatomy of a Fall) turns up in a village bearing the paperwork to lay claim to an abandoned farmstead. Initially sceptical, the villagers come to respect the industrious stranger. As the soldier's influence grows, he is pressured to marry, which he does – setting in motion a series of surprising and tragic events. Director Markus Schleinzer (Angelo, Michael) tackles the material, based on historical characters, with a wry humour and an admiration for a gender non-conforming stalwart.

See it first at the 5th New Farm Queer Film Festival: July 30 - August 8. QLD PREMIERE. Elle Fanning, Callum Turner, Riley Keough and Jamie Bell star in Karim Aïnouz's stylish, savage family satire about the coddled existence of four wealthy siblings. Berlinale 2026. In a luxe Catalonian villa, four rich and toxically co-dependent American siblings lounge around obsessing over designer clothes. Their blind father (Tracy Letts) issues odd demands from the sidelines, leaving eldest boy Jack (Bell) to hold the family in place. When he announces he's moving out with his girlfriend (Fanning), it sends the household reeling. As old secrets emerge, including the truth about their mother's (Pamela Anderson) death, the siblings' coddled existence begins to crack. Written by Yorgos Lanthimos collaborator Efthimis Filippou (inspired by Italian classic Fists in the Pocket), with luscious cinematography by Hélène Louvart (La Chimera, Beach Rats), Rosebush Pruning is a delicious satire of privilege and patriarchy.

See it first at the 5th New Farm Queer Film Festival: July 30 - August 8. QLD PREMIERE. Selected for SXSW, this queer comedy finds humour in the uncomfortable gap between who we truly are and who we pretend to be. Before graduation, Ethan and Alex pose as trans women in a last ditch effort to quell gay rumours. It's all a joke until Ethan realises: she really is trans. The two must reckon with their changing friendship, coming out, and coming-of-age.

See it first at the 5th New Farm Queer Film Festival: July 30 - August 8. Late addition title. QLD PREMIERE. Stop! That! Train! follows best friends Tess (Ginger Minj) and DeeDee (Jujubee), train stewardesses who trade their dreary shifts on the Stank Rail for the glitzy Glamazonian Express. When a catastrophic “Stormaganza” threatens to derail the high-speed train and crash it into Florida, the duo in coach must join forces with the snobby first class attendants (Symone, Brooke Lynn Hytes, Marcia Marcia Marcia) and President Gagwell (RuPaul) to save the day in this wild ride of camp and comedy.

See it first at the 5th New Farm Queer Film Festival: July 30 - August 8. In the heat and lethargy of summer, Franck (Pierre Deladonchamps) frequents a gay cruising spot on the shores of a lake. He befriends Henri (Patrick d'Assumçao), a middle-aged loner. Disinterested in each other sexually, the two men establish a platonic rapport. The arrival of aggressively pleasure-seeking Michel (Christophe Paou), however, dramatically alters the dynamic. Director Alain Guiraudie (Misericordia, QFF25) crafts a slow-burn erotic thriller which quietly ratchets up the tension as the murky moral ambiguity of its characters is revealed. An early work by cinematographer Claire Mathon (Portrait of a Lady on Fire, Spencer), this transgressive thriller remains as alluring some ten years later.

See it first at the 5th New Farm Queer Film Festival: July 30 - August 8. Frank Ripploh’s groundbreaking autobiographical debut returns in a new 4K restoration—offering a vivid, uncompromising portrait of queer life in West Berlin at the dawn of the 1980s. By day, Frank (played by Ripploh, Querelle) is a dedicated schoolteacher. By night, he embraces the sexual freedoms of the city’s underground scene—navigating a double life in public restrooms, cinemas, and cruising spots. When he meets Bernd, a sweet and steady museum worker, Frank finds himself torn between the comfort of domestic partnership and the allure of anonymous desire. Unapologetically explicit and deeply personal, Taxi zum Klo shattered taboos upon its release and remains a landmark of queer cinema. Shot with unfiltered candor and infused with a distinctively wry humor, Ripploh’s film continues to resonate for its fearless exploration of identity, intimacy, and freedom.

Join us for the Opening Night of the 5th New Farm Queer Film Festival. Tickets include a glass of sparkling on arrival. Arrivals from 7pm. SOLD-OUT! QLD PREMIERE. 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.

See it first at the 5th New Farm Queer Film Festival: July 30 - August 8. QLD PREMIERE. Kristen Stewart’s splashy Cannes-premiering directorial debut poetically adapts writer Lidia Yuknavitch’s memoir. Lidia (an astonishing Imogen Poots, Green Room) only feels whole when she’s in the water. Kicking through lap after lap, she can temporarily float free of the cold, rageful father who sexually abused her and her older sister Claudia (Thora Birch, American Beauty) while their apathetic mother turned away. Out of the pool, Lidia flounders, ruining her college swimming scholarship with booze, drugs and reckless sex and lashing out contemptuously at anyone who shows her kindness. But when she joins a collaborative creative writing class led by One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest author and countercultural hero Ken Kesey (Jim Belushi), Lidia finds the same fluid escape in writing. She’s back in her lane – focused, flourishing. As an actor, Kristen Stewart (Personal Shopper) has been one of cinema’s most subtle, fascinating interpreters of interiority. Stewart invites comparisons to Terrence Malick as she tells Lidia’s story in intense, elliptical vignettes that ebb and flow on currents of memory, while Poots is as tender and fierce onscreen as she is dreamlike and sardonic in voiceover.

See it first at the 5th New Farm Queer Film Festival: July 30 - August 8. BRISBANE PREMIERE. A queer coming-of-age horror film, selected for the 2025 Venice Film Festival. When Sergio, a teacher tormented by his past, is transferred to Remis, a secluded village known as the happiest town in Italy, it seems the perfect place for a new start. But Sergio soon discovers that behind the town’s joyful facade lies a dark and disturbing secret. Each week, the villagers gather to meet Matteo, an introverted fifteen-year-old. They say Matteo is an angel whose embrace can free one of all pain and sorrow. But as Sergio realizes the village’s relationship to the young man is not as benevolent as it seems, his attempt to save Matteo awakens the darker side of the community—and the boy everyone calls the Angel of Remis.

See it first at the 5th New Farm Queer Film Festival: July 30 - August 8. Late addition title. QLD PREMIERE. Direct from the Cannes Competition, Academy Award-winner Rami Malek gives a tour-de-force performance worthy of his accolades in Ira Sachs' moving, miniature-epic set during the AIDS crisis in 1980s New York City. Jimmy George (Malek) is revered in the theatre world, and adored by his devoted partner (Tom Sturridge). Despite a recent bout of serious illness, Jimmy finds a new lease on life when he meets an attractive new neighbour Vincent (Luther Ford), and with their meeting perhaps a final chance to once more fall in love, and to retake the stage. In its beautiful depictions of Jimmy's varied relationships – with friends, lovers, a sibling (Rebecca Hall, also in Sachs' 'Peter Hujar's Day' at the festival), a nephew, parents – The Man I Love shows how widely and deeply devastating the loss of an individual can be on a community. It is a film that is somehow simultaneously tragic and life-affirming.

New Farm Cinemas: Fri 21 Aug. Violence and mayhem ensue after a hunter stumbles upon a drug deal gone wrong and more than two million dollars in cash near the Rio Grande.

After breaking the mysterious “One Wish Willow” to win his crush’s heart, a hopeless romantic finds himself getting exactly what he asked for but soon discovers that some desires come at a dark, sinister price.

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.

New Farm Cinemas: Thu 13 August. After college student Taguchi (Kenji Mizuhashi) commits suicide, a number of young adults living in Tokyo witness terrifying visions transferred across the Internet. As more people disappear throughout the city, the Internet becomes a breeding ground for malevolent spirits. Three seemingly disconnected stories follow Michi (Kumiko Aso), Ryosuke (Haruhiko Katô) and Harue (Koyuki) as they attempt to solve the mystery behind the ghostly visions that are seeping beyond their computer monitors.

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.

Five Star Cinemas - New Farm Cinemas, QLD Thursday, Jul 23 from 6:30 pm to 9 pm RunNation is an original documentary film festival founded by a group of local runners in Sydney nine years ago, and since then has grown from a local event into a world tour that has screened around the globe. The festival is an inspiring experience attended by running celebrities, thousands of runners and non runners across Australia, New Zealand and many parts of the world. Receiving film submissions from across the globe, the program is curated into an incredible two hour screening. RunNation is not just about running. It is about celebrating the human spirit and using running as a storytelling medium.

New Farm Cinemas. When first-year medical student Hana becomes fixated on weight loss after reuniting with a dramatically transformed friend, she’s drawn into a disturbing world of body image obsession. Encouraged by her crush, fitness influencer Alanya, to join an intense body transformation program. Hana takes the diet pills her old friend gave her – and they really start to work straight away, but she’s unable to afford the high cost, so she tests the contents of the pills —only to discover they contain human ashes. Desperate for more, she secretly harvests bones from a cadaver in her anatomy class. As Hana begins shedding weight, she is haunted by the ghost of the person she’s consuming. At first a spectral curiosity, then a terrifying, growing presence with a ravenous hunger that begins to consume her life. With her grip on reality slipping and the ghost gaining power, Hana must find a way to break free before she loses control entirely.

DE PALMAGEDDON at Tower Cinemas: Screens 9 July and Thur Oct 1 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.

New Farm Cinemas & Tower Cinemas. One voice. One unforgettable spectacle. Sia: Nostalgic for the Present - a bold, genre-defying experience that trades pop pageantry for pure artistry. Awe-inspiring vocals, breathtaking choreography, and iconic performances, captured cinematically and soundtracked by an unmatched catalog of hits. In 2016, Sia toured the world mirroring this film live on stage, frame for frame. Remastered for its tenth anniversary, it stands alone for the first time - not as a concert film, but as a visual masterpiece unlike anything in music since. Starring Maddie Ziegler, Kristen Wiig, Paul Dano, Ben Mendelsohn, Gaby Hoffmann, and Tig Notaro. Choreographed by Ryan Heffington. Directed by Sia and Daniel Askill.

New Farm Cinemas & Regal Graceville: Commences Thu 2 July. New Farm Cinemas - Advance Screening: Sun 28 June. From Academy Award-nominated director Ildikó Enyedi (On Body and Soul), comes the breathtaking drama SILENT FRIEND, a beautifully crafted story that unfolds beneath a majestic ginkgo tree in the botanical garden of a medieval German university town. A silent witness to generations of change, the ancient tree connects three individuals across time through their encounters with the natural world. 2020: a neuroscientist from Hong Kong (portrayed by the excellent Tony Leung, star of In the Mood for Love) explores the mind of babies and with the assistance of an academic (Léa Seydoux, The Beast) begins an unexpected, mind-altering experiment with the ancient tree. 1972: a young student (Enzo Brumm) is profoundly changed by the simple act of observing and connecting with a geranium. 1908: through the lens of photography, the university’s first female student (Luna Wedler, winner of the Venice Film Festival award for Best Young Performer) discovers sacred patterns of the universe hidden within the humblest of plants. As each search for meaning in their own moment in time, they are transformed by nature's enduring mystery and beauty. Both intimate and expansive, SILENT FRIEND is a mesmerising exploration of connection, curiosity and the unseen forces that shape our lives.

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: Select sessions - 19th July till 23 August. 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!

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.

When an unexpected and ruthless adversary strikes too close to home, Kara Zor-El, aka Supergirl, reluctantly joins forces with an unlikely companion on an epic, interstellar journey of vengeance and justice.

New Farm Cinemas: Thu 20 August. Japanese Language with English Subtitles. A tale of delinquent and lazy school girls. In their efforts to cut remedial summer math class, they end up poisoning and replacing the school's brass band.

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: 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.

Olivia Wilde, Seth Rogen, Penélope Cruz and Edward Norton exchange barbs, flirtations and truths in this hit Sundance dinner party dramedy, directed by Wilde (Booksmart). San Franciscan married couple Joe and Angela (Rogen and Wilde) are two tightly wound individuals who seem to be at odds over almost everything. When Angela invites their attractive, free-spirited upstairs neighbours (Cruz and Norton) over for dinner, the evening feels primed to combust. Where Angela is intrigued by the pair, Joe is irritated by the constant noise that travels from their bedroom above. The stage is set for a night of sizzling small talk, unearthed insecurities, loaded barbs and a serious dose of sexual tension. Shot on 35mm, with a sparkling script by writing duo Rashida Jones and Will McCormack, The Invite is a masterful dissection of modern relationships.

New Farm Cinemas: Sat 22 August. Teenage brothers Michael (Jason Patric) and Sam (Corey Haim) move with their mother (Dianne Wiest) to a small town in northern California. While the younger Sam meets a pair of kindred spirits in geeky comic-book nerds Edward (Corey Feldman) and Alan (Jamison Newlander), the angst-ridden Michael soon falls for Star (Jami Gertz) -- who turns out to be in thrall to David (Kiefer Sutherland), leader of a local gang of vampires. Sam and his new friends must save Michael and Star from the undead.

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.

Tower Cinemas Newcastle: Sat 25 July, Sat 22 August & Sun 23 August. 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).

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. Bleak Week: cinema of despair. August 24-28. Mon 24 August: Threads (1994) Tue 25 August: Dogville (2001) Wed 26 August: Man Bites Dog (1992) Thu 27 August: Happiness (1998) Fri 28 August: Autumn Sonata (1978) Fri 28 August: Lilya 4-ever (2002) On Sunday September 23rd, 1984, THREADS was broadcast on BBC2. Written by novelist/playwright Barry Hines (KES) and directed by BAFTA winner Mick Jackson, the film depicted the effects of a thermonuclear attack on the working-class city of Sheffield. Four months later, the film was shown on American cable TV. In both countries, the graphic horrors of detonation, societal collapse and nuclear winter were indelibly seared into tens of millions of homes. Over four decades it has remained “brilliant” (The Guardian), “unsensationally grim” (CineSavant) and “piss yourself terrifying” (The A.V. Club). Documentary style account of a nuclear holocaust and its effect on the working class city of Sheffield, England; and the eventual long run effects of nuclear war on civilization.

New Farm & Red Hill Cinemas. During a chase in a museum, Tom and Jerry accidentally activate a magical compass that transports them to another world. On their journey home, they meet a group of new companions and become embroiled in a conflict against mysterious forces.

The toys are back in Disney and Pixar’s “Toy Story 5,” and this time around it’s Toy meets Tech. Buzz, Woody, Jessie and the rest of the gang’s jobs get exponentially harder when they go head to head with this all-new threat to playtime.

New Farm Cinemas: Fri 10 & Tue 14 July. Before 'Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma' and 'I Saw the TV Glow', Jane Schoenburn's first feature introduced the world to one of the decade's most relevant cinematic voices. Under-seen upon release (the film did not receive a general release in Australia), we are pleased to present limited screening of 'We're All Going to the World's Fair'. Plus, don't miss 'TV Glow' screening the same dates, and the upcoming New Farm Queer Film Festival, featuring the QLD Premiere of 'Camp Miasma' on July 30. Late on a cold night, in an attic bedroom somewhere in America, teenage Casey (Anna Cobb, Bones & All) is Illuminated only by the cold glow of a computer monitor. With a nervous smile she repeats: I want to go to the World’s Fair I want to go to the World’s Fair I want to go to the World’s Fair This incantation signals her entry into an ominous online challenge, supposedly causing reality-altering effects on its participants. As Casey attempts to document the changesthat may or may not be happening to her, a foreboding sense of doom seeps in from her video diaries. A strange figure soon reaches out from a dark corner of the internet. Are they offering guidance or are their intentions of asinister nature? This Sundance breakout seamlessly weaves psychological horror and the peripheral digital landscape into an immersive and terrifying experience of psychological decay.

New Farm, Regal Graceville & Tower Cinemas Newcastle. In 1985, WHAM! made history as the first Western pop act to perform in communist China. George Michael and Andrew Ridgeley’s concerts in Beijing and Guangzhou were a cultural milestone – East meets West, music meets politics. Now, newly restored footage reveals the untold story of the iconic tour that helped launch WHAM! to global superstardom.

Five Star Cinemas - New Farm Cinemas, QLD Friday, Sep 4 from 7 pm to 9:30 pm. Presented by Mountain Designs, the Women’s Adventure Film Tour® (WAFT) returns for its 9th year, celebrating extraordinary women and their thrilling adventures. This year’s line-up features an inspiring collection of short films that highlight stories of courage, connection, and pushing beyond personal limits. From mountain peaks to ocean waves, and from the everyday to the extreme, these films showcase women from all walks of life pursuing their definition of adventure.