Sightseers

What’s it about?
Tina is a simple lass who is looking forward to going on a caravan holiday with her new boyfriend Chris (an “erotic caravanning holiday” as he puts it), where they will see the majestic sights of the Crich Tramway Museum, and the Keswick Pencil Museum – with a few brutal murders thrown in for good luck.

What do we think?
Stephen says: not a black comedy, an über-black comedy. No light penetrates the darkness even though people have reported it’s hilariously laugh-out-loud funny. I laughed. Three times. But the humour here is more creepy and uncomfortable. The type where you cringe as you guffaw. “Oh look, he smashed that man’s head into pulp – literally pulp (giggle).”

It’s beautifully acted, but slow paced, and when it comes down to it, a one trick pony that just doesn’t go anywhere.

WIN A DOUBLE PASS to I Give It A Year

Starting where other romantic comedies finish, I GIVE IT A YEAR stars Rose Byrne and Rafe Spall as Nat and Josh, a mismatched couple navigating their first year of marriage. Their wedding is a dream come true, but family and friends think it won’t last. When Josh’s ex-girlfriend Chloe (Anna Faris) and Nat’s handsome new client Guy (Simon Baker) come into the picture, the situation gets a little more complicated. Neither wants to be the first to give up, but will they make it?

From the producers of Notting Hill, Bridget Jones’s Diary and Love Actually, I GIVE IT A YEAR is a modern and smart romantic comedy with huge laughs.

Release date: Feb 2

Trailer: http://www.hopscotchfilms.com.au/trailers/#video-468/

 

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Movie 43

What’s it about?
A mind-boggling list of Hollywood will-bes, currently-ares and has-beens star in a series of loosely connected shorts joined together by “The Pitch”, in which Dennis Quaid “plays” an unpredictable lunatic aggressively trying to sell his awful script to embattled studio exec Greg Kinnear (easily the most relatable character in the film).

What did we think?
Mitch says: A class of illiterate orphans with four broken pencils, three sheets of paper and a reference copy of Das Kapital could write a funnier movie than this, and there would probably be fewer dick jokes. If you ever feel like your life has no purpose, now you know it does: to go and punch Peter Farrelly right in his stupid face.

I’d say “Godspeed”, but clearly there is no God.

Disney’s exclusive Princess Festival

South East Queensland Birch Carroll & Coyle and Event Cinemas are gearing up to enthral and entertain little princesses and princes at the Disney Princess Animation Festival with only one week to go until showtime!

Kicking off with Aladdin next Saturday and Sunday, families can relive the enchanting stories of their favourite Disney Princesses this February & March at the exclusive Disney Princess Animation Festival. The beloved Disney Princess films will be gracing the big screen for a limited time only.

Moviegoers are encouraged to arrive early as all cinemas have their own free princess themed foyer activities planned for the little ones before each session, including mini princess makeovers, tiara decorating and appearances from special princess friends.

Exclusive screening sessions will start at 10 am or 10:30am each Saturday and Sunday from February 9 until March 17 . For only $8 per ticket you will experience a magical family day filled with activities, prizes, and the joy of Disney Princess special cinematic experience.

Aladdin (G) – 9 and 10 February

Mulan (G) – 16th and 17th February

Pocahontas (G) – 23rd and 24th February

Tangled (G) – 2nd and 3rd March

The Princess & the Frog (G) – 9th and 10th March

Cinderella (G) – 16th and 17th of March

The exclusive Disney Princess Animation Festival will screen from February 9 until March 17 for a strictly limited time only, to book now visit eventcinemas.com.au.

SHOWING AT THE FOLLOWING SEQ LOCATIONS:

Birch Carroll & Coyle Browns Plains
Birch Carroll & Coyle Australia Fair
Birch Carroll & Coyle Ipswich
Event Cinemas Robina
Event Cinemas Garden City
Toombul Cinemas Powered By Event
Birch Carroll & Coyle Capalaba
Birch Carroll & Coyle Coolangatta
Birch Carroll & Coyle Morayfield
Event Cinemas Carindale
Event Cinemas Indooroopilly
Birch Carroll & Coyle Pacific Fair
Event Cinemas Chermside
Strathpine Cinemas Powered By Event

 

Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters

What’s it about?
After roasting the candy-housed witch in the fairy tale, Hansel and Gretel grow up and become, surprise surprise, witch hunters.

What did we think?
Liz says: We really need two rating systems. As a B-grade flick Hansel and Gretel is actually kind of enjoyable, even if it does suffer from a case of the “takes itself too seriously by the end” blues. But compare it to real movies and, well, let’s just say Hansel’s diabetes from eating too much candy as a kid comes up more than once. Curse you diabetes! It’s so schlocky bad that it ALMOST swings around to being good again. Almost. But Jeremy Renner gets his shirt off, so there is that.

Anna Karenina

What’s it about?
A beautiful aristocrat (Keira Knightly) in Imperial Russia learns the hard way that ‘’sin has a price’’ when she embarks on an affair with a wealthy young Count.

What did we think?
Lisa says: DISCLAIMER: This SuperQuickReview was written by a literary plebeian who has never read Tolstoy’s celebrated tome (me). As such, no comment has been made regarding the success of the story’s translation to film. I really don’t care.

Audience members will quickly become as infatuated with Anna Karenina as the tragic couple is with each other. The cast is superb and the film is visually exquisite. It has a unique, old-world theatre setting with highly stylized scene transitions. The only distraction was an unwelcome and uninteresting narrative about an unlucky-in-love landowner. Highly recommended for anyone who isn’t a Russian literary scholar with preconceived ideas of what the film should and shouldn’t be.

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Shaun the Sheep

What’s it about?
When Shaun’s mischief inadvertently leads to the Farmer being taken away from the farm, Shaun, Bitzer and the flock have to go into the big city to rescue him, setting the stage for an epic adventure.

What did we think?
Anthony Sherratt says:  A delightful movie that proves quality storytelling doesn’t even need dialogue to charm the heart. Amazing characterisation and a surprisingly emotional storyline will leave everyone from toddler to imaginative adults with plucked heartstrings. Even if you aren’t familiar with Shaun and his pals you’ll still find something in this heartfelt comedy.

Get Hard

What’s it about? 

Will Ferrell is James King, a wealthy businessman found guilty of fraud who befriends a hard working small business owner, Darnell Lewis (Kevin Hart), in order to prepare for his time in jail.

What did we think?
Nick Bleeker says: Filled to the brim with racist jokes, rape “humour”, a weird thing against gay people, and a silly number of lazy gags about its title, Get Hard shows a decent rapport between Ferrell and Hart but fails to present any form of humour that isn’t absolutely, totally, 100% morally bankrupt. It gets the extra half star because Kevin Hart is tolerable.

Cinderella

What’s it about? 
Disney raids its back catalogue to gives one of its most iconic tales a coat of live-action paint.

What did we think? 
Amy Currie says: Director Kenneth Branagh’s take on Cinderella doesn’t stray too far from the source material, but plumps the story up enough to be interesting. It’s a beautiful chocolate box of a film that gives its familiar characters a bit more depth (but manages to resist the urge to update by simply cutting-and-pasting modern sass onto fairytale staples). Helena Bonham-Carter’s fairy godmother is a delight, but Cate Blanchett’s wicked stepmother steals the show. Oh, and the Prince (Game of Thrones‘ Richard Madden) wears some very, very tight breeches which can only be described as enchanting. See it before the clock strikes 12.

The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of Water

What’s it about?
When a diabolical pirate above the sea steals the secret Krabby Patty formula, SpongeBob and his nemesis Plankton must team up in order to get it back.

What did we think?
NOTE: Our reviewer declined to comment as she couldn’t bear to spend one more second of her life thinking about this film.

Editor's Choice

Shaun the Sheep

What’s it about?
When Shaun’s mischief inadvertently leads to the Farmer being taken away from the farm, Shaun, Bitzer and the flock have to go into the big city to rescue him, setting the stage for an epic adventure.

What did we think?
Anthony Sherratt says:  A delightful movie that proves quality storytelling doesn’t even need dialogue to charm the heart. Amazing characterisation and a surprisingly emotional storyline will leave everyone from toddler to imaginative adults with plucked heartstrings. Even if you aren’t familiar with Shaun and his pals you’ll still find something in this heartfelt comedy.

Get Hard

What’s it about? 

Will Ferrell is James King, a wealthy businessman found guilty of fraud who befriends a hard working small business owner, Darnell Lewis (Kevin Hart), in order to prepare for his time in jail.

What did we think?
Nick Bleeker says: Filled to the brim with racist jokes, rape “humour”, a weird thing against gay people, and a silly number of lazy gags about its title, Get Hard shows a decent rapport between Ferrell and Hart but fails to present any form of humour that isn’t absolutely, totally, 100% morally bankrupt. It gets the extra half star because Kevin Hart is tolerable.

Cinderella

What’s it about? 
Disney raids its back catalogue to gives one of its most iconic tales a coat of live-action paint.

What did we think? 
Amy Currie says: Director Kenneth Branagh’s take on Cinderella doesn’t stray too far from the source material, but plumps the story up enough to be interesting. It’s a beautiful chocolate box of a film that gives its familiar characters a bit more depth (but manages to resist the urge to update by simply cutting-and-pasting modern sass onto fairytale staples). Helena Bonham-Carter’s fairy godmother is a delight, but Cate Blanchett’s wicked stepmother steals the show. Oh, and the Prince (Game of Thrones‘ Richard Madden) wears some very, very tight breeches which can only be described as enchanting. See it before the clock strikes 12.

The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of Water

What’s it about?
When a diabolical pirate above the sea steals the secret Krabby Patty formula, SpongeBob and his nemesis Plankton must team up in order to get it back.

What did we think?
NOTE: Our reviewer declined to comment as she couldn’t bear to spend one more second of her life thinking about this film.

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