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Films of the Week: 29 December – 4 January
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2025
Documentary
Arts and culture
15
Oscar-winning documentary filmmaker Laura Poitras and co-director Mark Obenhaus gain the trust of Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist Seymour Hersh for an eye-opening portrait of the pursuit of truth at all costs in an era of widely touted 'fake news'. Incorporating archive footage and a revealing in-person interview with Hersh, Cover-Up traces the reporter's endless quest for answers and justice. The film recalls his work on the Watergate scandal for The New York Times, his courageous exposure of the My Lai massacre during the Vietnam War and evidence of torture at Abu Ghraib prison. Hersh provides access to his personal notes (and steadfastly protects his sources) to demonstrate his tenacity under fire and an insatiable public interest in transgressions of power
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1997
Adventure
Crime/detective
18
John Woo's action thriller, starring John Travolta and Nicolas Cage. Terrorist Castor Troy is apprehended after an FBI operation, but in his coma-ridden state is unable to divulge the whereabouts of a bomb that is primed to blow up Los Angeles. With the clock ticking, Detective Sean Archer undertakes a face-transplant operation in order to impersonate Troy and locate the device. But things take a turn for the worse when Troy regains consciousness, steals Archer's face and assumes the lawman's identity.
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2025
Comedy
Action
15
Wealthy businessman Zsa-Zsa Korda appoints his only daughter, a nun, as sole heir to his estate. As Korda embarks on a new enterprise, they become the target of scheming tycoons, foreign terrorists and determined assassins. Writer/director Wes Anderson's comedy, starring Benicio del Toro, Mia Threapleton and Michael Cera
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2020
Animation
Adventure
U
Animated comedy adventure sequel featuring the voices of Nicolas Cage, Emma Stone and Ryan Reynolds. When Grug, Ugga and their family set out to find a new home, they discover an idyllic area on the other side of a wall. However, the land is owned by the Bettermans, a brood who appear superior to the Croods in every way, and who soon set their own sinister plans in motion.
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1961
Music
Musical
PG
Film version of the classic musical with songs by Leonard Bernstein and Stephen Sondheim, starring Natalie Wood and Richard Beymer. Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet is updated to late-1950s New York where two rival gangs, the American "Jets" and the Puerto Rican "Sharks" are preparing for confrontation. The tension is heightened when Maria, the sister of "Sharks" leader Bernardo, falls in love with a former "Jet", Tony.
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1941
Comedy
Romance
U
Classic screwball comedy starring Barbara Stanwyck and Henry Fonda.Working the cruise liners, beautiful trickster Jean Harrington believes that the highly eligible Charles Pike is there for the taking. If she plays her cards right.
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1954
Comedy
Romance
PG
Romantic comedy starring Humphrey Bogart, Audrey Hepburn and William Holden. Heartbroken Sabrina, daughter of the chauffeur to a wealthy family, is sent to France after falling for eligible bachelor David Larrabee. She returns a changed woman but will she be luckier in love second time around?
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1959
Drama
Adventure
PG
Classic period epic starring Charlton Heston. Wealthy prince Judah Ben-Hur sets himself up against the tyranny of his Roman masters at the time of Christ, and is condemned to almost certain death as a galley slave by his childhood friend Messala. But the two men are fated to meet again.
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1997
Drama
Crime/detective
18
Oscar-winning crime drama based on the novel by James Ellroy, starring Kevin Spacey, Russell Crowe, Guy Pearce and Kim Basinger. Three detectives become embroiled in a labyrinth of corruption, intrigue and murder involving a prostitute and the editor of a sleazy magazine.
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1986
Drama
Adventure
15
Coming-of-age drama, based on a story by Stephen King, starring Wil Wheaton and River Phoenix. A writer looks back on his childhood in late-1950s Oregon, in particular the time when he and his friends set out to find the corpse of a boy believed to have been hit by a train.
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