Films of the Week: 18–24 August
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2025
Thriller
Crime/detective
15
Crime drama starring Vanessa Kirby and Jennifer Jason Leigh. Lynette works several jobs to try and prevent her disabled brother and deadbeat mother being evicted from their family home. When the latter uses $25,000 of rent money to buy a car, a distraught Lynette has to contact some of her former underworld accomplices to try and replace the cash overnight, setting in motion a series of increasingly fraught encounters.
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2024
Thriller
Mystery
15
A father returns to Australia to buy his childhood home. To celebrate, he takes his teenage son to Luna Bay so they can surf together. However, he becomes locked in a battle of one-upmanship with local thugs. Thriller, starring Nicolas Cage and Julian McMahon
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1990
Crime/detective
Sci-fi
18
Fantasy horror starring Liam Neeson and Frances McDormand. When scientist Peyton Westlake is hideously disfigured by a vicious gangster, he plots an ingenious revenge using his invention of synthetic skin.
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2013
Horror
Sci-fi
15
Science-fiction drama starring Scarlett Johansson. A mysterious young woman prowls the rainy streets of Scotland by night, seducing the lonely men she encounters. Along the way, the woman makes a disturbing discovery about herself.
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1957
Music
Musical
PG
Rock 'n' roll drama starring Elvis Presley. Sentenced to jail for manslaughter, Vince Everett is taught to play the guitar by his cellmate. After he is freed, he starts up a record company and soon a sensational new rock 'n' roll star is born.
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1971
Crime/detective
Action
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Crime thriller starring Richard Roundtree as tough private eye John Shaft, who's hired to find the kidnapped daughter of Harlem racketeer Bumpy Jonas. But Shaft is also being pressured by police lieutenant Vic Androzzi to investigate Jonas's activities.
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2016
Thriller
Action
12
Action thriller starring Matt Damon, Tommy Lee Jones and Alicia Vikander. Now living in self-imposed exile, former agent Jason Bourne is contacted by an old colleague and is soon drawn into an operation to expose CIA dirty tricks. And, as Bourne well knows, nothing is as it seems and no one can be trusted.
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2002
Comedy
Romance
12
Romantic comedy drama based on the novel by Nick Hornby, starring Hugh Grant as womanising 30-something Will. In search of easy conquests, Will poses as a father at a picnic for single parents where he meets the emotionally troubled Fiona and her 12-year-old son, Marcus.
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2019
Romance
Drama
15
Romantic drama starring Levan Gelbakhiani. Dance student Merab has been training intensely to compete for a place in the National Georgian Ensemble, but his future is thrown into jeopardy by the arrival of an alluring new male dancer. While juggling pressure from his instructor, his classmates and his family, Merab also attempts to make sense of his own sexuality as his feelings for the dancer grow.
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1964
War
Action
PG
Second World War drama starring Burt Lancaster, Paul Scofield and Jeanne Moreau. France, 1944: with Germany facing defeat, Colonel von Waldheim is ordered to transport many priceless works of art from a Paris gallery back by train to the Fatherland. But the French Resistance has other ideas.
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