Films of the Week: 8–14 December
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2025
Comedy
Drama
15
Hollywood star Jay Kelly completes production on his latest picture and plans to take some time off to spend with his youngest daughter Daisy before she heads to college and he starts a new project. Jay is shocked when Daisy reveals she is heading to Europe with her friends and he secretly tracks her.
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2025
Arts and culture
Documentary
18
Documentary filmmaker David Osit revisits one of the cultural phenomena of the early 2000s, Dateline's investigative TV series To Catch A Predator, which lured sex offenders to a film set and arrested them on camera. Host Chris Hansen was vaunted as a crusader for justice and morality and the candid camera format spawned various imitators hoping to mimic the ratings-grabbing success of the original. This feature-length film asks uncomfortable questions about why America has an obsession with watching people at their lowest. Director Osit turns the camera on himself, academics, law enforcement, journalists and actors to gain a clearer understanding of human behaviour and the TV show's complicated legacy
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2020
Romance
Music
PG
Adaptation of the Tony-winning Broadway musical starring Anthony Ramos and Melissa Barrera. Summer in Washington Heights, New York: young bodega owner Usnavi dreams of winning the lottery and enjoying a better life back in the Dominican Republic. He also pines for Vanessa who works in a neighbouring beauty salon and yearns to be a fashion designer in Manhattan. Can the two see their dreams come true?
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1960
Crime/detective
Thriller
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Alfred Hitchcock's classic horror thriller starring Anthony Perkins and Janet Leigh. Absconding with $40,000 of her employer's money, Marion Crane sets off to join her lover Sam Loomis in California. After a tiring journey through the rain, she stops at a lonely motel run by Norman Bates, an intense young man who lives with his domineering mother.
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2018
Drama
Crime/detective
15
Crime thriller based on a true story, starring John David Washington and Adam Driver. In 1972, black cop Ron Stallworth works under cover for the Colorado Springs PD. When he discovers a Ku Klux Klan recruitment poster, he investigates, posing over the phone as a fellow white supremacist. After building a rapport with his mark, Ron is invited to meet the local KKK chapter, so he enlists a white colleague as his stand-in, and mounts a masterful sting operation.
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2021
Comedy
Romance
15
Coming-of-age comedy drama starring Alana Haim and Cooper Hoffman. In Los Angeles in 1973, teen actor and entrepreneur Gary Valentine asks out twenty-something Alana Kane, who reluctantly accepts. So begins an unlikely friendship as the aimless Alana struggles to figure out what to do with her life while participating in Gary's bizarre schemes.
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2022
Documentary
Drama
15
Drama based on a true story, starring Carey Mulligan and Zoe Kazan. In 2017, New York Times journalists Megan Twohey and Jodi Kantor begin investigating rumours about the sexual misconduct of movie mogul Harvey Weinstein. But despite the growing number of women willing to share their experiences with the reporters, persuading them to go on the record is a very different story.
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2022
Crime/detective
Action
15
Mystery thriller starring Robert Pattinson. When members of Gotham City's political elite are picked off by a serial killer, masked vigilante Batman - aka troubled young billionaire Bruce Wayne - investigates. In following the killer's carefully planted string of riddles, Batman is drawn into a murky conspiracy involving the city's criminal underworld, and finds himself targeted.
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2018
Comedy
Drama
12
Romantic comedy starring Constance Wu, Henry Golding and Michelle Yeoh. New Yorker Rachel Chu travels to Singapore with her partner, Nick, for a friend's wedding, and discovers that Nick's family is hugely wealthy. They also expect him to remain in Singapore to inherit their hotel business - a plan that, as Nick's imperious mother Eleanor makes quite clear, does not involve Rachel.
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1983
Comedy
Drama
PG
Comedy drama starring Peter Riegert and Burt Lancaster. MacIntyre, a young American oil executive, is sent to a small Scottish village, which his company intends to buy and transform into a new refinery site. But while attempting to negotiate with the local community, he finds himself irresistibly drawn to the area.
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