First Viewing Viewing Date: September 8th Via: Stan. Plot: A working-class family man, Christopher Robin, encounters his childhood friend Winnie-the-Pooh, who helps him to rediscover the joys of life. Rating: 7.7/10
First Viewing Viewing Date: September 7th Via: iTunes Store Plot: Anne Hathaway and Rebel Wilson star as female scam artists, one low rent and the other high class, who team up to take down the men who have wronged them. Rating: 5.2/10
First Viewing Viewing Date: September 7th Via: iTunes Store Plot: In a world where people collect Pokémon to do battle, a boy comes across an intelligent talking Pikachu who seeks to be a detective. Rating: 7.3/10 You can read my review here
Revisit Viewing Date: September 6th Via: iTunes Store Plot: Singer Dewey Cox overcomes adversity to become a musical legend. Rating: 7.7/10
First Viewing Viewing Date: September 6th Via: iTunes Store Plot: When a young boy and his family attend a live taping of The Banana Splits TV Show, the mechanical characters begin to go on a murderous rampage. Rating: 6.9/10
First Viewing Viewing Date: September 6th Via: iTunes Store Plot: Vicenarian Richard travels to Thailand and finds himself in possession of a strange map. Rumours state that it leads to a solitary beach paradise, a tropical bliss. Excited and intrigued, he sets out to find it. Rating: 7.2/10
First Viewing Viewing Date: September 4th Via: Cinema Plot: Twenty-seven years after their first encounter with the terrifying Pennywise, the Losers Club have grown up and moved away, until a devastating phone call brings them back. Rating: 7.6/10
First Viewing Viewing Date: September 2nd Via: Blu-ray Plot: A female werewolf runs away from her family, and falls in love with a man who works in the movie business, while a sociologist who studies these creatures is looking for proof of their existence. Rating: 6.2/10 You can read my review here
An involving, at times horrifying animated classic
“A passion project for writer-director Martin Rosen, 1978's Watership Down is an adaptation of the treasured novel of the same name by Richard Adams, compressing the 413-page source into a streamlined 92-minute animated movie. At its core, this is a survivalist adventure picture with political undert” read more
First Viewing Viewing Date: September 1st Via: Google Play Plot: When Michael Kingley, a successful retired businessman starts to see images from his past that he can't explain, he's forced to remember his childhood and how, as a boy, he rescued and raised an extraordinary orphaned pelican, Mr Percival. Rating: 6.8/10
First Viewing Viewing Date: August 30th Via: Cinema Plot: Secret Service Agent Mike Banning is framed for the attempted assassination of the President and must evade his own agency and the FBI as he tries to uncover the real threat. Rating: 7.7/10
An undeniable classic of Australian cinema
“A seminal, award-winning Australian film which remains a classroom staple across the country, 1976's Storm Boy is an adaptation of Colin Thiele's beloved children's book of the same name, telling a sincere coming-of-age tale steeped in Australian culture. Scripted by Sonia Borg (Blue Fin, Dark Age) ” read more
First Viewing Viewing Date: August 29th Via: iTunes Store Plot: What if a child from another world crash-landed on Earth, but instead of becoming a hero to mankind, he proved to be something far more sinister? Rating: 6.6/10
A sincere and mostly effective romantic drama
“Romantic dramas involving terminal illness were popularised again with the 2014 box office hit The Fault in Our Stars, an adaptation of the popular young adult novel of the same name. 2019's Five Feet Apart ditches cancer in favour of cystic fibrosis, with screenwriters Mikki Daughtry and Tobias Iac” read more
First Viewing Viewing Date: August 28th Via: iTunes Store Plot: Toby, a disillusioned film director, becomes pulled into a world of time-jumping fantasy when a Spanish cobbler believes him to be Sancho Panza. He gradually becomes unable to tell dreams from reality. Rating: 6.2/10
First Viewing Viewing Date: August 24th Via: iTunes Store Plot: Fountain Lakes' foxy ladies who turn more than just heads when they go on an overseas trip and end up being the centre of their very own fairytale. Rating: 5.5/10