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Featured Australian movies this month: In the Room Where He Waits Koala Emu War
Australian film guide for June 2024
June 6th
Bad Boys: Ride or Die
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Will Smith and Martin Lawrence reunite with the directors of Bad Boys for Life for this fourth installment of the Bad Boys action series, which depicts their escapades. When they discover that their deceased police chief has ties to a drug cartel, wise-cracking Miami cops Mike Lowry and Marcus Burnett embark on a dangerous mission to clear his name.
Director: Adil El Arbi, Bilal Farah
Cast: Will Smith, Martin Lawrence
Classification: MA
Runtime: 115m
Three Musketeers: Milady
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The second half of the Eiffel Tower director’s two-part film adaptation of Alexandre Dumas’ novel starring Eva Green (Penny Dreadful). Constance Bonacieux is kidnapped right in front of d’Artagnan. In a desperate quest to save her, the young Musketeer is forced to work with the mysterious Milady de Winter, with help from Athos, Porthos, and Aramis.
Director: Martin Bourbron
Cast: Eva Green
Classification: M
Runtime: 121m
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Director Ishana Night Shyamalan’s feature debut, adapted from the novel by A.M. Shine, stars Dakota Fanning as a 28-year-old artist who finds refuge after becoming stranded in the vast, untamed forests of the west of Ireland. She unknowingly finds herself trapped with three strange men who are watched and stalked by mysterious creatures every night.
Director: Ishana Night Shyamalan
Cast: Dakota Fanning
Classification: M
Runtime: 102m
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June 7th
in the room where he is waiting
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This unsettling, slow-burning feature film follows Tobin Wade, an aspiring young star who discovers his deepest subconscious when he is forced to isolate in a hotel room before his father’s funeral. The fears that were there come to the surface.
June 8th
love reset
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Despite the strong opposition from their families, Jeong-yeol and Nara succeed in getting married through the power of love. However, two years later, the two have received their 30-day divorce settlement and are about to leave the courthouse when a car accident causes them to both lose their memories.
Director: Da Jeong Nam
Cast: Kang Ha Neul
Classification: CTC.
June 13th
inside out 2
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A sequel to the 2015 Pixar film Inside Head. From everyone’s perspective, joy, sadness, anger, fear, and disgust, the operation was a success. But when anxiety shows up, you don’t know how to feel.
Director: Kelsey Mann
Cast: Amy Poehler, Maya Hawke, Ayo Edebiri
Classification:PG
Runtime: 96 minutes
Sitting Duck (La Syndicaliste)
In 2012, the head of a union in France’s multinational nuclear powerhouse became a whistleblower, denouncing secret deals rocking France’s nuclear sector. Maureen Carney is single-handedly taking on the world, exposing scandals and fighting government ministers and industry leaders to protect over 50,000 jobs.
Director: Jean-Paul Salomé
Cast: Isabelle Huppert
Classification: M
Runtime: 122m
exorcism
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A troubled actor begins to unravel while filming a horror movie. His estranged daughter wonders if he’s returning to his past addictions or if something more sinister is going on.
Director: Joshua Miller, MA Fortin.
Cast: Russell Crowe, Sam Worthington
Classification: CTC
Runtime: 93 minutes
June 15th
Met Opera: Madame Butterfly (2024)
Madame Butterfly (Italian for Madame Butterfly) is one of opera’s most enduring tales of unrequited love. Puccini’s moving music tells the tragic story of Cho Shio San, a Japanese girl who falls in love with American naval officer Pinkerton.
Director: Carolyn Choa
Cast: Asmik Grigorian, Jonathan Tetelman
Classification: CTC
Runtime: 150m
June 16th
koala
This is a documentary about the impact of habitat loss and other threats facing koalas, which are on track to become extinct in the wild by 2050. This film tells the story of the resilience of this iconic species in the face of extinction in the wild. It highlights the need for better land management solutions.
Director: Gregory Miller
Performer: None
Classification: G
Runtime: 91 minutes
June 20th
Despicable Me 4
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Gru welcomes a new member to his family, Gru Jr., who tries to torment his father. But their peaceful life is soon shattered when criminal mastermind Maxime Le Mal escapes from prison and vows revenge on Gru.
Director: Chris Renaud
Cast: Steve Carell, Kristen Wiig
Classification:PG
Runtime: 95 minutes
Divertimento
Seventeen-year-old Zahia Giouani dreams of becoming a conductor, and her twin sister Fettouma hopes to become a professional cellist. They want to make classical music accessible to everyone and create their own orchestra.
Director: Marie Castille Mention Char
Cast: Oulaya Amra, Lina El Arabi
Classification:PG
Runtime: 114 minutes
Ghost: Please perform the ritual here. Perform the ritual now.
Shot over the course of Ghost’s two sold-out performances at Los Angeles’ hallowed Kia Forum, Rite Here Rite Now is a concert film and much more. Swedish rock band Ghost will perform their hit songs in concert, set to a story that picks up plot threads from the long-running Chapters series.
Director: Alex Ross, Tobias Forge
Performer: Ghost
Classification: M
Runtime: 145m
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A lay preacher’s violent past is questioned and his faith tested when he arrives in an English colony in the 1830s. He becomes involved in a bloody war between Maori tribes.
Director: Lee Tamahori
Cast: Guy Pearce
Classification: CTC
Runtime: 119 minutes
promised land
In 18th century Denmark, a poor war hero, Captain Ludwig Karlen, sets out to tame a vast, inhospitable land where nothing can, at first glance, grow. This beautiful but forbidding region is under the rule of Frederic de Schinkel, a ruthless nobleman who sees a threat to Karlen’s power. As the new community begins to take hold, de Schinkel vows revenge, and a violent and heated confrontation develops between the two men.
Director: Nicolai Arcel
Cast: Mads Mikkelsen
Classification: MA
Runtime: 127m
June 21st
emu war
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Based on the infamous Great Emu War of 1932, a ragtag platoon of soldiers are thrust into brutal and bloody battles with Australia’s most feared flightless beasts. Troubled by the kidnapping of his son by an emu, Major Meredith leads a platoon behind enemy lines to kill the emu’s leader, Queen Emu.
Director: Jay Morrissey, Lisa Feinberg
Starring: Damian Callinan, Dane Simpson, Aaron Gox
Classification: CTC
Runtime: 75 minutes
June 22nd
Paris Opera Ballet “La Fille Mal Garde”
La fille mal garde is a comic ballet performed in two acts inspired by Pierre-Antoine Baudouin’s 1765 painting La réprimande/Une jeune fille querellee par sa mère. The ballet was originally choreographed by ballet master Jean Dauberval to pastiche music based on 55 popular French pieces of music. Inspired by a love of the Suffolk countryside, this ballet is set on a farm and tells the love story of widow Simone’s daughter Leeds and a chorus of young farmers.
Director: Frederick Ashton
Performer: None
Classification: CTC
Runtime: 125m
Picasso: Rebel of Paris
documentary. A story of a life and a museum, the film creates and develops an original portrait of the artist, showing his characters at once generous and despotic, made of sun and shadow, often hidden behind masks. outlines the contradictory nature of The duplicity of his actions despite having many women in his life.
Director: Simona Risi
Cast: Mina Cavani
Classification: E
Runtime: 90m
June 27th
A Quiet Place: Day 1
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The first part of 2018’s A Quiet Place and 2020’s A Quiet Place Part II. A woman named Sammy struggles to survive when New York City is invaded by alien creatures that hunt by sound.
Director: Michael Sarnoski
Cast: Lupita Nyong’o, Joseph Quinn
Classification: CTC
Runtime: 100m
Blue Rock THE MOVIE Episode Nagi
animated movie. Seishiro Nagi, a second-year high school student who has demonstrated overwhelming soccer talent, receives an invitation to the Blue Rock Project and meets strikers from all over the country.
Director: Shunsuke Ishikawa
Performer: Nobunaga Shimazaki
Classification: CTC
Runtime: 91 minutes
african panda
In this animated adventure, a brave young panda named Pan travels from China to Africa to rescue his best friend, the dragon Jilong, who has been kidnapped. Along the way, Pan must rely on his wits and newfound friends to navigate the vast world and rescue his companions for the first time.
Director: Richard Krauss, Carsten Keilerrich
Cast: Adrian Pan
Classification: G
Runtime: 89 minutes
mountain
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New Zealand actor Rachel House’s directorial debut, The Mountain, is a heartwarming drama about three children on a mission to seek solace and find friendship in the spirit of adventure under the watchful eye of Taranaki Maunga. is.
Director: Rachel House
Cast: Fern Sutherland, Taranaki Maunga
Classification:PG
Runtime: 89 minutes
June 29th
Paris Opera: Don Quichotte
Screening directly from Paris. Don Quixote, driven by a vision of a dirty but inspired Dulcinea, sets out on an adventure with his trusty servant Sancho Panza in tow. Inspired by sophisticated and moving music, director Damiano Michieletto’s new film seeks to reveal not only Don Quixote’s poetry but also his suffering.
Director: Damiano Michieletto
Cast: Christian Van Horn
Classification: CTC
Runtime: 155m
