SMALL THINGS LIKE THESE
24 April
Oscar-winner Cillian Murphy (Oppenheimer) and Oscar-nominees Emily Watson (Punch-Drunk Love) and Ciarán Hinds (Belfast) star in this adaptation of Irish author Claire Keegan’s novella. It is 1985 in the run-up to Christmas in a small town in County Wexford, Ireland. Bill Furlong toils as a coal merchant to support himself, his wife and his five daughters. Early one morning while out delivering coal at the local convent, he makes a discovery that forces him to confront his past and the complicit silence of a town controlled by the Catholic Church.
THE AMATEUR
10 April
Oscar winner Rami Malek and Oscar nominee Hugh Jackman star in this action film from prominent TV director James Hawes (Black Mirror, Slow Horses). When a CIA cryptographer discovers that terrorists were behind his fiancée’s death in a suspicious plane crash, he receives special training in order to plot his revenge.
THE PENGUIN LESSONS
17 April
Steve Coogan and a very good penguin star in this British heart warmer. The film’s based on the true story of a disillusioned Englishman who went to work in a school in Argentina in 1976. Expecting an easy ride, he discovered instead a complicated and divided nation – and a class of practically unteachable young boys. When he finds a small penguin washed up on an oil-slicked beach, his life is turned upside down – and the penguin becomes not only a valued friend, but also a teacher of life’s most important lessons, for Tom, the boys, and many others.
THE CORRESPONDENT
17 April
Richard Roxburgh is Australian journalist and war correspondent Peter Greste in this biographical thriller from the director of Danger Close. December 2013, in the shadow of the Great Pyramids of Egypt, Greste is confronted with the brutal realities of reporting from one of the most dangerous cities on earth. Accused of terrorism, Greste becomes a pawn in the middle of a deadly game full of corrupt officials and ancient rivalries – with only his wits keeping him alive.
