Now showing in cinemas across Australia:

Year One (M)
★★ ½
On his latest expedition, Dr. Rick Marshall (Ferrell) is sucked into a space-time vortex alongside his research assistant.

The Proposal (PG)
★★★
A Las Vegas-set comedy centered around three groomsmen who lose their about-to-be-wed buddy during their drunken misadventures, then must retrace their steps in order to find him.

Disgrace (M)
★ ★ ★ ½
After having an affair with a student, a Cape Town professor moves to the Eastern Cape, where he gets caught up in a mess of post-apartheid politics.

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Detailed Listings:

Year One

Review: ★ ★ ½
Genre: Comedy
Rating: M
Running Time: 97min
Director: Harold Ramis
Cast: Jack Black, Olivia Wilde, Michael Cera
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Synopsis:

When a couple of lazy hunter-gatherers (Jack Black and Michael Cera) are banished from their primitive village, they set off on an epic journey through the ancient world in Columbia Pictures’ comedy Year One. Harold Ramis directs. The screenplay is by Harold Ramis & Gene Stupnitsky & Lee Eisenberg (The Office) from a story by Harold Ramis. The film is produced by Harold Ramis, Judd Apatow, and Clayton Townsend.

Worth Seeing?
Review: ★ ★ ½

Here’s what I had to say:

“Year One is essentially the offspring of Harold and Kumar Go to White Castle and Monty Python’s the Life of Brian. It could have been great, had it not been repeatedly dropped on its head as a child. The resulting brain damage  sees this potentially hilarious biblical comedy turn into one giant, tiresome fart joke.”

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RTNBwIAY9Zo

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The Proposal
Review: ★★★

Genre: Comedy/Romance
Rating: PG
Running Time: 107min
Director: Anne Fletcher
Cast: Sandra Bullock, Ryan Reynolds, Malin Akerman, Mary Steenburgen, Craig T. Nelson,
Official Website: View

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Synopsis:

When high-powered book editor Margaret (SANDRA BULLOCK) faces deportation to her native Canada, the quick-thinking exec declares that she’s actually engaged to her unsuspecting put-upon assistant… When high-powered book editor Margaret (SANDRA BULLOCK) faces deportation to her native Canada, the quick-thinking exec declares that she’s actually engaged to her unsuspecting put-upon assistant Andrew (RYAN REYNOLDS), who she’s tormented for years. He agrees to participate in the charade, but with a few conditions of his own. The unlikely couple heads to Alaska to meet his quirky family (MARY STEENBURGEN, CRAIG T. NELSON, BETTY WHITE) and the always-in-control city girl finds herself in one comedic fish-out-of-water situation after another. With an impromptu wedding in the works and an immigration official on their tails, Margaret and Andrew reluctantly vow to stick to the plan despite the precarious consequences.

Worth seeing?
Review: ★★★

Here’s what I had to say:

“It’s certainly funny despite being the very definition of conventional, but either I missed the part when Ryan Reynolds and Sandra Bullock fell in love or it simply didn’t happen. Their comedic chemistry is abundant in spades, but never does their sham wedding amount to anything more than, well, a sham wedding. “

 

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kPgZcW8MCaA

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Disgrace
Review: ★ ★ ★ ½

Genre: Drama
Rating: M
Running Time: 120min
Director: Steve Jacobs
Cast: Christian Bale, Sam Worthington, Anton Yelchin, Bryce Dallas Howard, Moon Bloodgood

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Synopsis:

Spring 1936 – in a working-class district in the north of Paris, a neighborhood that probably had a name once but that everyone now simply calls the Faubourg. At the top of the hill, a view over… David Lurie, twice-divorced and dissatisfied with his job as an English professor in post-apartheid South Africa, finds his life falling apart. When he seduces one of his students, and in doing nothing to protect himself from the consequences, he is dismissed from his teaching position, and takes refuge on his daughter’s farm in the Eastern Cape. For a time, his daughter’s influence and natural rhythms of the farm promise to harmonise his discordant life. But the balance of power in the country is shifting. In the aftermath of a vicious attack on the farm, he is forced to come to terms with more than his disgrace alone.

Worth seeing?

Review: ★ ★ ★ ½

Katina’s verdict:

“An important contemporary look at South Africa, Disgrace succeeds in outlining the instability of life with Malkovich and Haines strong in their central roles.”

 

Read our interview with Disgrace director Steve Jacobs here.

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QIL9iQmlmik

 

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