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Agatha Raisin

I have 5 DVDs to give away for AGATHA RAISIN Series 4

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1) Make sure you’re following @reviewbrisbane
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3) Tag who you’d like to watch the film with you, and
4) Let me know: Would you like to live in a small English Village?

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Releasing to DVD and Digital on August 3

SYNOPSIS:

The Agatha Raisin Detective Agency continues to thrive as there is no shortage of mysteries for our heroine to solve. Determined not to spend her time dwelling on her AWOL on-off partner James, Agatha (Ashley Jensen; Extras, Catastrophe) and her happy band of misfits crack more cases including a ghost of a Christmas past, a jam competition that spirals out of control and a seaside murder that has links to a long-forgotten jewellery heist. However, when James finally returns, he has interesting news of his own.             

Village Life Can Be Bloody Murder

Featuring 4 x 90 min feature length episodes

Release Date: August 3, 2022

Rated: M – mature themes, violence, and sexual references

PPR: $34.95

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Film

Press Play

I have 5 double in-season passes to PRESS PLAY!

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1) Make sure you’re following @reviewbrisbane and like this post,
2) Tag who you’d like to take along with you, and
3) Let me know: “What is your favourite type of music?”

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In Cinemas JULY 28

SYNOPSIS:

Laura (Clara Rugaard) and Harrison (Lewis Pullman) have a picture-perfect romance built on the foundation of a shared love of music. After a deadly accident, Laura is given the chance to save the love of her life when she discovers that their mixtape can transport her back in time. Featuring a moving soundtrack with songs by Japanese Breakfast, Father John Misty, Dayglow and more, PRESS PLAY reminds you that love can always be replayed.

Thanks to Rialto Distribution

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Film

Everybody’s Oma

I have 2 double passes to a special screening of EVERYBODY’S OMA with special Q&A, 6:30pm Tuesday 2 August at Dendy Cinemas, Coorparoo

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1) Follow @reviewbrisbane
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3) Tag who you’d like to take along with you, and
4) Let me know: “What is your favourite thing about your grandparent/grandparent figure?”

Put your answer on Twitter, Instagram (with the hashtag #EverybodysOma, tagging @reviewbrisbane), Facebook, or on our website!

LIMITED SESSIONS FROM AUGUST 11

SYNOPSIS:

An Aussie grandmother living with dementia captured the hearts of millions online – and now her story is being told
on the big screen.

Fresh from sold out sessions at the Sydney Film Festival comes the heart-warming story, Everybody’s Oma.
Filmmaker Jason van Genderen is obsessed with making home videos about his family, and their Dutch matriarch, Hendrika van Genderen, otherwise known as Oma.

He and his wife Megan embrace caring for Oma’s dementia in increasingly whimsical ways, accidentally turning her into an online celebrity. Their unassuming home videos, shot during the pandemic, attract over 100,000,000 views globally.

Everybody’s Oma follows the NSW Central Coast family’s footsteps as they navigate Oma’s failing health under the spotlight of an enthusiastic audience made up of a global community who started following Oma’s story on the Facebook page Oma’s Applesauce.

Join us at Dendy Coorparoo on 2 August for a special Preview Screening followed by a Q & A with Jason and his wife Megan.

Everybody’s Oma opens for general sessions 11 August.

Thanks to Dendy Cinemas, Brisbane

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Theatre

Ruby Moon

I have 1 double passes to a performance RUBY MOON, for any show (pending availability), showing at Ad Astra Theatre, 57 Misterton St in Fortitude Valley

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1) Make sure you like @reviewbrisbane
2) Like this post,
3) Tag who you’d like to take along with you, and
4) Let me know: What have you lost and haven’t found yet?”

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Season running 21 July – 13 August

SYNOPSIS:

In Flaming Tree Grove, life appears to be picture perfect. Security and privacy are coveted and seclusion is its own reward, until the day when little Ruby Moon sets off to visit her grandmother at the end of the cul-de-sac and is never seen again.

The neighbourhood fractures into grief and suspicion in the search for answers to a terrible deprivation and potential crime. Ray and Sylvie Moon struggle to come to terms with the disappearance of their six year old daughter, and hoping to trigger someone’s memory of having seen Ruby they keep a child mannequin who is dressed in the same clothes Ruby was last seen in.

The case has long gone cold, and they are almost ready to give up hope when a parcel containing the arm of Ruby’s doll arrives on their doorstep. Desperate for answers, they go up and down the street to re-interview their eccentric neighbours, any of whom could be responsible, including a bible-thumping elderly woman, an ex-soldier who still lives with his mother, Ruby’s creepy babysitter and even a mad scientist. The strangest of all is “The Wizard” – a former runaway who returned home to find his parents had moved away. He is never seen, but will often knock on the Moons’ door.

Haunted by their missing child, Ray and Sylvie descend further into a nightmarish world where the boundaries between the real and imaginary become increasingly blurred.

Where is Ruby and who knows what happened to her? Did she ever exist?

Written by Matt Cameron in 2003, Ruby Moon is a contemporary play that explores the grim mythology of the missing child in Australian folklore, about the prevailing fear of our times and looks at the nature of that unease that lurks in the world that we live in. It combines elements of absurdism, gothic horror, black comedy, and fairy tales with the paranoia of post-9/11 suburbia as well as drawing inspiration from real-life headlines about missing children

Tickets here: https://www.adastracreativity.com/productions/ruby-moon

Thanks to Ad Astra

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Film

D.I. Ray

I have 5 DVDs to give away for D.I. RAY

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1) Make sure you’re following @reviewbrisbane
2) like this post,
3) Tag who you’d like to watch the film with you, and
4) Let me know: “Do you think you could handle being a police officer?”

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Releasing to DVD and Digital on July 20

SYNOPSIS:

When DI Rachita Ray (Parminder Nagra; ER, Bend It Like Beckham), a British Asian policewoman new to homicide is assigned to investigate the suspected honour killing of a young Muslim man, she quickly realises the suspects can’t be guilty. The evidence against the two brothers from a British Hindu family is flimsy at best but her attempts at conveying this to her superiors and her colleagues fall on deaf ears. Hidden biases and a keenness to wrap the case up mean no one is listening to her until her probing leads the team to a much more sinister crime. As she uncovers a complex web of deceit within organised crime, she also lays bare the wounds deep within herself that she’s spent a lifetime ignoring – wounds that are born from a desperate desire to ‘fit in’, despite not looking the part.

The compelling new Crime Thriller from Jed Mercurio (Line of Duty)

Featuring 4 x 60 min dynamic episodes

Release Date: July 20, 2022

Rated: M

PPR: $29.95

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Theatre

Sea Wall

I have 1 double passes to a performance TOMORROW NIGHT, 7:30pm Wednesday 22 June, showing at Metro Arts Theatre, West End.

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1) Make sure you like @reviewbrisbane
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3) Tag who you’d like to take along with you, and
4) Let me know: Is your life the crashing and thrashing of waves, or the calm bobbing of water past the breakers?”

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Season running 22-25 June

SYNOPSIS:

THAT Production Company are bringing their multi-award nominated, critically acclaimed production of Sea Wall by Simon Stephens to Brisbane. Director, Timothy Wynn (Matilda Award nominee for Best Director) will once again team up with Steven Rooke (Matilda Award nominee for Best Actor) to bring his tour-de-force performance of this one man show to the New Benner Theatre.

“There’s a hole running through the centre of my stomach. You must have all felt a bit awkward because you can probably see it.”

Meet Alex: doting father, loving husband, loyal son, gentle soul. Spend an evening listening to his story, wading through musings of family, spirituality, art, doubt, love, and loss, between crashing waves of tragedy and hope.

Sea Wall was written by award-winning writer Simon Stephens (Curious Incident of the Dog In The Night-Time) for Andrew Scott (Sherlock, Fleabag).

With wry humour and resolute honesty, Sea Wall is a delicate, unforgettable, and intimate confession, at once brutal and beautiful.

Tickets here: https://metroarts.com.au/event/sea-wall/

Thanks to Mirraball Productions

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Film

My Sweet Monster

I have 5 family in-season passes to MY SWEET MONSTER!

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1) Make sure you’re following @reviewbrisbane and like this post,
2) Tag who you’d like to take along with you, and
3) Let me know: “What gives you the magic to your life?”

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In Cinemas JUNE 23

SYNOPSIS:

On her wedding day, rebellious Princess Barbara flees the kingdom to escape from evil postman Bundy, who wants to marry her to seize power. Suddenly, she’s rescued by Bogey, the odd but lovable king of the wilderness. Bundy plots to rob the forest’s supply of Spark, a magical life-giving elixir. Only Bogey, Barbara, and their bouncy friend Bunny can stop him – but can they face Bundy’s vicious army of giant, robotic rats? The whole family will enjoy this magical, musical adventure.  Featuring the voices of Haylie Duff, Jon Heder & Pauly Shore MY SWEET MONSTER will screen in cinemas from June 23 through Rialto Distribution.

Thanks to Rialto Distribution

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Martyrs Lane

I have 5 DVDs to give away for Shudder Originals MARTYRS LANE

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1) Make sure you’re following @admin
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3) Tag who you’d like to watch the film with you, and
4) Let me know: “Do you prefer the hustle and bustle of people, or quiet, empty spaces?”

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Home Entertainment Release on June 8

SYNOPSIS:

Leah, 10, lives in a large vicarage, full of lost souls and the needy. In the day the house is bustling with people; at night it is dark, empty, a space for Leah’s nightmares to creep into. A small, nightly visitor brings Leah comfort, but soon she will realise that her little visitor offers knowledge that might be very, very dangerous.

“Martyrs Lane walks down its own unique moonlit path with imaginative determination.” – Movie Freak

“It’s a remarkable piece of work, and one that demonstrates that horror doesn’t have to be “horrifying” to be haunting.” – Hollywood News

Release Date: June 8

Rated: M, Supernatural Themes

RRP: $29.95

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The Madame Blanc Mysteries

I have 5 DVDs to give away for THE MADAME BLANC MYSTERIES, Series 1.

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1) Make sure you’re following @admin
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3) Tag who you’d like to watch the film with you, and
4) Let me know: “Would you be a good detective?”

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Home Entertainment Release on June 8

SYNOPSIS:

When her husband, Rory, dies suddenly while on a business trip abroad, antiques dealer Jean White (Sally Lindsay, Mount Pleasant) is shocked to learn he’s left her nearly bankrupt. Grieving and blindsided, she heads to their one remaining asset: a cottage in the French antiques hub of Sainte Victoire. She intends to sell the property and return home, but once in town, Jean discovers that not only are the circumstances of Rory’s death suspicious but also that he was having an affair. Aided by sympathetic taxi driver Dom (Steve Edge, Scarborough), Jean begins investigating Rory’s death and quickly finds that the colourful locals have a treasure trove of other mysteries for her to assess, too.

Featuring 6 riveting episodes

Rated: M – Mature themes and violence

PPR: $34.95

Thanks to Acorn TV

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Film

Benediction

I have 5 double in-season passes to BENEDICTION!

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1) Make sure you’re following @reviewbrisbane and like this post,
2) Tag who you’d like to take along with you, and
3) Let me know: “Who or what is your favourite poet/poem?”

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In Cinemas JUNE 9

SYNOPSIS:

Sassoon was a complex man who survived the horrors of fighting in the First World War and was decorated for his bravery but who became a vocal critic of the government’s continuation of the war when he returned from service. His poetry was inspired by his experiences on the Western Front and he became one of the leading war poets of the era. Adored by members of the aristocracy as well as stars of London’s literary and stage world, he embarked on affairs with several men as he attempted to come to terms with his homosexuality. At the same time, broken by the horror of war, he made his life’s journey a quest for salvation, trying to find it within the conformity of marriage and religion.

His story is one of a troubled man in a fractured world searching for peace and self-acceptance, something which speaks as meaningfully to the modern world as it did then.

Thanks to Rialto Distribution