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BY JOHN CAMPBELL
SHAZAM There are a lot of people (and I include myself among the group) whose response to any super-hero movie has always been ‘are they kidding?’ How could anybody relate the wham-bam super-hero drivel to their own life? I marvelled at Marvel’s publishing triumph when they were just doing comics, and was resentful rather than surprised when the company started rolling in the mega-bucks when it moved on to the big screen (and, in the process, proving conclusively that cinema’s most lucrative demographic was the 18–25-year-old bloke). I still think that the super-hero flick is a crushing bore, but the tendency for them to be self-aware in a tongueJ O I N T H E PA L AC E M OV I E C L U B for only $ in-cheek manner as in Kick Ass or Deadpool has made Receive a free ticket & ongoing benefits upon sign up them a little more watchable and made me wonder – were they always this camp, and did I just not get it? PREVIEW SCREENING I mean, for starters, look at the gay Mardi Gras outfits! Somebody somewhere will be researching a paper about the close relationship between the super-hero movie and repressed homosexuality, but in the meantime this latest instalment of men-in-tights is an interesting indicator of the direction in which the genre is heading. DC Extended Universe (a franchise under the auspices of Warner Bros) has carried the light-hearted approach even further with this often funny if childish adventure. SESSION TIMES 11 - 17 APRIL • THE AFTERMATH (M) • NFT Daily Except Sun: 1:45PM, 4:15PM, 6:50PM, 8:30PM. Sun: 1:45PM, 4:10PM, 6:50PM, 8:30PM COLD WAR (M) • Daily Except Sun: 11:00AM, 2:30PM, 6:30PM. Sun: 11:00AM, 6:30PM DESTROYER (MA15+) • Thurs-Wed: 10:50AM, It begins dodgily with a flashback before arriving in the 6:15PM DUMBO (PG) • Thurs-Wed: 10:30AM, 1:30PM, 6:20PM FIGHTING WITH MY FAMILY (M) • Thurs-Wed: 1:15PM, 6:15PM FIVE FEET APART (M) • Thurs-Wed: 1:50PM, 8:30PM GLORIA BELL present day – I struggled for a while to join the dots. It (CTC) • Preview Screening Wed: 11:00AM GREEN BOOK (M) • Thurs-Wed: 3:30PM, 8:45PM HAPPY PRINCE (MA15+) • NFT Daily Except Wed: 10:50AM, 8:30PM. Wed: 8:30PM HELLBOY (R18+) • NFT turns out that these introductory scenes are intended to Daily Except Fri: 1:15PM, 3:45PM, 9:00PM. Fri: 1:15PM, 3:45PM, 9:30PM HOTEL MUMBAI (MA15+) • Thurs, Sat, Mon, Tues: 3:45PM, 8:30PM. Fri: 3:45PM, 8:45PM. Sun, Wed: 8:30PM JONI 75: A reveal the deprived childhood that both the hero, Shazam BIRTHDAY CELEBRATION ENCORE (CTC) • NFT Fri: 7:00PM LITTLE (PG) • NFT Thurs-Wed: 10:30AM, 1:00PM THE LEGO MOVIE 2: THE SECOND PART (PG) • Daily Except Sun, Wed: 10:00AM, 12:15PM. (the highly likeable Zachary Levi) and his dastardly rival, Sun, Wed: 10:00AM, 3:45PM MISSING LINK (PG) • NFT Thurs-Wed: 1:15PM, 4:15PM PARIS OPERA BALLET: SWAN LAKE 2019 (CTC) • Sun: 1:00PM. Wed: 11:00AM PET SEMATARY (MA15+) • ThursDr Thaddaeus Sivana (Mark Strong) experienced. Shazam Wed: 3:50PM, 9:10PM • SHAZAM (M) • NFT Daily Except Sun: 11:00AM, 4:10PM, 6:50PM, 9:30PM. Sun: 10:30AM, 4:10PM, 6:50PM, 9:30PM SOMETIMES, ALWAYS, NEVER (PG) • Thurs-Wed: 4:30PM, is different, because he is a teenager transformed by a 6:30PM SWIMMING WITH MEN (M) • Thurs, Sat, Mon, Tues: 11:00AM, 6:20PM. Fri: 11:00AM. Sun, Wed: 6:20PM US (MA15+) • Thurs-Wed: 1:15PM, 3:45PM, 6:40PM, 9:10PM WONDER PARK (PG) • wizard (Djimon Hounsou) into the body of a man, but NFT= No free tickets NFT Thurs-Wed: 10:00AM, 12:00PM without the intellectual maturity. It is a good idea, and it 108 Jonson St, Byron Bay • 3 hours free parking* works pretty well. The mandatory action sequences are Buy tickets online and skip the queue! PalaceCinemas.com.au no more than par for the course, but the film’s Validated in Mercato Centre levity is a refreshing counter to the likes of the wise-cracking BF :YZq >ja]f\dq Ironman. BABY FRIENDLY SESSION EACH MORNING SP Kh][aYd Hj]k]flYlagf
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PET SEMATARY The screen has benefited immensely from the prolific pen of Stephen King (filmed versions of his novels include a couple of personal favourites, Stand By Me and The Shining). Pet Sematary is the only one of his books that I have actually been able to finish and, in hindsight, it occurs to me that filmmakers enhance his work by dispensing with a lot of its dense verbiage and cutting to the chase sooner. Taking an unsentimental, blunt approach to the question of life after death, this latest adaptation is a cracker. Louis, an atheist doctor, and his wife Rachel (Jason Clarke, Amy Seimetz) move to the Maine woods with their two little children, Ellie and Gage (Jeté Laurence, Hugo/Lucas Lavoie). Next door lives Jud (John Lithgow), a widower with a secret knowledge of the area, in which a medieval cortege of youngsters wearing weird animal masks, beating a tin drum, and pushing a barrow with a dog’s corpse go by. When Church, Ellie’s cat, is run over by a truck, Jud instructs Louis to bury it in a particular spot and shortly afterwards the cat reappears, alive and well, but savage in temperament. Ellie, the apple of her dad’s eye, is also killed by an oil tanker – it is a superbly executed scene – and Louis is tempted to make the Mephistophelean deal of bringing her back to life. The family’s world goes pear shaped as a result. This is such a good movie – dark in its mood, lean and unpretentious, and with a couple of genuinely scary moments (my companion, not generally prone to the heebie-jeebies, gasped involuntarily at one point). Excellent performances from Clarke and Lithgow maintain the ‘normality’ in which King nearly always sets his stories of horror, and Seimetz proves to be a natural as the cute kid gone nasty. An unnecessary attempt at connecting the back story of Rachel’s sister’s death with the momentum of the current crisis is less successful, but it does not detract from what might regarded as a classic of its type.
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