What’s On : Movies

DID YOU KNOW?

When George Clooney was asked if he would play a gay character, he said, “I’ve already played a gay character. I made ‘Batman’ gay. I was in a rubber suit, and I had rubber nipples”.

FUSE MOVIE PICK OF THE MONTH! THREE THOUSAND YEARS OF LONGING

What would you do with three wishes? Seven years after the critical, commercial and Oscar-winning success of Mad Max: Fury Road, George Miller returns with a visually inventive film about the magic of storytelling. When academic Alithea (Tilda Swinton) picks up an ornate bottle at an Istanbul market, she inadvertently takes possession of a Djinn (Idris Elba), an ancient, wish-granting being who offers to grant her three wishes. But Alithea knows all too well the fate that befalls those who wish in haste, so to persuade her the Djinn must recount tales from his long, fantastical life.

TICKET TO PARADISE

One thing moviegoers have been missing on the big screen, even before COVID, are bona fide movie stars in top notch romcoms. Lost City (with Bullock and Tatum) recently filled that void and now Ticket to Paradise promises to do the same. The film reteams Hollywood royalty Julia Roberts and George Clooney in a romcom (of sorts) as bitterly divorced parents who team up to sabotage their daughter’s island wedding — a scenario which recalls Roberts’ My Best Friend’s Wedding (released 25 years ago this year!). Hilarity and mishaps ensue, and perhaps a second chance at love?

YOU WON’T BE ALONE

Macedonian-Australian director Goran Stolevski’s second feature, Of An Age, recently premiered at the Melbourne International Film Festival and has already been called a “modern queer classic” (The Guardian). But before that film arrives in cinemas, we get Stolevski’s debut feature. Inspired by Macedonian folklore, You Won’t Be Alone explores what it is to be human via a young witch who, in 19th-century Macedonia, assumes other people’s identities in an attempt to experience the gamut of human existence. Noomi Rapace (The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo) stars.

SEE HOW THEY RUN

Big screen whodunits are as popular as ever thanks to Kenneth Branagh’s Agathie Christie adaptations and Rian Johnson’s Knives Out (2019). This original mystery sees murderous intrigue take place behind the scenes of stage-to-screen Hollywood adaptation when the film’s producer (Adrian Brody) meets an untimely end. Inspector Stoppard (Sam Rockwell) and Constable Stalker (Saoirse Ronan) must determine who, among a cast of many — including David Oyelowo (Selma), Shirley Henderson (Bridget Jones’s Diary) and Harris Dickinson (Beach Rats) — is the culprit.

By Dwayne Lennox

FREE DENDY MOVIE TICKETS : Email us and tell us what you think of FUSE, comment on an article or sign up to the FUSE eNews and you could win free tickets to these fantastic movies. hey@fusemagazine.com.au

FREE MOVIE PASSES KINDLY SUPPLIED BY DENDY CINEMAS CANBERRA

LEVEL 2, NORTH QUARTER, CANBERRA CENTRE, 148 BUNDA STREET, CANBERRA CITY 261-263 KING STREET, NEWTOWN • OLD CLEVELAND & CAVENDISH ROADS, COORPAROO PORTSIDE WHARF, REMORA ROAD, HAMILTON • QUEEN STREET VILLAGE, SOUTHPORT

DENDY.COM.AU

30 SEPT - 8 OCTOBER CANBERRA THEATRE CENTRE

ONE OF THE MOST ICONIC ARTISTS IN AUSTRALIAN MUSIC’S HISTORY AND 70’S POP ICON JOHN PAUL YOUNG IS COMING TO THE Q.

7 SEPTEMBER

ABBASBACK

DON’T MISS AUSTRALIA’S NEW NO.1 ABBA TRIBUTE SHOW. HEAR THE SONGS, ENJOY THE ENERGY AND GET READY FOR A FABULOUS NIGHT OF ABBA!

24 SEPTEMBER

GILBERT & SULLIVAN’S H.M.S PINAFORE

JOIN IN ALL THE FUN WITH ONE OF THE WORLDS MOST LOVED MUSICALS! MISTAKEN IDENTITY, STAR-CROSSED LOVERS, SISTERS, SAILORS AND THE TRICKIEST OF TONGUE TWISTERS ABOUND IN THIS SEA FAIRING CAPER.

14 - 23 OCTOBER

SUNSHINE SUPER GIRL

EVONNE GOOLAGONG’S HEARTWARMING STORY IS A CELEBRATION OF SPIRIT AND PASSION OVER ADVERSITY, AND A TRIBUTE TO A WOMAN WHOSE SPORTING PROWESS CONTINUES TO INSPIRE A NATION, GIVING HOPE TO THOUSANDS OF YOUNG GIRLS ACROSS THE COUNTRY.

2 - 5 NOVEMBER