Elemental

Elemental sees the reprise of classic Pixar and Disney animation and inspired storyboards, with a touching tale of unlikely love in a world of living elements.

The main storyline follows Ember, a Fire Person, who works in her father’s corner store, and is struggling with being socially ridiculed for wanting to explore outside her home, Fire Town.

However, one day, she breaks a pipe in her father’s store, flooding the basement.

In with the water cames City Inspector Wade, who is a water person and has been investigating Fire Town’s rundown water system which threatens all of Fire Town. In a rush decision, Ember joins forces with Wade, to save her father’s shop from going under.

Together, her and Wade work as a team to solve the mystery of what’s going wrong in Fire Town and this partnership marks the beginning of an unlikely yet endearing love story between two characters who could not be more different.

WHAT'S ON

June

16 Bright Lights Fundraiser, Proserpine RSL from 6.30pm (ticketed event)

16 Welcome To the Whales at the Foreshore from 5pm

18-28 Spiderman Across the Spiderverse screening at the PEC

20 Blueback screening at the PEC

21 Kinder Gym at Bowen PCYC (every Mon & Wed)

21 Community Catch-Up Collinsville from 10am

22 Fitter For Life Over 50’s at Bowen PCYC (Tues & Thurs)

22 Sydney HotShots at Proserpine Golf Club (18+ ticketed event)

With a touching and intimate soundtrack and stunning visuals, audiences can’t help but root for Ember and Wade’s happy ending, and the resolution and recognition of Fire People, who are often forcibly reserved to only remain in Fire Town and are looked down upon when outside their city.

Employing nuisance ideas of immigration and racial stigmatism, the sustained metaphor of Elementals is subtle and discrete, allowing audiences to think further on modern-day racial tensions.

With no true antagonist to the film, it is solely Wade and Ember’s bittersweet romance that propels audiences through to the end.

Elemental opens in Bowen Cinema on Friday June 16.

22-5 The Little Mermaid screening at the PEC

23 Show Whitsunday, Proserpine Showgrounds Anzac Rd

27 Fitter For Life Over 50’s at Bowen PCYC (Tues & Thurs)

27 Sailability Whitsundays from 9am at Whitsunday Sailing Club

29 Fitter For Life Over 50’s at Bowen PCYC (Tues & Thurs)

29-9 The Flash screening at the PEC

July

1 & 2 Gloucester Hidden Talent Art Expo, Sport & Rec Assoc Hideaway Bay Rd (small entry fee)

The end of the road begins. Fast X, the tenth film in the Fast & Furious Saga, launches the final chapters of one of cinema’s most storied and popular global franchises, now in its third decade and still going strong with the same core cast and characters as when it began.

Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse (PG)

After reuniting with Gwen Stacy, Spider-Man is catapulted across the Multiverse, where he encounters a team of Spider-People charged with protecting its very existence. Miles finds himself pitted against the other Spiders and must redefine what it means to be a hero.

The Little Mermaid (PG)

The Little Mermaid is the beloved story of Ariel, a beautiful and spirited young mermaid with a thirst for adventure. The youngest of King Triton’s daughters and the most defiant, Ariel longs to find out more about the world beyond the sea and, while visiting the surface, falls for the dashing Prince Eric.

3 Kinder Gym at Bowen PCYC (every Mon & Wed)

4 Fitter For Life Over 50’s at Bowen PCYC (Tues & Thurs)

5 Kinder Gym at Bowen PCYC (every Mon & Wed)

6 Fitter For Life Over 50’s at Bowen PCYC (Tues & Thurs)

8 Let’s Do Latin Fundraiser, Whitsunday Sailing Club (ticketed event)

10 Kinder Gym at Bowen PCYC (every Mon & Wed)

11 Fitter For Life Over 50’s at Bowen PCYC (Tues & Thurs)

11 Sailability Whitsundays from 9am at Whitsunday Sailing Club