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Entertainment
The best movies in cinemas now and coming soon to Australia
Jessica Taylor Yates
March 22, 2024
From comedies to dramas, action, family flicks and romances, here’s a pick of the best upcoming movies out now and coming soon to Australian cinemas for autumn 2024.
With a range of discounts for RACV Members, including savings of up to 40 per cent on movie tickets* at selected Hoyts, Village, Palace, Event, IMAX and Moonlight cinemas, there’s never been a better time to sit back and enjoy some movie magic.
Please note release dates and classifications subject to change.
Synopsis: In part two of the smash-hit science fiction epic, Duke Paul Atreides continues his journey to become Muad'Dib, and faces the challenges of preventing a Holy War spreading throughout the universe.
Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire
Classification: TBC
Release Date: 28/3/2024
Starring: Mille Bobby Brown, Rebecca Hall, Dan Stevens
Synopsis: A colossal adventure when Godzilla and Kong must fight for the survival or Planet Earth in this action-packed monsterverse extravaganza.
Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga
Classification: TBC
Release Date: 23/5/2024
Starring: Chris Hemsworth, Anya Taylor-Joy
Synopsis: The latest in the action series from George Miller recounts the origin story of Furiosa, who would go on to become a renegade warrior with Mad Max.
Timothée Chalamet stars as the main character, Paul Atreides, in Dune: Part Two. Image: ALAMY
Action and adventure movies out now and coming soon
Civil War
Classification: TBC
Release Date: 11/4/2024
Starring: Kirsten Dunst, Wagner Moura
Synopsis: In a futuristic dystopian society, an adrenaline-filled civil war unravels between the US government and successionist states.
Ballerina
Classification: TBC
Release Date: 6/6/2024
Starring: Ana de Armas
Synopsis: Set in the John Wick universe, an assassin uses her skills to get revenge after her family is killed.
The latest Mad Max film was shot in Australia. Image: ALAMY
Family and kids movies out now and coming soon
Combat Wombat: Back 2 Back
Classification: PG
Release Date: 29/2/2024
Starring: Deborah Mailman, David Wenham, Ed Oxenbould
Synopsis: A fun Aussie flick for the whole family. Combat Wombat is back, this time looking to save the city from a tech genius who wants to turn it into a metaverse simulator.
Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire
Classification: TBC
Release Date: 21/3/24
Starring: Dan Akroyd
Synopsis: The Ghostbusters reunite in the famed Ectomobile to face a chilling supernatural threat that has frozen an entire city, leading them on a supernatural adventure to save New York.
Kung Fu Panda 4
Classification: TBC
Release Date: 28/3/2024
Starring: Jack Black, Angelina Jolie
Synopsis: Po and the Furious Five return in a new animated adventure, facing a formidable new villain threatening the Kung Fu world.
IF
Classification: TBC
Release Date: 16/5/2024
Starring: Ryan Reynolds, Steve Carrell, Phoebe Waller-Bridge
Synopsis: A young girl who can talk to other people’s imaginary friends realises her neighbour has the same magical ability.
The Garfield Movie
Classification: TBC
Release Date: 30/5/2024
Starring: Chris Pratt, Samuel L. Jackson
Synopsis:The Garfield Movie is a CGI movie based on the Garfield franchise about a grumpy cat who loves lasagne and hates Mondays. It's release marks the 20th anniversary of the first live action movie Garfield: The Movie in 2004.
Who you gonna call? Ghostbusters! Image: ALAMY
Garfield makes his 2024 big screen debut. Image: Alamy
A girl can see other peoples' imaginary friends in IF. Image: Alamy
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Drama/ thriller/ art house movies out now and coming soon
The Great Escaper
Classification: M
Release Date: 7/3/2024
Starring: Michael Caine
Synopsis: Michael Caine stars in this movie based on the true story of Bernard Jordan, a British man who escaped from his aged care home to make it to the 70th Anniversary of D-Day Landings in France.
Ordinary Angels
Classification: TBC
Release Date: 14/3/24
Starring: Hilary Swank
Synopsis: Based on a true story, Swank stars as a hairdresser who gathers a community to help a widowed man save his dying daughter.
Synopsis: People in a small British town begin receiving strange and ominous letters. Banding together, a group of local women attempt to solve the mystery of the scandalous secrets falling over the community.
Golda
Classification: PG
Release Date: 2/5/2024
Starring: Helen Mirren
Synopsis: Mirren stars as Golda Meir, the prime minister known as the ‘Iron Lady of Israel,’ during the time of the Yom Kippur War.
The Critic
Classification: M
Release Date: 6/6/2024
Starring: Ian McKellen, Gemma Arterton, Mark Strong
Synopsis: Based on the novel Curtain Call, the movie adaptation follows a 1930s actress who finds herself embroiled in a dark whodunnit alongside a theatre critic and his newspaper editor.
In The Fall Guy, working as a stuntperson is not for the faint of heart. Image: ALAMY
Comedy movies out now and coming soon
The Nut Farm
Classification: TBC
Release Date: 14/3/24
Starring: Arj Barker, Madeleine West
Synopsis: Starring honorary Aussie Arj Barker, The Nut Farm revolves around an American crypto trader who comes Down Under to take over his missing uncle’s nut farm – but soon finds he might have taken on more than he bargained for.
The Fall Guy
Classification: TBC
Release Date: 24/4/2024
Starring: Emily Blunt, Ryan Gosling
Synopsis: In this action comedy, a movie studio executive mysteriously disappears, and stuntman Colt Seavers finds himself in the middle of a plot with more dangerous action than any stunts he’s pulled before.
The tragic story of Amy Winehouse is brought to the big screen in the musical biopic, Back to Black, from actor/director Sam Taylor-Johnson. Image: ALAMY
Musical movies out now and coming soon
Waitress: The Musical
Classification: TBC
Release Date: 14/3/2024
Starring: Martin Allanson, Valda Aviks
Synopsis: Based on the Broadway musical of the same name, Jenna is a waitress in a small town who dreams of bigger things away from her melancholy existence. Through talent, love, and friendship, she learns to make the best out of life.
Back to Black
Classification: TBC
Release Date: 11/4/2024
Starring: Amy Winehouse
Synopsis: In the latest iteration of superstar biopics coming to the big screen, Marisa Abela stars as the late British singer Amy Winehouse, following her journey from a talented child prodigy to global superstardom.
Titanic: The Musical
Classification: TBC
Release Date: 2/5/2024
Starring: Sara Bareilles
Synopsis: Winning five Tony awards, this film version of Titanic: The Musical brings the London production of the ill-fated voyage to the big screen.
Greatest Days
Classification: TBC
Release Date: 16/5/2024
Starring: Aisling Bea, Lara McDonnell
Synopsis: Based on the jukebox musical featuring the hits of British boyband Take That, five best friends reunite to see the favourite band of their teenage years, discovering love, fun, and friendship along the way.
