| |  | A LITTLE BIT OF DRAMA, A LOT OF COMEDY! Dear <<First Name>>, This week we screen the critically acclaimed film She Said, a drama based on the New York Times pulitzer prize-winning investigation and best-selling book starring two-time Academy Award® nominee Carey Mulligan (Promising Young Woman, An Education). We also begin sessions of the latest from London’s West End with Shakespeare’s comedy Much Ado About Nothing starring Katherine Parkinson (The IT Crowd). This brilliant new adaptation from the National Theatre in London is part of our Live Performance on Screen program bringing you top class theatre productions from around the world. For families we present the animations Strange World and Puss In Boots: The Last Wish. Tickets for these two titles include a free popcorn. And if you missed Seriously Red over the weekend, you have one last opportunity to catch this fabulous comedy on Wednesday morning at 10:30am. We hope you are enjoying your summer of sensational cinema at Cowra Civic Centre. Jonathan
Cowra Civic Centre | | WHAT’S ON THIS WEEK | ![Seriously Red | Official Trailer | 2022 [HD]](https://dim.mcusercontent.com/cs/0cd1572f9659bbd20a6ebf0b9/video_thumbnails_new/90154a917691fa63fffd447052f96566.png?w=564&dpr=2) | SERIOUSLY RED
M - Crude humour, sex, nudity and coarse language | 98 mins | $15* A hit at both the Sydney and Melbourne Film Festivals, in this rowdy and rambunctious musical dramedy, Red (Krew Boylan) is a vivacious, clumsy and occasionally misguided redhead who is at a crossroads in her life. After misreading her work party’s dress code, Red trades her 9-to-5 job in real estate for a new career as a Dolly Parton impersonator. Starring Rose Byrne, Bobby Cannavale, Daniel Webber, Celeste Barber, Thomas Campbell, Jean Kittson, Wayne Blair. FINAL SESSION!
Wednesday 11 January at 10:30am MORE INFO & BOOKINGS |  | STRANGE WORLD
PG - Mild science fiction themes | 96 mins | $15* includes a popcorn Walt Disney Animation Studios' original action-adventure Strange World journeys deep into an uncharted and treacherous land where fantastical creatures await the legendary Clades, a family of explorers whose differences threaten to topple their latest—and by far— most crucial mission. From the creators of the Oscar®-winning Big Hero 6, Raya and the Last Dragon and Tangled. Friday 13 January at 10am
Saturday 14 January at 2:30pm
Sunday 15 January at 3pm MORE INFO & BOOKINGS |  | PUSS IN BOOTS: THE LAST WISH
PG - Mild themes, animated violence and coarse language, some scenes may scare young children | 102 mins | $15* includes a popcorn Everyone’s favorite leche-loving, swashbuckling, fear-defying feline returns. For the first time in more than a decade, DreamWorks Animation presents a new adventure in the Shrek universe as daring outlaw Puss in Boots discovers that his passion for peril and disregard for safety have taken their toll. Puss has burned through eight of his nine lives, though he lost count along the way. Getting those lives back will send Puss in Boots on his grandest quest yet. Friday 13 January at 12:30pm
Saturday 14 January at 12:30pm
Sunday 15 January at 1pm
Wednesday 18 January at 10:30am MORE INFO & BOOKINGS |  | SHE SAID
M - Coarse language and themes of sexual abuse | 129 mins | $15* Two-time Academy Award® nominee Carey Mulligan (Promising Young Woman, An Education) and Zoe Kazan (The Plot Against America, The Big Sick) star as New York Times reporters Megan Twohey and Jodi Kantor, who together broke one of the most important stories in a generation— a story that shattered decades of silence around the subject of sexual assault in Hollywood and altered American culture forever. Friday 13 January at 7pm
Saturday 14 January at 4:30pm
Sunday 15 January at 5pm MORE INFO & BOOKINGS |  | NATIONAL THEATRE LIVE:
MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING
by William Shakespeare
E – Exempt from Classification | 180 mins | $25* Katherine Parkinson (The IT Crowd) and John Heffernan (Dracula) lead the cast in Shakespeare’s romcom of sun, sea and mistaken identity. The legendary family-run Hotel Messina on the Italian Riveria has been visited by artists, celebrities and royalty. But when the owner’s daughter weds a dashing young soldier, not all guests are in the mood for love. A string of scandalous deceptions soon surround not only the young couple, but also the adamantly single Beatrice and Benedick. Saturday 14 January at 7pm
Wednesday 18 January at 1pm
Sunday 22 January at 1pm MORE INFO & BOOKINGS | NEXT WEEK… |  | LITTLE EGGS: ON AFRICAN RESCUE
PG – Some scenes may scare young children | 89 mins | $15* includes a popcorn Toto, head rooster on a small farm, struggles to come to terms with parenting his two newly laid Little Eggs, Uly and Max, whose unruly behaviour has him pulling out his feathers. But this is only the beginning of Toto's troubles. The his Little Eggs catch the attention of The Duchess, a Russian egg collecting villain. She raids the farm to steal Uly and Max and ships them to Africa.Toto and his friends must find a way to travel to African and rescue their Little Eggs while avoiding hungry crocodiles, a trio of clueless hippos, a bunch of crazy moneys and even the king of the jungle himself. This is a story about the courage of parents who overcome all obstacles to cross the entire world to rescue their children. Friday 20 January at 10am
Saturday 21 January at 2pm
Sunday 22 January at 11am MORE INFO & BOOKINGS |  | THE MENU
MA15+ - Strong themes, violence and coarse language | 107 mins | $15* A young couple travels to a remote island to eat at an exclusive restaurant where the chef has prepared a lavish menu, with some shocking surprises. Starring Ralph Fiennes, Anna Taylor-Joy and Nicholas Hoult to name a few, The Menu is tongue-in-cheek horror sure to keep you on the edge of your seat. Friday 20 January at 7pm
Saturday 21 January at 4pm
Sunday 22 January at 5:30pm MORE INFO & BOOKINGS |  | AVATAR: THE WAY OF THE WATER
M - Science fiction themes, action violence and coarse language | 190 mins | $15* Set more than a decade after the events of the first film, Avatar: The Way of Water begins to tell the story of the Sully family (Jake, Neytiri and their kids), the trouble that follows them, the lengths they go to keep each other safe, the battles they fight to stay alive, and the tragedies they endure. Directed by James Cameron and produced by Cameron and Jon Landau, the film stars Zoe Saldana, Sam Worthington, Sigourney Weaver, Stephen Lang, Cliff Curtis, Joel David Moore, CCH Pounder, Edie Falco, Jemaine Clement and Kate Winslet. Saturday 21 January at 6:30pm
Wednesday 25 January at 10:30am
Friday 27 January at 7pm
Saturday 28 January at 7pm
Sunday 29 January at 1pm MORE INFO & BOOKINGS | COMING SOON |  | THE AMAZING MAURICE
PG Occasional mild coarse language | 115 mins | $15* includes a popcorn Rats! They're everywhere… In the breadbins, dancing across the tabletops, stealing pies from under the cook's noses. So, what does every town need? A good piper to lure them away. That's where Maurice, a streetwise tomcat with the perfect money-making scam, comes in. Everyone has heard of the stories about the pied piper and the town full of rodents. So, Maurice has found his very own pied piper and a plague of rats to trick gullible townsfolk into giving him lots of cash. All is going well until they arrive in the far-flung village of Bad Blintz where they meet a book obsessed girl called Malicia, who enlists their help to solve the mystery of her town. Friday 27 January at 10am
Saturday 28 January at 2:15pm
Sunday 29 January at 11am MORE INFO & BOOKINGS |  | MARGRETE: QUEEN OF THE NORTH
MA15+ - Strong nudity | 120 mins | $15* ★★★★ ½ “Marvellous and intriguing. Beautifully filmed, this game of thrones rooted in 15th-century Nordic history plays out majestically. Trine Dyrholm is unfailingly brilliant.” InDaily. The magnificent Trine Dyrholm (Festen, Love Is All You Need) leads an all-star ensemble cast in the gripping new historical drama by leading Danish director Charlotte Sieling (The Bridge, Homeland, The Man), based on remarkable true events experienced by Queen Margrete the First. Saturday 28 January at 4:30pm
Sunday 29 January at 4:45pm
Wednesday 1 February at 10:30am MORE INFO & BOOKINGS |  | THE LOST KING
M – Coarse language | 108 mins | $15* In 2012, having been lost for over 500 years, the remains of King Richard III were discovered beneath a car park in Leicester. The search had been orchestrated by an amateur historian, Philippa Langley, whose unrelenting research had been met with incomprehension by her friends and family and with scepticism by experts and academics. The Lost King is the life-affirming true story of a woman who refused to be ignored and who took on the country's most eminent historians, forcing them to think again about one of the most controversial kings in England's history. Friday 3 February at 2pm – Special Screening for Seniors Festival
Saturday 4 February at 2pm
Sunday 5 February at 5:30pm
Wednesday 8 February at 10:30am MORE INFO & BOOKINGS |  | TRIANGLE OF SADNESS
M - Mature themes, crude humour, coarse language and a sex scene | 147 mins | $15* includes a glass of bubbles ★★★★ "deliriously funny" THE SKINNY
★★★★ "hilariously, breathlessly entertaining" EMPIRE MAGAZINE In Ruben Östlund’s wickedly funny Palme d’Or winner, social hierarchy is turned upside down, revealing the tawdry relationship between power and beauty. Celebrity model couple, Carl (Harris Dickinson) and Yaya (Charlbi Dean), are invited on a luxury cruise for the uber-rich, helmed by an unhinged boat captain (Woody Harrelson). What first appeared instagrammable ends catastrophically, leaving the survivors stranded on a desert island and fighting for survival. Friday 3 February at 7pm
Saturday 4 February at 4:30pm MORE INFO & BOOKINGS |  | THE ROAD DANCE
M - Mature themes & violence, including a scene of sexual violence | 117 mins | $15* Based on the best-selling novel and inspired by true events, the film tells the story of Kirsty MacLeod who dreams of a better life away from the suffocating isolation of her small Scottish island village. When several young villagers are conscripted for service in the First World War, including her lover Murdo, a road dance is held in their honour the evening before they depart. It’s on this fateful evening that Kirsty’s life takes a dramatic and tragic turn. Saturday 4 February at 7pm
Sunday 5 February at 3:15pm
Wednesday 8 February at 12:30pm MORE INFO & BOOKINGS | | MORE CINEMA EVENTS IN 2023 | Click on each image for details | | | | | LIVE EVENTS IN 2023 | | SEAN CHOOLBURRA
WORLD BY STORM
FREE for Cowra residents
$10* for everyone else Sean Choolburra has had a career and life unlike any other. With the skills to back him, he established himself in the world of dance, became one of our First Nations’ leading comic geniuses, and could entertain a microphone stand if he had to. But he doesn’t have to. A comedian, rap singer, dancer & hip-hop didge player, this is the story of Sean Choolburra. Hailing from Townsville, Sean’s ancestors are Gu-Gu-Yalanji, Kalkadoon, Kandju and Bwgcolman from around Townsville and Palm Island. He has toured throughout Australia, Canada, Japan, New Zealand, the USA and the UK. “Truly gifted; he can sum up a whole situation in one facial expression” Australian Stage Friday 17 February at 7:30pm | |
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LUKE ALLEVA IN
THE DANCIN’ MAN
All tickets $20* This all singing, all dancing, one-man show takes you through the classic ages when music and dance had style, grace and charisma. The Dancin’ Man celebrates the quintessential song and dance men that graced us on the stage and screen such as Gene Kelly, Fred Astaire, Donald O'Connor, the Nicholas Brothers, Sammy Davis Jnr and more. Sit back, relax and enjoy this high energy show, while Luke sings and dances his way through high class entertainment, charm, slick, Vaudeville and comedy. Tickets include a delicious morning tea, tea/coffee and the concert. Wednesday 22 February
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