ALPHABETICAL LISTING

A FEW BEST MEN ....100mins (MA15+) SAT FEB 25 and MON MAR 5 ... Purchase Tickets When English lad David (Xavier Samuel) announces he is getting married to an Australian, his hapless mates give a whole new meaning to the phrase 'for better or worse'! The chaos-filled wedding day tests their new marriage, challenges David's relationships with his three best men, and risks turning what should be the best day of their lives into the worst. This outrageous comedy has been called the Aussie ‘Hangover’ and is from the writer of Death at a Funeral and Stephan Elliott, director of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert. Jonathan Biggins and Olivia Newton-John are the bride's folks and Steve Le Marquand almost steals the movie as a crazed drug dealer.

THE ARTIST ....100mins (PG) WED MAR 21, MON MAR 26, SAT MAR 31, THUR APR 12 and FRI APR 20 ... Purchase Tickets Michel Hazanavicius' The Artist is not only a throw back to the days before people spoke in films; it almost makes you wonder why we ever added sound in the first place. This multi-award winning gem (also nominated for 10 Oscars) is filmed in stunning black-and-white and takes us back to a time when men wore suits, women wore hats and a simple dance could lead to love. Jean Dujardin and Berenice Bejo shine as the film's two leads able to say more with a look or a soft shoe than most of us can in 140 characters. It's Hollywood in 1927. George Valentin (Dujardin) is a silent movie superstar. The advent of the talkies will sound the death knell for his career and see him fall into oblivion. For young extra Peppy Miller (Bejo), it seems the sky's the limit - major movie stardom awaits. The Artist tells the story of their interlinked destinies.

ANY QUESTIONS FOR BEN?....114mins (M) MON MAR 19, WED MAR 28 and SAT APR 7 ... Purchase Tickets For 27-year-old Ben (Josh Lawson), life couldn't be better. He has a well paying job, friends and nothing to tie him down. But when he is invited back to his old school to join several others for a student Q&A about their personal achievements, something goes wrong: Ben is the only speaker not to be asked a question. This triggers a year of soul-searching and looking for answers in all the wrong places. From his best friend Andy (Snowtown's AACTA Award-winning Daniel Henshall), whose solution is that they both take another holiday, to his mentor Sam (Lachy Hulme), who loans him a sports car, Ben's search for answers comes up empty. Soon he begins to suspect that the meaning of life may well reside in the things he's already doing - and a girl he once knew (Rachael Taylor). From the Working Dog Team, who brought you The Castle, Frontline and The Dish.

THE BEST EXOTIC MARIGOLD HOTEL ....123mins (PG) SAT MAR 17 and SAT APR 21 ... Purchase Tickets A group of British retirees (Judi Dench, Bill Nighy, Maggie Smith, Tom Wilkinson) decide to ‘outsource’ their retirement to less expensive and seemingly exotic India. Enticed by advertisements for the newly restored Marigold Hotel they arrive to find their accommodation, managed by Slumdog Millionaire’s Dev Patel, a shell of its former self. Though the new environment is less luxurious than imagined, they are forever transformed by their shared experiences. This is a joyous and entertaining film from John Madden, the director of Shakespeare in Love, about how the human spirit remains undimmed.

CARNAGE ....80mins (M) WED FEB 29 and MON APR 9 ... Purchase Tickets Acclaimed director Roman Polanski (Chinatown, The Pianist) directs Kate Winslet, Jodie Foster, Christoph Waltz and John C. Reilly in the screen adaptation of the Tony-Award winning play God of Carnage. Set in contemporary New York, Carnage is a bitterly amusing story on the contradictions and prejudices of two well-heeled American families. After their sons are involved in a playground fight, two sets of parents: Nancy and Alan (Winslet and Waltz); and Penelope and Michael (Foster and Reilly) meet to settle the dispute. However, the polite discussion of child-rearing soon escalates into verbal warfare, with all four parents revealing their true colours. Unpredictable and shocking, the film hilariously exposes the hypocrisy lurking behind their polite facade.

THE DESCENDANTS....115mins (M) FRI FEB17, TUE FEB 28, SAT MAR 3, THUR MAR15, SUN MAR 25 and FRI APR 13 ... Purchase Tickets From Alexander Payne, the creator of Sideways and Election, The Descendants is a sometimes humourous, sometimes tragic journey of an indifferent husband and father (Golden Globe-Winning George Clooney), who is forced to re-examine his past when his wife suffers a boating accident off Waikiki. The event causes him to wrestle with a decision to sell the family’s land handed down from Hawaiian royalty and missionaries. This is one of the best reviewed films of the year and a sure contender during the up-coming awards season. Nominated for 5 Academy Awards including Best Picture and Actor.

EXTREMELY LOUD AND INCREDIBLY CLOSE.... 115mins (M) MON APR 2 and FRI APR 6 ... Purchase Tickets Stephen Daldry (Billy Elliot, The Hours) directs a screenplay by Eric Roth (The Insider), based on Jonathan Safran Foer's acclaimed best-seller. Oskar Schell (Thomas Horn) is an inventive eleven year-old New Yorker mourning the loss of his father Thomas (Tom Hanks). When he discovers a mysterious key in his deceased father’s belongings, he is convinced that his father has left a final message for him hidden somewhere in the city. Feeling disconnected from his grieving mother Linda (Sandra Bullock) Oskar begins searching New York City for the lock that fits the key. Academy Award nominee for Best Picture and Best Supporting Actor (Max Von Sydow).

FLICKERFEST INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL OF SHORT FILMS (M) SAT MAR 10 and SUN MAR 11 ... Purchase Tickets "Bite Size Chunks Of Great Cinema" celebrates 21 years of short film excellence and we are thrilled to be presenting this to Margaret River audiences for the first time. Flickerfest remains Australia’s only Academy-accredited and BAFTA recognised short film festival ensuring that they continue to present an A-list class short film competition recognised amongst the best in the world. Saturday - THE BEST OF INTERNATIONAL SHORTS includes the moving and humorous 'I Could Be Your Grandmother' from France and Academy-award nominated ‘Raju’ from Germany following a couples journey to India to collect their adopted child. Also screening is 'The Palace' a moving political drama set in Cyprus recently awarded two AACTA Awards for Best Short Fiction Film and Best Screenplay in a Short Film. Sunday - THE BEST OF AUSTRALIAN SHORTS provides a platform that showcases our amazing Australian filmmaking talents. Highlights include the hilarious ‘Fish & Chips’ a story about a young Pauline Hansen who goes on Chef Of The Universe to cook against Barry, Kim & Vlad, AACTA awarded animation ‘Nullarbor’; the moving WA drama ‘Crosshairs’ & 'Cockatoo' a delightful comedy/drama starring Matilda Brown winner of the SMH award for Best Original Australian Screenplay at Flickerfest 2012.

THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO. 158mins (MA15+) TUE FEB 21, MON FEB 27, THUR MAR 8, SAT MAR 24 and WED APR 18 ... Purchase Tickets This U.S adaptation of the first of The Millennium Trilogy, Stieg Larsson’s literary blockbuster is directed by David Fincher (The Social Network, Seven). It stars Daniel Craig and Oscar-nominee Rooney Mara. This murder mystery looks back 40 years at the disappearance of Harriet Vanger, the youngest heir of one of Sweden's wealthiest families. All these years later, her aged uncle continues to seek the truth. Investigating are Mikael Blomkvist, a crusading journalist, aided by the pierced and tattooed punk prodigy Lisbeth Salander. The film co-stars Christopher Plummer, Stellan Skarsgärd, Steven Berkoff and Robin Wright.

THE GREY....117mins (MA15+) TUE APR 3 ... Purchase Tickets Liam Neeson leads a group of oil-rig workers who find themselves stranded on the freezing Alaskan tundra after their plane home crashes. Their efforts to survive and find a way home to their loved ones are threatened when the men come under attack by a pack of vicious, aggressive wolves, who see the humans as intruders in their territory who must be killed. Sighting films like Deliverance and Touching The Void as inspiration, director Joe Carnahan looks set to return to the gritty realism of his breakout hit Narc.

HAPPY FEET TWO....103mins (G) SUN APR 8 ... Purchase Tickets The sequel to the Oscar-winning animated smash, Happy Feet Two returns audiences to the magnificent landscape of Antarctica. Mumble, The Master of Tap, has a problem because his tiny son Erik is choreo-phobic. Reluctant to dance, Erik runs away and encounters The Mighty Sven - a penguin who can fly!! Mumble has no hope of competing with this charismatic new role model. But things get worse when the world is shaken by powerful forces. Erik learns of his father's 'guts and grit' as Mumble brings together the penguin nations and all manner of fabulous creatures - from tiny Krill to giant Elephant Seals - to put things right. Voices include: Elijah Wood, Robin Williams, Hank Azaria, Alecia Moore (P!nk), Brad Pitt, Matt Damon, Hugo Weaving and Anthony LaPaglia.

HEADHUNTERS ....100mins (MA15+) THUR MAR 22 ... Purchase Tickets This Scandinavian variation on the heist movie is tightly paced with lashings of jet black comedy adapted from a novel by award winning and hugely successful Norwegian crime author Jo Nesbo. Roger Brown (Aksel Hennie) is a high-flying headhunter who makes up for his slight height deficiency by living beyond his means, with a lavish lifestyle, huge house and stunningly beautiful wife. Unable to afford all this on his wage, he keeps the wheels turning by stealing works of art on the side, targeting the people he interviews. Needless to say, things don’t go as planned, and he soon finds his life spiralling violently out of control and he ends up on the run, hunted and framed for murder. (Norwegian Language with English Subtitles)

THE HELP ....146mins (M) TUE MAR 13 ... Purchase Tickets The best seller by Kathryn Stockett comes to vivid life through the powerful performances of a phenomenal ensemble cast. Led by Emma Stone, Viola Davis, Octavia Spencer and Bryce Dallas Howard, The Help is an inspirational, courageous and empowering story about very different, extraordinary women in the 1960s South who build an unlikely friendship around a secret writing project - one that breaks society's rules and puts them all at risk. Filled with poignancy, humour and hope The Help is a timeless, universal and triumphant story about the ability to create change. Davis and Spencer are both nominated for Oscars.

HUGO ....126mins (PG) FRI MAR 9 and SAT APR 14 ... Purchase Tickets Director Martin Scorsese makes a family-friendly film based on Brian Selznick's award-winning, imaginative New York Times best-seller The Invention of Hugo Cabret. Hugo tells the story of an orphan boy (Asa Butterfield) living a secret life in the walls of a Paris train station. With the help of an eccentric girl, he searches for the answer to a mystery linking the father he recently lost, the ill-tempered toy shop owner living below him and a heart shaped lock, seemingly without a key. A passionate brief for film preservation wrapped in a fanciful tale of childhood intrigue and adventure, Hugo dazzlingly conjoins the earliest days of cinema with the very latest big-screen technology. Co-starring Sacha Baron Cohen and Ben Kingsley. Nominated for 11 Oscars - the most for any film this year.

J. EDGAR ....137mins (M) TUE JAN 24 and THUR MAR 1 ... Purchase Tickets Leonard Di Caprio stars in Clint Eastwood’s biopic of the first head of the FBI. During his lifetime, J. Edgar Hoover would rise to be the most powerful man in America. He was a visionary - changing the world of forensics - but he would stop at nothing to protect his country and maintain his position. (He outlasted eight presidents and three wars). Hoover understood that knowledge is power and fear poses opportunity so he used both to gain unprecedented influence and to build a reputation that was both formidable and untouchable. Hoover was a man who placed great value on secrets - particularly those of others - but he was as guarded in his private life as he was in his public one, allowing only a small and protective inner circle into his confidence. His closest colleague, Clyde Tolson (Armie Hammer, last seen in duplicate in The Social Network), was also his constant companion.

LATE BLOOMERS ....88mins (PG) FRI MAR 2 ... Purchase Tickets In writer/director Julie Gavras' delightfully warm and wise romantic comedy, William Hurt is Adam, a London-based architect horrified to find himself the recipient of awards that suggest he's reached the end of his career, while wife Mary (Isabella Rossellini), taken aback by an unexpected health scare, sets a course of radical action in league with her vivacious best friend Charlotte (Joanna Lumley). As Adam & Mary respond to these challenges in completely opposite and unpredictable ways (successfully infuriating each other in the process), their three adult children plot to find ways to keep them together. With luminous supporting performances from a mix of established and upcoming British acting talent (including Simon Callow, Kate Ashfield and Luke Treadaway), Late Bloomers is an elegant and engaging portrait of marriage, and the joys & realities of getting on.

LIKE CRAZY ....90mins (M) WED APR 4 ... Purchase Tickets A poignant romantic drama about the hopefulness and heartbreak of love. British college student Anna (Felicity Jones) is studying in L.A. when she falls for her American classmate Jacob (Anton Yelchin) and they embark on a passionate and life-changing journey. But when Anna violates the terms of her visa and is deported, the couple face the difficult challenge of being together and of being apart. Winner of Best Picture and Best Actress at the Sundance Film Festival.

MELANCHOLIA .... 136mins (M) Mon Feb 6 ... Purchase Tickets In this beautiful movie about the end of the world, Justine (Kirsten Dunst - Best Actress Cannes Fest) and Michael (Alexander Skarsgard, True Blood) are celebrating their marriage at a sumptuous party in the home of her sister Claire (Charlotte Gainsbourg), and brother-in-law John (Kiefer Sutherland). Despite Claire's best efforts, the wedding is a fiasco, with family tensions mounting and relationships fraying. Meanwhile, a planet called Melancholia is heading directly towards Earth... Melancholia is a psychological disaster film from director Lars von Trier (Breaking the Waves).

MARGIN CALL ....102mins (MA15+) THUR APR 5 ... Purchase Tickets Investment-firm analyst Peter Sullivan (Zachary Quinto, Star Trek) uncovers sensitive information that could easily plunge the entire business into peril, inadvertently destroying the lives and careers of his colleagues in this tense thriller set during the onset of the 2008 financial crisis. Over the course of the next 24 hours, Sullivan realises that the decisions he makes will not only affect the employees of the firm, but the lives of everyday Americans from coast to coast as well. Easily one of the best ever films about Wall Street, Margin Call is filled with amazing performances from an outstanding cast - Kevin Spacey, Jeremy Irons, Stanley Tucci, Demi Moore, and Paul Bettany among others. Nominated for Best Original Screenplay Academy Award.

MARTHA MARCY MAY MARLENE .... 102min (MA15+) SUN MAR 4 ... Purchase Tickets Martha (Elizabeth Olsen ) is a young woman rapidly unravelling amidst her attempt to reclaim a normal life after fleeing from a cult and its charismatic leader (John Hawkes). Seeking help from her estranged older sister Lucy (Sarah Paulson) and her brother-in-law (Hugh Dancy), Martha is unable and unwilling to reveal the truth about her disappearance. When her memories trigger a chilling paranoia that her former cult could still be pursuing her, the line between Martha’s reality and delusion begins to blur. This is a powerful psychological thriller.

MISSION IMPOSSIBLE: GHOST PROTOCOL ....133min (M) SUN FEB 26 ... Purchase Tickets It's been five years since the last Mission: Impossible and Tom Cruise wanted to up the stakes. He’s really done so with MI4 in which the IMF is shut down when it's implicated in the bombing of the Kremlin, causing Ethan Hunt and his new team to go rogue to clear their organisation's name. No help, no contact, off the grid. You have never seen a mission grittier and more intense than this. Jeremy Renner, Simon Pegg, Josh Holloway and Michael Nyqvist co-star. And who needs stuntmen? That really is Tom Cruise scaling the side of Dubai's Burj Khalifa, the tallest building in the world. J.J. Abrams co-produces again and Brad Bird (The Incredibles) makes his debut directing humans.

MY WEEK WITH MARILYN ....99min (M) FRI MAR 30, TUE APR 10 and MON APR 16 ... Purchase Tickets In 1956, 23 year-old Colin Clark (Eddie Redmayne) is determined to make his way in the film business. Gaining employment on the UK set of The Prince And The Showgirl, the film that famously united Sir Laurence Olivier and Marilyn Monroe (Kenneth Branagh & Michelle Williams - both nominated for Oscars - she is particularly amazing), Clark could never anticipate the job that lay ahead of him. When Monroe’s husband Arthur Miller leaves England, the coast is clear for the star to enjoy some of the pleasures of British life. Upon the publication of Clark's diary 40 years later, one week was missing from the text. This is the incredible true story of that week.

THE MUPPETS ....102mins (G) FRI FEB 24 and WED APR 11 ... Purchase Tickets The Muppets are back in all their stupendous glory. Jason Segal, his Muppet brother Walter and Amy Adams (along with a number of inspired cameos) seek out Kermit the Frog to get him to raise money in order to save the old Muppet Theatre and bring his whole Muppet gang together again. (okay, it's the Blues... sorry Muppet Brothers) The musical numbers are enormously catchy (Man or Muppet by Flight of the Conchords' Brett Mackenzie is an Oscar-nominee) and most importantly, the Muppet’s are just as wild, witty and wonderful as they ever were before. There is cause for celebration indeed - and not just for kids - this is a funny, wickedly self-aware comedy. Everyone will love it.

PUSS IN BOOTS ....90mins (PG) FRI MAR 23 ... Purchase Tickets Set years before meeting Shrek and Donkey, the adorable but tricky Puss in Boots (Antonia Banderas) must clear his name from all charges making him a wanted fugitive. While trying to steal magic beans from the infamous criminals Jack and Jill, the hero crosses paths with his female match, Kitty Softpaws (Salma Hayek), who leads Puss to his old friend, but now enemy, Humpty Dumpty (Zach Galifianikis). Memories of friendship and betrayal enlarges Puss' doubt, but he eventually agrees to help the egg get the magic beans. Together, the three plan to steal the beans, get to the Giant's castle, nab the golden goose, and clear Puss' name.

THE RUM DIARY ....120mins (M) WED MAR 14 and TUE APR 17 ... Purchase Tickets The year is 1960, the city is San Juan, Puerto Rico, and the nostalgia is all ring-a-ding-ding. Johnny Depp is Paul Kemp - a portrait of his gonzo creator, Hunter S. Thompson, in all but name. This story about the exotic misadventures of a young journalist from Thompson’s semi-autobiographical first novel is reworked, primarily, as an origin story: with the first stirrings of the writer’s voice as his political consciousness grows fangs (enter his nemesis, Richard Nixon). Director Bruce Robinson knows debauchery well - he made the hysterical Withnail & I - and Depp's reaction to swigging homemade rum is worth the the ticket alone. And yes, there will be drugs.

SALMON FISHING IN THE YEMEN .... 111mins (tbc) SUN APR 1 ... Purchase Tickets From the director of Chocolat and the screenwriter of Slumdog Millionaire comes the inspirational comedy based on Paul Torday’s novel. When Britain's leading fisheries expert (Ewan McGregor) is approached by a consultant (Emily Blunt) to help realise a sheik’s (Amr Waked) vision of bringing the sport of fly-fishing to the desert, he immediately thinks the project is absurd and unachievable. But when the Prime Minister's overzealous press secretary (Kristin Scott Thomas) latches on to it as a "good will" story, this unlikely team will put it all on the line and embark on an upstream journey of faith and fish to prove the impossible, possible. MITV and Cape Mentelle are donating profits from this special premiere screening to benefit the Margaret River Coastal Residents Association in the wake of November's bush fires. Funds will be used to rehabilitate the burnt dune systems at Prevelly and Gnarabup.

A SEPARATION ..118mins (PG) TUE MAR 6 and THUR APR 19 ... Purchase Tickets Winner of the Golden Globe Award for Best Foreign Film and an Oscar nominee for both Best Foreign Film and Best Screenplay. A Separation is a compelling drama that focuses on a contemporary Iranian middle-class couple. Nader (Peyman Maadi) and Simin (Leila Hatami) have been married for fourteen years and live with their eleven-year-old daughter Termeh (Sarina Farhadi) in Tehran. Nader and Simin are attempting to divorce on the grounds of irreconcilable differences. They have acquired visas to emigrate from Iran - Simin is anxious to ensure a better future for Termeh, but Nader does not want to leave his elderly father who suffers from Alzheimer's disease. When a judge refuses to formalise their separation, Simin departs the family home, leaving the obstinate Nader to hire a housekeeper Razieh (Sareh Bayat) that leads to an altercation that has unexpected consequences. (Farsi Language with English Subtitles)

SHERLOCK HOLMES: GAME OF SHADOWS .... 128mins (M) SUN FEB 12 and FRI MAR 16 a  nd ... Purchase Tickets Guy Ritchie returns with Robert Downey Jr. and Jude Law in the follow up to the 2009 hit, Sherlock Holmes. Holmes has always been the smartest man in the room... until now. There is a new criminal mastermind at large - Professor Moriarty (Jarred Harris) - and not only is he Holmes' intellectual equal, but hiscapacity for evil, coupled with a complete lack of conscience, may actually give him an advantage over the renowned detective. Although it owes little to the stories of Arthur Conan Doyle, the chemistry of the two leads make this a wildly entertaining romp. Noomi Rapace, from the Swedish Dragon Tattoo films, joins them in this latest escapade.

THIS MEANS WAR ..97mins (M) SUN MAR 18 ... Purchase Tickets Chris Pine (Star Trek's Captain Kirk) and Tom Hardy (Inception, Warrior) are the world's deadliest CIA operatives - inseparable partners and best friends - until they realise they are both competing for the affections of Reese Witherspoon. It may be a gross misuse of CIA resources, but what is all that special-ops training for if it can't be used to get the girl. This action packed rom/com is from McG, director of the Charlie’s Angels films.

TINKER TAILOR SOLDIER SPY....127mins (MA15+) THUR FEB 23, MON MAR 12, TUE MAR 27 and SUN APR 15 ... Purchase Tickets George Smiley (Oscar-nominee Gary Oldman) is a recently retired MI6 agent doing his best to adjust to a life outside the secret service. However, when a disgraced agent reappears with information concerning a mole at the heart of MI6, Smiley is drawn back into the murky field of espionage. Based on John le Carre's 1970s Cold War spy novel and the BBC mini-series starring Alec Guinness. Tomas Alfredson (Let The Right One In) directs a stellar cast including last year's Oscar-winner Colin Firth, Tom Hardy, John Hurt, Benedict Cumberbatch, Toby Jones and Mark Strong.

THE VOW ....104mins (PG) THUR MAR 29 ... Purchase Tickets A husband endeavours to win back his new bride's heart after she loses her memory in a tragic car accident in this romantic drama starring Rachel McAdams and Channing Tatum. Based on a true story, the film focuses on McAdams trying to get her life back, anchored by Tatum’s struggle to make her fall in love with him all over again. But he’s in conflict with her strict parents (Jessica Lange and Sam Neill) and while she can’t remember her husband, she can remember her ex-fiance Scott Speedman. Uh oh!

YOUNG ADULT .... 93mins (MA15+) WED MAR 7 and TUE MAR 20 ... Purchase Tickets The writer and director of Juno re-unite for this funny and biting comedy starring Charlize Theron as Mavis Gary, a writer of teen literature who returns to her small hometown to relive her glory days and attempt to reclaim her happily married high school sweetheart (Patrick Wilson). When returning home proves more difficult than she thought, Mavis forms an unusual bond with a former classmate (Patton Oswalt) who hasn't quite gotten over high school, either. Directed by Jason Reitman (Up In The Air, Thank You For Smoking) and written by Diablo Cody (United States of Tara).

WE BOUGHT A ZOO ....123mins (PG) Wed Feb 15 and Sun Feb 19 ... Purchase Tickets Based upon the book by Benjamin Mee, acclaimed filmmaker Cameron Crowe (Jerry Maguire, Almost Famous) directs an amazing and true story about a single dad (Matt Damon) who decides his family needs a fresh start, so he and his two children move to the most unlikely of places: a zoo. With the help of an eclectic staff, and with many misadventures along the way, the family works to return the dilapidated zoo to its former wonder and glory. Also starring Scarlett Johansson (Lost in Translation) and Thomas Haden Church (Sideways).