Piglet’s Big Movie

Winnie the Pooh and his pals from Hundred-Acre-Wood are back in this sequel to Disney’s The Tigger Movie of three years ago.

Piglet – Pooh’s smallest friend – is the star of this charming adaptation of A.A. Milne’s original shorts stories.

When the gang prepares for the important Honey Harvest, Piglet is upset that he is left out of the festivities because he is declared too small to help.

He wanders off alone. But eventually Winnie the Pooh, Tigger, Rabit, Eeyore, Owl and Christopher Robin realize that their friend is missing and set out to find him with the help of Piglet’s Book of Memories, a scrapbook of their many adventures.

As they search for Piglet they relive old times, told in flashbacks, and realize what an important part he has played in each of their lives.

This is a delightful Disney feature for young and old alike. It even has a politically correct “empowering message of self-worth” that even the smallest of us can be a big hero.

Travelling Birds

Travelling Birds is a breathtaking film which took three years to shoot across seven continents. It looks at the magical and mysterious world of bird-life migration and the extraordinary odyssey of those that inhabit our skies.

Nominated this year for an Academy Award for Best Documentary, this film was shot by five crews of more than 450 people, including 17 pilots and 14 cinematographers, so that the camera could fly alongside many species of birds on the annual round trips. Some migratory journeys filmed were more than 10,000 miles between the tropics and the Arctic.

Travelling Birds is more than just another nature documentary. Through this film the viewer for the first time comes close to experiencing what it’s like to be a flapping air-borne creature with the wind in its ears. One leaves the cinema feeling like an honorary member of another species. It is magical and exhilarating viewing.

The Hulk

When a groundbreaking scientific experiment goes horribly wrong, scientist Dr Bruce Banner (Australian actor Eric Bana, Chopper) heroically attempts to save someone’s life.

But, in doing so, he puts himself in the path of a potentially lethal gamma radiation blast. He survives the incident, but the radiation triggers something very specific in his cellular chemistry and awakens his dark side.

From now onwards, whenever Bruce is angered, he turns into a 10-foot tall, muscle-bound green giant with superhuman strength.

Acclaimed Oscar-winning filmmaker Ang Lee (Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon) presents the Hulk as more than Marvel Comics’ rampaging maniac, but as a strangely pitiful creature at war with himself as much as with the world.

The Hulk embarks on a path of destruction that escalates into a national emergency. Soon he is being pursued by US military personnel, SWAT teams and squads of helicopters.

In the midst of all this turmoil is Bruce’s ex-girlfriend and fellow researcher Betty Ross (Jennifer Connelly) who guesses the link between quiet-mannered Bruce and the Hulk.

Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines

A decade has passed since John Connor (Nick Stahl) helped prevent Judgement Day and save mankind from mass destruction.

Now aged 25, Connor lives “off the grid” – no home, no credit cards, no mobile phone, no job and no record of his existence. No way can he be traced by Skynet – the highly developed network of machines that once tried to kill him and wage war on humanity.

That is, until out of the shadows of the future steps the T-X (Kristanna Loken), Skynet’s most sophisticated cyborg killing-machine yet.

Sent back through time to complete the job left unfinished by her predecessor (the T-1000), T-X is as relentless as her human guise is beautiful.

Now Connor’s only hope for survival is the Terminator (Arnold Schwarzenegger), his mysterious former assassin.

Bad Eggs

Ben Kinnear (Mick Molloy) and Mike Paddock (Bob Franklin) are undercover detectives with the police force’s elite Zero Tolerance Unit.

When a freak accident involving a dead magistrate lands them on the front page of the local paper, Ben and Mike are busted back to uniformed duties.

But when Ben discovers a strange link between the accident and the business affairs of a shady casino boss he and Mike have been investigating, the two of them decide they can no longer turn a blind eye to the corruption rife among their own colleagues.

Bad Eggs is an elaborate Aussie comedy-thriller that unfolds at a breakneck pace.

Veteran actor Bill Hunter (Muriel’s Wedding, Crackerjack) plays high-ranking officer Ted Pratt, a hard-bitten old-fashioned type copper, 40 years in the job, who doesn’t mollycoddle his men and whose disciplinary measures can best be described as drastic.

Adelaide comic Shaun Micallef plays oily politician, Premier Cray. Writer, producer and director of Bad Eggs is Tony Martin (D-Generation, Martin/Molloy).

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