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The Light Between Oceans by M.L Stedman
After four harrowing years on the Western Front, Tom Sherbourne returns to
Australia with his wife Isabel, and takes a job as the lighthouse keeper on Janus
Rock, nearly half a day’s journey from the coast. Years later, after two miscarriages
and one stillbirth, the grieving Isabel hears a baby’s cries on the wind. A boat
has washed up onshore carrying a dead man and a living baby. Tom wants to
report the man and infant immediately, but Isabel has taken the tiny baby to her
breast. Against Tom’s judgment, they claim her as their own and name her Lucy.
Only years later do they discover the devastating consequences of the decision
they made that day - as the baby’s real story unfolds…
MOVIES TO WATCH
OUT FOR IN JANUARY
MANDELA: LONG WALK TO FREEDOM
27 Feb ‘14
Cast: Idris Elba, Naomie Harris, Tony Kgoroge
Director: Justin Chadwick
Mandela: Long Walk To Freedom, is based on the 1994
autobiography by Nelson Mandela, a South African antiapartheid revolutionary and politician. The film chronicles Mandela’s life journey from his childhood in a rural
village through to his inauguration as the first democratically elected president of South Africa.
ROBOCOP | 30 Jan ‘14
Cast: Joel Kinnaman, Gary Oldman, Samuel L. Jackson, Hugh Laurie
Director: José Padilha
It is 2028, multinational conglomerate OmniCorp is at the centre of robot technology, winning American wars around the globe. Alex Murphy is a loving husband,
father and good cop doing his best to stem the tide of crime and corruption in
Detroit. After he is critically injured in the line of duty, OmniCorp utilises their remarkable science of robotics to save Alex’s life. He returns to the streets of his
beloved city with amazing new abilities, but with issues a regular man has never
had to face before.
The Storyteller by Jodi Picoult
Sage Singer is a baker, a loner, until she befriends an old man who’s particularly
beloved in her community. Josef Weber is everyone’s favourite retired teacher
and Little League coach. One day he asks Sage for a favour: to kill him. Shocked,
Sage refuses—and then he confesses his darkest secret – he deserves to die
because he had been a Nazi SS guard. And Sage’s grandmother is a Holocaust
survivor. How do you react to evil living next door? Can someone who’s
committed truly heinous acts ever atone with subsequent good behaviour?
Should you offer forgiveness to someone if you aren’t the party who was
wronged? And, if Sage even considers the request, is it revenge…or justice?
The Fault In Our Stars by John Green
THE BOOK THIEF | 6 Feb‘14
Cast: Sophie Nélisse, Geoffrey Rush, Emily Watson
Director: Brian Percival
The Book Thief centres on Liesel Meminger, a spirited young girl who witnesses the
horrors of Nazi Germany while in the care of foster parents. The girl arrives with a
stolen book and begins collecting other tomes, learning to read while her stepparents harbour a Jewish refugee under the stairs.
SAVING MR. BANKS | 27 Feb‘14
Cast: Tom Hanks, Emma Thompson, Colin Farrell, Paul Giamatti, Jason Schwartzman, B. J. Novak, Ruth Wilson
Director: John Lee Hancock
A biographical drama film about the production of the popular Walt Disney Studios film Mary Poppins, starring Tom Hanks as filmmaker Walt Disney and Emma
Thompson as author P.L. Travers. The film centres on the life of Travers, shifting between her childhood in Queensland, Australia, to the negotiations with Walt Disney and the making of Mary Poppins in the 1960s. to power over a nation whose
innocence was forever altered.
Diagnosed with Stage IV thyroid cancer at 12, Hazel was prepared to die until,
at 14, a medical miracle shrunk the tumours in her lungs... for now. Even though
her condition improved, Hazel lives tethered to an oxygen tank, the tumours
tenuously kept at bay with a constant chemical assault. Enter Augustus Waters,
a kid at the cancer kid support group. Augustus is gorgeous, in remission, and
to her surprise, interested in Hazel. Being with Augustus is both an unexpected
destination and a long-needed journey, pushing Hazel to re-examine how
sickness and health, life and death, will define her and the legacy that everyone
leaves behind.
The Luminaries by Eleanor Catton
It is 1866, and Walter Moody has come to make his fortune upon the New
Zealand goldfields. On the stormy night of his arrival, he stumbles across a tense
gathering of twelve local men who have met in secret to discuss a series of
unexplained events: A wealthy man has disappeared, a prostitute has tried to
end her life, and an enormous fortune has been discovered in the home of a
luckless drunk. Moody is soon drawn into the mystery: a network of fates and
fortunes that is as complex and exquisitely ornate as the night sky.
The Cuckoo’s Calling by J.K Rowling
Written by J.K Rowling under the pseudonym Robert Galbraith, The Cuckoo’s
Calling is a crime fiction novel that follows crime detective Cormoran Strike
and his investigation efforts in the case of Lula Landry’s death. The case
plunges Strike into the world of multimillionaire beauties, rock-star boyfriends,
and desperate designers, and it introduces him to every variety of pleasure,
enticement, seduction, and delusion known to man.
Beautiful Ruins by Jess Walter
THE DELIVERY MAN | 1 Jan ‘14
Cast: Vince Vaughn, Cobie Smulders, Chris Pratt
Director: Ken Scott
The story of affable underachiever David Wozniak, whose mundane life is turned
upside down when he finds out that he fathered 533 children through sperm donations he made twenty years earlier. In debt to the mob, rejected by his pregnant
girlfriend, things couldn’t look worse for David when he is hit with a lawsuit from
142 of the 533 twenty-somethings who want to know the identity of the donor.
As David struggles to decide whether or not he should reveal his true identity, he
embarks on a journey that leads him to discover not only his true self but the father
he could become as well.
Weekendin 88
DALLAS BUYERS CLUB | 23 Jan ‘14
Cast: Matthew Mcconaughey, Jared Leto, Jennifer Garner
Director: Jean-Marc Vallée
In 1985, Ron Woodroof, a drug taking, women loving