The mercury is rising and with the kid’s summer school holidays now well and truly underway, a visit to the cinema is always a family favourite activity.
Local Cinemas to Visit:
? United Cinemas -?Collaroy, Warriewood, Avalon
? Orpheum Cinema -?Cremorne
??Hoyts?– Warringah Mall, Chatswood Westfield & Mandarin
Pack of the Litter
Rating: G
Running Time: 80mins
Release: 10 January 2019
Meet Patriot, Potomac, Primrose, Poppet, and Phil ? five determined puppies who, from the moment they?re born, begin an incredible journey to become guide dogs for the blind. It?s a rigorous two-year process that will take them from the care of selfless foster volunteers to specialised trainers to, if they make the cut, a lifelong human companion.
At every step of the way, the puppies will be tested, challenged, and evaluated. But not just any dog makes it all the way to graduation, and only the best of the best will make the cut ? who has what it takes to be the pick of the litter?
Instant Family
Rating: PG
Running Time: 117mins
Release: 10 January 2019
When Pete (Mark Wahlberg) and Ellie (Rose Byrne) decide to start a family, they stumble into the world of foster care adoption. They hope to take in one small child but when they meet three siblings, including a rebellious 15 year old girl (Isabela Moner), they find themselves speeding from zero to three kids overnight. Now, Pete and Ellie must hilariously try to learn the ropes of instant parenthood in the hopes of becoming a family. INSTANT FAMILY is inspired by the real events from the life of writer/director Sean Anders and also stars Octavia Spencer, Tig Notaro and Margo Martindale
How To Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World
Rating: PG
Running Time: 104mins
Release: 3 January 2019
What began as an unlikely friendship between an adolescent Viking and a fearsome Night Fury dragon has become an epic trilogy spanning their lives. In this next chapter, Hiccup and Toothless will finally discover their true destinies: the village chief as ruler of Berk alongside Astrid, and the dragon as leader of his own kind. As both ascend, the darkest threat they?ve yet faced?as well as the appearance of a female Night Fury?will test the bonds of their relationship like never before.
Mary Poppins Returns
Rating: G
Running Time: 130mins
Release: 1 January 2019
In Depression-era London, a now-grown Jane and Michael Banks, along with Michael?s three children, are visited by the enigmatic Mary Poppins following a personal loss. Through her unique magical skills, and with the aid of her friend Jack, she helps the family rediscover the joy and wonder missing in their lives.
Ralph Breaks The Internet
Rating: PG
Running Time: 112mins
Release: 14 December 2018
Ralph Breaks the Internet leaves Litwak?s video arcade behind, venturing into the uncharted, expansive and thrilling world of the internet?which may or may not survive Ralph?s wrecking. Video game bad guy Ralph (voice of John C. Reilly) and fellow misfit Vanellope von Schweetz (voice of Sarah Silverman) must risk it all by traveling to the world wide web in search of a replacement part to save Vanellope?s video game, Sugar Rush. In way over their heads, Ralph and Vanellope rely on the citizens of the internet?the netizens?to help navigate their way, including a webite entrepreneur named Yesss (voice of Taraji P. Henson), who is the head algorithm and the heart and soul of trend-making site ?BuzzzTube.?
Bumblebee
Rating: PG
Running Time: 114mins
Release: 20 December 2018
On the run in the year 1987, Bumblebee finds refuge in a junkyard in a small Californian beach town. Charlie (Hailee Steinfeld), on the cusp of turning 18 and trying to find her place in the world, discovers Bumblebee, battle-scarred and broken. When Charlie revives him, she quickly learns this is no ordinary, yellow VW bug.
Spider-Man: Into The Spider-Verse
Rating: PG
Running Time: 117mins
Release: 8 December 2018
Phil Lord and Christopher Miller, the creative minds behind The Lego Movie and 21 Jump Street, bring their unique talents to a fresh vision of a different Spider-Man Universe, with a groundbreaking visual style that?s the first of its kind. Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse introduces Brooklyn teen Miles Morales, and the limitless possibilities of the Spider-Verse, where more than one can wear the mask.