It’s the most wonderful time of the year for…. a trip to the cinema! There are so many great kids movies coming out this summer and heaps us mama’s are keen to see too! Mary Poppins Returns, How To Train Your Dragon 3 and Ralph Breaks the Internet; just to name a few! The perfect place to escape to on a super hot day for a little air con and choc top action! Enjoy!
THE GRINCH
RATING – G
RELEASE DATE – 29TH NOVEMBER
Each year at Christmas they disrupt his tranquil solitude with their increasingly bigger, brighter and louder celebrations. When the Whos declare they are going to make Christmas three times bigger this year, the Grinch realizes there is only one way for him to gain some peace and quiet: he must steal Christmas. To do so, he decides he will pose as Santa Claus on Christmas Eve, even going so far as to trap a lackadaisical misfit reindeer to pull his sleigh.
ARCTIC JUSTICE
RATING –
RELEASE DATE – 6TH DECEMBER
A ragtag group of Arctic misfits must save the world from melting ice caps in this animated comedy featuring the voices of Jeremy Renner and John Cleese. While out on a mail delivery, Swifty the Arctic fox (Renner) stumbles upon a secret fortress where he encounters Doc Walrus (Cleese), an evil genius whose plan is to melt the polar ice caps and flood the world.
ELLIOT THE LITTLEST REINDEER
RATING – PG
RELEASE DATE – 6TH DECEMBER
When one of Santa’s reindeer suddenly announces his retirement, he needs to find a replacement and fast! Against all odds, Elliot and his best friend Hazel set out to prove that he is the horse for the job. As Elliot and Hazel take on the North Pole reindeer try-outs, Hazel learns that Christmas as we know it may be headed for disaster. Meanwhile, back at the farm a potential new owner has plans that threaten the lives of their friends.
SPIDER-MAN: INTO THE SPIDER-VERSE
RATING – PG
RELEASE – 13TH DECEMBER
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.
BUMBLEBEE
RATING – M
RELEASE – 20TH DECEMBER
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.
RALPH BREAKS THE INTERNET
RATING – PG
RELEASE DATE – 26TH DECEMBER
John C. Reilly returns to lend his voice to the sequel to Disney’s 2012 3D animated adventure, along with Sarah Silverman, James Corden and an all-star voice cast.Taking place six years following the events of the first film, the story will center on Ralph’s adventures in the Internet data space when a Wi-Fi router gets plugged into the arcade.
RATING – M
From Warner Bros. Pictures and director James Wan comes an action-packed adventure that spans the vast, visually breathtaking underwater world of the seven seas, “Aquaman,” starring Jason Momoa in the title role. The film reveals the origin story of half-human, half-Atlantean Arthur Curry and takes him on the journey of his lifetime-one that will not only force him to face who he really is, but to discover if he is worthy of who he was born to be, a king.
MARY POPPINS RETURNS
RATING – PG
RELEASE DATE – 1st JANUARY
In the story, Michael (Whishaw) and Jane (Mortimer) are now grown up, with Michael, his three children and their housekeeper, Ellen (Walters), living on Cherry Tree Lane. After Michael suffers a personal loss, the enigmatic nanny Mary Poppins (Blunt) re-enters the lives of the Banks family, and, along with the optimistic street lamplighter Jack (Miranda), uses her unique magical skills to help the family rediscover the joy and wonder missing in their lives.
RATING –
From DreamWorks Animation comes the highly anticipated culmination of one of the most popular animated franchises in film history, How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World. 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.
RATING – PG
RELEASE – 17TH JANUARY
A beautiful and contemporary re-telling of Colin Thiele’s classic Australian tale. ‘Storm Boy’ has grown up to be Michael Kingley, a successful retired businessman and grandfather. When Kingley starts to see images from his past that he can’t explain, he is forced to remember his long-forgotten childhood, growing up on an isolated coastline with his father. He recounts to his grand-daughter the story of how, as a boy, he rescued and raised an extraordinary orphaned pelican, Mr Percival. Their remarkable adventures and very special bond has a profound effect on all their lives.
THE KID WHO WOULD BE KING
RATING –
RELEASE DATE – 17TH JANUARY
Old school magic meets the modern world in the epic adventure THE KID WHO WOULD BE KING. Alex (Louis Ashbourne Serkis) thinks he’s just another nobody, until he stumbles upon the mythical Sword in the Stone, Excalibur. Now, he must unite his friends and enemies into a band of knights and, together with the legendary wizard Merlin (Patrick Stewart), take on the wicked enchantress Morgana (Rebecca Ferguson). With the future at stake, Alex must become the great leader he never dreamed he could be.