by Maple23films | 01/01/26
Alan Bennett’s new film, directed by Nicholas Hytner, is a quiet and consistent pleasure: an unsentimental but deeply felt drama which subcontracts actual passion to the music of Elgar and leaves us with a heartbeat of wit, poignancy and common sense. Peter Bradshaw...
by Maple23films | 01/01/26
A film as wise and wonderful as it is beautiful. The performances are tender, intelligent, and exceptionally vulnerable. Rotten Tomatoes Hamnet 25 APR: 3 pm & 7 pm126 mins – UK (Captions Requested) – Drama VENUE: MALENY COMMUNITY CENTRE23 MAPLE STREET MALENY ...
by Maple23films | 01/01/26
…solid biopic both embraces and avoids cliche Jeremy Allen White The Guardian Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere 18 APR: 3 pm & 7 pm119 mins (Captions Requested)– USA – Biopic (Mental health themes, coarse language and a sex scene) VENUE: MALENY COMMUNITY...
by Maple23films | 01/01/26
Vermiglio is exquisite. There’s a rough, earthy tenderness to the picture and a kinship with other recent examples of Italian folk cinema (including Alice Rohrwacher’s work, and Laura Samani’s Small Body). Maura Delpero The Guardian Vermiglio (the Mountain Bride) 28...
by Maple23films | 01/01/26
The world of ‘Downton,’ admittedly as fantastical as Camelot, still celebrates an ideal of civility that is totally foreign for today’s tech bros and one-percenters. Peter Travers The Travers Take Downton Abbey The Grande Finale 28 FEB: 3 pm & 7 pm123...
