Energize @ the Movies
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Energize @ The Movies: Leaders Guide for the Series
Welcome to Energize at the Movies - a series of sessions to help young people think more deeply about the films they watch. This guide is designed to help you get the most out of each film and the supporting session. Find Out More...
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Source Code 15 May 2012
Captain Colter Stevens (Jake Gyllenhaal) wakes up and finds himself on a Chicago-bound train opposite Christina Warren (Michelle Monaghan) who is talking to him as if he is a good friend. Colter has no idea who she is or why he is on the train. His eight minutes of confusion end in a dramatic explosion, after which Colter finds himself strapped inside a capsule. Find Out More...
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Tomorrow When The War Began 9 Apr 2012
High school student, Ellie (Caitlyn Stasey), and her best friend, Corrie (Rachel Hurd-Wood), decide to organise a camping trip in the outback, taking with them six other school friends. Engrossed in having fun, completely cut off from civilisation, the only reminder of the outside world is when a squadron of Australian Air Force jets fly overhead. However, when the friends return home, it’s clear that all is not well. Each of their family homes are abandoned and their home town, Wirrawee, is a ghost town. Upon investigating further, they discover foreign soldiers patrolling the streets, with Wirrawee’s population rounded up and held captive on the showground in the town centre. It appears that Australia has been invaded by a powerful foreign coalition and that they are on the frontline. Find Out More...
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Limitless 23 Mar 2012
Eddie (Bradley Cooper) is an unsuccessful writer whose life is going nowhere. When he’s offered a new mind enhancing drug, he figures he has nothing to lose. The drug enables Eddie to access 100% of his brain (instead of the allegedly normal 20%), temporarily giving him superhuman mental ability. But the drug has some unwelcome side effects and virtually all other users either end up dead or very ill. While based around a fictional drug, Limitless raises issues relating to drug abuse, as well as looking at peoples’ pursuit of power and success. Find Out More...
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Chalet Girl 1 Dec 2011
Kim (Felicity Jones) is a young woman who used to be a champion skateboarder. Since her mother’s tragic death in a car accident, Kim has been looking after her affectionate but domestically-challenged father Bill (Bill Bailey). Working in a fast-food outlet to pay the bills, there is little to look forward to in life until she is made aware of an opportunity to become a “chalet girl” in a luxurious Alpine ski resort. Find Out More...
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Inception 4 Nov 2011
Cobb (Leonardo DiCaprio) is a thief with an unusual talent. The vaults he breaks into are not held in buildings but in people’s minds, and with the support of colleague Arthur (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) and others he has taken corporate espionage to a new level. One day, after a failed job, he is offered a new challenge. Wealthy businessman Saito (Ken Watanabe) doesn’t want Cobb to steal a thought from someone’s mind but to plant one. Initially Cobb is uninterested, but when Saito promises Cobb that he can get him back into the United States to be reunited with his children, Cobb cannot pass up the opportunity. Find Out More...
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Attack the Block 4 Nov 2011
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The King's Speech 4 Nov 2011
The King’s Speech is the story of the struggles of King George VI (Colin Firth, in an Oscar winning performance); both with his acute stammer and with his own inner demons as he finds himself thrust into a role he never sought. Find Out More...
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Easy A 3 Nov 2011
Easy A is a light hearted teen comedy which makes some serious points about the reputation we build for ourselves. Average, slightly geeky, high school student, Olive (Emma Stone), lies about losing her virginity when she feels under pressure from a school mate. The story spreads like wildfire and suddenly Olive is on everyone’s radar; including the school’s small group of Christians who brand her a prostitute. Find Out More...
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Eat Pray Love 3 Nov 2011
Liz Gilbert has what many modern women dream of. She has a faithful husband, a successful career as a writer, a beautiful home, and some loyal friends. Unfortunately, she is still unhappy. Not really knowing what she is missing, but not willing to settle for what she has, she sets out on a mission to rediscover her appetite for life. Leaving behind her career, her home comforts, and her friends, she heads off to Italy, the land of fine food and the people that enjoy “the sweetness of doing nothing”. Find Out More...
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The Social Network 3 Nov 2011
Loosely based on real events, ‘The Social Network’ is an Oscar winning account of the creation of the global social networking website, Facebook. The film traces the story of Facebook’s inventor, Mark Zuckerberg (Jesse Eisenberg) as he takes the initial idea for a networking site for Harvard University students and develops it into the worldwide phenomenon it is today. Find Out More...
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Wall Street - Mony Never Sleeps 3 Nov 2011
Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps tells the story of the up-and-coming young stock market trader Jake (Shia LaBoeuf) and the 2008 financial crisis. Jake seems to have it made. He is the protégé of the managing director of Keller Zabel Investments, earning lots of money, and happily in love with Winnie (Carey Mulligan). All is going well until Keller Zabel Investments is brought to ruin by a competitor, Churchill Schwartz investment bank, headed up by Bretton James (Josh Brolin). Jake’s world starts to fall apart as his mentor commits suicide and his career appears to be in tatters. Find Out More...
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How To Train Your Dragon 3 Nov 2011
Young Viking teenager Hiccup is a frustrated boy. He would love to follow in the steps of his village folk and become a fierce Viking warrior just like his father and village chieftain Stoick the Vast, skilled in fighting the village’s greatest enemies ... the dragons. Find Out More...
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Robin Hood 3 Nov 2011
The film begins with the death of King Richard, on his way home from the Crusades. Robin (Crowe), an archer in Richard’s army, is attempting to find a ship to England when he stumbles across some dying English knights. The knights, led by Sir Robert Locksley, were returning the dead King’s crown to England when they were ambushed. Before he dies, Locksley bids Robin to take his sword back to his father, Sir Walter Locksley, in Nottingham. Find Out More...
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Africa United 3 Nov 2011
‘Africa United’ is a heart warming film about friendship and unity in pursuit of a shared goal. Set in some of the most AIDS ravaged countries on Earth, it is also a gentle reminder of the seriousness of the impact of the HIV/AIDS pandemic outside the Western World. Find Out More...
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The Joneses 14 Jun 2011
The Joneses sees a model family move into a posh American suburb. With a big house, a flashy car, and all the great gadgets, clothing and material possessions one could possibly want, they look like they have it all. Except however, the Joneses are not quite what they seem. In fact they are a family put together to persuade those around them to buy new products. Advertising everything from lipstick to jogging attire - everything the Joneses have on display is for sale. Find Out More...
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Clash of The Titans 14 Jun 2011
On stormy seas off the coast of Greece a fisherman rescues a coffin from the water. In the coffin he finds a dead woman and a living baby boy, and he takes the boy into his family and names him Perseus. Find Out More...
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The Blind Side 14 Jun 2011
The true story of Michael Oher, a homeless black teenager taken in and adopted by rich white family, the Tuohys. Find Out More...
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Book of Eli 14 Apr 2011
When Eli comes upon the village ruled by the powerful mobster Carnegie, Eli is offered the opportunity to join Carnegie’s gang. When Eli refuses, what begins is a cat and mouse chase as Eli and his new companion Solara seek to escape Carnegie and reach the destination that Eli has been searching for all along. Find Out More...
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Sherlock Holmes 14 Apr 2011
Holmes and Watson find themselves drawn into the extraordinary case of Lord Blackwood. Caught by Holmes, executed by hanging and pronounced dead by Watson, Blackwood is seen walking away from his own tomb. Find Out More...
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