Movie Group.

The Movie Group meets on the third Monday of each month to view a picture at the historic Balwyn Cinema (see right).

Time is usualy around 10:30am, with lunch afterwards, if desired, at a local restaurant.

Contact Glenn Ewing, on 0439 898 207, for further information.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

2026

APRIL 2026 - Father Mother Sister Brother.

Monday 20 /4/2  

Our movie at Balwyn cinema for the month was Father Mother Sister Brother. It is a feature film but unusually in three different parts, each set in a different country with the main connection being the subject of the relationship between adult children and their distant parent or parents

(deceased in the latter with twins reflecting on their relationship with parents recently killed in a light plane crash).

Each part is an engaging study of relationships, it is quiet, slow at times and one is put in the place of an observer. There are many threads to each part : comedy, melancholy, a search for truth, habits, fabrications, impact of distance and long time lapses between meetings. Some of these threads may strike accord with the viewer in terms of their own life experience but only you can find that out by seeing the movie!
Daryl (standing in for Glenn whilst O/S.)

 

 

MARCH 2026

Glen’s movie suggestion was ““ a third adaptation from a Colleen Hoover novel to be made into a movie. In short the lead female Kenna returns to her home town and community after a seven year prison term she received for charges over the death of her fiancé Scotty in a car crash. Whilst in prison she gave birth to a daughter who was taken from her and raised by Scotty’s parents. 

It was Kenna’s determined effort to establish contact with her daughter and reestablish or rebuild relationships that was the core of the movie. There were key barriers to overcome, a job and housing, prejudice, Scotty’s parents and best friend blamed her for Scotty’s death.

The Age film critic was scathing describing an “abundance“ of cliches and not worth the effort to leave home for a night at the cinema! Audience members in the session were more kind in their appraisal.
Changes over the road at East and Co Cafe with some new staff and a different menu!

Daryl Rogers (in Glen’s absence whilst O/S.) 

 

 

FEBRUARY 2026

Our movie outing for February was to see the drama Blue Moon starring Ethan Hawke. It is about legendary lyrici

st Lorenz Hart and it focusses on one pivotal night, the 1943 opening of Oklahoma!, the musical that solidified his former partner Richard Rogers success with Oscar Hammerstein, while Hart battles alcoholism and career decline in a New York bar. 

Not everyone’s cup of tea, very wordy, but in general it was a thumbs up from our group. For a change we had sandwiches in the cinema cafe and enjoyed our usual film

 

 

 

JANUARY 2026                                        

Our first movie outing for 2026 was to see The Choral.

In 1916 as WW1 strips small towns of their men the local choral society in Yorkshire faces near collapse. They turn to a formal and exacting choir master (Ralph Fiennes) to rebuild their singing ranks. He pushes new young voices toward a

performance of Elgar’s The Dream of Gerontius and the teenagers wrestle with impending conscription and growing up in the shadow of loss, love and national tension.

Beautifully filmed and acted (plus written by Alan Bennett) it scored a thumbs up from our group at the post-mortem lunch over the road afterwards.