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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...

The Help 28 Mar 2013

Aspiring Author Skeeter Phelan decides to write a book from the point of view of the maids employed by white families (referred to as "the helps"), exposing the way they are treated. Find Out More...

Arthur Christmas 16 Dec 2012

It's Christmas Eve and Santa is busy delivering present. Despite the high-tech military precision of the operation, a present gets missed. How will Santa and his team rectify this? Find Out More...

The Artist 3 Nov 2012

The year is 1927. Silent film star, George Valentin (Jean Dujardin), is at the peak of his career; the darling of Hollywood, with hordes of adoring fans. In his latest film he gives a break to young actress, Peppy Miller (Berenice Bejo), securing her part as an extra when the director (John Goodman) threatens to fire her and giving her a helpful tip to make it in the industry. Two years later sound comes to Hollywood and the studios announce they are no longer to make silent pictures. Peppy, whose career has been steadily on the rise, becomes the face of the new ‘talkies’, starring in every blockbuster going. George, however, dismisses sound as a fad. He makes his own silent film, which is an utter flop. At the same time the stock market crashes, he loses all his money and his wife leaves him. He ends up auctioning all his possessions and drowns his sorrows in drink. When he nearly dies in a fire, Peppy (who has never forgotten George) insists he convalesces in her mansion. Peppy, determined to give George another shot at the big time, manages to secure him a starring role in her latest film but George, having discovered that it was Peppy who bought all of his possessions, wants no more of her charity. Feeling a failure, he is about to shoot himself when Peppy bursts in and convinces him to star with her in a tap dancing talkie. Find Out More...

The Voyage of the Dawn Treader 9 Oct 2012

Lucy and Edmund are staying in the home of their uncle and obnoxious cousin Eustace. On a wall in a bedroom Lucy and Edmund comment on a painting portraying a very Narnian-looking ship, and in the ensuing argument with Edmund all three of them are plunged, literally, into the Narnian waters. Their adventures lead them all to confront their own personal dangers: fears, temptations and desires which will lead them away from the path that they must follow. Find Out More...

Kung Fu Panda 2 25 Jul 2012

Kung Fu Panda 2 is a delicious, animated romp which should appeal to all, regardless of whether or not they’ve seen the first Kung Fu Panda film. Picking up where its predecessor left off, the picture begins with Po (Jack Black) now an established kung fu warrior, alongside the Furious Five. When the evil Peacock Lord Shen (Gary Oldman) threatens China with his devastating new cannons, the team set out for Gongmen City (which has just been conquered by Shen). Find Out More...

Adjustment Bureau 6 Jul 2012

David Norris (Matt Damon) is a young, up-and-coming politician on the verge of becoming the senator of New York. When an event from his colourful past hits the press the campaign is derailed, and he finds himself on election night in a hotel bathroom rehearsing his speech to his supporters. There he has a chance encounter and a fleeting embrace with Elise Sellas (Emily Blunt), a ballet dancer in hiding from the hotel security for gate-crashing a wedding. Three months later they meet again by chance. A mysterious entity known as the Adjustment Bureau was meant to keep them apart since the earlier encounter, and taking David away into a secluded warehouse, Richardson (John Slattery) from the Bureau informs David that he must on no account seek to re-establish contact with Elise, and that failure to do so will result in his memory being wiped. David looks out for Elise wherever he goes, but it is all in vain until three years later when he spots her on a sidewalk. Resisting the attempts of the Adjustment Bureau to keep him in line with their Chairman’s mysterious plan, he follows instead his own instinct as he seeks to carve out the life he desires rather than the life mapped out for him. But running against the Adjustment Bureau comes at a cost – is David willing to pay it? And not just for himself, but for Elise too? Find Out More...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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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