When school’s out and the kids are underfoot, who are the only heroes that can help? Those comfy cinemas hosting school holiday screenings and saving your sanity…
CLASSIFICATION: G
Hit Netflix show Gabby’s Dollhouse comes to the big screen, blending live-action and animation into a musical fantasy comedy film. Laila Lockhart Kraner stars as young kitty enthusiast Gabby, heading to Cat Franscisco with her grandmother (Gloria Estefan) to save her dollhouse and the Gabby Cats from Kristen Wiig’s eccentric cat lady.
CLASSIFICATION: PG Violence & coarse language
Sequel to the 2022 hit sees the titular bad guys return, voiced once again by Sam Rockwell, Marc Maron, Awkwafina, Craig Robinson, Anthony Ramos, Zazie Beetz, Richard Ayoade, et cetera. Struggling to fit into society, the former (and supposedly reformed) theives come out of retirement, going up against a female criminal trio (Danielle Brooks, Natasha Lyonne and Maria Bakalova aka the Bad Girls).
CLASSIFICATION: PG Violence & coarse language
Ryan Corr and Rachel House lead this family comedy about former TV personality Chris who, when stranded in a town outside Alice Springs, strikes up an unlikely friendship with 12-year-old Indigenous girl Charlie. Inspired by the life of The Kangaroo Sanctuary founder Chris ‘Brolga’ Barns, Kangaroo follows Chris and Charlie as they work together to rescue and rehabilitate orphaned joeys.
CLASSIFICATION: G
Described by its studio as ‘swimsational’, Dora’s latest adventure takes her underwater after playing a magical charango. Turned into mermaids by its mysterious powers, Dora and Boots go on oceanic adventures with new friends Marisol the Mermaid and her dolphin pal Rosa—and go head to head with the meanest, treasure-stealing mermaid in the ocean.
CLASSIFICATION: G
Join Peppa Pig and her family for an hour of new episodes at the cinema as the porcine family prepare for their biggest adventure yet: welcoming a new baby. There are new songs and music videos to discover, too, as Peppa and George meet their new baby sister Evie for the first time.
CLASSIFICATION: PG Violence & coarse language
Slightly darker than most family films, but still rated PG, a family work through the pain of losing their wife/mother—but things go sideways when a young girl’s monster drawings, used to process her grief, somehow come to life. Tony Hale (Veep) and The Good Place‘s D’Arcy Carden star alongside superb child actors in a film Liam Maguren calls “uncompromised in its vision and genuine in its intent” .
