Featuring our pick of the films for June ……

My Year Without Sex (M) 92 mins

Director: Sarah Watt (Look Both Ways)

Cast: Eddie Baroo, Matt Day, Chloe Guymer, Sacha Horler, Brett Robson

Synopsis: My Year Without Sex is kind of a love story about a family dealing with all the big questions and even more of the small ones. Set over one messy year, Ross and Natalie and their two kids, Louis and Ruby, navigate nits, faith, Christmas, job insecurity, footy practice, more nits, and whether they will ever have sex again.

Quiet Chaos (MA15+) 107 mins

Director: Antonio Luigi Grimaldi

Cast: Nanni Moretti, Valeria Golino, Alessandro Gassman, Isabella Ferrari, Silvio Orlando

Synopsis: Nominated for an unprecedented 18 David di Donatello awards and a number one hit in Italy, Quiet Chaos is a rare film that has struck a true chord with the heart of Italy.

Shining light of European cinema, Nanni Moretti (Dear Diary, The Son's Room) brings his trademark intelligence and wit to his starring role in the subtle and gentle film Quiet Chaos.

Having in one momentous summer's day rescued a woman from drowning and simultaneously lost his wife, Pietro's (Moretti) life is changed in a moment. One morning he drops his adorable young daughter at school and spontaneously tells her he will wait until she returns. He sits in his car, wanders in the park and has coffee at a nearby cafe. And so he does, surprisingly to all, day after day. Pietro's friends, family and colleagues come to visit him in the park, only to have their own dramas melt away in the face of Pietro's invincible calm.

Set against the charming changing of the seasons in Rome, Quiet Chaos is interwoven with great charm and wry comedy and embellished by the award winning soundtrack featuring Rufus Wainwright, Radiohead and original composition.

The film is based on the eponymous novel by Sandro Veronesi which was the recipient of Italy's highest literary award, The Strega Prize, placing the author in the company of Primo Levi, Umberto Eco & Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa.

Subtitles: Italian/English

Angels and Demons (M) 138 mins

Director: Ron Howard

Cast: Tom Hanks, Ewan McGregor, Stellan Skarsgård, Ayelet Zurer

Synopsis: The team behind the global phenomenon The Da Vinci Code returns for the highly anticipated Angels & Demons, based upon the best selling novel by Dan Brown. Tom Hanks reprises his role as Harvard religious expert Robert Langdon, who once again finds that forces with ancient roots are willing to stop at nothing, even murder, to advance their goals. Ron Howard again directs the film, which is produced by David Koepp and Akiva Goldsman.

When Langdon discovers evidence of the resurgence of an ancient secret brotherhood known as the Illuminati - the most powerful underground organisation in history - he also faces a deadly threat to the existence of the secret organisation's most despised enemy: the Catholic Church. When Langdon learns that the clock is ticking on an unstoppable Illuminati time bomb, he jets to Rome where he joins forces with Vittoria Vetra, a beautiful and enigmatic Italian scientist. Embarking on a nonstop, action-packed hunt through sealed crypts, dangerous catacombs, deserted cathedrals, and even tot he heart of the most secretive vault on earth, Langdon and Vetra will follow a 400 year old trail of ancient symbols that mark the Vatican's only hope for survival.

The Baader Meinhof Complex (MA15+) 150 mins

Director: Uli Edel

Cast: Martina Gedeck, Moritz Bleibtreu, Johanna Wokalek, Nadja Uhl, Jan Josef Liefers, Stipe Erceg

Synopsis: Based on Stefan Aust's best-selling nonfiction book,The Baader Meinhof Complex was nominated for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 2009 Academy Awards, the 2008 Golden Globe Awards and the 2009 BAFTA Film Awards.

June 1967. Prominent left-wing journalist Ulrike Meinhof (Martina Gedeck) is shocked by reports of a violent demonstration in Berlin, during which a student was shot dead by a policeman. Realising her marriage has disintegrated, she takes her two children and moves to Berlin where she becomes actively involved in the anti-authoritarian, anti-capitalist student movement. Increasingly though, she feels that by merely reporting about events she will never bring about actual change.

As a result, she is impressed by the resolve of Gudrun Ensslin (Johanna Wokalek) who, together with her boyfriend Andreas Baader (Moritz Bleibtreu), set fire to a department store in order to protest against the Vietnam War. After Baader's subsequent arrest, Meinhof helps to free him from prison, and in doing so is forced to cut all ties with her previous life. Together with Baader and Ensslin, she founds the 'Red Army Faction' (RAF), a group of like minded civilians whose intention is to spearhead an armed resistance fight against the political status quo in Germany.

Awards:  2009 Academy Awards Nominee: Best Foreign Film

Subtitles: German/English

Samson & Delilah (MA15+) 101 mins

Director: Warwick Thornton

Cast: Rowan McNamara, Mitjili Napanangka Gibson, Scott Thornton, Matthew Gibson

Synopsis: Samson and Delilah live in an isolated world - a remote Aboriginal community in the Australian desert. In amongst a tiny collection of houses, everything here happens in a cycle. Day in and day out - nothing changes, everything stays the same and no one seems to care; except for Samson, a cheeky fifteen year-old who yearns for the horizon. Even though boredom set in long ago, Samson attempts to occupy himself with his offbeat humour. Unable to express his desire for something more, Samson's private escape comes in a tin - he's a petrol sniffer. When a violent eruption takes place at home Samson breaks the cycle and his journey begins.

Awards: Cannes 2009: Camera d'Or Winner

Reviews:  One of the most wonderful films this country has ever produced. Margaret Pomeranz - At The Movies

Is Anybody There? (M) 95 mins

Director: John Crowley

Cast: Sir Michael Caine, Bill Milner, Anne-Marie Duff, David Morrissey

Synopsis: Sir Michael Caine gives one of the finest performances of his career as a retired magician who reluctantly enters a family-run old age home in John Crowley's Is Anybody There?

Set in a seaside English town circa 1987, Is Anybody There? charts the unlikely friendship that develops between Caine's proud, acerbic old performer and the death-obsessed young son (played by Son of Rambow's Bill Milner) of the home's overwhelmed owners.

Written by Peter Harness, who draws from his own experience growing up in a retirement home, Is Anybody There? brings a rich humour as well as a rigorous honesty to its portrait of different lives colliding under one roof.

With a supporting cast that includes Anne-Marie Duff, David Morrissey, Rosemary Harris and Leslie Phillips, Is Anybody There? tells a charming story about growing up and growing old, and the unpredictable adventures that happen along the way.

I Really Hate My Job (M) 90 mins

Director: Oliver Parker

Cast: Neve Campbell, Shirley Henderson, Alexandra Maria Lara

Synopsis: 'Every day is another day closer to the day I'll never have to do this again.'

I Really Hate My Job sizzles its way through one steamy night and the lives of five feisty women, working in a London restaurant with delusions of grandeur. Customers come and go, unaware of the real concerns of these women; a rat or two in the kitchen, bitter arguments about life and art, as well as a coup d'état in the kitchen… all overshadowed by the anticipation of the arrival of a famous Hollywood movie star. You might assume they're just three waitresses, one cook and a dishwasher, but they see themselves as an artist, an actor, a lover, an author and a revolutionary.