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Movie Mornings at Currumbin RSL – October
Join us for our FREE Monthly Movie Mornings at Currumbin RSL. Each month a new movie is selected and screened upstairs in our Waterside Function space. Limited spots are available and registration is required for this event via the website or contact reception – 55347999. October Movie: Hunt for the Wilderpeople. Much-loved Kiwi adventure-comedy that’s equal parts hilarious and heartfelt. Starring the late and great Sam Neill. Tea, coffee station available.
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Wednesday 28 Oct5
HOTA Movie Review Club: Sense and Sensibility
A recurring community film group that screens a selected work followed by an open discussion, facilitating conversation among local cinema enthusiasts.
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Asia Pacific Screen Awards and Forum
A world-class celebration of Asia Pacific cinema, bringing together filmmakers, industry leaders and award-winning storytelling to the Gold Coast. Proudly supported by Australia's Gold Coast, the 19th Asia Pacific Screen Awards and Forum returns this October — marking a pivotal moment as APSA heads towards its 20th Anniversary and continues its evolution from an awards platform into a true cultural and industry engine for the Asia Pacific screen sector.
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Asia Pacific Screen Awards Opening Night
Tickets are now on sale for the Asia Pacific Screen Awards Opening Night Gala. Attend the red-carpet tribute to Jack Thompson AM, with a film introduction and on-stage conversation. Have the opportunity to ask the actor.
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Asia Pacific Screen Forum
The 6th Asia Pacific Screen Forum explored the central theme of “Land” through a diverse program of events. Opening night featured a Korean cultural performance celebrating the Co-Create initiative, setting a collaborative tone for the forum. The program expanded over four days: Day two featured dual roundtable discussions, two panel sessions, and “Reel Connections: Actors Talk Shop” in partnership with Essential Screen Skills. Day three marked a strategic shift with “Connect: Navigating the Human Side of Co-production,” drawing industry professionals from across Australia, followed by an evening networking reception. The forum concluded with the Awards Ceremony and Youth Pitch Masterclass on day four. Three additional roundtables, organized through expressions of interest from Queensland practitioners, garnered strong attendance and positive feedback.
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Asia Pacific Screen Awards
Tickets are now on sale for the 2026 Asia Pacific Screen Awards and Forum, with the Forum running from 28–30 October and the Awards taking place on Friday 30 October at The Star Gold Coast.
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Friday 30 Oct1
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974)
Classic screening. When Sally hears that her grandfather’s grave may have been vandalised, she and her paraplegic brother, Franklin, set out with their friends to investigate. After a detour to their family’s old farmhouse, they discover a group of crazed, murderous outcasts living next door. As the group is attacked one by one by the chainsaw-wielding Leatherface, who wears a mask of human skin, the survivors must do everything they can to escape.
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Saturday 31 Oct2
The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975)
Classic screening. Join us on Halloween Saturday 31st October at 12AM midnight New Farm Cinemas & Tower Cinemas Newcastle for a wild, interactive midnight screening of The Rocky Horror Picture Show! Expect outrageous fun, audience participation, and all the cult-classic chaos you love. Costumes encouraged. Energy required. Don’t dream it… be it. We would like, if we may, to take you on a strange journey. Dress for a trip to Transylvania with our sing-along, dance-along screening of this timeless cult classic.
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Wicker
A film screening event at the HOTA cinema venue.
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The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975)
Classic screening. Join us on Halloween Saturday 31st October at 12AM midnight New Farm Cinemas & Tower Cinemas Newcastle for a wild, interactive midnight screening of The Rocky Horror Picture Show! Expect outrageous fun, audience participation, and all the cult-classic chaos you love. Costumes encouraged. Energy required. Don’t dream it… be it. We would like, if we may, to take you on a strange journey. Dress for a trip to Transylvania with our sing-along, dance-along screening of this timeless cult classic.
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Saturday 7 Nov1
Jurassic Park (1993)
Jurassic Park (1993) Classic screening. Sam Neill Tribute Screenings. Tower Cinemas Newcastle: Now Showing. Red Hill Cinemas & Regal Graceville: Sat-Sun, 25-26 July. Yatala Drive-In Theatre: Fri-Sun, 7-9 August. In Steven Spielberg's groundbreaking blockbuster, paleontologists Alan Grant (Sam Neill) and Ellie Sattler (Laura Dern) and mathematician Ian Malcolm (Jeff Goldblum) are among a select group chosen to tour an island theme park populated by dinosaurs created from prehistoric DNA. While the park's mastermind, billionaire John Hammond (Richard Attenborough), assures everyone that the facility is safe, they find out otherwise when various ferocious predators break free and go on the hunt.
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Verity
Adapted from Colleen Hoover's best-selling novel, this seductive, psychological thriller follows renowned author Verity Crawford (Anne Hathaway) and Lowen Ashleigh (Dakota Johnson), a struggling writer who relocates to the remote Crawford estate to ghostwrite for Verity. After Lowen uncovers what appears to be Verity's chilling autobiographical notes, she wrestles with the disturbing and twisted confessions about Verity’s husband Jeremy (Josh Hartnett), and finds it hard to separate fiction from reality, manipulation from attraction, and opportunity from obsession. 135 Bundall Rd, Surfers Paradise QLD 4217, Australia
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Sense And Sensibility
From Focus Features and Working Title comes an irresistible new take on Jane Austen’s iconic Sense and Sensibility: a charming, witty, and deeply relatable story of love and sisterhood starring Daisy Edgar-Jones and Esmé Creed-Miles. 135 Bundall Rd, Surfers Paradise QLD 4217, Australia
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