This week’s cinema releases include Shaun the Sheep doing science experiments, Wile E. Coyote returns to take on Acme, there is a portrait of Marianne Faithfull starring Tilda Swinton, two high school best friends must find a way to leave a mystical island before they forget each other forever, Ethan Hawke and Russell Crowe smuggle gold in the Depression, and a medical courier fights for his life on a horrifying night.
Also, the 2026 ST. ALi Italian Film Festival continues this week, more information about the festival is available here: 2026 ST. ALi Italian Film Festival – Palace Nova Cinemas
Read the Glam Adelaide story about the festival here: The ST. ALi Italian Film Festival – Glam Adelaide
Refer to your favourite cinema for session times and dates.
New releases include the below.
Shaun the Sheep: The Beast of Mossy Bottom
Rated G
Distributor: STUDIOCANAL Australia
Synopsis: On Halloween Eve at Mossy Bottom Farm, excitement turns to dismay when the clumsy Farmer ruins the pumpkin patch. Shaun tries fixing it with science experiments, but things go wrong when a wild beast appears in the woods.
Read Michelle Baylis’ Glam Adelaide review here: Glam Adelaide Film Review – Shaun the Sheep: The Beast of Mossy Bottom
Coyote vs. Acme
Rated PG
Distributor: Pinnacle Films
Synopsis: After enduring years of malfunctioning products, Wile E. Coyote teams up with a local personal injury attorney to take on Acme, the manufacturer of anything and everything used by the Looney Tunes characters.
Read the Glam Adelaide review here: Glam Adelaide Film Review – Coyote vs Acme
Broken English
Rated MA15+
Distributor: Madman Films
Synopsis: Broken English is a portrait of Marianne Faithfull, starring Tilda Swinton, George MacKay, Nick Cave, Suki Waterhouse and Courtney Love. Across 6 decades and 35+ albums, Faithfull is one of the most distinctive voices of her generation, whose work continues to influence.
Directed by BAFTA nominees Iain Forsyth and Jane Pollard, and made with Marianne’s full involvement.
Forgotten Island
Rated PG
Distributor: Universal Pictures Australia
Synopsis: Grammy and Academy Award® winning supernova H.E.R. and Liza Soberano (Lisa Frankenstein, Alone/Together) star as high school graduates Jo and Raissa, who have been best friends since grade school but are now about to embark on separate life paths.
While celebrating their last night together, Jo and Raissa stumble upon a mysterious portal that transports them to the fantastical island of Nakali, packed with magical and mythological creatures they grew up hearing stories about from their Filipino families.
Some of these figures will become friends, some foes. Joined by well-meaning-but- hapless weredog Raww (Dave Franco) and a small-but-mighty pack of pals, Jo and Raissa must face The Dreaded Manananggal (Tony winning Lea Salonga), the most feared creature on the island. When they discover that the memories of their entire friendship are the price for returning home, Jo and Raissa will race to find a way to leave the island before they forget each other forever.
The Weight
Rated MA15+
Distributor: RialtoDistribution
Synopsis: Desperate to save what is left of his family, during the height of the Great Depression a battle-scarred veteran is hired to help smuggle a fortune in gold across 100 miles of impenetrable wilderness.
Resident Evil (2026)
Rated MA15+
Distributor: Sony Pictures Releasing Australia
Synopsis: From the mind of visionary filmmaker Zach Cregger (Weapons, Barbarian) comes a thrilling — and terrifying — reinvention of the Resident Evil franchise. In an all-new story, Resident Evil follows Bryan (Austin Abrams), a medical courier who unwittingly finds himself in an action-packed, non-stop race for survival as one fateful, horrifying night collapses around him in chaos.
