Friday July 15 to Thursday July 21, 2016

“With a documentary called The Music of Strangers: Yo-Yo Ma and the Silk Road Ensemble, there's no doubting that wonderful sounds will be in store. But that's not all that's on offer.

“Last Cab to Darwin is a gentle, low-key drama about a dying man’s bid to leave this world on his own terms. Adapted from a play by Reg Cribb and loosely based on a real-life story, the film tells of Rex McRae, a cabby who has never left his hometown, Broken Hill, in New South Wales. Surgery didn’t get all of Rex’s stomach cancer, and he’s got three months, tops.

"This adaptation of Jojo Moyes’s best-seller (scripted by the novelist herself) might have the structure of a comfort-food weepie, but it’s a rom-com with brains. The movie manages to shift sensitively from laugh-out-loud moments to tear-jerking scenes, discussing euthanasia on the way. In this adaptation, the book’s millions of readers have nothing to worry about.

"Patrick Wilson and Vera Farmiga are back as real-life paranormal investigators Ed Warren and his clairvoyant wife, Lorraine. This time they're working the British equivalent of the Amityville horror case that made global headlines in 1970.

“Filmmakers Jerry Rothwell and Reuben Atlas take a deep dive into the Burgundy barrel with a caper-tale documentary that is light and breezy despite the big money at stake – think The Big Snort instead of The Big Short.

“Greek writer-director Yorgos Lanthimos, whose first three films, including Oscar-nominee Dogtooth, have raised a cult following around the world, makes a practically effortless transition to the big leagues with his latest, the hilarious and haunting surreal parable The Lobster.