OutInCanberra's Top 5 Movie Picks at IMB Sunset Cinema!

With Summer well & truly on the way there is no better way to enjoy the warmer weather than with friends & family on the lush Northern Eucalypt Lawn within the Australian National Botanic Gardens.

Click here to see the Official IMB Bank Sunset Cinema Film Programme and to book your tickets.

Here are our Top 5 Movie Picks for this season at the IMB Bank Sunset Cinema:

THE MARTIAN
During a manned mission to Mars, Astronaut Mark Watney is presumed dead after a fierce storm and left behind by his crew. But Watney has survived and finds himself stranded and alone on the hostile planet. With only meager supplies, he must draw upon his ingenuity, wit and spirit to subsist and find a way to signal to Earth that he is alive.

BLACK MASS
Based on a true story of James Whitey Bulger, an Irish Mob godfather, and also an FBI informant- who had a “secret trading” deal with his brother, William Billy Bulger, a state senator & a Boston public figure and John Connolly, an FBI agent. They planned to take down the Italian mob and mafia in Boston, which gone awry and started to be a massive violence. When the credence for each other began fading out, drug dealing, murders and extortion started to rise, and forced the FBI’s Boston office confirmed Whitey Bulger is one of the most notorious criminals in US History; and also one of the FBI’s Ten Most Wanted List.

MISS YOU ALREADY
Milly and Jess have been best friends forever. They’ve shared everything since they were kids – secrets, clothes, laughs, substances, boyfriends… now they are trying to be grown-ups. Milly has a high-flying job and lives in a beautiful townhouse with husband Kit and their two kids. Jess is a town planner and she and her boyfriend Jago live on a bohemian houseboat on a London canal. Their friendship is as rock solid as ever. That is until Jess struggles to have a much longed-for baby and Milly finds out she has breast cancer. How do you share that?

THE WALK
Twelve people have walked on the moon, but only one man – Philippe Petit (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) – has ever, or will ever, walk in the immense void between the World Trade Center towers. Guided by his real-life mentor, Papa Rudy (Ben Kingsley), and aided by an unlikely band of international recruits, Petit and his gang overcome long odds, betrayals, dissension and countless close calls to conceive and execute their mad plan.

THE DRESSMAKER
The Dressmaker is the darkly humorous story of femme fatale Tilly Dunnage who returns to her small home town in the country to right the wrongs of the past. A stylish drama with comic undertones about love, revenge and haute couture. Based on Rosalie Ham’s best selling novel, and with an all star cast including Kate Winslet, Liam Hemsworth, Hugo Weaving and Judy Davis.

SPECTRE
Bond is back for our Opening Night of the 2015/2016 season! Please come and join us for a night of great live music, fantastic food and drinks and of course, some 007 action under the stars!

The IMB Bank Sunset Cinema officially kicks off it’s on Friday 13 November with Opening Night featuring live music, food, drinks and of course, a movie under the stars. The first feature film will be the hilarious comedy drama PEOPLE, PLACES, THINGS – Tickets are still available here.

The London Burgers are back this year bringing you some mouth-watering options to tantalise your tastebuds. Along with The Sunset Cinema Snack Bar which will be also stocked with great range of yummy movie treats including products from The Wholesome Food Company (popcorn & chips), Arnotts Light & Crispy Shapes, Baileys Ice Creams. The MadFish Wine Bar will be serving up a great range of premium West Australian MadFish wines and bubbly along with 4 Pines craft beers (Pale Ale, Kolsch & Hefenweizen), cider and water. – perfect to accompany you while you soak up the outdoor cinema experience.

Excitingly, we also have a bunch of double passes to giveaway! To enter, complete the competition form on the right and tell us ‘Your ideal outdoor movie snack and why it’s the best!’ Winners announced on Friday, 13 November 2015.