This Week's Movie Guide

John Farnham: Finding the Voice is screening at the Odeon Multiplex.

Odeon Multiplex

■ Asteroid City

American comedy drama written and directed by Wes Anderson with a cast that includes Scarlett Johansson, Tom Hanks, Tilda Swinton, Bryan Cranston, Edward Norton, Matt Dillon, Willem Dafoe, Margot Robbie and Jeff Goldblum. It is Anderson’s homage to popular memory and mythology about extraterrestrials and UFOs witnessed in the US southwestern desert near atomic test sites during the 1950s.

■ Dracula: Voyage of the Demeter

A film based on one chapter of Bram Stoker’s novel Dracula. The merchant ship Demeter is chartered to carry 50 unmarked wooden crates from Carpathia to London. When the Demeter arrives off the shores of England, it is a charred, derelict wreck with no trace of the crew.

■ The Miracle Club

Set in 1967, the film follows the story of three generations of friends (played by Maggie Smith, Kathy Bates and Agnes O’Casey) of Ballygar, a hard-knocks community in Dublin. When the chance to win a pilgrimage to Lourdes presents itself, the women seize it.

■ Meg 2: The Trench

Jonas Taylor (Jason Statham) leads a research team diving into the deepest depths of the ocean, and forced into a battle for survival, pitted against colossal, prehistoric sharks and relentless environmental plunderers.

■ Chevalier

The illegitimate son of an African slave and a French plantation owner, Joseph Bologne rises to the heights of French society as a celebrated violinist-composer and fencer.

■ Gran Turismo

Drama based on a video game and inspired by the true story of a teenage player aspiring to be a racecar driver.

■ Talk to Me

When friends discover how to conjure spirits by using an embalmed hand, they become hooked on the new thrill — until one of them unleashes terrifying supernatural forces.

■ John Farnham: Finding the Voice

Australian documentary following recording artist John Farnham’s career. The film includes commentary from Jimmy Barnes, Daryl Braithwaite, Celine Dion, Olivia Newton-John, Robbie Williams and Glenn Wheatley.

■ Oppenheimer

Christopher Nolan wrote and directed this film based on American Prometheus, the biography of J. Robert Oppenheimer, so-called “father of the atomic bomb”. Stars Cillian Murphy, Emily Blunt, Matt Damon, Robert Downey Jr and Florence Pugh.

■ Coco Reo Maori

Coco is the fourth Disney movie to be reimagined in te reo Māori. It is written in the dialect of Te Tairāwhiti to honour the Spanish lineage of Jose Manuel on the East Coast. Te Matatini chairman Selwyn Parata and his son Ngarimu tackled translations for it.

■ Barbie

Barbie and Ken are having the time of their lives in the colourful and seemingly perfect world of Barbie Land. But when they get a chance to go to the real world, they discover the joys and perils of living among humans.

Dome Cinema

■ What’s Love Got to Do with It

Romantic comedy in which a filmmaker documents the arranged marriage of her childhood friend to a bride from Pakistan.

■ Corners of the Earth: Kamchatka

Filmmakers Spencer Frost and Guy Williment and surfers Letty Mortenson and Fraser Dovell journey to Kamchatka in the far east of Russia in search of new waves along the frozen coastline. The trip took two years of planning. Then, an hour before the party boarded their flight to Moscow, Russia invaded Ukraine.

■The Inspection

A young, gay Black man joins the Marines, willing to do whatever it takes to prove himself to his estranged mother. In the process, he finds unexpected camaraderie and support.