WITH the Moncrieff Entertainment Centre being descended upon by various schools through the region for the season that is school concert time, it sounds the gong that school holidays are almost here... make the most of the little child-free time you have left and get in quick for this week's feature films.

Bad Mom's will hit the big screen tonight with a fundraiser to support Sharon State School P&F. Tickets are $20 and the night kicks off at 6pm with light refreshments, raffles and the like for a 7pm screening.

After years of comedies about juvenile men and their bad behaviour, Paul Feig's Bridesmaids was hailed as the start of a new era: one in which on-screen women could be as outrageous and as immature as their male counterparts. Bad Moms, while nowhere near as funny as Bridesmaids, does a more-than adequate job at continuing the trend. The nagging, joyless tropes of yesteryear (those wives and girlfriends who existed only as foils for their endearingly silly menfolk) are neatly inverted.

Instead, at the heart of this film we get easy-to-like, permanently put-upon working mother Amy (Mila Kunis), who teams up with frazzled mother-of-four Kiki (Kristen Bell) and lax single parent Carla (Kathryn Hahn) to rebel against the tyranny of the "perfect mother” stereotype.

Also showing until Wednesday, September 14 is the quirky little comedy drama Maggie's Plan.

Maggie (Greta Gerwig) has never sustained a relationship longer than six months - but desperately wants a baby. She solicits a sperm donation from a friend, but has hardly begun the artificial insemination process when she consummates a budding romance with John (Ethan Hawke), an unhappily married academic hailed as "the bad boy of fictocritical anthropology.”

Maggie's rejuvenating enthusiasm lures John away from his brilliant but domineering Danish wife Georgette Nørgaard (Julianne Moore) and the two settle down to raise their daughter. Everything has gone according to Maggie's plan; so why isn't she happy, and what meddlesome scheme will she concoct next?

Maggie's Plan is a charming, sophisticated and funny exploration of the unexpected complexities of modern romance.

On the subject of modern complexities, I would take this opportunity to personally invite you to drop in and unearth the beauties of our current exhibition by local artist Jay Feather.

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