Because the Perth summer season warmth settles in, there’s just one place the town’s movie lovers wish to be: sprawled on a deckchair within the fairy-lit courtyard backyard of Luna Palace Cinemas in Leederville, cocktail in a single hand, cheeseboard within the different, ready for the sky to go darkish and the projector to flicker to life.
Luna Out of doors is again – larger, tastier and extra star-studded than ever – operating from Thursday 4 December 2025 proper by to February 2026. We’re additionally joyful to announce that OutLoudCulture! are again for one more yr as sponsors!
This isn’t simply out of doors cinema. It’s a correct Perth establishment: a totally licensed backyard oasis the place Rocky Ridge beers are ice-cold, Idle Fingers cocktails stream freely, choc bombs (sure, together with vegan ones) soften in your hand, and the lineup is an ideal mixture of competition darlings, future classics, cult midnight insanity and some real blockbusters.
Opening Night time: Rental Household (4 December)
The season explodes into life with one of the vital warmly acquired movies of the worldwide competition circuit. Academy Award-winner Brendan Fraser leads Rental Household, the luminous debut characteristic from Japanese-American director HIKARI. A heartfelt, humorous and deeply shifting story a few struggling actor employed to play members of strangers’ households in Tokyo, it’s already being referred to as a crowd-pleasing gem.
Opening night time is a celebration: RTRFM’s Nicole Filev on the decks, complimentary sushi from Tsuke-ba, Japanese beer specials, cocktail tastings from Idle Fingers Drinks Co. and Frudi frozen raspberry choc samples. Doorways 7pm, movie 8pm. Get in early – this one will promote out.
The Heavy Hitters
Paul Mescal and Josh O’Connor smoulder within the sweeping queer romance The Historical past of Sound (three screenings with stay jazz from Swing Idea and Scotch & soda offers). Timothée Chalamet serves ping-pong realness in Josh Safdie’s Marty Supreme – opening night time options precise ping-pong tables, $12 Tom Collins cocktails and Grill’d burgers. Park Chan-wook (Oldboy, Choice to Go away) brings his new thriller No Different Selection with Korean cup-noodle snacks. Stellan Skarsgård headlines the Cannes Grand Prix winner Sentimental Worth, and Ariana Grande’ defies gravity (actually) in Depraved: For Good with Ozmopolitan cocktails on supply.
Native Heroes & Particular Occasions
Perth director Zak Hilditch (These Last Hours) unveils his zombie apocalypse drama We Bury The Lifeless with in-person Q&As and $5 Rocky Ridge lagers. Mamoru Hosoda’s breathtaking anime Scarlet will get the Japanese dub remedy full with contemporary Tsuke-ba sushi and sake specials. And sure, The Room is again for its fifteenth yr of spoons, footballs and “Oh hai Mark!” – hosted throughout the summer season by James Palm, Tristan Fidler and thrilling new host Alice Finnegan.
Festive Favourites
Love Really will get two pre-Christmas screenings full with a go to from Father Christmas himself, carols and items for the group. Shut the yr with Rental Household once more on New 12 months’s Eve (prosecco specials flowing) and welcome 2026 with extra Sentimental Worth and The Choral.
The Full Luna Out of doors Expertise
Each night time the courtyard bar is stocked with native Rocky Ridge beers, premium wines, Idle Fingers cocktails, luxe cheeseboards and people now-legendary scorching choc bombs. Many screenings throw in complimentary pizza slices from Siena’s, Asahi on arrival, or themed bites – test this system as a result of “whereas shares final” is actual.
Summer time in Perth doesn’t get extra magical than this. Seize a blanket, rally your folks, and let Luna Out of doors 2025–26 remind you why we fell in love with cinema within the first place.
- Electronic mail: neill@outloudculture.com
