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FILM FESTIVALS
End Credits Film Club has three
brilliant international films
scheduled at Earlville’s BCC Cinemas SUNLOVER REEF CRUISES x
over the last three Sundays of April. NU NU RESTAURANT
Cairns Central’s Event Cinemas Nu Nu’s has joined Sunlover Reef
is then hosting a collection of Cruises to jazz up its on-board
sophisticated, vibrant and daring buffet menu. Daytrippers can now
flicks in the French Film Festival try Nick Holloway’s expert take
across 21-23 May. The following on local flavours, featuring sticky
weekend will bring another ginger caramel chicken, tolga beef
SPRING LOADED FESTIVAL nationally-touring show, Banff with sweet tamarind and noodles,
Rock buffs rejoice – some of Mountain Film Festival. Playing at and Endeavour prawns with coral
Australia’s most renowned artists CPAC on 29 May, viewers will go on a sea cocktail sauce. While you’re
and nostalgic names are lined up journey to some of the most wild and booking your next reef trip, make
to play in Cairns. Spring Loaded remote corners of the world. sure you check out Sunlover’s
Festival will stop in nine cities swish new website – designed
across the country, with its 18+ and developed by our very own
Cairns show and Tropical North Tropic Studio!
debut set for Saturday 12 June at the
Showgrounds. This year’s lineup MORE: @sunloverreefcruises
boasts a haul of rock alt’s most
celebrated acts, with Grinspoon,
You Am I, Regurgitator, Jebediah
and Magic Dirt among them.
MORE: @springloadedfestival
WHAT’S NOT

BURDENSOME
BOTTLE SHOP LAWS
Under current Queensland
legislation, it’s impossible to open
a bottle shop without a commercial
hotel liquor licence. Unlike our
neighbouring states, we’re missing
out on boutique bottle shops and
interesting, cherry-picked products
by small producers. We’d love to see
a corner shop store in Cairns selling
Credit: P & V Merchants bespoke brews, unique gins and a
nice collection of ‘natties’. You can
read more about those on page 36.

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