Taika Time: Hunt for the Wilderpeople
Help us celebrate Taika Waititi’s new film NEXT GOAL WINS with two of his earlier works and the inspirational doco about the American Samoan team trying to make the World Cup. HUNT FOR THE WILDERPEOPLE – Alice Retro 6.15pm Tue 5 Dec Coming-of-age tale about a troubled teenager from the city finding his place in […]
Terror-Fi Presents: SILENT NIGHT (Christchurch Premiere)
A little Christmas gift from Terror-Fi… The Christchurch premiere of SILENT NIGHT!. Be the first in our town to see this new action blockbuster from legendary director John Woo (‘Face Off’) with Joel Kinnaman in a role he was born to play. Hold onto your favourite Christmas sweater, this one’s gonna be wild! The gritty […]
Terror-Fi 2023: Hundreds of Beavers
NZ Premiere, Festivals: Fantasia 2023, Sitges 2023, Fantastic Fest 2023 A truly unique creative vision that had the Terror-Fi team in stitches. We‘ve never laughed so hard and so loud watching a screener… ever! Do not miss your only chance to see this in a cinema full of people. A drunken applejack salesman must go […]
NZIFF – Shin Ultraman
As the threat of giant unidentified lifeforms known as “S-Class Species” worsens in Japan, a silver giant appears from beyond Earth’s atmosphere. An irony-free kaiju blockbuster that simultaneously pays respectful homage to the original Ultraman mythos while re-energising the beloved character with kinetic high-tech filmmaking. “Tongue-in-cheek but never campy, Shin Ultraman is an object lesson […]
NZIFF – Bread and Roses
Gaylene Preston’s film adaptation of Sonja Davies’ autobiography beautifully captures the heart-breaking social and societal conditions of wartime women in New Zealand. “There is a fierce glow to Picot’s performance that never lets us seriously question the truth of the life she is recreating or the integrity of the woman who lived it … faultlessly […]
Flash Gordon 4K Restoration
A football player and his friends travel to the planet Mongo and find themselves fighting the tyranny of Ming the Merciless to save Earth.
Killers Of The Flower Moon
Additional language: Sioux Based on David Grann’s broadly lauded best-selling book, Killers of the Flower Moon is set in 1920s Oklahoma and depicts the serial murder of members of the oil-wealthy Osage Nation, a string of brutal crimes that came to be known as the Reign of Terror. “… the richest, strongest movie [Scorsese […]
Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny
Harrison Ford returns to the role of the legendary hero archaeologist for this fifth instalment of the iconic franchise. Starring along with Ford are Phoebe Waller-Bridge (Fleabag), Antonio Banderas (Pain and Glory), John Rhys-Davies (Raiders of the Lost Ark), Shaunette Renee Wilson (Black Panther), Thomas Kretschmann (Das Boot), Toby Jones (Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom), Boyd […]
Everything Everywhere All at Once
An aging Chinese immigrant is swept up in an insane adventure, where she alone can save the world by exploring other universes connecting with the lives she could have led. Reviews: Delightfully bonkers on the surface, this inventive extravaganza from the directing team called Daniels (Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert) has a deep layer of […]
Dune: Part Two
Duke Paul Atreides joins the Fremen and begins a spiritual and martial journey to become Muad’dib, while trying to prevent the horrible but inevitable future he’s witnessed: a Holy War in his name, spreading throughout the known universe. Variety – “A massive gamble at a time of diminished moviegoing, Warner Bros. and Legendary’s multipart adaptation […]
