Whether you want something bright and cherry for the kids, something very blue and bloody for the post-Twilight generation, or one of the best films of the year for the art crowd, this week’s pretty darn solid. There’s also a bunch of one-off screenings you may want to keep an eye on.
Here’s what’s playing in Kiwi cinemas this week…
The Big Releases
Trolls | Find times for a cinema near you (Also in 3D)
The ’90s hair-crazy toy sensation goes big screen in this DreamWorks animated family musical.
Underworld: Blood Wars | Find times for a cinema near you (Also in 3D)
Kate Beckinsdale and Charles Dance (Game of Thrones) return to their roles for the fifth installment in the vampire horror-action Underworld franchise.
The Small Releases
Sunset Song | Find times for a cinema near you
Lush, Scottish drama from Terence Davies (The Deep Blue Sea), based on Lewis Grassic Gibbon’s 1932 novel. Flicks writer Aaron Yap suggests it “might be the film to top this year.”
Your Name | Find times for a cinema near you
Two teenagers who’ve never met switch bodies every second day in this Japanese animated romance from writer-director Makoto Shinkai.
Classics and One-Off Screenings
The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers | 8.00pm, Friday 2nd December @ Event Newmarket (AKLD)
That second one of the thing Peter Jameson did based on the novels by Jr. Token.
The End of the Golden Weather | 8.00pm, Tuesday 6th December @ The Roxy (WGTN)
Kiwi film legend Ian Mune directed this 1991 adaptation of Bruce Mason’s play, a family drama centred on a young boy who escapes into his own fantasy world…
Timbuktu | 8.00pm, Monday 5th December @ Waiheke Community Cinema (AKLD)
In this Palme d’Or-nominated drama, many residents of Timbuktu have fled with the city coming under the control of Jihadist fundamentalists.
Senna | 7.00pm, Saturday 3rd December @ Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision
Award-winning documentary on Brazilian Formula One legend Ayrton Senna.
