The only time we like being kept in the dark is when we’re in the cinema. Every other time, we want to know what’s coming out and where we can find them. Here’s a list of films – both modern and classic – playing this week that you may or may not know about.
The Dark Knight
8.00pm Friday 19th August, Event Newmarket, Auckland
Event Newmarket is showing Christopher Nolan’s immortal superhero flick on Friday night. It might just be the thing you need to vote in our Greatest Movie Supervillain Ever poll.
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Whiplash
7.30pm Saturday 20th August, Arthur’s Cinema Cromwell, Otago
One of the greatest films of 2014 returns for a one-off screening in Arthur’s Cinema Cromwell. “As a stress-inducing exercise in cinematic asphyxiation, Whiplash is this year’s Gravity.” – Liam Maguren, FLICKS
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Clueless
6.30pm Wednesday 24th August, Academy Cinemas, Auckland
Academy Cinemas is holding a one-off screening of the ’90s comedy classic. In March’s list of #52FilmsByWomen, Liam said: “If Shakespeare was a self-aware sorority girl, she would have written Clueless. (Yeah, I just compared Amy Heckerling to Shakespeare, and I’ll etch that statement on the urn that holds my dead ashes.)”
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My Fair Lady
Very limited release in 6 regions
The classic, multi Oscar-winning, Broadway adaptation sees its return to certain NZ cinemas.
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Train to Busan
Limited release in Auckland, Waikato, Canterbury & Wellington
Korean “Snowpiercer with zombies” that impressed our man Aaron Yap, set almost entirely on a train where the passengers have to fight off the undead inside the speeding steel trap.
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Sour Grapes
Limited release in 8 regions
UK crime documentary about a wine counterfeiter and the havoc he reigned upon circles of vintage wine collectors. Variety calls it a “highly entertaining stranger-than-fiction saga.”
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New Zealand International Film Festival
Let’s not forget that the NZIFF is still making people happy in numerous regions of New Zealand, with a few still eagerly awaiting their fest. It just started in Hamilton, Palmerston North and Tauranga with some bloody stellar films lined up like Midnight Special, Everybody Wants Some!!, Weiner and plenty more. Head to www.nziff.co.nz for your region’s full line-up and check out our mighty NZIFF mini-reviews for what we went nuts over.
