On the 20th and 21st April Raglan Movies at the Old School is screening three movies.
First up on Saturday 20th at 5.00pm is the final screening of WONKA. This is followed ta 7.30pm by the last screening of THE CONVERT. On Sunday afternoon at 4.30pm, OSCAR and Golden Globe winner THE HOLDOVERS is on screen.
Door sales from 30 mins before session times. You can reserve seats or buy tickets at http://raglanmovies.nz
April 20: WONKA
Timothée Chalamet plays a young Willy Wonka in this story of how the chocolate kingpin met the Oompa-Loompas.
STUFF/ WAIKATO TIMES Graeme Tuckett 5/5 tars “Wonka is exactly the film you are hoping for. The writing is smart and frenetic, the jokes are genuinely funny, the sets, special effects and costumes are all awards-worthy and the cast are committed and talented.”
WONKA PG, 116 mins USA
Saturday 20th April 5.00pm
Ticket prices: $16 Adults, $14 Concession and $9 Children. RCAC Members $12.
Raglan Movies at the Old School, 5 Stewart St, Raglan 3225.
Book online: raglanmovies.nz, call into the Old School office Mon-Fri 10am to 2pm. (Office closed public holidays)
Door sales from 30 mins before session times.
Licensed bar & homemade snacks on sale.
Based on the extraordinary character at the center of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Roald Dahl’s most iconic children’s book and one of the best-selling children’s books of all time, “Wonka” tells the wondrous story of how the world’s greatest inventor, magician and chocolate-maker became the beloved Willy Wonka we know today.
DIRECTED BY Paul King
CAST Timothée Chalamet, Hugh Grant, Sally Hawkins, Rowan Atkinson, Olivia Colman
WONKA PG 118 mins | USA
April 21, May 18: THE HOLDOVERS
2024 OSCAR winner Da’Vine Joy Randolph (Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role) with 2024 Golden Globe winner Paul Giamatti (Best Male actor) as a cranky history teacher at a prep school, forced to remain on campus over the holidays with a troubled student who has no place to go.
STUFF/ WAIKATO TIMES Graeme Tuckett 5/5 stars “Da’Vine Joy Randolph (The United States vs Billie Holiday) takes on the role of chef and confidant Mary, and burns the screen down in a couple of key scenes. The Holdovers is a marvel.”
THE HOLDOVERS – M 133 mins | USA
Sunday 21st April, Saturday 18th May 4.45pm
Ticket prices: $16 Adults, $14 Concession and $9 Children. RCAC Members $12.
Raglan Movies at the Old School, 5 Stewart St, Raglan 3225.
Book online: raglanmovies.nz, (Office closed until 8th January)
Door sales from 30 mins before session times.
Licensed bar & homemade snacks on sale.
From acclaimed director Alexander Payne, THE HOLDOVERS follows a bad tempered instructor (2024 Golden Globes winner) Paul Giamatti) at a prestigious American school who is forced to remain on campus during Christmas break to babysit the handful of students with nowhere to go. Eventually he forms an unlikely bond with one of them — a damaged, brainy troublemaker (newcomer Dominic Sessa) — and with the school’s head cook, who has just lost a son in Vietnam (2024 OSAC winner Da’Vine Joy Randolph).
DIRECTED BY Alexander Payne
CAST Paul Giamatti, Da’Vine Joy Randolph, Dominic Sessa
THE HOLDOVERS M 133 mins | USA
Apr: 20: THE CONVERT
A Fight for Peace. A Heart at War.
The Playlist “A Stunning, Sweeping, Action-Packed Epic.”
An action-packed work of historical fiction that premiered at TIFF 2023 by Director Lee Tamahori. New Zealand release March 14 2024.
With Raglan actor Antonio Te Maioha (Spartacus, Zoolander 2) and starring Guy Pearce (Animal Kingdom)
The Post, Graeme Tuckett 3.5/5 “As Munro, Maiainui and Akatārawa, Guy Pearce, Antonio Te Maioha (Spartacus: Blood and Sand) and Lawrence Makoare (The Dead Lands) are uniformly terrific, with Te Maioha and Makoare sketching in some history between the warring chiefs that perhaps only existed in the script in the white spaces between the written dialogue.
Tioreore Ngātai-Melbourne (Cousins) has been a highlight of every film she has appeared in and she carries on the good work here as Maiainui’s daughter Rangimai. Aussie veteran Jacqueline McKenzie is reliably superb as Charlotte.”
A lay preacher arrives at a British settlement in the 1830s. His violent past is soon drawn into question and his faith put to the test, as he finds himself caught in the middle of a bloody war between Maori tribes. Based on the book Wulf by Hamish Clayton.
THE CONVERT– R13 Bloody violence & cruelty 119mins | Languages English, Maori | New Zealand, Australia, UK
Saturday 20th April 7.30pm
Ticket prices: $16 Adults, $14 Concession and $9 Children. RCAC Members $12.
Raglan Movies at the Old School, 5 Stewart St, Raglan 3225.
Book online: raglanmovies.nz, call into the Old School office Mon-Fri 10am to 2pm. (Office closed public holidays)
Door sales from 30 mins before session times.
Licensed bar & homemade snacks on sale.
New Zealand in the 1830s is a largely Māori world, dominated by tribal wars. Seeking redemption from a dark past, lay preacher Thomas Munro (GUY PEARCE) is on board a trading vessel heading to the newly established town of Epworth, a British settlement at the far corner of the world. When the ship anchors on the rugged coast of New Zealand, Munro finds himself caught up in a battle between Māori tribes and witnesses a slaughter of innocents at the hands of chief Akatarawa. Munro manages to save the life of Rangimai — the daughter of Maianui, a rival chief whose land Epworth leases in a delicate arrangement.
As Munro begins to experience the white townsfolk’s entrenched racism and paranoia towards the Māori, he finds himself increasingly ostracized within the community he is meant to serve and realizes he has been brought to this isolated British outpost merely to add the veneer of civilization. When one of Maianui’s men is murdered under mysterious circumstances, Munro and Rangimai take a dangerous journey into the prohibited lands ruled by Māori warlords, in the hope of repairing the injustice. However, Munro soon realizes he is a pawn in a strategic play of power, and with bloody war between the two dominant tribes now inevitable, he must decide what role he will play and whether his faith is real, or of any value.
PRODUCERS: Troy Lum, Andrew Mason, Robin Scholes, Te Kohe Tuhaka
DIRECTOR: Lee Tamahori
WRITERS: Lee Tamahori, Michael Bennett,Shane Danielsen
ACTORS: Guy Pearce, Dean O’Gorman, Jacqueline McKenzie, Te Kohe Tuhaka, Tioreore Ngatai-Melbourne, Antonio Te Maioha
THE CONVERT- R13 Bloody violence & cruelty 119 mins | Languages English, Maori | New Zealand, Australia, UK