Jan 21, 22 – movies: WHINA, THE ROAD DANCE, THE GOOD BOSS

For Saturday 21st and Sunday 22nd January 2023, Movies at the Old School, 5 Stewart Street, Raglan has three movies. First up is WHINA on Saturday 21st January at 5pm. For Saturday night at 8pm, we have the Spanish comedy THE GOOD BOSS. On Sunday at 4.30pm, the new release movie THE ROAD DANCE is on.

Book online: http://raglanmovies.nz. Door sales from 30 mins before session times. Licensed bar & homemade snacks on sale at these screenings. Entry prices: Adults $15, Concession $12, RCAC Members $12, Children $8. The reduced concession rate is for $12 concession (student, seniors or CS cards).


WHINA

Stuff/ Waikato Times Graeme Tuckett, 4.5/ 5 Stars. “Great performances from all of the cast, but the absolute stars here will always be Miriama McDowell and Rena Owen, playing Whina as a grown and elderly woman respectively”

Rena Owen (Once Were Warriors), Miriama McDowell (Coming Home in the Dark) and Tioreore Ngatai-Melbourne (Cousins) play cherished Māori activist Dame Whina Cooper throughout the years in this biopic directed by James Napier Robertson (The Dark Horse) and Paula Whetu Jones (Waru).

WHINA |PG, Violence 112 mins, New Zealand 2022

Director: James Napier Robertson, Paula Whetu Jones
Cast: Rena Owen, James Rolleston, Miriama McDowell, Vinnie Bennett, Tioreore Ngatai-Melbourne

Saturday 21st January 5.00pm, Sunday 5th February 7.30pm
Ticket prices: $15 Adults, $12 Concession and $8 Children.

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.

Rena Owen (Once Were Warriors), Miriama McDowell (Coming Home in the Dark) and Tioreore Ngatai-Melbourne (Cousins) play cherished Māori activist Dame Whina Cooper throughout the years in this biopic directed by James Napier Robertson (The Dark Horse) and Paula Whetu Jones (Waru).

Festival/Awards:
2022: Sydney Film Festival, Māoriland Film Festival, Edinburgh International Film Festival, Mill Valley Film Festival, Aussie and Kiwi Film Festival Prague, Hawai’i International Film Festival.

Director: James Napier Robertson, Paula Whetu Jones
Cast: Rena Owen, James Rolleston, Miriama McDowell, Vinnie Bennett, Tioreore Ngatai-Melbourne
PG, Violence 112 mins, New Zealand


THE ROAD DANCE

Based on the acclaimed novel by John MacKay, The Road Dance is adapted for the screen and directed by Richie Adams. Inspired by true events, this period drama centres on a young woman in a small community on the Isle of Lewis (off the coast of Scotland) in the years leading up to World War I.

Graeme Tuckett Stuff 4/5 Stars “The Road Dance is a sweeping epic of a type we don’t see much of any more. Despite the isolated and confined setting of the island – although we do travel to France with Murdo at times – this is still a film which absolutely fills the screen with startling land and seascapes at the merest provocation.”

THE ROAD DANCE | M, Violence & sexual violence 116 mins UK 2022

Director: Richie Adams
Cast: Morven Christie, David Brooks, Hermione Corfield, Felicity Keenan, Ali Fumiko Whitney

Sunday 22nd January 4.30pm, Saturday 4th February 5.00pm
Ticket prices: $15 Adults, $12 Concession and $8 Children.

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.

Life in the Scottish Hebrides is harsh – the edge of the world some call it. For the beautiful Kirsty (Hermione Corfield), her love for Murdo and their shared dreams of America promise escape from the scrape of the land and a stifled destiny. But the Great War changes all when Murdo is conscripted. The night before the young men go off to battle, tragedy is set in motion as villagers swirl and sup at a “road dance.”

Kirsty herself faces the horrors of a sexual assault that leaves her pregnant—and with few options…


THE GOOD BOSS

Stuff/ Waikato Times James Croot, 4.5/ 5 Stars. “The Good Boss: Javier Bardem at his charismatic best in pitch-black workplace comedy”

Javier Bardem leads this corporate comedy from filmmaker Fernando León de Aranoa (A Perfect Day), following the owner of a Spanish industrial scales manufacturing business as he tries to resolve any problems from his workers before a visit by a committee that could give his company an award for excellence.

THE GOOD BOSS | M, Violence, offensive language, sex scenes & nudity | 120 mins Spain | MK2 Films
Spanish with English subtitles

Director: Fernando León de Aranoa
Writer: Fernando León de Aranoa
Cast: Javier Bardem, Manolo Solo, Fernando Albizu, Almudena Amor, Sonia Almarcha, Óscar de la Fuente

Saturday 21st January 8.00pm
Ticket prices: $15 Adults, $12 Concession and $8 Children.

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.

Básculas Blanco, a Spanish company producing industrial scales in a provincial Spanish town awaits the imminent visit from a committee which holds its fate in their hands as to whether they merit a local Business Excellence award: everything has to be perfect when the time comes. Working against the clock, the company’s proprietor, Blanco (Bardem) pulls out all the stops to address and resolve issues with his employees, crossing every imaginable line in the process.

★★★★★ “Bardem’s transformation is nothing short of miraculous.” – El Mundo

★★★★ “Javier Bardem gives a powerhouse performance” – David Stratton, The Australian

Director: Fernando León de Aranoa
Writer: Fernando León de Aranoa
Cast: Javier Bardem, Manolo Solo, Fernando Albizu, Almudena Amor, Sonia Almarcha, Óscar de la Fuente

M, Violence, offensive language, sex scenes & nudity | 120 mins Spain | MK2 Films
Spanish with English subtitles

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