OSCAR WINNING ACTRESS, AWARD WINNING DOCO, TIFF PREMIERE
On the 30th and 31st March Raglan Movies at the Old School has a special screening for Easter with three new releases.
First up on Saturday 30th at 4.45pm is THE TRUST FALL – JULIAN ASSANGE. This is booked out so another session has been added on Sunday 31st at 7.15pm. On Saturday night at 7.30pm THE CONVERT is screening. On Sunday afternoon at 4.30pm, we have new release movie ORDINARY ANGELS.
Door sales from 30 mins before session times. You can reserve seats or buy tickets at http://raglanmovies.nz
Mar 30, 31 THE TRUST FALL – JULIAN ASSANGE
Filmmaker Kym Staton directs this crowdfunded documentary on Julian Assange, founder of WikiLeaks, and the global impact of his work.
THE TRUST FALL – Julian Assange Doc. Exempt 128 mins | Australia | Language English
Saturday 30th March 4.45pm Sunday 31st March 7.15pm, Saturday 4th May 7.30pm
Note session on 30th March at 4.45pm is fully booked. There may be cancellations at the door.
Another session has been added on Sunday 31st at 7.15pm.
Bookings and Purchases still available for 31st March and 4th May.
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.
‘Despite being detained, silenced and hidden from public view in maximum security Belmarsh Prison, multi-award-winning Australian journalist and publisher Julian Assange has become one of the loudest voices for free speech of our times… The Trust Fall: Julian Assange examines the meaning and significance of the insights that WikiLeaks shared with the world, the resulting behaviour of the governments involved, the extraordinary personal risk taken by Assange, and the wider fundamental issues around press freedom that affect all of us and our right to know.’ (Official synopsis).
PRODUCER: Kym Staton, Natalia Minana
DIRECTOR and SCREENWRITER: Kym Staton
WITH: Roger Waters, Julian Assange, Tom Morello, Jonathan Oldham
THE TRUST FALL – Julian Assange Doc. Exempt 128 mins | Australia | Language English
Mar 31: ORDINARY ANGELS
Find Your Purpose. Make A Difference
OSCAR winner, Hilary Swank leads this drama inspired by the true story of a hairdresser who single-handedly rallies an entire community to help a widowed father save his critically ill young daughter. Ordinary Angels is based on a true story.
Stuff, Waikato Times, Graeme Tuckett 3.5/5 “Ordinary Angels is Swank’s world and everyone else involved is just lucky to be living in it. I walked out of the cinema happy that Swank – and some nicely inventive and understated work from cinematographer Maya Bankovic had salvaged what could have been an unwatchably saccharine couple of hours. “
ORDINARY ANGELS PG, Coarse language 118 mins USA
Sunday 31st March 4.30pm, Saturday 5th May 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.
Sharon Steves (Swank) is a fierce but struggling hairdresser in small-town Kentucky who discovers a renewed sense of purpose when she meets Ed Schmitt (Alan Ritchson), a widower working hard to make ends meet for his two daughters. With his youngest daughter waiting for a liver transplant, Sharon sets her mind to helping the family and will move mountains to do it. What unfolds is the inspiring tale of faith, everyday miracles, and ordinary angels.
DIRECTOR: Jon Gunn
WRITERS: Meg Tilly, Kelly Fremon Craig
ACTORS: Amy Acker, Alan Ritchson Hilary Swank, Nancy Travis, Tamala Jones, Drew Powell, Skywalker Hughes, Emily Mitchell
ORDINARY ANGELS PG, Coarse language 118 mins USA
Mar 30: 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 30th March 7.30pm, Saturday 6th April 7.30pm, Sunday 7th April 7.30pm, 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