April 6, 7 – movies: WONKA, THE CONVERT, BORROMINI & BERNINI

On the 6th and 7th April Raglan Movies at the Old School has a screening for with three new releases.

First up on Saturday 6th at 5.00pm is BORROMINI & BERNINI. The Easter screening of THE CONVERT was fully booked so we have two screening on Saturday 6th and Sunday 7th at 7.30pm. On Sunday afternoon at 4.30pm, WONKA is on screen.

Door sales from 30 mins before session times. You can reserve seats or buy tickets at http://raglanmovies.nz


April 7, 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

Sunday 7th April 4.30pm, 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


Mar 3: BORROMINI & BERNINI – the challenge for perfection

NARRATED IN ENGLISH by Remo Anzovino

This is the story of the most famous artistic rivalry of all time, the one between Borromini and Bernini, but also the story of Borromini’s rivalry with himself: a genius so absorbed by his art that he turns it into a demon that devours him from the inside forcing him to choose death to reach eternity.

BORROMINI & BERNINI – the challenge of perfection Exempt 102 mins | Italy | Language English

Saturday 6th 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, (Office closed until 8th January)

Door sales from 30 mins before session times.

Licensed bar & homemade snacks on sale.

BORROMINI and BERNINI is the story of the architectural revolution of a solitary maestro who changed the appearance of Rome forever, by pushing himself to his limit together with his rival Bernini.

Places and works in Rome visited in the film: Barberini Palace, St. Peter’s canopy, San Carlo alle Quattro Fontane, Sant’Andrea al Quirinale, Basilica of Saint John Lateran, Fountain of the Four Rivers in Piazza Navona, St. Peter’s colonnade, and Villa Adriana in Tivoli.

PRODUCER: Laura Chiara Cavalett
DIRECTOR: Giovanni Troilo
NARRATOR: Remo Anzovino

BORROMINI & BERNINI – the challenge of perfection Exempt 102 mins | Italy | Language English


Apr: 6, 7: 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 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.

Akatārewa (Lawrence Makoare) leads the attack on Rangimai_s village

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

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