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  • Jurassic World: Dominion
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  • Thor: Love and Thunder
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  • Downton Abbey: A New Era
  • The Duke
  • Andre Rieu Happy Days Are Here Again
  • NT Live 2022: Straight Line Crazy
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A Mermaid in Paris

★★★★½ "A beautiful crowdpleasing blend of Amelie and The Shape of Water" - (James Croot, Stuff.co.nz).  A crooner with a broken heart, Gaspard had sworn never…
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Minions: The Rise of Gru

In the heart of the 1970s, amidst a flurry of feathered hair and flared jeans, Gru (Steve Carell) is growing up in the suburbs. A fanboy of a supervillain…
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Elvis

★★★★½ "Not to be missed. An anarchic pulsating exhilarating dive into history and music" - Newshub.  From Oscar-nominated visionary filmmaker Baz Luhrmann…
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Whina

★★★★½ "An extraordinary and gripping account of an exceptional life and times" - Stuff.co.nz.   The story of Dame Whina Cooper, the beloved Māori matriarch who…
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The Lion King Reo Māori

LIMITED SESSIONS  ★★★★★ "Disney's classic tale is now a cultural taonga. The Māori chorus gives the big numbers a unique Aotearoa flavour, filling you with the…
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Tutankhamun: The Last Exhibition

To mark the centenary of the discovery of Tutankhamun’s tomb, Tutankhamun - The Last Exhibition offers spectators, for the first time ever, an extraordinary…
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Lightyear

WATCH THE FILM WITH US AND GO INTO THE DRAW TO WIN 1 OF 3 MERCH PACKS OR 1 OF 7 KIDS TSHIRTS!*  + ALL TICKETS ARE AT KIDS PRICING!  ★★★★½ "A rollicking good…
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Men

★★★★★ "Astonishing, bloodcurling, modern-day folktale" - Daily Telegraph (UK).  In the aftermath of a personal tragedy, Harper (Jessie Buckley) retreats alone…
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Nude Tuesday

★★★★★ "utterly delightful... a hilarious, rip-snorting comedy" - The Guardian.  In an effort to rekindle the spark in their troubled marriage, 40-somethings…
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Jurassic World: Dominion

★★★★ "Exhilarating" "A deft, proudly excessive piece of old-fashioned big-screen entertainment"- BBC.com ★★★★ - Evening Standard Experience the epic conclusion…
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Lunana: A Yak in the Classroom

- ACADEMY AWARD NOMINEE: BEST INTERNATIONAL FILM - A disillusioned school teacher is transferred to the most remote school in the world, cut off from modern…
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Top Gun: Maverick

★★★★★ "One hundred percent worth the wait and a cracking five star watch." - Newshub.  97% Certified Fresh - Rotten Tomatoes After more than thirty years of…
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Mothering Sunday

★★★★ "A sensuous, passionate portrait" - Observer.  On a warm spring day in 1924, housemaid and foundling Jane Fairchild (Odessa Young) finds herself alone on…
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Operation Mincemeat

★★★★ "Engrossing... an incredible and poignant story... accessible, engaging and human." - Stuff.  It’s 1943. The Allies are determined to break Hitler’s grip…
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Downton Abbey: A New Era

From award-winning creator, Julian Fellowes comes the motion picture event DOWNTON ABBEY: A NEW ERA. The much-anticipated cinematic return of the global…
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The Duke

★★★★ "A British underdog story full of heart, humour and terrific performances" (Stuff.co.nz).  In 1961, Kempton Bunton, a 60 year old taxi driver, stole…
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Everything Everywhere All at Once

★★★★½ "An absolute blast... Probably the most fun you'll have in a cinema all year" - Stuff.  Directed by Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert, collectively known…
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Thor: Love and Thunder

SEE IT FIRST AT OUR ADVANCE SCREENING WED 06 JULY - BOOK NOW!  + SELECT TICKETS FOR OPENING WEEKEND ON SALE NOW!  The film finds Thor (Chris Hemsworth) on a…
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Thor: Love and Thunder

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    07 Jul 2022
SEE IT FIRST AT OUR ADVANCE SCREENING WED 06 JULY - BOOK NOW!  + SELECT TICKETS FOR OPENING WEEKEND ON SALE NOW!  The film finds Thor (Chris Hemsworth) on a…
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Whetū Mārama: Bright Star

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    07 Jul 2022
★★★★★ "A must see Kiwi movie." "A terrific, timely and absolutely engrossing portrait of Hek's life and work." "Film-makers Aileen O'Sullivan and Toby Mills…
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Frocks and Divas

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    07 Jul 2022
Frocks & Divas is a fun, frivolous and fabulous journey of the extraordinary women who perform at the Tarnished Frocks & Divas Festival. It’s a platform for…
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Benediction

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    07 Jul 2022
Benediction is the true story of English poet, writer and soldier Siegfried Sassoon.  A complex man who survived the horrors of fighting in the First World…
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The Phantom Of The Open

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    14 Jul 2022
The Phantom of the Open tells the remarkable true story of Maurice Flitcroft, a crane operator and optimistic dreamer from Barrow-in-Furness who, with the…
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The Gardener

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    21 Jul 2022
Shortly before his passing at the age of 86, influential gardener and horticulturalist Frank Cabot recounted his personal quest for perfection at Les Quatre…
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Where The Crawdads Sing

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    21 Jul 2022
PINOT PREVIEW - MON 18 JULY @ ALL SITES!  - ALL TICKETS INCLUDE A GLASS OF LEFT FIELD PINOT NOIR (OR ORANGE JUICE)!  From the best-selling novel comes a…
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The Quiet Girl

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    21 Jul 2022
  • Cuba:
    21 Jul 2022
RURAL IRELAND. 1981. A quiet, neglected girl is sent away from her dysfunctional family to live with foster parents for the summer. She blossoms in their care,…
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NT Live 2022: Prima Facie

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    29 Jul 2022
Jodie Comer (Killing Eve) makes her West End debut in the UK premiere of Suzie Miller’s award-winning play. Tessa is a young, brilliant barrister. She has…
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Bullet Train

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    04 Aug 2022
An original movie event, Bullet Train is a fun, delirious action-thriller from the director of Deadpool 2, David Leitch. Brad Pitt headlines an ensemble cast of…
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Come Back Anytime

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    04 Aug 2022
Self-taught ramen master Masamoto Ueda and his wife Kazuko have run their Tokyo ramen shop, Bizentei for more than 40 years. Scores of devoted customers have…
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Good Luck to You, Leo Grande

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    18 Aug 2022
Nancy Stokes, a retired school teacher and widow, is yearning for some adventure, some human connection, and some sex. Good sex. Whilst her husband Robert…
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NT Live 2022: Henry V

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    18 Aug 2022
Kit Harington (Game of Thrones) plays the title role in Shakespeare’s thrilling study of nationalism, war, and the psychology of power. Fresh to the throne,…
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Andre Rieu Happy Days Are Here Again

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    27 Aug 2022
The wait is over! After 2 long years, maestro André Rieu is performing from his hometown of Maastricht once again! We are proud to present André’s brand-new…
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Everything Went Fine

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    08 Sep 2022
- OFFICIAL SELECTION - CANNES 2021 - When André, 85, has a stroke, Emmanuèle hurries to her father’s bedside. Sick and half-paralysed in his hospital bed, he…
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NT Live 2022: The Book of Dust

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    15 Sep 2022
Set twelve years before the epic His Dark Materials trilogy, this gripping adaptation revisits Phillip Pullman’s fantastical world in which waters are rising…
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Don’t Worry Darling

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    06 Oct 2022
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    06 Oct 2022
Alice (Florence Pugh) and Jack (Harry Styles) are lucky to be living in the idealized community of Victory, the experimental company town housing the men who…
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Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris

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    20 Oct 2022
In partnership with the House of Dior, MRS. HARRIS GOES TO PARIS tells the story of a widowed cleaning lady in 1950s London who falls madly in love with a…
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NT Live 2022: Straight Line Crazy

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    20 Oct 2022
Ralph Fiennes (Antony & Cleopatra) leads the cast in David Hare’s (Skylight) blazing account of the most powerful man in New York, a master manipulator whose…
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Munch: Love, Ghosts and Lady-Vampires

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    03 Nov 2022
There is no painter in the world both more famous and less known than Edvard Munch. The debt contemporary culture has towards Munch is impressive, from Andy…
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Book a Film

Location
  • Petone
  • Cuba
  • Pauatahanui
Film
  • A Mermaid in Paris
  • Minions: The Rise of Gru
  • Elvis
  • Whina
  • Where The Crawdads Sing
  • The Lion King Reo Māori
  • Lightyear
  • Tutankhamun: The Last Exhibition
  • Men
  • Nude Tuesday
  • Jurassic World: Dominion
  • Top Gun: Maverick
  • Thor: Love and Thunder
  • Lunana: A Yak in the Classroom
  • Mothering Sunday
  • Operation Mincemeat
  • Downton Abbey: A New Era
  • The Duke
  • Andre Rieu Happy Days Are Here Again
  • NT Live 2022: Straight Line Crazy
  • NT Live 2022: The Book of Dust
  • Everything Everywhere All at Once
  • NT Live 2022: Henry V
  • NT Live 2022: Prima Facie
Times
  • Please select a location and film
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