New movies open at the Regent
The NZ Film Festival hit Together, which follows Kiwi advocate Helen Kelly in the last nine months of her life will end its season at Pahiatua’s Regent Theatre this Wednesday. Also ending this Wednesday is the war-time drama Midway which recounts the Battle of Midway.
Opening at the Regent this Thursday is Jane Austen’s classic romantic comedy Emma in which young socialite Emma Woodhouse (Anya Taylor-Joy) plays matchmaker. However, Emma’s latest attempt may ultimately jeopardise her own chance at love and happiness.
Also opening this Thursday is the feel-good comedy-drama Military Wives. It follows a group of women from England whose partners are serving in Afghanistan. The women come together to form a choir, helping each other through some of life’s most difficult moments, and quickly find themselves at the centre of a media sensation and global movement of Military Wives Choirs.
Veteran actors Brian Cox, James Fox and Lauren Bacall (in one of her last screen appearances) star in the comedy All At Sea which opens at the Regent on Thursday 26 March. Set in a care-home in a picturesque coastal village we meet retired Scottish sailor and part-time smuggler Wally, the straight-laced ex-businessman George and refined socialite May. Wally’s friend and roommate Skip has recently passed away and Wally had promised him a traditional burial at sea. Wally, George and May hatch a cunning and hilarious plan to grant Skip his dying wish.
Also opening on Thursday March 26 is Harrison Ford in the family adventure The Call Of The Wild, an adaptation of Jack London’s classic novel about Buck, a friendly St Bernard/ Scotch Collie whose life is changed when he is stolen from his California home and taken to
Alaska during the 1890s goldrush. As the newest rookie on a dog-sled team, Buck experiences the adventure of a lifetime as he ultimately finds his true place in the world.
April attractions at the Regent will include Rosamund Pike as Marie Curie in the biopic Radioactive, Sean Penn and Mel Gibson in The Professor & The Madman, the true tale of the writing of the Oxford English Dictionary and for the school holidays the family comedy adventure Peter Rabbit 2.
For more information visit www.regentupstairs.co.nz