the cinema
Summer at The Movies JANUARY
SPOTLIGHT — director Tom McCarthy. Starring Mark Ruffalo, Michael Keaton, Rachel McAdams, Liev Schreiber, John Slattery, Stanley Tucci. “How do you say no to God?” It’s a question the father of a sexually abused 11-year-old boy poses to those who are trying to understand how the ongoing abuse happened. In the early 2000s, the Boston Globe uncovered numerable cases of child molestation and subsequent cover-ups within the Boston Catholic Archdiocese. Its series of articles would result in the Pulitzer Prize for Public Service, and here, a critically-well received drama showing how the Church managed to cover up the truth for so long.
THE REVENANT — director Alejandro González Iñárritu. Starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Domhnall Gleeson, Tom Hardy, Will Poulter. Based on a true story, frontiersman Hugh Glass (DiCaprio) sets out to wreak revenge against the men who killed his son and left Glass for dead after a hunting party disaster. Tracking his former posse across the wilds of 1880s America, Glass faces all manner of beast, weather and man to exact his vengeance. From the director of 2015’s Academy Award-winning Best Picture, Birdman, could The Revenant deliver four-timenominee DiCaprio his first Oscar? THE HATEFUL EIGHT — director Quentin Tarantino. Starring Kurt Russell, Bruce Dern, Walton Goggins, Samuel L Jackson, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Michael Madsen, Tim Roth. The latest from the interesting mind of Tarantino, this is a Western with competing bounty hunters converging in post-Civil War Wyoming. Vowing to cancel the film after the script was leaked online in 2014, Tarantino later changed his mind, and
called together many of his merry band of recurring stars including Roth, Madsen and Jackson. Kiwi stunt actress Zoe Bell also has a featured role.
FILMS FOR
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Wednesday 20 January Arrival 5:30pm Book online www.rialto.co.nz
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THE DANISH GIRL - director Tom Hooper. Starring Eddie Redmayne, Alicia Vikander, Matthias Schoenaerts, Ben Whishaw. A bio pic drama from director Hooper, who gave us the rich period pieces of The King’s Speech and Les Miserables. Based on the lives of artists Lili Elbe and Gerda Wegen, it’s the poignant story of Lili (Redmayne), born Einar, Gerda’s husband and in the 1920s, one of the first known recipients of sexual