Matakana Cinemas

Sunday 12th February @ 3.30pm + Wednesday 15th February @ 12pm

Two top CIA operatives (Chris Pine and Tom Hardy) wage an epic battle against one another after they discover they are dating the same woman (Reese Witherspoon) in this action-comedy from director McG (Terminator Salvation, Charlie's Angels).

Political drama directed by George Clooney, about an idealistic staffer (Ryan Gosling) for a newbie presidential candidate (Clooney) who gets a crash course on dirty politics during his stint on the campaign trail.

This is a cinematic invitation to experience the UK National Gallery’s sold-out 2011 exhibition Leonardo da Vinci: Painter at the Court of Milan on the big-screen, described by the Telegraph as “the greatest exhibition of the century.” Screening Sunday 19th February @ 6.45pm + Wednesday 22nd February @ 1pm.

French rom-com set in a chocolate factory that chronicles the awkward and masked romance between two abnormally shy people who both suffer from hyper-emotionalism.

Based on the novel by Jonathan Safran Foer, directed by Stephen Daldry (The Reader, Billy Elliott), this drama tells the story of a young boy's journey after his father's death in the 9/11 terrorist attacks. Stars Tom Hanks and Sandra Bullock.

Screening Sunday 26th February @ 4.30pm + Wednesday 29th February @ 2pm.

Screening Sunday 4th March @ 6pm + Wednesday 7th March @ 12pm.

Oscar winner Tilda Swinton (Michael Clayton) plays a distressed mother trying to cope with a daunting combination of guilt and grief after her teenage son goes on a killing spree.

French romantic-comedy set in 1927 Hollywood. Strikingly, the film is silent (asides from a musical score) and shot in black and white. Winner of Best Actor, and nominated for the Palme d'Or, at Cannes 2011. 

Norwegian crime thriller about a headhunter forced to run for his life after a by-the-numbers snatch-n-grab takes an unexpected turn.

Michelle Williams (Blue Valentine) stars as film icon Marilyn Monroe in this drama based on her time making The Prince and the Showgirl, and the week she spent being escorted around Britain by a production assistant while her husband left the country.

Screening Sunday 18th March @ 12pm + Wednesday 21st March @ 12pm

Screening Sunday 25th March @ 6pm + Wednesday 28th March @ 12pm.

Comedy drama from director John Madden (Shakespeare in Love), following a group of elderly Brits who decide to retire at the rundown Marigold Hotel in India. Stars Judi Dench, Maggie Smith, Bill Nighy and Tom Wilkinson.

Sci-fi set in a post-apocalyptic America that sees a young woman (Jennifer Lawrence from Winter's Bone) being drafted into the 'Hunger Games', a brutal, fight-to-the-death, reality TV show. Based on Suzanne Collins' young adult novels, from the director of Pleasantville.

The producers of the internationally cherished Animal Kingdom adapt Julia Leigh’s (writer and director of Sleeping Beauty) acclaimed novel to screen, an Aussie psychological drama set in the Tasmanian wilderness.

CG animated adaptation of the genius Dr. Seuss book about the Lorax, a stout, mustachioed critter who "speaks for the trees". From the animation studio who made Despicable Me. Voice cast includes Zach Efron, Danny DeVito...

A breezy upstairs/downstairs French comedy centering on an uptight couple living in a swanky Parisian apartment in 1962, blissfully unaware that upstairs the building's servants quarters is overflowing with illegal immigrants, all of whom are hot-blooded Spanish country girls...

Screening Sunday 1st April @ 4pm + Wednesday 4th April @ 2pm.

From the director of The Cider House Rules and the writer of Slumdog Millionaire comes this political-spinning drama about Fred, a government fisheries scientist (Ewan McGregor) asked to introduce British salmon to the Wadis of the Temen by an enthusiastic Arab.

Screening Friday 27th April @ 12pm + Sunday 29th April @ 6pm.

Based on the Marvel superhero team, this brings together the casts of Marvel's superhero movie franchises: Captain America (Chris Evans), Thor (Chris Hemsworth), Iron Man (Robert Downey Jr.) and the Hulk (Mark Ruffalo). 

Kiwi drama about a young happy-go-unlucky man who, after being told he has a few months left to live, travels overseas to spend his remaining days living carefree. Stars Matt Whelan (Go Girls) and Roxane Mesquida (Rubber).

Cannes-winning French drama about a wild 11-year-old boy rebounding between the judicious care of a kind, single woman and the blandishments of a streetwise older boy.

Screening Sunday 6th May @ 4pm + Wednesday 9th May @ 2pm.

Screening Sunday 27th May @ 4.30pm + Wednesday 30th May @ 2pm.