Village Theatre

31/05/2026

Did you miss seeing The Sheep Detective (PG), The Devil Wears Prada 2 (M) and A Private Life (M)? Never fear, they are screening again on our next program that comes out on Friday 5th of June. So make sure you grab your Village Theatre program and book on our website soon to avoid missing out again!

29/05/2026

SPECIAL EVENT!
For our first screening of Star Wars: The Mandalorian & Grogu (M) we are holding a special event! Woot!
Come dressed up as your favourite Star Wars character from any movie or TV series and go in the draw for spot prizes and best voted costume!
Our first screening is on Friday 12th of June at 7:30pm! Tickets go on sale for this screening next week. Limited screenings so watch our website for when tickets go on sale.

29/05/2026

Aluminum caps and can tabs recycling!

The Village Theatre in conjunction with the GB Lion's have set up a special recycling location for all your clean/rinsed Aluminum bottle lids, tear off Aluminum lids and Aluminum can tabs to fundraise for the Kidney Kids charity.

Bring your lids when you come to the movies and pop them into our special can in the lobby. And give your Phoenix and Aroha drink lids to our staff after your movie and we will rinse them and pop them in the can. Thanks.

Please rinse them so we don't end up with sweet sticky lids that attract ants etc. Thanks.

28/05/2026

The French Film Festival has begun. Check out the lovely films we have playing this week.

21/05/2026

Oh where, oh where, are our lovely warm lap blankets?
Oh where, oh where, can they be?
With their fluffyness cut short
And their tassels cut long
Oh where, oh where can they be??!!

The cold chilly nights are here and winter is fast approaching. We have discovered that our lovely basket of lap blankets that people can use during films at the Village Theatre has been sadly diminished by the blankets wandering off. What used to be a fully over flowing basket of blankets has dropped down to just a few.

Our blankets are unique in that they all have a label on them showing they are owned by the Takaka Village Theatre donated by the wonderful Mariposa Clothing Soul Footwear business.

We would like to offer a finders reward of a bag of our giant jaffa treats for the return of any of our wayward blankets if they are still in a tidy condition.

And if anyone has a spare lap blanket they would like to donate to our basket to help keep more knees warm during a wintery film, we would appreciate it greatly and like to offer a bag of our giant jaffa treats to thank you too.

Oh where, oh where can they be??!!

21/05/2026

Oodles of interesting and action packed films on this weekend at the Village Theatre.

Tonight/Thursday we have the final of In The Grey (R13).

Friday we have the final of Mortal Kombat 2 (R16).

Saturday we have the final of Caterpillar (M) at 4pm, and the first screening of The Devil Wears Prada 2 (M) at 7:30pm.

On Sunday we have the once only screening of the documentary Mr Nobody against Putin (M) (subtitled) at 4pm. And at 7:30pm we have the first screening of A Private Life (M) (subtitled).

And next week starting on Wednesday the 27th of May we will have 2 weeks of the very special French Film Festival Aotearoa 2026. 19 fantastic films over 2 weeks. Grab a flyer from the lobby and book tickets online so we you don't miss out on this special event!

21/05/2026

Did you miss out on seeing our screening of The Sheep Detectives (PG) last week which sold out? Not to worry, we will be showing an Extra Screening in our next program!

The film follows George Hardy (Hugh Jackman), a shepherd who loves his sheep and raises them only for their wool. Every night he reads aloud a murder mystery, pretending his sheep can understand, never suspecting that not only can they understand but they argue for hours afterwards about whodunnit. When George is found dead under mysterious circumstances, the sheep realise at once that it was a murder and think they know everything about how to go about solving it.

So watch out for the new program after the French Film Festival!

21/05/2026

On Sunday at 7:30pm we have the first screening of the French crime whodunnit A Private Life (M). We will be screening this film once more after the French Film Festival in the next program.

The renowned psychiatrist Lilian Steiner (Jodie Foster) mounts a private investigation into the death of one of her patients, whom she is convinced has been murdered.

A PRIVATE LIFE. In UK and Irish Cinemas June 26Starring Jodie Fo...

21/05/2026

This Saturday at 7:30pm we have the satirical workplace drama comedy The Devil Wears Prada 2 (M). We will be screening this once more after the French Film Festival in our next program.

Almost twenty years after making their iconic turns as Miranda, Andy, Emily and Nigel—Meryl Streep, Anne Hathaway, Emily Blunt and Stanley Tucci return to the fashionable streets of New York City and the sleek offices of Runway Magazine in the sequel to the 2006 phenomenon. Andy Sachs reunites with Miranda Priestly as they navigate their careers amid the decline of traditional magazine publishing. Nearing retirement, Miranda finds herself teaming up with Andy to take on a new rival: Emily.

Everybody wants this. Meryl Streep, Anne Hathaway, Emily Blunt, and Stanley Tucci return in The Devil Wears Prada 2, in theaters May 1. Watch the full traile...

21/05/2026

Here is the program for this week. If you missed seeing Mortal Kombat 2 due to the flooding storm last program please come along on Friday to see it. We also have the final's of In The Grey, and the NZ film Caterpillar (M). We have the first screenings of The Devil Wears Prada 2 (M) and A Private Life (M) which will screen once more after the French Film Festival. And we have an interesting documentary Mr Nobody Against Putin (M) screening once only.

And also shown is the films for the first week of the French Film Festival Aotearoa 2026 which we have the special privilege of screening. Over 2 weeks we will be showing the best French Films with once only screenings for most of them.

Book tickets now online for all these limited time films to avoid missing out and so we know you are coming so we can make sure we have enough staff on duty. Thanks.