Well, folks, it’s with a heavy heart that we relay the Galileo Open Air Cinema’s final weekly line-up, drawing the curtain on another successful season (please excuse our dramatics. While it’s truly been a fun season and we’re sad to see the end, the Galileo’s 13th season is already set for its debut in summer 2024 – but more about that later).
Ending the summer season off with a bang, the 12th season’s finale week brings a magical board game to life, an explosive blockbuster, a favourite sing-along sequel and a timeless classic we’re simply ‘hopelessly devoted’ to.
Also read: The ultimate guide to a Galileo Open Air Cinema screening in the Cape
Here’s what’s on the silver screen this week:
24 April: Oppenheimer
Oppenheimer is a 2023 epic biographical thriller film written and directed by Christopher Nolan. Based on the 2005 biography American Prometheus by Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin, the film chronicles the career of American theoretical physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer and his role in the development of the atomic bomb.
The story predominantly focuses on Oppenheimer’s early studies, his direction of the Manhattan Project during World War II and his eventual fall from grace due to his 1954 security hearing.
The film stars Cillian Murphy as Oppenheimer, Emily Blunt as his wife Kitty, Matt Damon as General Leslie Groves, head of the Manhattan Project, Robert Downey Jr as Lewis Strauss, a senior member of the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission and Florence Pugh as Communist Party USA member Jean Tatlock.
- Day: Wednesday
- Location: Kirstenbosch Botanical Gardens
- Time: Gates open at 6pm, and the movie starts at 7:30pm
- Genre: Thriller / Horror / Crime
- Age restriction: 13 L
- Tickets: Webtickets
25 April: Jumanji (1995)
Jumanji is a 1995 American urban fantasy-adventure film. Based on the 1981 children’s picture book of the same name by Chris Van Allsburg. The film is the first instalment in the Jumanji film series.
It stars Robin Williams and Kirsten Dunst. When two kids find and play a magical board game, they release a man trapped in it for decades – and a host of dangers that can only be stopped by finishing the game.
- Day: Thursday
- Location: Kirstenbosch Botanical Gardens
- Time: Gates open at 6pm, and the movie starts at 7:30pm
- Genre: Action / Mystery
- Age restriction: PG
- Tickets: Webtickets
26 April: Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again
Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again is a 2018 British-American jukebox musical film. It is the sequel to the 2008 film Mamma Mia!, which in turn is based on the 1999 musical of the same name using the music of ABBA.
The film features an ensemble cast, including Dominic Cooper, Amanda Seyfried, Pierce Brosnan, Colin Firth, Andy García, Meryl Streep and Cher. Both a prequel and a sequel, the plot is set after the events of the previous film and is intersected with flashbacks to Donna’s youth in 1979, with some scenes from the two time periods mirroring each other.
- Day: Friday
- Location: Central Park, Century City
- Time: Gates open at 6pm, and the movie starts at 7:30pm
- Genre: Musical / Dance
- Age restriction: 10-12 PG
- Tickets: Webtickets
27 April: Grease
Grease is a classic musical rom-com that unfolds the 1958 summer romance of T-Bird greaser Danny and good girl Sandy, an Australian transfer student. The film stars John Travolta and Olivia Newton-John as Danny and Sandy.
- Day: Saturday
- Location: Lourensford Wine Estate
- Time: Gates open at 5pm, and the movie starts at 7:30pm
- Genre: Musical / Dance
- Age restriction: PG
- Tickets: Webtickets
Also read:
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