From explosive action and sky-high thrills to jazz-filled dreams, cosy romance and family-friendly favourites, The Galileo Open Air Cinema has us wrapped up in all the festive feels this week.
Think Bruce Willis dodging chaos in Die Hard, Maverick back in the cockpit, falling in love (and out of it) to La La Land, settling into holiday feels with The Holiday and revisiting Christmas chaos with Home Alone.
So book your spot here, swing by when the doors open, grab your snacks and soak in golden-hour picnic vibes and lawn games before getting cosy in front of the silver screen after sunset (±8:30pm) with your fellow film fanatics.
Here is what’s on the silver screen this week:
17 December: Die Hard
Die Hard is a 1988 action film directed by John McTiernan and starring Bruce Willis, Alan Rickman, Alexander Godunov and Bonnie Bedelia.
New York policeman John McClane (Willis) is visiting his estranged wife and two daughters on Christmas Eve. He joins her at a holiday party in the headquarters of the Japanese-owned business she works for.
But the festivities are interrupted by a group of terrorists who take over the exclusive high-rise, and everyone in it. Very soon, McClane realises that there’s no one to save the hostages – but him.
- Day: Wednesday
- Location: Kirstenbosch Garden
- Time: Gates open at 5:30pm, and the movie starts at 8:30pm
- Genre: Action Thriller
- Age restriction: 16 L V
- Tickets: Webtickets
18 December: Top Gun: Maverick
Top Gun: Maverick is a 2022 American action film directed by Joseph Kosinski and is the sequel to the 1986 film Top Gun, starring Tom Cruise and Val Kilmer reprising their roles from the original film, alongside Miles Teller, Jennifer Connelly, Jon Hamm, Glen Powell, Lewis Pullman and Ed Harris.
After more than 30 years of service as one of the Navy’s top aviators, Pete ‘Maverick’ Mitchell is where he belongs, pushing the envelope as a courageous test pilot and dodging the advancement in rank that would ground him.
Training a detachment of graduates for a special assignment, Maverick must comfort the ghosts of his past and his deepest fears, culminating in a mission that demands the ultimate sacrifice from those who choose to fly it.
- Day: Thursday
- Location: Croquet Lawn, V&A Waterfront
- Time: Gates open at 5:30pm, and the movie starts at 8:30pm
- Genre: Action Drama
- Age restriction: 13PG L V
- Tickets: Webtickets
19 December: La La Land
La La Land is a 2016 American musical romantic comedy-drama film written and directed by Damien Chazelle and starring Ryan Gosling and Emma Stone.
Sebastian (Gosling) and Mia (Stone) are drawn together by their common desire to do what they love. But as success mounts, they are faced with decisions that begin to fray the fragile fabric of their love affair, and the dreams they worked so hard to maintain in each other threaten to rip them apart.
- Day: Friday
- Location: Zevenwacht Wine Estate
- Time: Gates open at 5:30pm, and the movie starts at 8:30pm
- Genre: Romance Comedy Drama
- Age restriction: 7-9 PG
- Tickets: Webtickets
20 December: The Holiday
The Holiday is a romantic comedy film directed by Nancy Meyers and starring Kate Winslet, Cameron Diaz, Jude Law and Jack Black.
Dumped and depressed, English rose Iris (Winslet) agrees to swap homes with similarly unlucky-in-love Californian Amanda (Diaz) for a much-needed break. Iris finds herself in a palatial Hollywood mansion, while Amanda navigates the lanes of a picture-perfect English village.
Soon enough, both lovelorn ladies bump into local lads perfect for a romantic pick-me-up.
- Day: Saturday
- Location: Allée Bleue Wine Estate
- Time: Gates open at 5pm, and the movie starts at 8:30pm
- Genre: Romance Comedy
- Age restriction: PG L
- Tickets: Webtickets
21 December: Home Alone
Home Alone is a 1990 Classic American Christmas film directed by Chris Columbus and starring Macaulay Culkin, Catherine O’Hara, Joe Pesci, Daniel Stern and Kieran Culkin.
When bratty eight-year-old Kevin McCallister (Macaulay Culkin) acts out the night before a family trip to Paris, his mother (O’Hara) makes him sleep in the attic. After the McCallisters mistakenly leave for the airport without Kevin, he awakens to an empty house and assumes his wish to have no family has come true.
But his excitement sours when he realises that two con men (Pesci and Stern) plan to rob the McCallister residence and that he alone must protect the family home.
- Day: Sunday
- Location: Plaisir Wine Estate
- Time: Gates open at 5pm, and the movie starts at 8:30pm
- Genre: Family-friendly
- Age restriction: PG
- Tickets: Webtickets
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Here’s to festive fun and Dezemba vibes at The Galileo Open Air Cinema
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