The Tattooist posterA fairly insane week for new releases is headed by NZ hor­ror-fea­ture The Tat­too­ist, about Sam­oan tat­toos that take on a life of their own and turn their own­ers into blood-thirsty zom­bies – or some­thing like that: Read­ings and Sky City Queens­gate only.

Also Read­ings and Queens­gate is Sandra Bul­lock­’s new mys­tery Pre­mon­i­tion about a woman who may have fore­seen her hus­band’s death in a car acci­dent. I get to see this one tomor­row but the 8% rat­ing on the Tomat­o­met­er does­n’t fill me with enthu­si­asm.

[Remain­ing new releases lis­ted after the jump.]

The second, and bet­ter, of the two Capote movies from 2006 – Infam­ous – returns a month earli­er than expec­ted from the World Cinema Show­case. This time around the legendary author is played by Eng­lish­man Toby Jones. Infam­ous is play­ing the Empire in Island Bay.

The Para­mount has two exclus­ives open­ing this Thursday: Day Watch is the sequel to the sur­prise inter­na­tion­al hit Night Watch. Rumours that the third in the tri­logy is going to be called Crime Watch are sadly unfoun­ded. A Crude Awaken­ing is yet anoth­er enviro-doc and the thes­is is that we are run­ning out of oil which is a bad thing for both soci­ety and geo­logy.

Cheapy Euro-co-pro Joy Divi­sion opens at Rialto: a boy is con­scrip­ted into Hitler­’s chil­dren’s army to fight off the Rus­si­ans; fails; is trained by the KGB and ends up spy­ing in Lon­don in the 60s. Sounds inter­est­ing, does­n’t it? In real­ity, not so much.

Finally, there are pre­views for Pix­ar’s new smash Rata­touille at Read­ings and Queens­gate, and indie charm­er Wait­ress (which has a trail­er that makes me laugh out loud every time I see it) at Empire, Light­house Petone and Pent­house.

Not open­ing this week (I was mis­in­formed) is tran­scend­ent doc­u­ment­ary Deep Water. Sorry.

Day Watch and Joy Divi­sion have already been reviewed at Funer­als & Snakes and the rest will get there in due course.