Bra Boys posterA very quiet week for open­ings, the calm before the Film Fest­iv­al storm you might say. Slip­ping out a day early under cov­er of dark­ness is Harry Pot­ter and the Order of the Phoenix (or Harry Pot­ter 5 as it said on my tick­et this after­noon). Sneak pre­view of my Cap­it­al Times review next week: “meh”. (Empire, Read­ings, Regent, Sky City Queens­gate).

The only oth­er pic­ture open­ing this week is the unfor­tu­nately titled Bra Boys, which is a doc­u­ment­ary about the fam­ous Sydney surf gang from the sub­urb of Marou­bra. The film is dir­ec­ted by one of the Bra Boys him­self, Sunny Aber­ton, and Exec Pro­duced by Rus­sell Crowe who is under­stand­ably more inter­ested in his South Sydney roots than his South Wel­ling­ton ori­gins (doc­u­ment­ary about Strath­more any­one?). Crowe is so into this par­tic­u­lar story that he’s slated to dir­ect and star in a fic­tion­al­ised ver­sion of it in 2009. Rialto only.