Too late to be of any use for Fri­day night enter­tain­ment, here’s a sum­mary of the films open­ing this week across the city.

The Day the Earth Stood Still (Read­ings, Sky City Queens­gate and Empire). That’s it. The calm before the inev­it­able Box­ing Day storm.

But if Keanu Reeves play­ing a dead­pan ali­en isn’t enough there’s always the annu­al ‘V’ Movie Mara­thon at the Para­mount, kick­ing off at 4.00pm on Sat­urday. Organ­iser Ant Timpson has been some­what scath­ing of Wel­ling­ton’s abil­ity (or inab­il­ity) to hack the Mara­thon and is offer­ing a spe­cial mini-Mara­thon tick­et val­id for 12 hours. Only prob­lem, is you have a wear a nappy for the whole 12 hours ’cause you’d be a big baby.

On a dif­fer­ent kind of kick, this week­end sees the first Korean Film Fest­iv­al in Wel­ling­ton – (only) three screen­ings of recent Korean movies, all at the Light­house in Petone on Sat­urday and Sunday.

The Day the Earth Stood Still will get a review in the Cap­it­al Times on Weds (and online at Funer­als & Snakes soon after).