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).