As we move into the festive season, everyone is looking for a bargain to get them to the end of the year. And what better bargain than two hours of quality entertainment, watching some of the best movies from the past – at just R50 a ticket!
With Ster-Kinekor’s Throwback Cinema promotion continuing during November and December, and into January 2025, you get to enjoy some cinema classics at a classic price.
“Bringing back popular movie titles from years gone by is proving to be a wonderful must-see-again option for our cinema-goers – and, with the ticket price for these Throwback Cinema titles at R50, what’s not to love? November’s line-up spans a number of movie genres, ensuring there is something for everyone to watch, either as repeat viewing or for the very first time as a big-screen experience,” says Lynne Wylie, chief marketing officer of Ster-Kinekor.
November’s Throwback Cinema titles include something for everyone – movies that performed extremely well at the box-office, and which fittingly deserve another showing on the big screen.
Now showing is the fabulous 1983 dance movie Flashdance starring Jennifer Beals, who plays an 18-year-old amateur dancer who performs nightly at a dancing bar and works as a welder during the day, but whose big dream is to join the Pittsburgh ballet school.
The 1982 sci-fi classic Blade Runner releases on 8 November and stars Harrison Ford, Sean Young and Rutger Hauer. A blade runner must pursue and terminate four replicants who stole a ship in space and have returned to Earth to find their creator.
Releasing on 15 November is the 1980 coming-of-age teen romance Blue Lagoon, starring a young and innocent Brooke Shields alongside Christopher Atkins. During the Victorian period, two children are shipwrecked on a tropical island in the South Pacific. With no adults to guide them, the two make a simple life together, unaware that sexual maturity will eventually intervene.
For the adrenaline junkies, it’s time for the original Die Hard, showing from 22 November. This 1988 action thriller stars Bruce Willis in his iconic role as John McClane, a New York City police officer who has to save his estranged wife and several others taken hostage by terrorists during a Christmas party at the Nakatomi Plaza in Los Angeles.
The final title is the 1987 song and dance biopic La Bamba, which releases on 29 November as we start the countdown to the festive season. It tells the story of the rise from nowhere of early rock ‘n’ roll singer Ritchie Valens, who tragically died at the age of 17 in a plane crash with Buddy Holly and The Big Bopper.
Going into the holiday season, Ster-Kinekor’s line-up includes some all-time Christmas favourites. And even though budgets may be stretched heading into the new year, the affordable price gives you the ticket to revisit iconic movie blasts from the past, or to discover them for the first time on the big screen. Either way, these are movies that deserve to be watched more than once.
The festive line-up of Throwback Cinema titles for December include Elf on 6 December, the delightful Home Alone showing from 13 December, the classic How the Grinch Stole Christmas releasing on 20 December, and the third instalment of Back to the Future on the big screen from 27 December.
Heading into the new year, January’s line-up contains some standout classics. Starting off 2025 is Interstellar, which releases on 3 January, followed by Groundhog Day from 10 January. Pursuit of Happyness fills the big screen from 17 January, with No Country for Old Men releasing the following week, followed by The Truman Show on 31 January and Good Will Hunting on 7 February.
Throwback Cinema titles will be screened at the following Ster-Kinekor sites: Sandton and Rosebank Nouveau in Johannesburg; Irene and The Grove in Tshwane; Gateway in Umhlanga; Baywest in Gqeberha; Garden Route in George; Somerset in Somerset West; and Blue Route, Cavendish, N1 City, V&A Waterfront and Tygervalley in Cape Town.