Film Screening 13th February, 2006

Poster for The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe

The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe 

8:00 PM, 13th February, 2006

  • PG
  • 125 mins
  • 2005
  • Andrew Adamson
  • Ann Peacock, Andrew Adamson, Christopher Markus, Stephen McFeely
  • Georgie Henley, William Moseley, Tilda Swinton, Liam Neesom

Here is yet another big screen interpretation of a classic series of books, which many of us loved when we were younger and others are still discovering. This time it is C S Lewis' story about that curious wardrobe that has a secret passage leading to a New World - a world ruled by an evil witch, where it snows all the time, but if you wander far enough you'll meet a friendly talking lion in an area that is much warmer. I'm not the only one who after reading the books went to the nearest wardrobe to see if there was a secret passage to some mysterious world - am I?

The children from the Pevensie family (two boys and two girls) are moved from London to a vast country house during the Second World War, to be protected from Nazi air raids. Lucy, the youngest of the children, walks into a wardrobe to discover a new land. Soon after, her three siblings follow and are dragged into a different kind of war between a nasty cold witch and a talking lion named Aslan.

With the use of well-developed CGI, those who have read the books will find value in now seeing it displayed visually in the movie format.

Richard Rowe